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 18ppm in black and up to 12ppm in color along with resolution of up to 4800 x 1200 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, helping you to produce smooth, more photo-realistic images. Your photos, graphics, Web pages and reports will look clean and professional. The i450 printer brings you a new level of photo printing for the home: edge-to-edge true borderless printing, with the look and feel of a traditional photograph. Now you can produce 4" x 6", 5" x 7" or 8.5" x 11" borderless prints with stunning quality, perfect for framing or 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. Save yourself a trip to the local photo mini-lab - produce great looking 4" x 6" 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. The exclusive Easy-PhotoPrint software analyzes the recorded data and automatically adjusts printer driver settings for optimum image processing.
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.
1 Great while it lasted!!!!
I last used my i450 several months ago when it performed just fine except for the annoying series of groans, moans, and clicks for no apparent reason while it was sitting idle. Then I went north for the summer and this year it refused to print black text despite a new tank and head cleaning operation. Same problem as reported by an ealier review. I suspect that the print head went bad. Am awaiting tech support.
2 Excellent Printer
The printer produces close to professional quality prints. It is very inexpensive to produce those prints, although the cartridges are 10 ml as opposed to the standard 15 ml they are still less than half the cost.I had a lexmark printer before this one and i'll always have a canon. The cartridges are the BCI-24 black $6.00 and BCI-24C Color $18.00. I highly recommend this Printer!
3 Dead after less than a year
This was a great printer...Crisp clear graphics and text. But it just recently started printing "foggy" lots of fuzzy text. Then the black stopped printing altogether. The color printed fine but NO BLACK. Not exactly helpful for printing papers. Canon help desk was very quick getting back to me about the problem. Probably a bad print head, but it should be taken to a fixit shop to get checked out. Fixit shop wants $75 just to look at it, which is applied to the first hour of labor if we have it fixed. Print head runs about $45. I can buy a whole new one for that! I would by a Canon again but definately get the extended warranty.
Buy the comparable ink from Carrot Ink.com. Cost alot less. Refilling doesn't not work with Canon. This was my 2nd Canon and refilling the cartridges didn't work with either.
4 Great printer--would buy it again
This printer does a great job with black text and the occasional color use I've required from it (please note--I have not used this printer for photo printing). It is fast, offers nice quality, and is easy to resupply.
As with almost any printer nowadays, shop around for ink, and consider ink supplies besides the major brand names.
Also, for most jobs, this printer produces acceptable quality when using a Draft mode--unless you get your ink for free, consider doing all but the most important docs in Draft mode.
By the way, setup in Mac X and WinXP was a breeze.
5 Great print quality
The print quality is outstanding. However, the noise is a bit more than annoying. I read the reviews about the noise and thought, a little squeaking could not be that bad. Well, it is this fingernails-on-the-chalkboard kind of sound that goes about thirty seconds longer than you think you can stand it. I recommend you go another way ..... Unless you're deaf.
6 Excellent and Cheap Cartridges
There are too many great things to say about this excellent and very inexpensive printer. So I will only add one that I have not read elsewhere: unlike virtually all other non-Canon printers, the cartridges are very inexpensive and really last. The quality of pictures out of this printer is amazing, especially considering the price. I have four other printers, one of which is another excellent newer Canon. Canon used to make the best printers, but they fell behind a few years ago. Now they have taken the lead again, in my book when all is considered. The digital card version of this printer is also excellent.
7 Just one caveat
I'm not going to write a full review because I've mostly used the printer for greyscale illustrator work and although I have no complaints I have no basis for praise.
I would like to say one thing though:
This printer eats ink faster (...). Not only is the consumption rapid, but the exchange frequency is higher. The ink cartridges are tiny, so you'll be replacing them often. If an HP Deskjet Cartridge lasts you a month, one of these will last a week. I went through two in one print job of 20 pages.
8 Great Little Printer!
This truly is a great little printer for the money. I am using it to replace by Brother MFC 7300c(if I knew how bad of a printer it was I never would have bought it. Especially for the price you pay). The color is great on printed items. It prints pretty quick. I am so glad I got it.
9 Great printer for fifty bucks
For the price you can't beat this printer. It prints fast and the quality is very good. However, they do not supply the ubs cable for this printer(cheapskates). You should order it at the same time as the printer. Overall, I'm very satisfied when you factor in the price and quality of this printer.
10 My best printer yet.
This is without a doubt the best printer I have purchased, (5).
The last 3 were Epson. It prints text fine and fast. Photos are really great, better than on the Epson 820 Photo that I had prior to this. Ink cartridges are very reasonable, generics are fine. Prints great on all the various papers that I have, even low cost gloss photopaper.
I have read where some users have complained that it was noisy. My wife and I agree that the i450 is very quiet, and that without using the "quiet mode".
There are plenty of settings available if needed.
This is a great buy, go for it.
11 Very happy with it.
I'm very pleased with this printer. The price is right, it prints great looking text fast, it prints great looking photos (not quite as fast), and supplies are inexpensive compared to HP. I don't think it is too noisy. Don't forget to get a USB (AB) cable as one is not included with the printer. You may also want to get a 50 pack of Canon Photo Paper Plus (8X6) available on Amazon for about $8 as you'll be impressed by the photos you print. I like this printer so much, I bought another one for my office.
12 AWESOME QUALITY !!! GREAT PRINTER!!AAA+++++
after reading about several different printers, i settled for this one and am absolutely amazed at the awesome print quality!!! I've never had a photo image look better than a film processed picture EVER!!!! Every pic turns out great and you can't beat the price of the ink cartridge.. approximately $7 for black and $18 for color.. THE TANKS LAST FOREVER AND I'M used to paying double for my old Lexmark cartridges... THROW YOUR OLD PRINTER IN THE GARBAGE AND RUN TO BUY THIS PRINTER!! AWESOME!!!!!
let me address this "noise" issue i've read in other reviews.. this printer is extremely quiet compared to my Lexmark z-22... i wouldn't consider it a loud printer at all... it does shuffle when it's done printing a page, but it's hardly noticeable.. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS PRINTER!!!!!
13 Jaw Dropper Canon i450
The awsome of this Printer its offers a extremely SHARP and Detail Image of pictures, compare with the Epson C series I think the Canon offer a much better rich and vivid color than the other competitor of his class. But nobody can bit this price.
I only have one problem: The Color Ink Cartridge is more expensive than the Epson C series price is range from $5.00 to $6.00 more.
Also The other concern that I have with this particular i450 Canon printer its only use two cartridges of ink combine a total of four color, one black and one with three color, well I don't know may be I am very selective and I like more quality of printing.
And also the printer itself when its not operating and stay idle for a period of time the printer start make wired noise sound like a going to print something.
A must have on this printer "USB Cable, don't forget" doesn't come with it.
But overall I think it is a Good Value printer to get.
14 FAR FROM PERFECT
The output quality is okay but: 1) the printing is very slow; 2) the black ink (original Canon) smudges more than any inkjet I've had before; 3) once you start printing there's no easy way to stop (like if you forgot to specify the number of pages on a very long document - happens to me all the time!); 4) The manual has the WRONG INSTRUCTIONS for Macintosh computers and 5) I'm having a lot of trouble getting replacement ink cartridges (they call them "tanks" though they're the size of your little finger!) - at this moment it seems every store in town (Montreal) is out of black ink.
15 Great value
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!
16 Perfect solution
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.
17 Good picture quality, bad software when control is needed
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.
