Canon iP4300 Mini-Review

I recall back in...well, must have been late 1995, a classmate and I one evening before a computer graphics project was due driving 45 minutes from Carleton out to Kemptville to try to make use of an HP "photo-quality printer." For reasons that don't need to be explained at this juncture that didn't pan out, so it was back to Ottawa and it took all night to squeeze in time on one of the I think three machines distributed among ther class, though only one of them was really any good.

Last Wednesday the Epson R200 I use for printing labels onto CDs started acting a little wonky so for $149.99 I picked up a Canon iP4300. It seems to be a new model, the first Canon you can buy here with the direct CD printing feature enabled plus it has a duplexer and two paper paths, making it a fairly serious "office" machine for the price. My MP530 all-in-one has those other features too so I haven't really tested them(annoyingly the overseas MP530 does CD printing...)and actually I haven't made a lot of use of the MP530 for "printing" either as I haven't used up the ink in my old HP990CSE yet.

So to sum up, I'm just pleased by the march of technological progress and globalization that has brought me this abundance of printing capacity, it would be petty of me to quibble over the lame bundled CD label-making software.