Testing printers and MFPs without cartridges - Canon PIXMA G1400, PIXMA G2400, PIXMA G3400. Canon PIXMA G1400 color inkjet printer Canon pixma g1400 inkjet printer
Color inkjet Canon printer PIXMA G1400
information pages
representative of a new line with a built-in "proprietary" CISS
December 1, 2015 Canon presented in Moscow three new models of the series PIXMA-G1400, and , which starts new line PIXMA G. The first of them is just a printer, the other two are MFPs, and the younger models have the ability to only connect locally to USB port computer, and the older one is also equipped with a wireless Wi-Fi interface. All three devices have a photo printing function, although they use only four colors of ink.
Their fundamental and most significant difference from other representatives of the PIXMA series is consumables: For the first time, Canon has used a built-in continuous ink supply system ( CISS, or CISS, Continuous Ink Supply System).
The use of original CISS by manufacturers is not new: two and a half years ago we introduced readers to one of these printers, and since then we have had many different devices of this series; well, the more interesting it will be to compare them with the new Canon.
Printers and MFPs from the PIXMA series have rarely come to us in recent years: after a break, we tested multifunction device, the main advantage of which is a very low price (however, for the buyer, this factor can often outweigh any disadvantages). Therefore, there will be parallels with this model.
As usual, let's say a little about information support. On site pages canon.com, dedicated, did not do without high-profile advertising phrases describing the capabilities of the device, but rather detailed characteristics and information about consumables are also given.
Characteristics, equipment, appearance, consumables
As usual, we start with the characteristics declared by the manufacturer:
| Canon MFP Key Features | |
| Functions | Color and monochrome printing |
| Print technology, number of colors | Inkjet system with refillable ink tanks, drop size 2 pl (min.), 4 colors |
| Dimensions (H×W×D), mm | 135×445×330 (trays folded) |
| Net weight, kg | 4,3 |
| Power supply | < 12 Вт, 100—240 В AC, 50/60 Гц |
| Screen | No |
| Standard Ports | USB 2.0 (Type B) |
| Print Resolution | up to 4800×1200 dpi |
| Print speed (A4, ISO/IEC 24734): black and white colored |
up to 8.8 pages/min up to 5 pages/min |
| Borderless printing | There is |
| Supported Operating Systems | Windows XP SP3 (only 32 bit), Windows Vista SP2, 7, 8, 10 Mac OS X 10.7.5 - 10.10 |
n/a |
| Guarantee period | 1 year or 30,000 A4 prints |
High Resolution Paper (HR-101N 1033A001) |
Compatible cartridges | GI-490 C 0664C001 |
With regard to the guarantee, the situation is the same as for many competitor models: its effect is calculated either by the term or by the number of printed sheets made. True, the limit of 30,000 prints is much softer than that of many competing models.
If the resolution of printing or scanning in two axes is different, then different manufacturers it has already become an unkind tradition to accompany the numbers with explanations “horizontally, vertically” - for PIXMA G this is said in the manual. And no one bothered to think about whether a sheet of paper has a uniquely perceived horizontal and vertical.
Let's move on to the set. In the box with the new device are:
- power cable,
- four containers (bottles) with ink - black and three color,
- two printheads (black and tri-color),
- software CD,
- booklets in different languages with instructions for initial installation,
- other printed materials, including the warranty card.
interface USB cable must be purchased on your own.
Officially, consumables include ink bottles (on the manufacturer's website they are called ink containers). They have the same index - , but, of course, with an addition that specifies the color:
- Black Black: 135 ml capacity (pigment ink), rated for 6,000 A4 pages, ISO/IEC 24711,
- three color (water-soluble dye-based inks - cyan Cyan, magenta Magenta and yellow Yellow), volume of 70 ml, designed to print 7000 pages.
There are also two printheads - in fact, they look exactly like cartridges for already known models of the PIXMA series, and they are made using the same FINE technology (although the description on the manufacturer’s website contains the word “improved”), which provides for a minimum volume drops 2 sq.
Since these heads, unlike the models of the nearest competitor, are not stationary, but are installed by the user, and as easily as the cartridges in the known PIXMA models, there is a suspicion that their service life is rather limited. Moreover, this cannot be unambiguously considered a minus, everything will depend on three factors: how limited the service life will be (at least in comparison with competitor analogues, where heads are changed in a service center), whether the owner will be able to change them himself, and whether it will be easy to buy heads to replace and at what price.
Looking ahead a little, I have to say: in the instruction manual installed with the printer software, the possibility of replacing the print heads by the user is not mentioned. There are signs of their malfunction in the list of errors, but the only way to eliminate them is indicated: contacting a service center. That is, hope for self-replacement heads did not materialize, but then again: it does not matter if the heads last long enough. The manufacturer promises a guarantee for 12 months or 30,000 prints.
And do not forget about the absorber or "diaper" - a device for collecting ink flowing from the heads, for example, during their cleaning with the appropriate service procedure. The absorber also needs to be replaced from time to time, and its counter reset, but all manufacturers refer such actions for such equipment exclusively to the competence service centers. Moreover, such a procedure will be paid: the warranty card directly states that the warranty does not apply to the waste ink collection.
Appearance
We got a test sample, even with a corresponding sticker on the back wall, so there was no design of the box, and we did not take a photo of it. The weight of the printer in the package of 6.8 kg is not much, but for ease of carrying, slots are made on the sides for gripping by hand.
Like the already familiar PIXMA E464 MFP, the printer looks like a bar with rounded vertical ribs. The color is black matte, handprints will not stand out on a slightly rough surface of the body. The only bright spot is a sticker with information that the device can print up to 6,000 black and white and up to 7,000 color pages from one refill.
Since a printer with a single interface does not need any advanced control panel, there are only two buttons (Power - Power and Resume / Cancel - Resume / Cancel) and two LED indicator Power and Alarm.
The buttons are quite large, they are pressed gently, they work clearly; perhaps the only complaint against them can be, and even that should rather be attributed to nit-picking: a small free play does not exclude triggering from accidental touches. True, a positive role in this regard will be played by the location of the buttons in the far right corner of the upper plane of the printer, where the probability of accidental pressing is lower.
As often happens in cases of a small number of indicators, their state is not limited to the options “on - off - flashing”. The flashing mode can also be important: for example, the Power LED after the first turn on, until the system is filled with ink, shines in the “two flashes - pause” mode; if it blinks evenly, it may indicate that the printer is performing a print job, and that the printer is open. top cover. A steady light on Power indicates that the printer is ready to print.
For Alarm, the notation is even more complex, it will help to identify a wide variety of errors, and the decoding of some is given in the manual installed with the printer software. So, "three flashes - pause" means a paper jam, "five flashes - pause" - problems with the print head, "eight flashes - pause" - the absorber is almost full, but printing can still be continued.
There are also options for alternating Power and Alarm flashing, but almost all errors that cause such an indication are eliminated by the service center.
Behind is the cover of the feed tray, in the working position leaning back at an angle of about 45 degrees from the vertical. The receiving tray is horizontal, retractable, it is located at the bottom of the front panel. Thus, the bending of the sheet when passing through the printer mechanism is relatively small, which just allows you to work with high-density media, including paper for inkjet photo printing.
Both connectors - for power cables and interface USB - are also located at the back, and the power socket is located on the side and in a small niche, and therefore the connector inserted into it practically does not go beyond the dimensions of the printer. The USB cable exits back, perpendicular to the rear wall, but it fits well into the area defined by the tilted cover of the input tray, and therefore, when installing, it is enough to leave 11-12 cm of free space behind the printer.
