Customer Reviews

Canon PIXMA iP4000R Wireless Photo Printer

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I tried this printer hoping it would allow me to share a printer for use by a combination of macs and XP machines. I've tried hanging a printer off one machine and then sharing it, but kept having issues when crossing OS platforms (XP to Mac, or vice versa). Well, the integrated print server in the IP4000R did the trick. It works great with Macs under OSX and with my XP machines. The printer can either plug right into the network if you are wired for Ethernet, or it can be accessible over WiFi. Select any machine (XP or Mac) to configure using the included USB cable and CD. After setting up the printer over the cable, just unplug it and you are ready to connect over your network from other machines by installing the driver off the CD. I run a combination of wireless and wired, and it works great (in my case I elected to use a wired connection to the printer since there was a jack in the right location) with all machines.
Did I mention that the printer is terrific too. I'd rate it as a great text printer (color and/or B&W), and a decent photo printer. If you don't need the print server capability, just go for the standard IP4000 and save your money. But if you have a mixed hardware environment, or don't want to use an external printer server (many of them a quirky), then this combination is a home run.

I picked this up to replace a 3 year old Epson 785EPX and my trusty old SMC router w/ print server so that I could more easily operate wirelessly at home. Prior to the 785, I owned a workhorse Epson 640.

The Canon handles photo printing just as well as the last Epson for the most part. I don't really miss the extra 2 colors and I definitely don't miss the noise that the Epson cranked out. The Canon sits 5 feet behind my desk and if there is any ambient noise in the office at all, I have to turn around and look to see if paper is moving through the machine because it's not loud enough to hear! That's nice. The wireless is great, even though my secondary PC had trouble "finding" it. I was able to manually configure a port and move on. Both home machines use XP SP2.

I was surprised to find that the Canon also displaces my laser printer! I can't believe how sharp and fast this text prints on the multi-purpose Staples paper. You just have to see it to believe it.

Now, before I wrote this review, I wanted to see how the Canon handled my big annual print job - our photo quality Christmas cards. We send about 50 cards with the kids' picture on them. Print speeds were on par with the older Epson, but I think if I hadn't wanted borderless prints, it would have been faster. It was certainly no slower than the Epson. Anyway, all the cards printed great. The paper handling was noticeably better than the Epson as the Canon fed all sheets one at a time, no jams, no double-feeds. And the big surprise of the night - after printing all the cards with a 5.5" by 8.5" fully saturated photo on each one, the ink levels had hardly budged from full!

A couple features I haven't tried yet are the PictBridge interface for compatible digital cameras and the secondary paper tray. You can, for example, load 4x6 glossy photo paper in that extra tray and be ready to handle walk-up photos from your camera at any time. Very convenient.

The Canon is an amazing printer. Print quality is fantastic. Consumable usage appears to be ludicrously low and the ink is much cheaper than HP or Lexmark already. It's remarkably quiet and fast (especially for text). And the wireless capabilities mean I can locate and relocate it anywhere around the house as I choose. If you don't really need the wireless, save some money and get the ip4000 (instead of this ip4000R).

Great job Canon! You have converted an Epson disciple.

I wanted a printer to print pictures from my Canon digital camera, and also to replace an all-purpose text printer. When I found the Canon PIXMA ip4000R, I hoped it would be all it promised, as I could really use a wireless printer.

Wow, it's all that and more. I had sworn to never buy another Canon printer after I had an all-in-one that was unbearably slow. I mean, I'd want to go hang myself in the closet waiting for it to print! I'm so glad I decided to give Canon another try.

This printer does all Canon promises--it's also quick, quiet, paper doesn't jam, wireless connection was easy, and it comes with some great software that makes printing photos easy. I couldn't be happier.

If you need a wireless printer, don't hesitate to get the Canon PIXMA ip4000R, but if wireless isn't important, go with the 4000.

This is a great printer. Aside form the print quality, which is excellent, this printer is easier to set up than anything I've had in the past. I came from 5 or 6 Epson printers in a row and will unlikely go back. Most of my Epson photo printers lasted no more than a year when problems began.

My biggest problem, however, had been setting the Epson printers up to handle both Mac and PC at the same time. I have a Mac Powerbook G4 and a Dell Inspiron 1150 (both wireless), I spent a month trying to get both printers to print wirelessly with no luck. I tried printing thru a Linksys Wireless Router as well as Apple's Airport Express...both would only work on one of my machines and not on both. With the Wireless Canon, I simply set up the Mac first with the installation CD and then moved on and set up the PC as a second user (this can be done in reverse as well). Both worked perfectly in the wireless environment the first time without any complications.

