Product Description

The feature-rich PIXMA iP5200R Photo Printer can produce a beautiful photo lab quality 4x6 borderless print in about 36 seconds. And it delivers an amazing resolution of up to 9600x2400 color dpi, for detail and clarity unmatched by comparable printers. To achieve this, Canon Full-photolithography Inkjet Nozzle Engineering (FINE) uses a next-generation 3,584-nozzle print head that ejects precise, consistent droplets as small as 1 picoliter. The ContrastPLUS 5-color ink system, four dye-based inks and a pigment-based black ink, also produces true-life photos with a wide color palette with laser-quality text. The iP5200R photo printer conforms to the IEEE 802.11b/g wireless (WiFi) standard, enabling it to receive wireless transmissions from up to 164 feet away. Print a photo front just about anywhere. Integrate this versatile printer into a full wireless home network or print to it from an individual WiFi-enabled computer. The iP5200R photo printer uses WiFi Protected Access (WPA), the latest technology to help make your wireless printing more secure. And if your home or office uses a mix of Windows PCs and Mac computers, the iP5200R photo printer is designed to work with both. ChromaLife100 system for long lasting, beautiful photos Built-in 2 sided printing and second paper tray for convenient paper selection Windows XP, Me, 2000, 98, Mac OS X v10.2.1 to 10.4.x Dimension - Width 17.5 x Height 6.3 x Depth 12.2 inches Weight - 16.1 pounds

Product Details

• Brand: Canon
• Model: 0195B001
• Released on: 2005-09-26
• Dimensions: 6.30" h x 12.20" w x 17.50" l, 9999.00 pounds

Features

• Print resolutions up to 9,600 x 2,400 dpi color and 600 x 600 dpi black
• Maximum print speeds of 24 ppm color and 30 ppm black
• Network-ready for Ethernet or 802.11b/g wireless systems
• Windows and Macintosh compatible; USB 2.0 and Direct Print Port interfaces
• One-year warranty

Amazon.com Product Description
This printer might just become your favorite home electronics component. The feature-rich PIXMA iP5200R Photo Printer can produce a beautiful photo lab quality 4" x 6" borderless print in about 36 seconds. And it delivers an amazing resolution of up to 9,600 x 2,400 color dpi, for detail and clarity unmatched by comparable printers. To achieve this, Canon Full-photolithography Inkjet Nozzle Engineering (FINE) uses a next-generation 3,584-nozzle print head that ejects precise, consistent droplets as small as one picoliter. Also, the ContrastPLUS five-color ink system--four dye-based inks and a pigment-based black ink--produces true-life photos with a wide color palette, along with laser-quality text.

Want to print directly from your PictBridge compatible digital camera or DV camcorder? It's easy: just connect and print! The dual paper path lets you keep photo paper stored in one tray and plain paper in the other, so you're always ready to print photos or documents. Another feature is the two-sided printing capability using the auto sheet feeder or the paper cassette - helping you cut your paper usage in half.

The iP5200R photo printer conforms to the IEEE 802.11b/g wireless (WiFi) standard, enabling it to receive wireless transmissions from up to 164 feet away. Meaning? You can work here and print there, with no printer cable to tie you down. Print a photo from your den, or a report from the patio. You can integrate this versatile printer into a full wireless home network, or print to it from an individual WiFi-enabled computer. The iP5200R photo printer uses WiFi Protected Access (WPA), the latest technology to help make your wireless printing more secure. And if your home or office uses a mix of Windows PCs and Mac computers, no problem; the iP5200R photo printer is designed to work with both.

The Canon ChromaLife100 system combines the PIXMA iP5200R Photo Printer's FINE print head technology and newly developed inks with select Canon photo papers, with results rivaling that of many conventional photos. These beautiful photos will also last up to 100 years when stored in an archival quality photo album.

