I have been playing with a friend's new ip4700 recently. I think I really like it. I am considering to get one to replace my aging ip4300. It prints pretty fast with very decent photo quality. The only complaint I have is it takes almost forever for its power up routine to complete each time it is turned on. But once that is done it works just like every Canon printer does. It's fast and quiet.
Well, while I was printing a 8x10 photo last night it ran out of magenta ink. I was too late to stop the printer and it finished printing the photo with magenta fading away from the middle of the print. I know this could cause the print head to burn out. The printer was fine after it was refilled. Nothing bad happened but this reminds me to check out a few things about this printer. One that came to mind is how durable this printer will compare to my old ip4200 and ip4300. The next is how this printer refills. Is it pretty much the same like older Canon printers? I am planning to get one and refill it with Hobbicolors ink. I found this on Hobbicolors ads on eBay:
Customer success example:
The Photonics Society of Chinese-Americans (PSC) held its annual conference at the Tech Museum of Innovation, 201 S. Market Street, San Jose, California on May 16, 2010. Among the participants was the 2009 Nobel Prize recipient Dr. Charles Kuen Kao, who is widely regarded as the Father of Fiber Optic Communications.
At the conference 20 page long letter sized handouts were distributed to all participants of the conference as a reference material for the conference. There were about 120 copies of the handout prepared before the conference.
The handouts were printed with 2 brand new Canon inkjet printers, one ip4700 and one MP560. The PSC conference organizer purchased 2 Hobbicolors 5CLP refill kits and successfully refilled both printers repeatedly to print 2400 pages total of the color documents with many pages of full sized photo, graphic and text. The printing project from calling Hobbicolors to discuss the feasibility of a rush print job of 2400 pages, buying the two printers, the two refill kits, drilling of the OEM cartridges, refilling and printing took place within one week. The actual printing time was about half a day. There was not a glitch throughout the entire printing task. All the handouts were perfectly produced.
With Hobbicolors refill inks it is common that a Canon printer can crank out a total of 20,000 to 30,000 pages of documents through a period of 5 - 6 years by typical users. But it was a first attempt by PSC to print 2400 pages of documents continuously within 6 hours by two printers. The printers both printed pretty much continuously except when they were stopped for refilling.
This is pretty impressive. I have always liked Canon's 4000 series of printers very much until when they shrank the capacity of the ink cartridges when they rolled out ip4600 and on. Are the newer ip4700s same money worthy as the older ones? Are they as refill friendly as before?I seem to have no other choices. Comments on ip4700 durability and its life expectancy any one?
Well, while I was printing a 8x10 photo last night it ran out of magenta ink. I was too late to stop the printer and it finished printing the photo with magenta fading away from the middle of the print. I know this could cause the print head to burn out. The printer was fine after it was refilled. Nothing bad happened but this reminds me to check out a few things about this printer. One that came to mind is how durable this printer will compare to my old ip4200 and ip4300. The next is how this printer refills. Is it pretty much the same like older Canon printers? I am planning to get one and refill it with Hobbicolors ink. I found this on Hobbicolors ads on eBay:
Customer success example:
The Photonics Society of Chinese-Americans (PSC) held its annual conference at the Tech Museum of Innovation, 201 S. Market Street, San Jose, California on May 16, 2010. Among the participants was the 2009 Nobel Prize recipient Dr. Charles Kuen Kao, who is widely regarded as the Father of Fiber Optic Communications.
At the conference 20 page long letter sized handouts were distributed to all participants of the conference as a reference material for the conference. There were about 120 copies of the handout prepared before the conference.
The handouts were printed with 2 brand new Canon inkjet printers, one ip4700 and one MP560. The PSC conference organizer purchased 2 Hobbicolors 5CLP refill kits and successfully refilled both printers repeatedly to print 2400 pages total of the color documents with many pages of full sized photo, graphic and text. The printing project from calling Hobbicolors to discuss the feasibility of a rush print job of 2400 pages, buying the two printers, the two refill kits, drilling of the OEM cartridges, refilling and printing took place within one week. The actual printing time was about half a day. There was not a glitch throughout the entire printing task. All the handouts were perfectly produced.
With Hobbicolors refill inks it is common that a Canon printer can crank out a total of 20,000 to 30,000 pages of documents through a period of 5 - 6 years by typical users. But it was a first attempt by PSC to print 2400 pages of documents continuously within 6 hours by two printers. The printers both printed pretty much continuously except when they were stopped for refilling.
This is pretty impressive. I have always liked Canon's 4000 series of printers very much until when they shrank the capacity of the ink cartridges when they rolled out ip4600 and on. Are the newer ip4700s same money worthy as the older ones? Are they as refill friendly as before?I seem to have no other choices. Comments on ip4700 durability and its life expectancy any one?
