Canon’s new Endurance range is its first refillable colour inkjet printers aimed at higher volume home and small business users (SOHO).
The printer has four ink tanks – cyan, magenta, yellow and black and uses refill bottles that deliver up to 7000 A4 pages in colour and 6000 black. Initially, the product comes in G2600, G3600, and G4600 - the latter has multi-function features, Wi-Fi and Cloud print.
Ink tank printer are not new – a rival brand has had models out for the past couple of years – but it is certainly a tacit acknowledgement from Canon that a SOHO printer is no longer merely a vehicle to use expensive ink! The catch is simply that you pay more for these types of printers upfront so it is only of benefit to power users.
Ink costs A$24.99 for each colour and $29.99 for black totalling A$104.96 – that is about 1.5 cents per page in colour that makes it very low cost to run.
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The G4600 (top of the range) technical specifications include:
- B5 up to A4 paper 105gsm and speciality paper up to 275gsm
- A4 borderless print
- Mono 8.8 ipm and colour 5 ipm
- Wi-Fi N 2.4GHz and USB 2.0 port
- Copier, Fax (colour and mono), scanner (1200 x 600), cloud print (Google Cloud, Apple Air, Mopria)
- ADF 99 sheets A4 80gsm
- 2-line LCD screen
- Cloud print access to Facebook, Dropbox, Google Drive, and SlideShare
- Size/weight: 445 x 330 x 197 mm x 7.2kg
- Price/Availability: A$599 exclusively from Officeworks from mid-February