What's in the Box:
PIXMA iiP5200R Photo Printer, PIXMA iP5200R print head, ink tanks: PGI-5Bk black, CLI-8Bk black, CLI-8C cyan, CLI-8M magenta, CLI-8Y yellow, power cord, easy setup instructions, document kit, Canon Photo Paper Pro for Borderless Printing 4" x 6" sample pack

Customer Reviews

Ink-aholic printer
This printer guzzles ink like a Hummer drinks gas. I almost ALWAYS use grayscale printing and yet it consistently runs out of one of its 3 expensive color cartridges (which means you have to replace them before printing anything at all). I also have gotten incorrect error messages on numerous occasions - it's a tempermental little bugger.

I get ten times as much ink out of a cartridge for my HP printer, and only need to keep track of two cartridges. I will never buy anything BUT a Hewlett Packard again. I am ready to throw this machine out on the street!

Very convenient in WiFi home
This printer is very convenient in our WiFi household [family with high school and college students, a couple of laptops, a couple of desktops, something different every day]. We used to keep a PC with attached Epson C80 printer on wired LAN. The PC had to be on and the printer had to be on. The print nozzles kept clogging, and Epson told me the solution was to power off the printer when not printing. The old printer kept getting clogged heads because it would only "park" when powered off. So either we had to keep the printer "off" and turn it on/off manually, or go through an ink wasting ritual clean/test/clean/test until the print nozzles unclogged.

Now things are much better... The Canon PIXMA iP5200R is on WiFi, so I don't have to use a PC to "host" the printer. The PIXMA has automatic power on/off, so it turns on when someone sends a print job and turns itself off when not in use. This is very convenient, saves power, and no trouble with the ink/nozzles.

I don't do a lot of extremely technical photography so I can't say how the PIXMA compares to other photo printers. The photos I print look great to me. Text and graphics printing look great too.

I think I'm getting good ink economy compared to other printers. The printer cartridges hold a lot of ink compared to some other brands (more ink per unit cost) and I'm not having to waste a lot of ink in the print nozzle cleaning ritual.

I'm very happy with this printer. I'm only disappointed that Canon discontinued this model, I was going to buy another one for another network setup at remote part-time office.

Canon fits the bill!
I originally purchased the Canon PIXMA IP4200 photo printer for use as a color printer (to print my school assignments), with the ability to print photos with some degree of accuracy. The 4200 worked well, but didn't have the ability to print on my home network with multiple platforms, mainly Mac Tiger 10.4 and Windows XP and 2000 Pro at the same time. That was really frustrating and unbelievable. I could not even use an A/B switch; the PIXMAs require a single full-time dedicated USB port. I have used printers from Brother and HP and never had issues printing while sharing across a network, even across multiple platforms. After a lot of effort and patience on my part, Canon agreed to replace it with the PIXMA IP5200R. At first it worked while the USB ports were plugged into a Mac computer, however (using the Ethernet port) with the Windows computers did not print at all. After I changed it around so that the USB port was plugged into a Windows computer, and shared that with other Windows PC's, not the Mac, it worked. I installed the network driver software (via Ethernet) for the Mac to work. I think that downloading the latest drivers from Canon's web-site would be a good idea, not using the driver disk that comes with the printer. It is working now for all five of my home computers, and I am satisfied. One of the main reasons I chose Canon over HP is that I did not like the fact that when I owned an HP printer, when the color cartridge ran out of one of the three inks, the whole cartridge had to be replaced, wasting 2/3 of the cartridge's ink, not to mention the fact that the print head had to be replaced too. Print heads can last a lot longer then the ink tanks. I like the fact that the PIXMA series has five ink tanks, which may sound expensive, but it allows for greater overall efficiency in supply use. I think that many people are complaining about the supply usage, but I believe that what happens when you install a new print head is that it uses almost half the ink just to fill the print head. Subsequent ink tank replacements should "last longer". While the Canon PIXMA series is certainly different then most, I believe it represents a better value then anything on the market.