The receiving tray is different than in E464: it has one retractable part, also without side and front stops, but with a folding element that raises the front edge of the output sheet. And, although the paper also does not fit into the tray very evenly, the sheets do not jump out far ahead and do not fall. And the tray itself is not so “delicate”: of course, you can accidentally break it, but you will need a much stronger push than in the case of the E464.
When working with photo paper 10x15 or 13x18 cm, you can fold down the lifting element, and slide the tray itself in - it turns out both conveniently and compactly.
The front of the top panel is occupied by a flip-back cover that hides the ink tanks, printheads, connecting tubes, and the paper path. There is a sensor (a conventional mechanical microswitch) that indicates that the lid is open - as already mentioned, while power indicator starts flashing evenly. And if the cover is opened during printing, it will pause and continue after the cover is closed.
The most noticeable design difference of the line Canon PIXMA G from the closest competitor lies in the location of the ink tanks (the instruction calls them containers, but the same term is used in Russian texts for ink bottles, so we will call them tanks). If in all competitor models known to us, the capacities are made in the form of a separate module attached to the side, then in PIXMA G they are built inside. In our opinion, this is a big plus: firstly, the width of the device does not increase, and secondly, the containers of similar models of a competitor can be accidentally damaged by grabbing them while carrying, and this is impossible in PIXMA G.
The containers are located in two groups: on the left one large for black ink, on the right - three smaller ones for color. Their necks are under the blue flip caps and are equipped with rubber stoppers.
The containers are made of translucent milky-white plastic, and windows are made at their location in the case, allowing you to visually control the level of ink of each color. There are minimum and maximum level marks.
Although the PIXMA G series printheads and the E464 cartridges are similar, access to their installation location is different. While the E464 cartridges are inserted from the front, which is very inconvenient, the head holder (carriage) in the PIXMA G becomes easily accessible after lifting the top cover.
Preparation for work
The preparatory procedures are very simple, all steps are shown in the accompanying getting started guides. These manuals are multilingual, but most of the steps are described using pictures and do not require verbal explanations.
After unpacking and removing the shipping locks, you need to install the heads, fill in the ink and fill the system. These actions are also illustrated with quite understandable pictures, we will add only a few words.
The design of the necks of the bottles does not allow the ink to pour out freely, which is very useful in terms of safety - the liquid will not spill out either by accidental pushing or shaking, or during installation over the filling hole of the container during refueling. There is also the other side of the coin: when refueling, you have to work a little - “milk” the bottle in order to make the ink flow into the container. But it is not necessary to squeeze the open bottle until it is installed above the neck of the container, otherwise the ink may splash out.
The volume of the containers exactly corresponds to the volume of the bottles, so you need to pour out the ink completely at the first refill, without fear of overfilling. With subsequent refueling, you should focus on the maximum level mark. At the end, it is necessary to tightly close the necks of the containers with standard rubber stoppers.
When you first turn on the procedure for the initial filling of the ink supply path (the photographs show that the tubes going from the tanks to the print heads are empty at first) and heads. This will require some time and a considerable amount of ink, so noticeable that there is even a special booklet with a warning in the kit: the number of prints from the first refill will be less than declared.
Until the system is full, the printer will not be ready: as already mentioned, the Power indicator is not constantly on, but blinks in the “two flashes - pause” mode. With the power on, press the Resume / Cancel button (Power stops flashing) and hold for about 5 seconds, until the Power indicator starts flashing again. Filling begins, while at the initial stage it is possible to observe how the ink moves through the tubes.
When the process is over (it lasted about 6 minutes for us), the printer will go into the “Ready” state: the Power indicator will be on constantly. The level of ink in the color bins decreased by ten to twelve percent, in black it was somewhat less, and it can be estimated that 7-9 ml of ink of each color went into filling.
You cannot pour the ink back, but the possibility of transporting a refilled printer is still provided. For safety precautions, see the manual that came with the software, "Precautions for Transporting the Printer". Among other things, it is recommended that when the printer is turned on, press the Resume / Cancel button and hold until the Alarm indicator flashes 8 times, then release it - the printer will turn off and be ready for transportation.
Software installation, printing
Installing the software, which we carried out from the supplied disk, does not cause any difficulties. As usual, let's make a warning: the printer does not connect to the computer with a USB cable immediately, but only at the request of the installer.
The printer driver is installed first, followed by a prompt to align the printheads and test print.
Then it is proposed to install an additional software, and at the end - an offer to register the product (of course, you need Internet access), which we refused. As a result, the icon of the installed printer appears.
The driver settings in general are very similar to those we saw in PIXMA E464, but there are differences, sometimes significant.
Please note: for some reason, after installing the software, printing in grayscale is set by default; for color printing, the "bird" in the corresponding field must be unchecked.
As before, there are three levels of print quality: fine, standard, and draft. On the Home tab, there is still a fourth level, Other, with the ability to manually select from five quality gradations (the lower the number, the higher the quality), but the available number varies for different media. So, for plain paper, there are three gradations with numbers from 2 to 4:
Gradation 5 with the lowest print quality is not available at all and its presence remains a mystery.
Examples of the mutual dependence of settings are not limited to this. So, it became possible to print without borders, but in this mode, the only quality available for plain paper is standard, and other options are possible either when working with photo paper or when printing with margins. You can't set draft quality for photo paper.
In addition, when changing settings, the user must be very careful: choosing a different type of paper may also lead to a change in the quality gradation or to a change in the method of setting color and intensity from "Auto" to "Manual".
The choice of media types is the same: paper, photo paper, envelope. But the grades of photo paper are no longer two, but five, quite specific (naturally, the range offered by Canon itself is implied), among which are glossy, semi-gloss, and matte:
In addition, there is an undefined "Other Photo Paper", as well as a certain "High Resolution Paper":
The owner is also given the opportunity to independently set the size (item "Other ...").
On the “Page” tab there is a definition of the page size, where there are also such formats as A3, A3 + and even A2, but they refer to the format specified for the pages of the document being printed, and therefore are marked with the word “Scaling” - that is, it will happen automatic change output scale for placement on the sheet format specified in the “Paper Size” column just below.
There are still “fictitious” settings that have no practical meaning for this model and only clog the settings window: for example, choosing a feed tray is only one option.
Provides manual color correction, as well as adjustment of brightness, intensity and contrast.
There are a lot of interesting and useful things on the "Maintenance" tab.
There are several items that are mandatory for any inkjet printer: cleaning and aligning the print heads, printing a test pattern to check the operation of the nozzles. There are also two items related to cleaning: feed rollers and internal components devices (cleaning the pallet), but their use is not explained in the current version of the manual.
The "Power off" button can be used to remotely turn off the MFP (it seems not the most useful function for a device with local connection), "Power Management" allows you to set the time of inactivity, after which the machine will automatically turn off, as well as its auto-on when any access is made from the computer - to change settings or when sending a print job. Note: the MFP does not turn off completely, the off state should rather be described as a “deep sleep” with minimal power consumption, only about 0.4 watts.
But such a useful function as the choice of inks used for printing - only black, only color, or both, similar to the "Cartridge Settings" item in the E464 settings, is absent in this case. Probably, for the significantly increased volumes of ink, the developers considered it not so relevant, forgetting that even the largest can of ink will someday run out, and it’s not a fact that at that moment there will be a spare one at hand.
