Canon i450 Color Bubble Jet Printer

by Canon

Product Details

Product Manual [2.80mb PDF]

• Item Weight: 8.2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 10 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00008IOQH
• Item model number: i450
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: February 27, 2003

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The Canon i450 color bubble-jet printer delivers high-quality photos, detailed printing from the Web, crisp text, and exclusive Canon features, all at a great value. It achieves print speeds of up to 18 pages per minute in black and up to 12 ppm in color, along with resolution of up to 4,800 x 1,200 color dpi.

Canon advanced MicroFine Droplet Technology uses a revolutionary nozzle system that ejects consistent, prescribed-volume droplets in microscopic sizes for remarkable print clarity. The i450 printer's newly designed print head produces 5-picoliter and ultra-fine 2-picoliter droplets, producing smooth, photo-realistic images. Your photos, graphics, Web pages, and reports will look clean and professional.

The i450 printer brings you edge-to-edge, true borderless printing, with the look and feel of a traditional photograph. Now you can produce 4-by-6-inch, 5-by-7-inch, or 8.5-by-11-inch borderless prints with stunning quality, perfect for framing or for the scrapbook. With Bubble Jet Direct printing you can print with or without a computer--just connect a compatible Canon digital camera or digital camcorder to your i450 printer and print (see specifications for a list of compatible cameras). Save yourself a trip to the local photo mini-lab--with this printer you can produce great looking 4 x 6-inch prints in approximately 93 seconds.

The i450 printer supports the worldwide standard Exif 2.2 (Exchangeable Image Format File), so when an Exif-compliant camera captures a photo, important camera settings and shooting conditions are saved in the JPEG image file. Canon's exclusive Easy-PhotoPrint software analyzes the recorded data and automatically adjusts printer driver settings for optimum image processing. To eliminate the trial and error of Web-page printing, Canon includes Easy-WebPrint software (Windows only). It's fast and simple--pages print just as they're seen onscreen.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

37 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect solution, August 11, 2003

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lazychicken (Prosper, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Canon i450 Color Bubble Jet Printer (Office Product)

The personal printer market is quite confusing right now. The big companies have at least a dozen printers each on the market and it is tough to figure out where the good deals are. I've been researching for several weeks to replace my HP DeskJet, and I've been going crazy trying to figure out what to buy. I needed fast text, the ability to do photo-quality prints, and a low price. There are a bunch of high-end desktop printers that will meet these criteria for around [that price], but I didn't want to spend that much if I didn't have to. I kept going back and forth between several printers that have been on the market for quite awhile and got good reviews back when they were new but they are cheaper now because they are old (the Epson 820, for instance).

But I finally found the Canon i450 and ended up buying it. I couldn't be happier. After comparing features and print quality on so many different printers, I finally found the perfect combination. The text prints plenty fast. And the photos are excellent. It uses the 2 picoliter dots like the i850, so you get the same high quality. And all this for such an amazingly low price?? And you'll notice the ink prices are relatively low as well.

A previous review talked about the noise level. Let's discuss that for a minute. If you're like me and don't replace your printers every few months, you'll be pleasantly surprised by how quiet the i450 is. It is far, far quieter than my DeskJet. Perhaps there are quieter printers on the market, but we're not talking about a vast noise difference here. Obviously everyone has their own level of noise tolerance, but I'm one of those geeks who is psychotic about making my PCs as silent as possible and I still think this printer is quiet, so judge for yourself.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great value, September 8, 2003

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John O'Leary (Avon, New York United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Canon i450 Color Bubble Jet Printer (Office Product)

In researching ink jet printers, I started by pricing out cartridges and working my way back to a printer (printer manufacturers should probably just give the printers away because the cartridges are where the money is). I ended up with the Canon i450 mostly because the cartridges can be puchased on line fairly cheaply and also because it gets reasonably good ratings from consumers. I haven't been at all dissapointed. It's not blazingly fast, but more than adequate for my purposes. And the quality is excellent. Great value!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good picture quality, bad software when control is needed, August 5, 2003

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JG (CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Canon i450 Color Bubble Jet Printer (Office Product)

I'm happy with the print quality from this printer for pictures (and the borderless option is great), but I've found that the printer utility software has too many limitations. You can not fine tune the settings to get the machine to print the way you want it too. Even when you select the manual adjustment setting, it often will not allow you to switch to the highest quality settings, etc. Another limitation is that the ink levels have to be reset manually every time you install a new cartridge. With my old Epson printer the controls could easily be adjusted in the software, and the ink levels were automatically read and adjusted by the software...no manual resets required.

My other complaint with this printer is that it seems to make a lot of extra "noises". The actual printing is relatively quiet, but when it's not printing it will sit there and make all kinds of noises like it's processing information or something. My old (4 yr.+) Epson printer was much "louder" as far as the physical printing, but at least when it wasn't printing it didn't make extra noises.

Luckily I got this printer for free thanks to a rebate offer, but had I actually paid for this printer, I would have returned it. I would recommend going with an Epson printer over this one based on the utility software performance alone. However, for novice users who just want to print pretty pictures and word processing files, they'd probably be pretty happy with this printer.