Canon PIXMA G4270
The G3270 with a 35-sheet feeder and a fax modem added, which is the same upgrade Epson charges for between the ET-2800 and the ET-4800 — and Canon's feeder holds five more sheets. Everything underneath is unchanged: GI-21 bottles, pigment black, eleven ISO pages a minute, a hundred-sheet rear feed, manual duplex. The feeder is the whole reason to pay the extra fifty dollars, and it is worth it for anyone whose scanning arrives in stacks: tax paperwork, school forms, a box of receipts. It is not worth it for a household that scans a passport page twice a year. Note that the feeder is single-sided, so double-sided originals need a second pass, and the monochrome LCD makes driving the fax from the front panel more of a chore than it should be.
- Approx. price
- ~$299
- Cost per mono page
- 0.38¢
- Print speed, mono
- 11 ISO ppm
Stacks to scan and a fax line still in use, with no budget for a cassette or a touchscreen.
marks an estimate. Computed from the consumable's ISO page yield and its list price. An estimate. Purchase price plus ink or toner over the pages shown, assuming four mono pages for every colour page. Price is an approximate snapshot from our last catalogue update.
What it costs to own
- Black consumable
- Canon GI-21 pigment black bottle · 6,000 ISO pages · ~$22.99
- Colour consumable
- Canon GI-21 colour bottles · 7,700 ISO pages · ~$23.00 each
- Cost per mono page
- 0.38¢
- Cost per colour page
- 1.3¢
- Cost to own, 5,000 pages
- ~$327
- Cost to own, 200 pages/month for 3 years
- ~$339 (7,200 pages)
Computed from the consumable's ISO page yield and its list price. An estimate. How this is worked out
- Canon PIXMA G4270~$327~$299 printer + ~$28 supplies
- Canon PIXMA G3270~$277~$249 printer + ~$28 supplies
- Canon PIXMA G6020~$404~$379 printer + ~$25 supplies
purchase priceink or toner. An estimate: purchase price plus 5,000 pages at each printer’s computed cost per page, assuming 4 mono pages for every colour page. Printers whose consumable price we could not source are left out.
Specifications
Manufacturer-published figures. Cost lines are computed from the consumable figures above and are estimates.
- Approx. price
- ~$299
- Cost per mono page
- 0.38¢
- Cost to own, 3 years
- ~$339
- Technology
- Thermal inkjet
- Ink system
- Bottles
- Inks
- 4
- Black consumable
- Canon GI-21 pigment black bottle · 6,000 pages
- Colour consumable
- Canon GI-21 colour bottles · 7,700 pages
- Ink in the box
- 6,000 pages
- Ink subscription
- None offered
- Print speed, mono
- 11 ISO ppm
- Print speed, colour
- 6 ISO ppm
- Functions
- Print · Copy · Scan · Fax
- Two-sided printing
- Manual
- Document feeder
- 35 sheets
- Paper capacity
- 100 sheets
- Max paper size
- Legal
- Resolution
- 4800 × 1200 dpi
- Connectivity
- Wi-Fi
- Mobile printing
- AirPrint · Mopria
- Display
- Mono LCD
- Dimensions
- 16.3 × 13.1 × 8.2 in
- Weight
- 15.9 lb
- Released
- 2023
Features
- 35-sheet automatic document feeder
- Fax modem with a phone line socket
- Four front-facing MegaTank reservoirs
- Pigment black ink for plain-paper text
- Borderless photo printing to 8.5 × 11
- Refills from keyed GI-21 bottles
In its favour
- The largest document feeder of any sub-$300 tank printer here
- Running cost identical to the G3270 at roughly 0.38¢ a mono page
- Pigment black keeps scanned-then-reprinted documents legible
- Fax is built in rather than an add-on
Against it
- No automatic duplex, which the similarly priced Epson ET-2850 has
- Monochrome LCD is poor for setting up a fax or a multi-page copy
- Single-sided feeder only
- Rear-feed paper path with no enclosed cassette
What owners say
No owner discussion has been collected for the Canon PIXMA G4270 yet. The specifications above are the manufacturer’s published figures and the cost per page is computed from them — but nothing on this page claims to know what living with it is like, because nobody here has read owners on it.
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- Colour page
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