The silent mode of operation remains, and you can also turn it on constantly or on a schedule; This, of course, is about reducing noise, and not about completely eliminating sounds during operation, and we will evaluate the effectiveness of this mode during testing.
Finally, in the "Special Options" you can, among other things, set the ink drying delay - there are five conditional gradations for it.
The function of checking the status of the printer (“Information about the status of the printer”) remains, but it can also be classified as “fictitious”: information about the remaining ink in the form of columns is not displayed, there is only an offer to look at the printer yourself.
But, of course, the remaining ink is monitored - at least the minimum level, and the notification of its achievement can be turned on or off. Naturally, it is not at all necessary to wait for the corresponding message in order to start refueling, you can replenish the contents of the bunkers at any time, but with the notification of the level of the remaining stock turned on, you should follow the steps provided by the instruction: reset the counter.
There is also some kind of counter of printed sheets: if you print a nozzle check test, then, in addition to the test images themselves, there will also be the current value of the counter - however, with an accuracy of fifty and without specifying formats, etc. And here the words about 30 thousand prints of A4 format may raise questions when calculating the warranty "mileage": such a counter does not see the difference between A4 and smaller formats. Most likely, this is not a matter of small formats: the coupon is common for A3 and A4 devices, and for these formats the difference is important, and for sure it is recorded by the corresponding counters.
We present to your attention and with the settings of the print driver.
Additional software.
The list of additional software is almost identical to what we saw in the E464:
Therefore, we will not repeat the descriptions of all the components included in it again, but we will refer those interested to a recent review.
Tests
For testing, we use our own methodology, available for repetition, and the results we receive may not coincide with those indicated on the official sites. The previously used, revised and supplemented was adopted as a basis.
It is difficult to determine the moment the printer is ready: the Power indicator starts to burn constantly after 14 seconds, but after that the mechanisms continue to operate for some more time.
A4 print speed
Print Speed Test (Text PDF file, monochrome printing 11 sheets A4, counting down from the moment the first sheet came out to exclude data transfer time), two measurements with averaging:
| Draft | Standard | high | Standard, Silent | |
| Time, min:sec | 0:55 | 0:57 | 4:03 | 2:20 |
| Speed, ppm | 11 | 10,5 | 2,5 | 4,3 |
In draft and standard quality, the print speed is almost the same at 10.5-11 pages per minute. When you turn on the silent mode, the speed drops by 2.5 times, and with high quality more than 4 times.
We will not compare the print speed obtained in this test with the declared one, since for inkjet printers it strongly depends on the degree of sheet filling. In this case, it is 5%, but the text is not distributed over the entire surface.
PDF file, printable 20 sheets of text with color graphics and illustrations.
| Draft | Standard | high | |
| Time, min:sec | 6:26 | 11:30 | 26:25 |
| Speed, ppm | 3,1 | 1,7 | 0,8 |
Here we can already note a significant, almost twofold difference in speed when printing with draft and standard quality, not to mention high. What we have to sacrifice for the sake of speed, we will consider when analyzing the quality of prints.
Printing a 30-page DOC file(default margins, text in Times New Roman 10 pt, headings 12 pt, from MS Word), monochrome, other default settings:
| Print Quality | Time min:sec |
Speed ppm |
| Draft | 4:24 | 6,8 |
| Standard | 4:46 | 6,3 |
As in the very first test with monochrome printing, the speed for two gradations of quality again turned out to be very close. And, as in the case of color printing, the resulting value is again noticeably less than the 8.8 pages per minute declared for black and white printing.
In all these tests, it turned out to be slightly faster than the E464, although the difference is negligible. True, the speed characteristics declared for these two models are also close.
Printing photos 10×15 in color:
Photo printing 10×15, high quality, with borders, Photo Paper Plus Glossy II paper:
The drying delay is set in "Maintenance - Special parameters", the default is set to the average value.
When set to maximum, the printheads move with noticeable pauses between forward and reverse strokes, and the print time is increased by 2.5 times.
Printing is always bidirectional, that is, it is performed both with forward and reverse stroke of the heads, which significantly reduces the printing time, but under certain conditions can lead to distortions on the printout. There is no option to disable bidirectional mode.
Photo printing 13×18, high quality, Photo Paper Plus Glossy II paper:
Averaged values for three different prints are given.
A4 color photo printing time, min:sec:
The transition from standard quality to high quality in this case almost doubles the print time, and using photo paper and filling the format completely at equal quality actually triples it.
Noise measurement
Measurements are made with the microphone positioned at the head level of a seated person and at a distance of one meter from the printer.
Background noise level less than 30 dBA - quiet office space, from working equipment, including lighting and air conditioning, only a printer and a test laptop.
Measurements were made for the following modes:
- peak value when turned on,
- print run, quality "Draft",
- print run in silent mode, Draft quality,
- print run, quality "Standard",
- print run in silent mode, quality "Standard".
Since the noise is uneven, the table shows the maximum values of the noise level for the listed modes, and through the fraction - short-term peaks.
| In room | A | B | C | D | E | |
| Noise, dBA | 53,5 | 48,0 / 68,0 | 44,5 / 60,5 | 46,5 / 66,5 | 43,5 / 58,5 |
Peak values are usually associated with the paper feed, which is very vigorous in inkjet printers, especially draft printing, which is the most noisy. Silent (Quiet) mode feeds paper more smoothly, and when printing, the transition from the printed line to the next is slower. Naturally, the print speed decreases, and significantly - by 2.5 times, which was shown by the corresponding test.
Feed path test
We have already mentioned the most important difference from the E464 in this respect: the new printer can use the entire sheet area of any of the acceptable formats, while the E464 not only does not have borderless printing, but there is a wide strip near the trailing edge on which printing is impossible. That is, the feed mechanism is used differently; most likely, it is wholly or partially borrowed from one of the numerous representatives of the PIXMA family, but certainly not from E464.
Much depends on the print mode: in draft quality, the paper moves quickly, the stack of prints in the output tray turns out to be sloppy and may begin to crumble, and in standard and high quality, the paper movement is slower and smoother, the printed sheets lie more evenly.
Since different grades of photo paper can vary greatly in density and thickness, we will not give any tray capacity values for it. Let's just say that there are marks for the maximum load on the side limiters of the format in the input tray, and you need to focus on them.
During testing, about 250 prints were made on A4 office paper and about 40 on different sizes and types of photo paper. At the same time, the problem was recorded only twice - the supply of two sheets of office paper at once. For a completely new printer, this result is not ideal, but it can be attributed to chance with much more reason.
The specification says that the paper used should have a weight of 64 to 105 g/m², and only when using Canon photo paper does the upper limit rise to 275 g/m². At the same time, it is not explained what the plan possible problems with feeding, Canon paper differs from paper of equal quality and density from other manufacturers, and indeed: the printer did an excellent job with sheets of office paper with a density of 280 g / m² - a 10-page job sent for printing did not cause any difficulties. We simply did not find any denser samples, even the photo paper was 255 g / m².
Of the acceptable media, there are also envelopes, and there are only two sizes: DL (98.8 × 179.5 mm) and No. 10 (93.5 × 200.8 mm). But the feed tray allows you to use wider ones, and we took them for the test, since we did not have either DL or No. 10. In fact, at least 10 envelopes are placed in the input tray, with such a number of problems with feeding and printing there were no problems.
