DEAD again - Canon iP4700 inkjet printer $56. - thru Sunday.

[Zepper]

End of Month Deal at the Egg

Still some of the best printers out there with really excellent photo printing. Best current price hands down at $56.00 ($100. MSRP) with $2.99 standard ship! Deal ends Sunday, Feb. 28. Probably while stock lasts - but not sure on that. Not as good a deal as it was on Presidents' day weekend, but still very good.
This
Canon Pixma iP4700, general purpose printer now costs way less than the retail price (~$63.00 + tx) or even the Newegg price of the set of Canon brand ink tanks that come with it (5 tanks total) alone. Has 4 colors (black and CMY dye based for photos and graphics plus a pigmented black tank for text. These Canons routinely beat most 6 tank (more photo oriented units) in photo print quality. I have bought clone tanks for my Canon printers in the past from SwiftInk.com (check the Hot Deals section and/or Heatware.com for their occasional specials) and they have these new tanks with (non-resettable) chips at a significant savings.

Before buying my current HP (office jet Pro K5400), I just about only bought Canon. I went with HP because they do support Linux directly, but the printer's other limitations really tick me off. Still real paper feed issues and very limited duplex capability relative to the Canons.

The few things I don't like about the Canon printers are that they don't directly support Linux printing (drivers are available for trial and/or purchase from TurboPrint) and that the newer models are very light and flimsy compared to older similar models. They also cut the volume of ink in the new series of tanks. I mean they do support the Mac OSes, so most of the driver work is already done. Almost intolerable - if it wasn't for Canon's superior paper handling, I'd be looking elsewhere for my new printer...

In any case, it's a smokin' deal. Of course, they may have a replacement model in the pipeline at least it's not already up over on the Canon site yet.

Enjoy.

.bh.

PS: I didn't see the iP4700 on ChiefValue (aka Newegg East), so shipping to me (usually overnight out of CV) may be slower than it would be if they had stock. May have them in the Tennessee warehouse, so shouldn't take much longer. .bh.

PPS: Well, mine did ship from NJ and it's already at the UPS depot near Albany (too bad UPS doesn't do routine deliveries on Sat. - I'll have to wait 'til Mon.), so I guess you can't trust the CV site to let you know what is actually there. Under Canon, CV has listings for models that have been discontinued for years (at least they are listed as OOS) but not what they actually have. .bh.

 

[de8212]

Is there a link?

BTW I have an ip4500 and love it. If I had some extra $$ I would pick this up and leave it boxed in case mine dies.

Maybe it is at Newegg????

 

[NutBucket]

LOL, yeah, a link would help.

 

[Zepper]

Trying to do a link, but I've forgotten how. I'll have to check one of my posts on TechIMO to see how its formatted. Sorry.

Link is done...

.bh.

 

[SpatiallyAware]

Do these carts have chips in them? I LOVE my IP4000 but an EX broke it.. It still prints but is really loud and clunky sounding.

 

[Basilisk]

I've had a 4300 & 4500 and loved them -- particularly for printing CD/DVD's (you can Google the steps to enable this). The 4700 appears to have the same characteristics -- high quality printing & CD's -- and is a steal at $50.

I presume it uses identical cartridges to my 4500. I think all 4xxx models EXCEPT 4000 have had chips. As your ink is anticipated to run out, the driver warns you. If you ignore the warning long enough, the driver requires you to actively instruct it to ignore the warning. And about the 3rd time (IIRC) you do that, it gives you the option of abandoning monitoring for that color-cartridge. End of story -- you can refill to your hearts delight.

 

[SpatiallyAware]

I went ahead and grabbed one, chipped carts are the way of the future anyway, bleh...

 

[DaveSimmons]

It may not have CD printing, the US model of the 4600 does not because of some patent held by (Epson?).

If it's like my 4600 then the 4700 is great for color printing and the ink tanks don't dry out -- around xmas I was using tanks that had been installed over a year before and they still worked perfectly.

