Mothballing an IP5300

[penmore]

Ive just purchased a Pixma iX 4000 and want to mothball the IP5300 and move to printing
from the iX 4000.

The cartridges on the iX 4000 are the CLI8's and the PGI5 so I presume the can just be transferred across from the IP5300

Thanks,
Peter

 

[pharmacist]

Penmore,

yes you can, but keep the IP5300 will print photo's much better, because not only you'll have an extra CLI-8 photo black cartridge to enhance contrast (Contrast Plus), but also will use less ink as the IX4000 will use CMY printing to produce photo's and the IP5300 the more advanced and more economic CMYK printing due to the extra photo black cartridge.

But there is something else: the IP5300 can produce extra shades of lighter cyan and magenta (I believe in total 3 shades of each, see nozzle print check) mimicking the more advanced CcMmYK 6-colour printers, making it superior to the IX4000.

In fact the IX4000 uses the same printhead like one of the first IP-printers of Canon: the IP3000. The nozzle check of the IX4000 shows rather small bands, revealing the small print nozzle columns, whether the IP5300 is 2-3 times broader and this printer is indeed 2-3 times faster in printing.

Unfortunately Canon did not make a theorical IX6000 with the same printhead as the IP5300/IP4500 with an extra CLI-8 photo black cartridge to enhance contrast......