Print Quality
Printing Documents
The print quality of text samples is very decent (of course, if not quite cheap loose paper is used): 4-point fonts with serifs and without are confidently read even with the “Draft” setting.
However, with this quality, the black fill color is less saturated, and the outlines of the letters, especially small sizes, are somewhat torn. When you increase the quality to standard and high, the fill becomes denser, and the contours are aligned. There is a difference between standard and high quality, it is visible even to the naked eye, although it is not justified by a fourfold increase in print time - it is quite possible to be satisfied with the "Standard" setting.
From left to right: quality draft, standard, high; with increasing
The same can be said about documents containing graphic design elements - illustrations and filled areas: with any selected print quality, texts, even on inexpensive class C paper, are read at least normally. But with draft quality, the images show stripes across the movement of the sheet:
Therefore, the Standard setting is also optimal in terms of print quality and print time.
test strip
Printing was carried out on class A office paper with the setting in the "Plain paper" settings.
In this test, it performed better than E464, especially on the neutral density and CMYK scales: when set to high quality, their legibility is very good, from 2-3 to 99-100 percent. Fills are denser, but in some places graininess and light spots are still observed; this is almost imperceptible in photographic images, since there are rarely large areas with a uniform fill.
The multicolor stretch is smoother than the E464, but still not perfect.
The combination of colors vertically and horizontally turns out to be very good, on thin curved lines there are practically no overflows and gradation of the structure. Thin slanted straight lines also do not have steps, even when enlarged.
The maximum number of distinguishable lines per inch is 90-100.
Fonts with serifs and sans serifs are readable from size 4, but if the printing is reversed, then the 4th size can be called readable only with a stretch. With decorative fonts, the situation is worse: normal ones are readable from 5 pt, reverse from 7 pt.
In general, the print quality of the test strip can be assessed as good. We believe the result would have been even better on Canon photo paper.
When printing in grayscale with high quality, the same can be said about the visibility of scales, readability of fonts, thin lines, but the graininess on the fills is more noticeable.
Lowering the quality of color printing leads to the fact that the prints become more faded, the visibility of the scales and the readability of texts decrease, and the graininess increases.
Photo
When setting the borderless printing mode, a warning appears:
And indeed: the image no longer fits on the sheet, some of its edges are cut off and disappear, and this must be taken into account if important details are located on the edges.
Cropping degree: the photo on the left is printed without borders, on the right - with borders
When printing without borders, the sheet will be full in cases where the aspect ratio of the printed frame is the same as that of the sheet of paper. Otherwise, empty stripes can still remain along the long or short sides of the sheet, but these are no longer margins; the width of these strips, depending on the frame format, can be either more or less than the typical value for margins of 3.5–4 mm.
To make sure that there are no empty spaces on the printout, the function will help preview printing, which can be enabled in the driver settings.
Now about quality. As with the E464, when using good inkjet photo paper, the result is very decent: small image elements, details in highlights and shadows, memorable colors are reproduced quite decently for a device that, in essence, is not a photo printer, despite the presence such a definition in the description on the official website. Here are some examples:
It's hard to tell the difference between high and standard photo printing in many pictures:
Quality: high on the left, standard on the right
Results and forecasts
If we consider it simply as a printer, then the story about it would turn out to be very boring: we did not find any noticeable shortcomings, but this is clearly not enough to distinguish it in a long line of similar devices from different manufacturers that were produced earlier or are currently on the market.
The only highlight is the presence of a continuous ink supply system, but this fact alone creates a real intrigue: if until now the models of the closest competitor have competed only with amateur modified cartridge printers equipped with CISS of varying degrees of handicraft and using "left" ink, then the appearance of a line Canon PIXMA G created competition in the "proprietary" cartridgeless inkjet market.
Of course, the most interesting thing would be a direct comparison with analogues from a competitor, and primarily from the point of view of “which is cheaper”, since all kinds of additional functions and subtleties of analyzing the quality of prints are for “gourmets”. For the vast majority of potential buyers, the main issue is the price of the device itself, the more prudent ones will also be interested in the cost of consumables, and only approximately equal prices can make people carefully study the characteristics tables.
However, at the time of writing the review, pricing information was not yet available, and it remains for us to try to make some predictions.
The volume of color containers was clearly chosen by analogy with the competitor, and in order to make the buyer look favorably towards Canon, the volume of the black bottle was made almost twice as large. In fairness, we note: on the competitor’s website there are also mentions of large containers, 140 ml each, but until recently they referred only to monochrome printers and MFPs, and in color such a volume is now used only in one L655 model, and only for black, completely as in Canon PIXMA G.
If the price of a set of Canon containers (3x70 + 135 ml) is comparable to a competitor (4x70 ml), then there will be a very strong argument "more ink for the same money", and if the price is equal only in terms of milliliter, then the argument in favor of Canon will still remain, but will be much less weighty: black ink, which consumes the most when printing documents, can be refilled less frequently.
We do not consider the option “Canon ink with an equal volume to be noticeably more expensive than that of a competitor”: this would also be a strong argument, but not at all in favor of Canon. However, it is hardly worth expecting a significantly lower price: manufacturers usually prefer to offer cheaper printing equipment itself, and then "take their own" on consumables. Therefore, the following scenario seems to be the most probable: the Canon PIXMA G models will be cheaper than the closest analogues from the competitor, and the ink will be about the same price, and more likely per set than per milliliter.
Of course, time will tell how justified our assumptions.
Average service life latest versions print heads significantly reduced. If earlier for the Gxxx series it was possible to talk about a resource measured in liters of ink, now the head cartridge in the Gxxx series has practically ceased to differ in terms of its resource, for example, from 440\441 cartridges. The only difference is that classic disposable cartridges are almost 2 times cheaper.
The information is relevant for those who print very, very much (liters of ink per year). For ordinary users, we think the resource of printers and MFPs of the Gxxx series will last for two to three years.
In light of this, for those who print a little and are not afraid to pick up a syringe for refilling, it becomes more profitable to buy a model without CISS, for example,
Foreword:
Canon with a built-in CISS system is already in Russia. The youngest printer model with the G1400 index can be bought in retail chains at a price slightly higher 8000 rubles.More precisely, it was sold, now the hype is such that retail chains out of modesty, they raised prices to almost 10,000 rubles for the youngest model.
Well, finally, something happened that should have happened three years ago. Epson's management has been underestimated for a long time, and they hit the mark with their print factories. It is enough to look at the statistics of requests on the Internet in order to clearly understand which inkjet printers now popular in Russia.
So, Canon announces the launch of its cartridgeless solutions on the market. A step belated, although certainly logical. The mentality of the consumer in Russia will not allow dealing with expensive cartridges for a long time. The main selection criterion so far is the price, it is she who moves tens of tons of alternative inks to users' printers.
So why not offer your alternative? That's what Epson did, and that's what Canon is doing now. Alternative ink, and even under the banner of a well-known brand, will always find its buyer.
What does Canon offer us? On the this moment three models announced: PIXMA-G3400, PIXMA-G2400, PIXMA-G1400- models with the same type of printing mechanism, and different external body kit. From simple printer to MFP.
Of course, Canon, releasing a model for inexpensive photo printing, tried to divide the markets. Separating "high-quality" photo printing (models with photo black color) and new series devices G1400..G3400, which, due to their position, are at the bottom model range(according to the quality of photo printing). Because, black color when photo printing G1400..G3400 get mixing three primary colors. And with this approach, a deep black color cannot be obtained.
