Canon Pixma iP6000D InkJet Photo Printer
- Black Print Speed: 11 ppm
- Color Print Speed: 9 ppm
- Output Type: Color Printer
- Technology (Detailed): Inkjet
- Printer Type: Digital Photo Printer
- Max Resolution (BW): 4800 x 1200 dpi
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Good Printer
Pros
Excellent Photo quality, quiet operation, LCD screen, Memory slots, separate ink tanks, versatile.
Cons
A bit bulky,relatively slow on text, only one black ink cartridge.
Recommended it?
Yes
The Bottom Line:
I would recommend this printer, but if your needs lean toward text, I would recommend the cheaper IP4000.
I have owned mostly HP printers in the past. I've had an HP940C for several years and have had a number of problems with that printer so I decided to give Canon a try.
I was trying to decide between the Canon IP4000 and the IP6000D. My first impression was that the 6000 was basically the same as the 4000 with some additional features, but this is not the case. Based on my first impression, I went with the IP6000D.
The IP6000D is a good printer. I would recommend it more as a photo printer than a workhorse text printer. It has a lot of features that are geared toward printing photos. What it has that the 4000 does not are memory card slots, an LCD screen and a wireless infrared port for printing from a cell phone that has a camera.
The setup of the printer is very easy and the included documentation is accurate and easy to follow. Canon includes some very useful software. I found Easy-PhotoPrint and Easy-WebPrint to be very good programs. The first allows you to print photos through the computer and it is very simple to operate. I did have a small problem at first though; I am running Windows 98 and the version of software that came on my disk would not run after I installed it. I called Canon support and after waiting just a short amount of time was connected to a live person. She told me to go to the Canon website and download the newest version there. I did that and it ran with no problems. I like that software quite a bit.
Easy-WebPrint gets installed on your internet explorer toolbar. When you are on the Web and want to print a web page, this software automatically formats the page so that it gets printed without cutting off the right hand margin as is usually the case. This software works very well, but will only work with Canon printers.
The IP6000D uses six separate ink tanks. They all contain 15ml of ink and are Photo Cyan, Cyan, Black, Yellow, Photo Magenta and Magenta. This is the biggest difference between the IP4000. The IP4000 has five tanks, but two of those are black. One of the black tanks is the same 15ml tank that the IP6000D uses, but the other is a 30ml black tank optimized for text printing. For that reason, the IP4000 is a better and more economical black text printer than the IP6000D is. It is also faster. It also has a parallel connection in adition to USB. The IP6000D only has a USB.
Both the IP6000D and the IP4000 have dual paper path. The rear of the printer has a sheet feeder that can hold about 150 sheets of plain paper. It also has a lower paper cassette that can also hold about 150 sheets of plain paper. You can load various sizes of photo paper in either location. So far, I have had no proplems with paper feeding. This applies to both regular or photo paper.
I have printed photos using the few sheets of 4x6 photo paper pro included with the printer and photo paper plus glossy. I have obtained excellent results with both and acutually prefer the cheaper photo paper plus glossy. It takes about 75 seconds to print a 4x6 photo.
I have found that Canon has a very good website. They have a lot of usefull information there and I like the layout.
It is a bit of a tough call to decide between the IP6000D and the IP4000. If the LCD, memory card slots, Direct printing capabilities or wireless printing from a camera are important then the IP6000D would be the choice. If you don't care too much about those features, then I think the IP4000 represents the better choice. I don't think the difference in photo quality from the two additional inks in the IP6000D is too great, but only having the one small black cartridge is. If you do quite a bit of text printing in addition to printing photos on occassion, I would recommend the IP4000 over the IP6000D.
I was trying to decide between the Canon IP4000 and the IP6000D. My first impression was that the 6000 was basically the same as the 4000 with some additional features, but this is not the case. Based on my first impression, I went with the IP6000D.
The IP6000D is a good printer. I would recommend it more as a photo printer than a workhorse text printer. It has a lot of features that are geared toward printing photos. What it has that the 4000 does not are memory card slots, an LCD screen and a wireless infrared port for printing from a cell phone that has a camera.
The setup of the printer is very easy and the included documentation is accurate and easy to follow. Canon includes some very useful software. I found Easy-PhotoPrint and Easy-WebPrint to be very good programs. The first allows you to print photos through the computer and it is very simple to operate. I did have a small problem at first though; I am running Windows 98 and the version of software that came on my disk would not run after I installed it. I called Canon support and after waiting just a short amount of time was connected to a live person. She told me to go to the Canon website and download the newest version there. I did that and it ran with no problems. I like that software quite a bit.
Easy-WebPrint gets installed on your internet explorer toolbar. When you are on the Web and want to print a web page, this software automatically formats the page so that it gets printed without cutting off the right hand margin as is usually the case. This software works very well, but will only work with Canon printers.
The IP6000D uses six separate ink tanks. They all contain 15ml of ink and are Photo Cyan, Cyan, Black, Yellow, Photo Magenta and Magenta. This is the biggest difference between the IP4000. The IP4000 has five tanks, but two of those are black. One of the black tanks is the same 15ml tank that the IP6000D uses, but the other is a 30ml black tank optimized for text printing. For that reason, the IP4000 is a better and more economical black text printer than the IP6000D is. It is also faster. It also has a parallel connection in adition to USB. The IP6000D only has a USB.
Both the IP6000D and the IP4000 have dual paper path. The rear of the printer has a sheet feeder that can hold about 150 sheets of plain paper. It also has a lower paper cassette that can also hold about 150 sheets of plain paper. You can load various sizes of photo paper in either location. So far, I have had no proplems with paper feeding. This applies to both regular or photo paper.
I have printed photos using the few sheets of 4x6 photo paper pro included with the printer and photo paper plus glossy. I have obtained excellent results with both and acutually prefer the cheaper photo paper plus glossy. It takes about 75 seconds to print a 4x6 photo.
I have found that Canon has a very good website. They have a lot of usefull information there and I like the layout.
It is a bit of a tough call to decide between the IP6000D and the IP4000. If the LCD, memory card slots, Direct printing capabilities or wireless printing from a camera are important then the IP6000D would be the choice. If you don't care too much about those features, then I think the IP4000 represents the better choice. I don't think the difference in photo quality from the two additional inks in the IP6000D is too great, but only having the one small black cartridge is. If you do quite a bit of text printing in addition to printing photos on occassion, I would recommend the IP4000 over the IP6000D.
