The Canon Pixma iP4500 is a moderately expensive single-function printer designed for general home use. Unlike Canon’s more photo-oriented single functions like the Pixma iP6700d, the $130 iP4500 lacks memory card slots and a preview LCD. The iP4500 offers faster print speed, slightly better print quality, and more features, including an auto duplexer. If your printing needs are minimal, however, we think you should save your money and stick to a less expensive model like the $80 iP3500, but if you print enough to justify the price, the iP4500 is a great option for general printing.
The Pixma iP4500 is a bit on the expensive side for a general-purpose, single-function printer, so we had limited models on hand for comparison. It stood up well to the competition overall. It printed black text at a rate of 8.25 pages per minute, slower than the office-oriented HP Officejet Pro K5400, but faster than the home-oriented HP Deskjet 6940. It was much slower with graphics, scoring just 2.47ppm, a far cry from the HP Pro K5400′s 6.21ppm. But the Canon excelled at fast 4×6 photo prints, clocking 2.66ppm, over a full page faster than the Pro K5400 and more than five times faster than the Deskjet 6940. The iP4500 was also faster than the less expensive iP3500 at all print tasks.
The canon prixma ip4500 uses four canon cli-8 series cartridges for three colors and black/white inks, and it ships with standard-capacity cartridges in the box. This is a good option, since you do not need to replace all colors at once. But the cost of ink cartridges are still expensive like so many other printers and ink can run out fast. So if you are using canon prixma ip4500 ink jet printer,, we recommend looking elsewhere for remanufactured cartridge at web sites like www.cartridges123.com, whick charged about half of what the dell site will charge for essentially same ink cartridge.