But on the other hand, models from Canon with built-in CISS immediately print photos 10*15cm borderless and do not torment users, like Epson for 4 years, with their 4-color models, which could not print full-fledged photos in the 10 * 15cm format.
Well, the big question is whether the mass consumer needs photos range L<20 . Whether they see it on their monitors or on the screens of inexpensive laptops.
Be that as it may, we will try to answer all possible questions from future users regarding the print quality and performance of new models of printers and MFPs from Canon.
We have been testing the model for the Asian market for more than a month, the main bottlenecks, what to check and where to look are already clear. But we were waiting for the release of models specifically for the Russian market. As materials are completed, they will be posted. Stay tuned for updates and additions.
1 Scope of delivery:
Well, here it is "in iron", more precisely in plastic. Finally, the Russian language, and not a bunch of hieroglyphs on the “Asian” model.The excitement around new models of printers and MFPs from Canon is already such that it begins to resemble an “apple theme”, sellers take advantage of the moment and inflate the price tags for these printers.
But the market is already occupied by Epson print factories, and it is with them that we will compare new devices from Canon. In what way will it be possible to oust Epson, and in what way will Canon only be catching up? Read our constantly updated review.
Printers are delivered in standard boxes for this class of devices. Everything is usual: advertising, titles, the promise of a huge number of copies without refilling.
There are no surprises in the box, except for the calculator. Probably to calculate the number of funds saved on printing. Otherwise, thick cardboard, foam, etc. All for the safety of valuable content.
The delivery, of course, is not very rich, everything fits on the printer cover. Manufacturers save on everything, and the Canon G1400 is no exception, which does not even come with a USB cable.
Well, that's all, and for a snack, a close-up, what will be the main intrigue: ink and printheads, what is their quality, what is the price? As for the price, of course, only assumptions, but we will certainly tell you about everything else.
2. Disassembly of the printer:
Actually, why pull, everyone is interested: how branded CISS from Canon are implemented. There is not much text in this section, mostly photographs. But if you notice the text, we advise you to read it.But before the "ninth wave" of photos of the printer outside and inside goes, I would like to recall our assumptions that canon will take into account the problems of its predecessor, and in order to avoid unnecessary problems, the print heads will be pre-filled with ink, which naturally will eventually immediately increase their price. Well, it's all in the photos.
To begin with, a pool of photos that can be taken without disassembling the printer. By the way, when the CISS is installed, the manufacturer ceases to be crowded in narrow buildings, there is a lot of space, you can put another CISS.
In the heat of shooting parts and assemblies of the printer, we almost forgot about the printer as such. Actually, from the outside, the printer is like a printer, if not for the windows of the CISS containers.
Let's move on to the dessert of this section. The body has been dropped, let's try to appreciate the engineering genius from Canon.
And immediately there are interesting differences in the approach to the implementation of ink tanks. If Epson acted in a simple way (we tilt the tanks, thereby creating an air column), then Canon did not make cans hanging on two corners on the side. And he built a whole system of clamps to block the air column when refilling ink. And all this for the sake of the monolithic design of the printer, so that the printer does not look like a craft with a hastily fastened CISS. How reliable will it work? It's hard to say. But here is one piece of advice we can definitely give: you should not open and close the covers of the ink compartments without need.
We will immediately tell you about the changes in the operation of the mechanisms for draining mining. It just so happens that printers with installed CISS systems need more frequent cleaning. This statement has not bypassed the new printers and MFPs of the G series from Canon.
The engineers had to significantly increase the volume of the “diaper”, and since there was no longer enough space for it in the usual place, part of it (for the pigment channel) was transferred to the back of the printer. This required laying a drain to it. But every cloud has a silver lining, now it has become much easier for Canon owners to remove part of the waste (pigment) to an external container, thereby leaving the printer clean. Unfortunately, the water channel continues to be emptied under the parking junction.
What are the possible problems here? The problem is in the long hose for working out. The fact is that there is a run of mining from the pigment channel through a hose of limited section, thickening is possible during long periods of downtime.
By the way, mining can thicken not only in the hose, but also in the "pump". Therefore, periodic switching on (at least once every 3 months) for this printer is a recommendation that extends its life.
With prolonged downtime, a fatal “thickening” of working out is possible, which will lead the printer to an inoperative state.
All nodes are presented in the photographs in the most detail, and a variant of organizing the draining of mining into an external tank is also presented. Unfortunately, it is not possible to remove the back side of the pump with the second hose, we only show how it enters there. Crawling up to it to output the "dropsy" channel is also a problem.
As promised, the option of organizing the drain of the pigment channel into an external container. With this option, we, of course, did not spare the case and drilled a hole instead of one of the self-tapping screws. For those who want to keep the warranty on the product, it is necessary to come up with a more gentle method.
That's actually all the main differences from the "cartridge" printers, to complete the picture, there are a number of photos of the disassembled printer.
Putting the printer into operation does not cause problems: install the print heads and fill in the ink.
This was probably the most boring section of our review, which is more interesting for printing professionals.
For those who are not particularly versed in the piling up of rollers and gears, let's sum up brief summary of the disassembly:
Canon, despite the clearly budgetary positioning of the G series, took the design of the printer very seriously. Printer nodes, by today's standards, are well implemented. Of course, from the point of view of a printer who needs 5-10 thousand color prints per month, this is not the best choice. But here for home users of the mechanics resource seems to be more than enough.
3. Photo print quality:
So, we figured out the ins and outs of the new printers and MFPs from Canon's G series, let's move on to more understandable tests.Photo print quality. To begin with, let's see what instrumental measurements give us in the field of color gamuts.
We present graphs of ink gamut for L=20, L=50 and L=80. G-series printers are white graphics. Epson's four-color L-series printers are the green graph.
As expected, the lack of photo black immediately affected the quality of the display of dark shades. But the failure is not catastrophic, especially against the background of competitors - Epson's 4-color printing factories.
Of course, for artistic images in the style (Low Key), this printer is not suitable. But for most everyday photographs, the question is whether life exists on Mars, i.e. at L<20.
Now let's look at "live examples" of printing from the new G-series printers. For a "seed", we present a scanned known multi-plane test image in print quality (2 on the left) and (max on the right). The images are clickable, but the size is large, about 3 megabytes.
We remind you that the print was made without the use of profiles, on Lomond Super Glossy Br270 photo paper. Well, just as we predicted that Canon would produce very decent results without the use of profiling, this series is made for the average person, not the print professional.
Now about black. Yes, it's certainly not that deep. But even on test images it looks pretty good. For amateur needs, this is more than enough.
Now about the raster. The raster on new printers is much better than on 4-color models from Epson. But for many, quality is the apparent absence of dots or stripes, and not high color rendering materials.
On cheaper photo papers, when printing without a profile, everything is not so rosy. Matte lomond 230 g - photo on the left, glossy cactus 230 g - photo on the right.
Both types of papers when printed without "profiling" showed very average results. And most likely it is cheap grades of photo papers that will be targeted for this printer.
Therefore, unfortunately, without using profiles for these types of photo papers, high-quality photo printing is impossible.
So, as a first approximation, we figured out the printing of photographs. But this is a home printer, what about text printing? Still, the printer claims to be universal.
We remind you that printing text for an inkjet is a failed position, as well as printing photos for a laser. However, a special pigment channel is dedicated to the text in order to bring the print quality closer to “laser” systems.