The options and features are excellent and the printing quality is outstanding....even when printing out simple website pages. I would highly recommend to anyone interested in wireless printing to spend the extra cash and choose the IP4000R over the standard IP4000....you will not be sorry....not too mention there's one less cable to kick around.

I spent days online reading consumer reviews, editorials and articles on printers. It's a consumer's nightmare out there! There are literally hundreds upon hundreds of printers. It all came down to this one, and am I ever happy with the choice. All the positive reviews are right on target. I have owned Brother, HP and Epson and this one is heads above the others. In a nutshell, its quick, wireless, fantastic quality photos and has individual ink replacement to boot (no more $50 multi color cartridges). You cannot go wrong with this printer.

I got the Pixma ip4000r so my wife could print from her wireless laptop from her home office while I could print via a USB cable from mine. This was replacing an Epson Stylus Color 600 printer which was sometimes upset when the A/B switch we were using was in the wrong position. The printing is great and fast, but there is one fact missing from the installation booklet I think you should know about. It says you should disable the MAC filters at your 192.168.1.1 wireless site and this is true, otherwise the printer will not communicate with your wireless laptop. If, after successful setup, you re-enable the MAC filters, the laptop will no longer communicate with the printer. What you have to do is enter the printer's MAC address under the "EDIT" portion of the MAC filter screen and "SAVE" at the bottom. Then when you enable the MAC filters the printer will be recognized. OR you could also leave the MAC filters disabled. The printer's MAC address is found in the "BJ Tool>View>Network properties". Look for the "BJ tool" in "Start>All Programs>Canon Pixma".
I hope this tip saves a lot of frustration and calls to Canon.

I have a home network with both Windows XP and Mac OSX computers - 1 Windows desktop, 1 Windows laptop, 1 iBook. I struggled for a year trying to get my iBook to print on the printer attached to the desktop. I also tried several print servers, and never managed to get a good network printing solution.

Then, I happened upon the Canon iP4000R. I like Canon (have an i900D) for the cost of consumables (not cheap, but cheaper than Epson, HP) and photo print quality, so I decided to try the iP4000R.

It installed in minutes on my network. It works flawllessly with Windows and Macintosh computer via WiFi!. Its only plugged into a 120V socket, sitting out of the way, waiting for a print job.

It has 802.11g for speed and WPA for security - something I did not expect to find in this price range (I paid $160). I was also pleasantly surprised by the paper inpute cartridge under the printer which keeps the printer's profile low - no paper sticking out of the top like my i900D.

I think this printer is a bargain considering you are getting a very good quality printer, a print server, ethernet and WiFi adapter.

After owning about a dozen printers I have found the best of the best. Ink is cheap and the printer is fast, quiet, and uses very little ink. The quality of this printer far exceeds all others I have owned. The wireless feature is the best as well as easy to setup once you get all the needed hardware. would recommend this printer to all of you that are tried of paying the high prices for the ink cartridges. good luck.

I bought this printer to replace two printers (one cheapie Samsung laser, the other an older Canon photo inkjet). Key for me was the ability to print over the wi-fi network, since a user in our house could be printing from a nearby Windows desktop, from an Apple iBook, or the Windows laptop provided to me by my job.

Print quality has been excellent for text; very difficult to tell the difference between the print quality of this printer and my old Samsung laser when using even halfway decent paper. Speed is also very good. Almost as fast as the old laser printer.

Pictures are very good as well, although I admittedly haven't used it much for photograph printing so far.

Setup was a breeze both on the Windows machines and on the Apple.

Canon loses 1 star from me for forcing me to install their software packages when I installed the driver for the printer. There was no easy way to opt out, and no description of what the six or seven software packages were going to be for when it rudely informed me that it was installing all of this stuff. I simply removed the programs once the installation process was complete, but still. No such problems on the Apple install, however.

We had this printer for MAYBE two years when it just "stopped" working. It was a great printer while it lived. It did seem to got through a lot of ink, more than any other printer we've had. Anyway, as much as I loved the printer... there is no way I'd pay $325 for it (price when I posted this-4/12/08). I bought it for $209 in 2005. I don't think I'd spend $150 on it today. You could buy better pinters now for less.