 

[de8212]

It may not have CD printing, the US model of the 4600 does not because of some patent held by (Epson?).

If it's like my 4600 then the 4700 is great for color printing and the ink tanks don't dry out -- around xmas I was using tanks that had been installed over a year before and they still worked perfectly.

Take a look at this link. Click.....

 

[Zepper]

Spatially Aware et al.,

I have been adding and updating the OP IDK must be at least 10+ edits and updates on it since I first posted it - most of your questions are answered. Yes, the tanks are chipped, but SwiftInk has clone tanks with one time chips to save a bit. There is a site - getting hard for me to remember all these site names any more. Anyway, it is a site with lots of info on third party ink and refilling for Canon mostly - just about all the tricks are posted there. These don't have CD printing capability due to the Epson patent, but you may still be able to do the mod with the Euro parts. The same site used to have the info on the mod. The site is http://www.nifty-stuff.com

update: some posts on the nifty-stuff forum suggest that the CD printing mod is not possible on the U.S. version 4700 - sorry. However, the Canadian version of it does have CD printing.

.bh.

 

[craftech]

In terms of CD capable Canon printers:

The iP4700 uses the CLI-221 inks which hold less and don't last as long as the CLI-8 inks did. I would never buy a printer that uses them.

The CLI-8 inks were used on the iP4300 that someone mentioned. The person whose iP4000 went bad (IMO) should consider fixing it because those inks lasted the longest of all. The iP4000 was the best of the CD printers in recent Canon history.

John

 

[SpatiallyAware]

In terms of CD capable Canon printers:

The iP4700 uses the CLI-221 inks which hold less and don't last as long as the CLI-8 inks did. I would never buy a printer that uses them.

The CLI-8 inks were used on the iP4300 that someone mentioned. The person whose iP4000 went bad (IMO) should consider fixing it because those inks lasted the longest of all. The iP4000 was the best of the CD printers in recent Canon history.

John

I don't believe it's really a fixable sorta deal. She put some paper in wrong and the ink bled off the edge all over the inside of the printer. I cleaned it as much as possible, but it 'clunks' and 'clanks' louder than before. I did a bunch of research and concluded I wouldn't be able to even find someone able to work on it


I don't print very often at all and am really not as concerned about ink cost as I am photo quality

 

[Basilisk]

Take a look at this link. Click.....

Until three weeks ago, the people at that site were pretty adamant that the 46/700 models could NOT print CD/DVDs. Since they've posted the linked update, I'm inclined to support their changed opinion that it CAN be mod'd for CD's and DVD's.

That's the good news. The irritating news is that Canon once a-#$%^ing-gain created a new CD carrier: "Tray G". I was able to mod' my "Tray C" (iP4200) to a "Tray F" (iP4500) by "moving" a reflector as the tray size remained unchanged. "Tray G" is, alas, a longer version of the "F", as you can see in most EBay images (excluding one, currently!): the top/inserted end has been extended and then notched back to the original length! So... that's currently a $33 part with no vendor competition, or a mod' that requires extending the "F" or manufacturing the tray (ugh). [The reflector alignment -may- be ~1/8" off between F & G, but I'm uncertain.]

Before my 4700 is delivered, Monday, I'll have to think through the ink-cartridge change: I hadn't realized that at the time I ordered. Thanks again, Canon!!! :twisted:

 

[Zepper]

Mine is on the local UPS truck on the way to my house - YAY!

Yes, Virginia, UPS is delivering on Presidents' Day.

It's about Noon here and it just arrived. Unpacked to let it come to room temp and so I could get to the setup guide to read before use...

.bh.

 

[Zepper]

Just about 3 hours left of Presidents' Day at California time. I hope you get in if you wanted to.

.bh.

 

[woodie1]

Thanks - got one for a granddaughter.

 

[Zepper]

Hey woodie,

YW.

.bh.

 

[Zepper]

Bump for another deal on the iP4700 - I don't know when the deal was put up, but less than 2 days to go.

.bh.