We look at the "scans" of printing in fonts of various sizes on ordinary office paper.
To the quality of "laser devices" - as to the moon. This applies both to the clarity of the lines and to the durability. The standard wet finger smear test leaves very noticeable marks.
Nevertheless, a separate channel with pigment gives the quality of text printing on ordinary office paper significantly higher than dropsy printing in Epson printing factories.
And the durability of the pigment, if you do not rub it, is not bad. On Epson, the text on ordinary office paper is blurred just from a drop of water. So in this parameter, the new G series printers are ahead of their nearest competitor.
Let's upset the “printers”: in standard quality, the printer cannot print large print runs in one gulp (hundreds of full-color sheets at a time), nozzles will fly out. In quality print modes, “flows” can be printed in any quantity. Text documents are printed in standard quality in any reasonable volume (tested in pools of 300-400 pages) without quality loss.
Thus, this printer / MFP covers all household needs completely.
To evaluate the printing speed, we present videos that demonstrate the speed of printing text documents, as well as 10 * 15 cm photos and A4 photos.
Text printing video As you can see, the speed is quite decent, you can print books, abstracts, etc. If you can't afford original ink, take a look at DCTec pigment- excellent quality at a price several times lower than the original. To date, about 300 ml have been printed with DCTec pigment, the heads are still alive.
Video printing pictures 10*15cm The total printing time is one and a half minutes, which, of course, is not a speed record, but quite a normal result. Given the more pleasant raster, unlike Epson's 4-color printing factories, the speed characteristics of Canon's new printers look quite good.
A4 photo printing video Total print time is almost 4 minutes. But, unlike Epson, there is no drop in speed after printing a dozen copies, and you can accurately calculate the time to print a large number of photos.
Let's take a closer look at the operation of the raster device on the Canon G1400.
Below are examples at 1200dpi optical scanning resolution. Enlarged fragments in the photo have dimensions 2*2cm. So, even by holding the photo to the nose, it is not possible to see the features of the raster.
The first thing that catches your eye is the active "noise" of monochromatic areas, thereby eliminating the visible banding caused by the junction between the passage of the PG along the paper movement.
The next interesting feature is the lack of black color. At the same time, there are no single black dots that 5-color models like to put. Here the printer is forced to abundantly and evenly pour ink of three colors to increase the densities. At the same time, we get fairly smooth transitions (for amateur use).
In general, canon showed very good results for a consumer printer, created, as they say, without pretensions. A lot of users will prefer the absence of a visible raster in photographs, rather than Epson's wide color gamut.
The average ink consumption was about 0.6 ml per quality A4 print. Those. for a 10*15cm photo, the ink consumption will be about 0.15ml
What's next?
We received a lot of feedback and questions on the article, one of the popular questions is, where is the second hose and how to get it out?We answer, in order to get to the outlet of the second hose, you need to remove the parking knot, then we hope everything can be seen in the photo.
As you can see from the photo, the solution is not the best. Especially when you consider the rather limited capacity of the "diaper". How to remove the waste hose, we will leave this to the discretion of future active users of this printer or MFP.
Everyone is interested ink lightfastness issue, but we do not use high-speed methods of exposure. If you burn prints in a short time (several days), sometimes the results begin to differ significantly from the fading of prints under normal conditions (indoors). Therefore, it takes about 3 weeks to get results.
We will compare with 4-color Epson, and the main intrigue is that the ink will be close to the L800 in terms of durability or fall to the “alternative” level. While canned inks from Canon evoke only positive emotions, we are looking forward to the announcement of ruble prices for them.
Print head resource. At the moment, everything is very encouraging. Resources of 300 ml per color passed on all 3 test machines. Of course, we would buy original inks and drive one of the printers only on them, but there are no original inks yet. Therefore, having driven through 1 printer all 3 sets of the original from the deliveries, we transferred it to DCTec.
Let's see if the difference in mileage will be visible after the death of the PG. Still, 3 sets is a significant expense for domestic purposes. For 90% of users, this is several years of operation!!!
A year has passed...
We are again glad to meet our readers in the section of printers with built-in CISS. A year has passed since this article was written, and it's time to take stock of our testing of these printers from Canon.For starters, the good news is that all three test devices successfully passed the yearly milestone (with daily mileage). The volume of the press is so large that we will not voice it. Anyway, no one will believe.
Yes, and we ourselves, for the third month of continuous tests, were waiting for this week, well, a maximum of another month and a corpse. But they live, and now they are alive.
So home users can rest assured that the printheads are not the bottleneck of this printer. Well, or, at least, they are not yet (remember the story of the Epson L800 chronic depressurization).
All 3 printers have been converted to ink ever new and actively "ate" 500-sheet reams of paper, emitting printing of photographs and text documents.
By the way, we were asked, how do you reset the “diapers” of new models, because they have just appeared, and you are already running liters of ink through them?
We answer, we just do not hesitate and flash the brains of printers by reading the EPROM dump of the new printer.
Here are photos of how it happens. In fact, this is standard procedure for any printer that falls into our hands.
A lot of questions are asked about the PIXMA G1400, PIXMA G2400, PIXMA G3400, PIXMA G4400 series of printers and MFPs. We will consistently try to answer the most pressing of them. Unfortunately, this series of devices has completely dropped out of the discussion of “Prof. parties” on the forums. Elementary questions of ordinary users remained unanswered. So:
Ink:
Six months after the announcement of the start of sales of new models, branded inks have finally become available for general sale.
Their cost at the beginning of 2017 is about 700 rubles per 70 gr. Which roughly corresponds to the price of Epson 664 ink series (for printing factories).
Of course, we were interested in the issue of lightfastness of these inks. Here is a graph of the light fastness of DCTec EverNew inks compared to genuine Canon inks.
For non-specialists: Canon branded inks burn out 2 times faster than the new DCTec EverNew series. I don’t want to comment on this fact, but whoever used the original ink himself noticed that indoors, if sunlight hits the prints, the photos fade quickly enough.
Most likely, when creating branded inks in jars, Epson's successful printing factories with 664 series inks were the reference point. Relative to them, both the volume of bottles and their price are exhibited, and even the light fastness turned out to be approximately at the same level.
Those. big corporations stay true to themselves and do not go beyond the cartel. They have determined certain quality criteria and are not going to overcome them even under the guise of competition.
How to print bright photos?
Probably the most popular question. By default, photos are gray and featureless. This is perhaps the most important drawback of this series of devices from Canon.Unfortunately, the G1400..G2400…G3400…G4400 devices do not use black ink when printing photos. The supplied black pigment ink is of poor quality and not designed for photo printing. Their destiny is the printing of documents.
Nevertheless, there are a huge number of "cartridge" printers and MFPs on the market, which, even with such a printing scheme, allow you to get more reasonable photos than the Canon models in question without cartridges.
We believe that Canon artificially “roughened” the photo printing mode in order to position the printer in the lowest segment of the inkjet market.
The decision is not "clean", especially if we recall the well-known folk wisdom: do not do worse - it will turn out worse on its own.
We assume that the brains of the printer significantly clamped "inklim" (the amount of ink poured per unit area of paper) in order to show the outstanding efficiency of the models in terms of ink consumption.
And the price for such savings is gray indistinct photographs. By the way, attentive readers noticed that in our test a year ago we bypassed this problem by choosing a different type of photo paper.
