Ideal for home use and small offices, the Canon Pixma iP4500 is the new single function printer. It is not very expensive, hence, it will not take away a big bite off your budget. This simple yet smart looking printer offers a good text-print quality. It has a 5 colour ink system that helps you reduce your yearly printing expenses. The Canon Pixma iP4500 ink cartridges are capable of offering more print volume and reduce the overall cost of the printer. It also has a PictBridge port for digital camera and USB drives and has CD/DVD printing facility.
The straightforward design comes in black colour with a little silver accent. The colour makes the printer fit- in well in any official set-up. The 15.2 pounds printer is 17.5 inches wide, 11.9 inches long and 6.3 inches tall. The paper cassette can hold up to 150 pages.
The printer has a very basic control panel with only three buttons for power, paper feed and paper source. Right below the control panel, there is a PictBridge port for USB drives and digital camera.The printer can handle a broad range of papers. The machine is easy to set-up and you will be able to use it instantly. The printer has a duplex printing feature which allows you to print on both sides of the page. The five colour ink system consists of pigment black for text and dye based CMYK for graphic prints. It prints text pages at a moderate rate of 11.7 pages per minute and graphic or photos between 2.8 to 3.7 pages per minute. In all the pigment black ink will let you print about 5400 pages. Alternatively to this, once the cartridges run out, you can get the new Canon Pixma iP4500 ink cartridges online.
Advantages- Cost-effective
- Easy setup
- Auto-duplexing
- PictBridge digital camera socket
- CD/DVD printing facility
- Two paper input trays for different paper sizes (150 sheets each)
- Good text prints
- Average print speed
- No LCD screen
- No memory card slot
- Jagged prints for complex fonts
The printer works best for home users, small offices and new entrepreneurs. It fits well in the budget and for the cost, it is loaded with some really useful features. Though the absence of memory card slot and LCD screen can be bothersome at times.
Cartridges RequirementsReplacement for Canon Pixma iP4500 ink cartridges are as follows:
- Canon Pixma iP4500 CLI-8B Black ink cartridges
- Canon Pixma iP4500 CLI-8C Cyan ink cartridges
- Canon Pixma iP4500 CLI-8M Magenta ink cartridges
- Canon Pixma iP4500 CLI-8Y Yellow ink cartridges
- Canon Pixma iP4500 PGI-5 Black ink cartridges
How to perform Print Head Cleaning for your Canon Pixma iP4500 printer?
If your printer causes printing issues like missing lines or white streaks, broken text while printing etc., then this may be a case of faulty or damaged Canon Pixma iP4500 ink cartridges or clogged printhead. Check the printhead and perform cleaning operation, this will unclog the nozzles and restore the print head condition.
Note:Cleaning the Print Head causes ink to be absorbed in the ink absorber. Thus, this cleaning process will consume ink, so perform Print Head Cleaning only when necessary or the ink level in the cartridge is not low.
Follow the steps below to clean the printheads:
Step 1:Make sure that the printer is on to perform the print head cleaning.
Step 2:Press the Open button to open the Paper Output Tray and extend the Output Tray Extension.
Step 3:Open the printer properties dialog box for cleaning the printheads.
Step 4:Then Start Print Head Cleaning. Make sure that cleaning is selected in the pop-up menu.
- Click on the Maintenance tab to select cleaning
- Then Click on the Cleaning option
- Select the ink group you want to clean. When cleaning the nozzles of black Canon Pixma iP4500 ink cartridges : Select Black to clean the nozzles of PGI-5BK, Colour to clean the nozzles of CLI-8BK
- Click Execute to perform the action
- Print Head Cleaning starts only when the Power lamp starts flashing green
- Do not perform any other operations until Print Head Cleaning finishes. This will take around 60 seconds to complete the process
- Load a sheet of A4 or Letter-sized plain paper in the Rear Tray or Cassette and check by printing on it
- Press the Paper Feed Switch to select the paper source in which you loaded the paper
- Confirm the displayed message and click Print Check Pattern
- The nozzle check pattern is printed
- Do not perform any other operations until the nozzle check pattern finishes printing
The nozzle check pattern will not be printed correctly if there is not enough ink. Replace the Canon Pixma iP4500 ink cartridges if the remaining amount of ink is insufficient. See Replacing the cartridges from user manual
Step 5:Check the print head condition with the printed nozzle check pattern, and take appropriate action. If the problem is not resolved after performing steps 4 and 5 twice, try Print Head Deep Cleaning process.