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Severe problems with "intelligently" selecting the paper source3. The 4600 on the other hand I find to be a terribly defective product. I owned the ip3000 and was very happy with it. Defective bottom paper tray which has difficulty delivering paper4. Key failures of this product:1. An excessive long time before printing the first page (also slow on/off)2. A "chipped" ink cartridge to prevent cheap no-name replacementsThe ip3000 had none of these problems and was an excellent all-purpose printer. The 4600 has management to ruin every reason I wanted to use the series of printer.
It doesn't have a scanner, like I said, it doesn't have the features of a lot of printers on the market. This printer here my friends, is the best printer I've had in a while. This thing is just here to get the job done. The features are good, not the greatest, but it's compact and fast. Not to mention, the print quality is amazing for both Photos and documents. One thing I love about it is the paper tray, It can be on the bottom of the printer or in the classic position of most printers. (Please see picture of the printer)
Excellent quality for the price. Only downside is that there is no auto power on and off feature, like older model.
Furthermore, the software begins prompting you to replace the cartridges LONG before they are empty, and there is no way to disable this almost constant warning. The 4200 cartridges held 26 milliliters; the 4600 cartridges hold 19 milliliters.
Canon-branded ink cartridges for the 4200 had been costing me $12 to $14 each for the colors and small black tank. I had the Canon Pixma iP4200 -- worked fine until the print heads failed and regardless of maintenance routines, photos printed with horizontal lines.
They COST THE SAME as the 4200 cartridges. Now, I have the Canon Pixma iP4600 -- also working fine, but.
The ink cartridges hold 27% LESS INK, and you guessed it. I don't even want to think about how much I'm going to be paying for ink every couple months.
Get some ethics, Canon.
The only option is "plain paper" which tells it to print from the cassette. I've been messing around with the software settings for the last 20 minutes trying to get address labels to load from the top/back tray. I have to send an order out like RIGHT NOW. Even when telling it to print from the rear tray. In older Pixma's there were control buttons to switch the paper source, now not. I deselected the automatic determination, but the bottom line is that if you are feeding any sort of 8-1/2 X 11 paper, apparently it's impossible to print from that tray. I hate this thing. And now my order will be DAYS LATE.
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