Unfortunately, both methods turn the model into an appendage of a personal computer. You won't be able to get vivid photos using your smartphone or direct card printing.
Both printing methods are focused primarily on budget photo papers, on which the gap in brightness and saturation of photographs when printed between those presented by Canon and Epson print factories reaches depressing values.
How to print bright photos. Method number 1
Why are the photos faded? Well, why, there is no black color. Actually, here is the answer, you just need to turn on the black color when printing.In the print settings, select plain paper and high print quality. And, lo and behold, the printer immediately starts using black pigment when printing images.
Unfortunately, the printer does not know that we are inserting not ordinary paper, but photo paper, and is very greedy when applying ink to paper. The photos will still be pale, you need to increase the amount of ink applied to the paper. To do this, we will correct the values in the driver.
Unfortunately, Canon is very creative in writing drivers, and the word "not in the settings" means the absence of additional correction, and not turning it off at all. So we make sure to post it.
Don't forget to remove automatic negotiation with ICC profiles. By the way, manual selection, this is for the current session, as soon as you switch the type of photo paper in the driver menu, the system will immediately try to slip one of the profiles here. We recommend removing all named ICC profiles (CNBC*****.icm) from the system. And in general, look at this menu item more often. Especially before printing targets for building color ICC profiles.
With these settings, profiling was done for inexpensive Imatec matte photo paper. The profile can be downloaded from link..
Here are the color gamut graphs for this printing method. It can be seen that the coverage in the shadows has increased significantly. The graph shows the gamut values for a 4-color print factory (Green graph), and a G1400 printer (White graph). The coverage plot is shown at a value of L = 25.
Coverage in the shadows has increased significantly. And although Canon loses to Epson, without using this technique on matte photo papers, the situation was extremely deplorable. The black point on matte photo papers was L>30. There was no need to talk about any black color with such parameters. The photo, printed with the default settings, was something grayish and dim.
We present to your attention the test photos printed by the first method. We immediately apologize for the vertical stripes on the scanner, it is already living out its life, we will replace it in the near future.
These are classic tests, A4 print format. Images are “clickable”, you can estimate the size of the raster when using the black pigment channel. But the color managed to get quite nice saturated photos, on photographic paper costing less than 6 rubles. per sheet A4.
Of the significant disadvantages of this method is the visibility of the pigment channel raster. Still, the pigment in these models was created for printing text, a drop of about 10 picalitres and is already clearly visible when examining the print in detail. Although it may be for many it is quite a life option.
Unfortunately, this method is only suitable for printing on matte photo papers. On glossy papers, in addition to a noticeable raster, you will also get “bronzing”. Of course, it can be reduced by flooding the pigment photo series from DCTec, but we think this solution is not for the masses, especially if you take into account the price of the photo pigment.
Well, the third drawback of the method is a noticeable “banding” in the photographs, if you have part of the nozzles clogged. Because this mode uses single-pass printing mode.
In order to evaluate the saturation and contrast of the image, in addition to scanned photographs, we offer a photograph of prints, where the contrast value can be estimated next to ordinary household items. A pack of tea, a jar of coffee - all this can always be found and see what saturation they have.
We hope now you can get a comprehensive idea of how bright and saturated prints can be with the proper use of inexpensive materials.
How to print bright photos. Method number 2
For those who are not satisfied with the raster in the spinning method, and the inability to print on glossy papers. Another solution can be proposed. When using high-quality EverNew inks and sane photo papers, you can continue to raise the "inclimata" to values at which the mixture of colors will be most similar to black.DCTec ink does not have time to spread, but is well absorbed in the receiving layers of photographic papers. We immediately warn you, not all ordinary glossy photo papers are capable of this.
For example, we took glossy photo paper. Imatec G200 and a couple of microporous photo papers Lomond SG-260 and Imatec RC190-G. The print settings are certainly not for the faint of heart:
The lack of black color certainly cannot be compensated even by increased doses of ink on photographic paper. But nevertheless, progress from the use of add. settings when printing is very significant. And he has the right to life. More precisely, even so, these settings are the only way to get normal photos on PIXMA Gxxxx series devices.
Separately, I would like to talk about Imatec glossy paper, at a more than affordable price it has a very decent photo layer, moreover, with a decent gloss. In terms of tactile sensations, the paper occupies an intermediate position between ordinary glossy and microporous papers, while the price is less than 8 rubles. per sheet A4.
Photos on all three photo papers have sufficient contrast and brightness, and at least correspond to classmates with the same type of printing (without black). The raster is not noticeable in the photographs. It is almost impossible to evaluate the difference in color gamut through a scanner, so we present selective "scans" of photos to evaluate the raster and overall color contrast. We remind you do not pay attention to vertical stripes, this is a scanner that is dying out.
Photos on glossy photographic paper Imatec G200, with a "pixel-by-pixel" study, you can already see quite a black color. In general, photographs do not leave the “whitish” feeling that occurs when printed with default settings. Although, of course, the lack of a full-fledged black color is not realistic to compensate. Of the pleasant bonuses, this is a soft raster without black dots, as in the previous print version.
Photo on Lomond SG-260 microporous glossy photo paper.
Photo on Imatec RC190-G microporous glossy photo paper.
Increasing the color gamut from the bottom made it possible to reproduce skin tones without significant dips and holes in the gradients. In general, for the lower segment of printing, this is a definite success. We hope our recommendations for printing photos on PIXMA G1400….G4400 printers will allow you not to be disappointed in this unit.
But in order to put the dots in understanding where the place of this printer is in the photo printing section, look at the graph, we added a 15-year-old Epson 2100 printer on Lomond 260 photo paper to the shadow coverage graph on three photo papers.
Yandex.Market data
| General characteristics | |
| Device | Printer |
| Print Type | colored |
| Print technology | thermal jet |
| Accommodation | desktop |
| Printer | |
| Maximum Format | A4 |
| Maximum print size | 216×297 mm |
| Printing photos | there is |
| Number of colors | 4 |
| Minimum drop volume | 2 pl |
| Borderless printing | there is |
| Maximum resolution for b/w printing | 4800x1200dpi |
| Maximum Resolution for Color Printing | 4800x1200dpi |
| Print speed | 8.80 ipm (b/w A4), 5 ipm (color A4) |
| Print time 10x15 cm (color) | 60 s |
| Trays | |
| Paper feed | 100 sheet. (standard) |
| Expendable materials | |
| Paper density | 64-275 g/m2 |
| Print on: | photo paper, glossy paper, envelopes, matte paper |
| Color Cartridge/Toner Life | 7000 pages |
| Resource b / w cartridge / toner | 6000 pages |
| Number of cartridges | 4 |
| Ink Type | pigmented |
| Cartridge/toner type | black GI-490 BK, blue GI-490 C, magenta GI-490 M, yellow GI-490 Y |
| Continuous Ink Supply System | there is |
| Interfaces | |
| Interfaces | USB 2.0 |
| Fonts and control languages | |
| PostScript Support | No |
| Additional Information | |
| OS support | Windows, MacOS |
| Minimum system requirements | Intel Pentium III |
| Power Consumption (Operating) | 12 W |
| Power Consumption (Standby) | 0.8W |
| Noise level during operation | 46.5 dB |
| Dimensions (WxHxD) | 445x135x330 mm |
| The weight | 4.3 kg |
| Peculiarities | Pigmented black inks and dye-based color inks |
Canon PIXMA G1400 inkjet printer reviews
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Rating: 4 out of 5
Alexey G.
