While most people probably prefer a print shop to get their digital photos printed out, there are some others who would like to print photos on their own at home. Of all the photo printers out there, the Canon iP4870 is quite an attractive one.

Aside from its capability to produce excellent prints, its most likeable feature is arguably the double paper trays. The photo printer supports duplex printing, but this functionality is more commonly found on printers than double trays, so these trays are the feature that sets it apart from the competition.

Features and Highlights

The Canon iP4870 features a dual paper feeding system. It has a vertical paper tray at the back that feeds up to 150 sheets from top, and a horizontal one that slots into the base of the printer. The latter is also where you can drop a stack of 150 sheets, but unlike the vertical tray, it is a pull-out one that gives a much better protection for the paper stock from dust.

Each paper tray can be used for a different printing need. For example, the first tray is used to print on envelope and photo, while the other one is used to hold plain paper.

Both paper trays can also be used for the same printing need sometimes, like when there are too many pages to print that one tray isn’t enough. Switching between paper trays is easy. And when the printer uses the second tray, new paper stock can be loaded into the first tray so that the printing can still continue after the second tray has no paper left, assuming that there are more than three hundred pages to print.

More printing means more paper. Although the price of paper isn’t as exorbitant as that of ink cartridges, it still negatively affects the overall running cost of the Canon iP4870. One way to save on paper is to print on each side of a paper, and the printer has exactly the perfect mechanism to tackle the need, which is called duplexer. Better yet, the duplexer is an automatic one, which means that it can automatically print on the other side of paper as soon as the first one is completed.

The more you print in duplex mode, the more paper you can save, and the more paper waste you can avoid. Because duplex printing reduces the amount of consumables, it can help you save a little more money too which you can spend on ink cartridges or anything else.

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Also worth mention is the highest resolution that the printer supports. It is up to 9600 x 2400 dot per inch. Every ink drop can be as small as one picoliter, a feat that not many photo printers can achieve.

This impressive photo printer employs a five-color system. Each color is in a separate replaceable cartridge. One of them is a high-capacity black ink worth more than three thousand sheets of plain paper. You can click the link below to download Canon iP4870 Driver for Windows: