Customer Rating: 
Summary: A Great Wireless Printer
Comment: I needed another printer and was very glad I came across this model . My husband has a laptop and was never able to print anything unless he hooked up to the printer or had me do it for him .
Now we never have that problem anymore ! Our Canon Pixma 4000R is hooked up to our wireless router and Voila ! We can both print now !
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great printer, iffy installation process
Comment: I bought this printer to replace two printers (one cheapie Samsung laser, the other an older Canon photo inkjet). Key for me was the ability to print over the wi-fi network, since a user in our house could be printing from a nearby Windows desktop, from an Apple iBook, or the Windows laptop provided to me by my job.
Print quality has been excellent for text; very difficult to tell the difference between the print quality of this printer and my old Samsung laser when using even halfway decent paper. Speed is also very good. Almost as fast as the old laser printer.
Pictures are very good as well, although I admittedly haven't used it much for photograph printing so far.
Setup was a breeze both on the Windows machines and on the Apple.
Canon loses 1 star from me for forcing me to install their software packages when I installed the driver for the printer. There was no easy way to opt out, and no description of what the six or seven software packages were going to be for when it rudely informed me that it was installing all of this stuff. I simply removed the programs once the installation process was complete, but still. No such problems on the Apple install, however.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Best Deal For The Price
Comment: I bought the iP4000R for its network capability. I have a 4-computer (3 PCs and 1 Mac) home office network and the HP 5510 All-In-One printer that I have is not network capable. Installation of the iP4000R was easy; now all my computers can print. And the best part is: no additional wiring! They all connect to the iP4000R wirelessly.
As for print quality: On text documents I can't tell the difference between the iP4000R and the HP5510. If I use a magnifying glass I can see that the HP's text is a little sharper, but otherwise they look the same. Photo printing is easier on the iP4000R and the quality is slightly better than on the HP5510. Again, with the naked eye it's not obvious.
Bottom line: If you need a printer for a small home or home office network, the iP4000R can't be beat. It's a great product for the money.
Customer Rating:
Summary: good printer...but rebate declined?
Comment: I bought this with the Powershot A510 to get the $70 rebate for the 2 items together. I never got the rebate and after contacting Canon for a month they tell me they never got the box tabs. Of course I sent them with the rebate form. So now I have no boxes and no rebate. Very aggravating and disappointing!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Wireless Mac and PC friendly at the same time.
Comment: This is a great printer. Aside form the print quality, which is excellent, this printer is easier to set up than anything I've had in the past. I came from 5 or 6 Epson printers in a row and will unlikely go back. Most of my Epson photo printers lasted no more than a year when problems began.
My biggest problem, however, had been setting the Epson printers up to handle both Mac and PC at the same time. I have a Mac Powerbook G4 and a Dell Inspiron 1150 (both wireless), I spent a month trying to get both printers to print wirelessly with no luck. I tried printing thru a Linksys Wireless Router as well as Apple's Airport Express...both would only work on one of my machines and not on both. With the Wireless Canon, I simply set up the Mac first with the installation CD and then moved on and set up the PC as a second user (this can be done in reverse as well). Both worked perfectly in the wireless environment the first time without any complications.
The options and features are excellent and the printing quality is outstanding....even when printing out simple website pages. I would highly recommend to anyone interested in wireless printing to spend the extra cash and choose the IP4000R over the standard IP4000....you will not be sorry....not too mention there's one less cable to kick around.
Summary: A Great Wireless Printer
Comment: I needed another printer and was very glad I came across this model . My husband has a laptop and was never able to print anything unless he hooked up to the printer or had me do it for him .
Now we never have that problem anymore ! Our Canon Pixma 4000R is hooked up to our wireless router and Voila ! We can both print now !
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great printer, iffy installation process
Comment: I bought this printer to replace two printers (one cheapie Samsung laser, the other an older Canon photo inkjet). Key for me was the ability to print over the wi-fi network, since a user in our house could be printing from a nearby Windows desktop, from an Apple iBook, or the Windows laptop provided to me by my job.
Print quality has been excellent for text; very difficult to tell the difference between the print quality of this printer and my old Samsung laser when using even halfway decent paper. Speed is also very good. Almost as fast as the old laser printer.
Pictures are very good as well, although I admittedly haven't used it much for photograph printing so far.
Setup was a breeze both on the Windows machines and on the Apple.
Canon loses 1 star from me for forcing me to install their software packages when I installed the driver for the printer. There was no easy way to opt out, and no description of what the six or seven software packages were going to be for when it rudely informed me that it was installing all of this stuff. I simply removed the programs once the installation process was complete, but still. No such problems on the Apple install, however.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Best Deal For The Price
Comment: I bought the iP4000R for its network capability. I have a 4-computer (3 PCs and 1 Mac) home office network and the HP 5510 All-In-One printer that I have is not network capable. Installation of the iP4000R was easy; now all my computers can print. And the best part is: no additional wiring! They all connect to the iP4000R wirelessly.
As for print quality: On text documents I can't tell the difference between the iP4000R and the HP5510. If I use a magnifying glass I can see that the HP's text is a little sharper, but otherwise they look the same. Photo printing is easier on the iP4000R and the quality is slightly better than on the HP5510. Again, with the naked eye it's not obvious.
Bottom line: If you need a printer for a small home or home office network, the iP4000R can't be beat. It's a great product for the money.
Customer Rating:
Summary: good printer...but rebate declined?
Comment: I bought this with the Powershot A510 to get the $70 rebate for the 2 items together. I never got the rebate and after contacting Canon for a month they tell me they never got the box tabs. Of course I sent them with the rebate form. So now I have no boxes and no rebate. Very aggravating and disappointing!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Wireless Mac and PC friendly at the same time.
Comment: This is a great printer. Aside form the print quality, which is excellent, this printer is easier to set up than anything I've had in the past. I came from 5 or 6 Epson printers in a row and will unlikely go back. Most of my Epson photo printers lasted no more than a year when problems began.
My biggest problem, however, had been setting the Epson printers up to handle both Mac and PC at the same time. I have a Mac Powerbook G4 and a Dell Inspiron 1150 (both wireless), I spent a month trying to get both printers to print wirelessly with no luck. I tried printing thru a Linksys Wireless Router as well as Apple's Airport Express...both would only work on one of my machines and not on both. With the Wireless Canon, I simply set up the Mac first with the installation CD and then moved on and set up the PC as a second user (this can be done in reverse as well). Both worked perfectly in the wireless environment the first time without any complications.
The options and features are excellent and the printing quality is outstanding....even when printing out simple website pages. I would highly recommend to anyone interested in wireless printing to spend the extra cash and choose the IP4000R over the standard IP4000....you will not be sorry....not too mention there's one less cable to kick around.