Pros: Price Price of print Price of ink
Cons: Doesn't print A5 borderless!
Comment: Decided to try Canon. A previous joyful purchase is their sublimation printer. I was happy with the printer after purchase. Before buying, there was a fear, but whether he could print photos. As it turned out, it can and is very good for a home user. Having used up the 10x15 paper, I ran after my favorite A5 format (the standard paper size as close as possible to 13x18). I was surprised to find that the printer on it DOES NOT PRINT WITHOUT MARGINS! Very upset by this fact. An excellent device, and the manufacturer saved on support for borderless printing on all formats available for the printer. P.S. I've been using it for over 6 months. The printer pleases
Rating: 4 out of 5
Gennady V.
Advantages: Everything is compact and convenient, the resolution is average, you can’t print high-quality photos or paintings, but for an unpretentious citizen, that’s it.
Disadvantages: I had a lot of Kenons, so I knew what I would get from the G1400 /
Comment: Eats a lot of ink when cleaning, and this is turning on, off and during printing after a certain period, which is very short.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Pros: Cheap cost per print, borderless printing, easy refilling
Cons: no wi-fi
Commentary: Easily refillable ink tanks are a wonderful invention. And the fact that they are transparent and placed on the front of the case is simply convenient, because no additional manipulations are needed as before: turn on the computer and look at the ink level through a special utility. The design is simple, no frills, therefore, IMHO, it will fit into any interior. The manufacturer claims about 6,000 pages of black cartridge. We have been printing at home and printing intensively for several months, and the ink does not run out at all. We tried thick paper several times for all sorts of applications - the printer did an excellent job. For its price a good purchase. The device does not have wifi, but it is not critical to use if you put it next to the workplace.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Igor Sergeev
Pluses: Compared to Epson L120, it's just fine! Colors are crisp, print speed is fast
Cons: Really noisy. You can hear the insides of the printer clicking from the other room. Sufficient overall
Comment: By and large, I chose according to the price-quality ratio, for printing photos mainly. Was satisfied. I chose between printers with factory CISS, but after not the best time using Epson, I decided to change the brand and did not lose! When printing on thick photographic paper, previously each sheet had to be inserted manually, because the grip misfired. Also, the printing time for one sheet of a4 format took 5 minutes. With Cannon, I had to forget about it, it captures paper at a time and prints no more than 2 minutes !!! No quality loss. In general, an excellent option for your money. I recommend
Rating: 5 out of 5
Advantages: Before buying, a sofa analytics was made - a table with direct competitors with the Epson L line in the category up to 10 thousand 110, 120, 132, 312 models. in terms of quantity +, the canon turned out to be ahead in most positions, such as a smaller drop, higher speed, more compartment for black. I also compared the prices for consumables and here the price, both for original ink and analogues, was more attractive than that of a competitor. In addition, even if the print head (cartridge) fails, you can replace it yourself, and not in the SC like Epson.
Disadvantages: as such, there are none, there are little things that do not overshadow the impression of the purchase at all - while it is alarming how quickly the ink "evaporates" from the containers. The first filling + about a couple of hundred full-color A4 prints + a couple of dozen photos 10 * 15 ate about a quarter of the color ink, but the black one dropped a few mm from the maximum level. If it goes on like this, then it will be enough not for 5-6 thousand prints, but for a thousand and a half. I was also wary at the first filling of ink, there were so many of them in the factory supply that they went out a little higher than the max level on the containers, which had to be avoided according to the instructions. - no one wrote in a single review about the lack of printing photos on glossy. On the surface of the print appear 8 stripes of microdots from the pressure rollers holding the paper during printing. Enabling the mode in the settings "paper abrasion prevention" also did not help. Not visible on matte paper. Yes, and on the gloss you can see not at a right angle, but when you turn it at a certain angle in front of a light source. - in the store there was a printer next to the elk from epson, and it takes up significantly less space, if it’s important to someone
Comment: despite the discovered small flaw, I do not regret the purchase at all. I bought it to print various methodological, educational materials for children, but the photo is just pampering, we still print the family archive in professional photo labs. The plans are to disassemble and withdraw the dropper so that the diaper does not clog up, and to deal with the exact counter and the real cost of the 1st print, I may switch to an analogue.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Pluses: Promised resource 7000 pages. Not expensive ink.
Cons: No Wi-Fi.
Comment: I bought for a school to print documents, so I needed a model with cheap consumables, I have to print a lot. There were no connection problems. Prints documents with color elements perfectly. The photo turned out not very juicy and bright, but quite good.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Alexey D.
Advantages: Design, clarity (it is convenient to monitor ink consumption), compactness of the device. Well, of course, the resource is a real printing factory. Although it will be interesting to see how the printer behaves after a year of operation. Borderless printing - tested on A4 and 10x15 photos. On photo paper, the quality pleases, it is difficult to distinguish from printing in a photo studio. Relatively inexpensive native consumables. For 500 rubles. bottle, i.e. a full refill will take 2 kilorubles. And another question, when will it be needed - in a year? Two?
Disadvantages: Printing on plain paper by default is very pale, unsightly. However, a large ink resource allows you to continue experimenting with settings. This is not a printer for 2-3 thousand rubles, in which 2-3 photos reduce the capacity of wildly expensive cartridges by 10% (we had one before).
Comments: First impressions are very positive. Unpacking, filling containers (which are visible from the front) with ink did not cause problems. I was a little worried about the bubbles, but over time they disappeared. It may seem that the ink does not go to the bottom at first, but you should not be afraid. Eventually the entire container will be filled. We left 10% of the ink from the starter kit and added it after the first start of the printer - just enough to fill the containers up to the stop. In the first week, we printed two 10x15 family photo albums on matte photo paper (100 photos each) for ourselves and relatives, the third is next in line. The "red" color sank a little (apparently, it was used more than others), but there is still sawing and sawing to the bottom. Black is generally unshakable. The output photos are darker than on the screen, so it makes sense to brighten them by 10-15%, or even more. It doesn't matter if the photo is 10x15 horizontal or vertical. Photo paper must be placed vertically in the tray. When printing 10x15 borderless, you set all the sizes correctly (both in the printer properties and in the built-in Windows printing), but the edges are still cut off at the output. It makes sense to make white margins around the photo in the editor (from 10 to 30 pixels), or crop the photo with a margin of half a centimeter from all sides so that the "heads" and "legs" are not cut off.
Rating: 5 out of 5
It fell off at
Pros: - Pretty good quality for the price! - not buggy, normal software, and driver! - good quality of color and b/w printing on plain paper - good quality of photo printing for an inexperienced layman!, especially if you play with the settings, but not the best, and the printer is not 6-color or more! - everything is easy to install, refuel with paint. - a large resource of one gas station, ink and non-relatives normally digest! - replaceable separate print heads with temperature protection against overheating, which is very good for after-warranty self-service, not like Epson's! - 1 year warranty, or 30,000 A4 prints, see photo below
Disadvantages: - could be more settings in the driver! (maybe there will be an update) - not much noisy, but really, like most inkjet printers, nothing stands out in this regard! - it is better not to buy if you need a very good quality of photo printing, it is better to buy something more expensive and from 6 colors! - not the best option for outputting diaper tubes, and resetting it, by overflow, although it seems there is already a reset through the code. (I just haven’t tried it myself yet!)
