Canon Pixma iP4850 review

Best Printers by far

I have a i4500 and when it dies (and there will be many tears) I know what to head for. I've had Epsons in the past and found their quality to be much lower than Canons and as for the prices the other big brands charge for refills, you can tell they are only really interested in businesses. Would recommend a Canon to anyone. Not too sure about the "exclusive" content as I cant see that enticing people to buy genuine inks rather than compatable. Especially with Google Image Search!

By scooter91170 on 28 Aug 2010

Cartridges V Printer

Just priced up a set of cartridges for my Canon iP4700 purchased for £80 only about 13 months ago. Cartriges £46.28 i.e. 58% of purchase price. Option, chuck the thing away and pollute the enviroment and upgrade to the new iP4850 £69.00 making a set of cartridges 67% of the purchase price. Stupid, makes a mockery of the claims about being GREEN. Please, Please ask Canon, Epson, etc to justify to thier customers WHY!

By dobbo on 13 Sep 2010

@dobbo

Simple solution is to buy a CISS. My Canon i9950 uses 8 inks and at UK£8+ each replacing them that was a big expense. A CISS from Hong Kong cost me US$64 including 8x100cc bottles of ink. Never had any problems by using non-proprietry inks.

By jontym123 on 28 Sep 2010

Canon sucks

these printers suck your wallet.only use to print cds.
printed 2 this morning and it cleaned went to print another and it cleaned again,went to print another and guess what!!! it cleaned again. i have found out tho by cancelling the print job and restarting it didnt clean so therefore using less ink, will post on the forums costing canon a fortune in ink sales i hope

By godber4 on 10 Mar 2011

Good, but not that good.

I have had a 4700 for nearly a year now. Takes up to 5 minutes to start up, cleaning and priming the print head. The quality is undeniably excellent as far as photos are concerned, as long as you do large batches (head cleaning and priming are excessive to use it for small batches) but text quality is poor, and not really good enough for documents. A good but flawed system.

By a_caines on 7 Apr 2011

Cleaning Cycle Cost

Future printer reviews should account for the cost of cleaning cycles and the intervals at which they occur. This area requires investigation and should be reflected in the Value for Money score.

By acca1 on 28 Apr 2011

Cleaning Cycle Cost

Future printer reviews should account for the cost of cleaning cycles and the intervals at which they occur. This area requires investigation and should be reflected in the Value for Money score.

By acca1 on 28 Apr 2011