Can photo printers be used as everyday printers? -

I am looking at a canon pixma iP4600 photo printer. I am just wondering if it only prints photos or if it can print random stuff off the internet, or text as well.

Yes, indeedy. This is a photo and document printer. It boasts of printing the highest quality images and text documents. Here are all your specifications for the printer: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Canon-2909B008AA… One thing I always look at first in any printer is the cartridge cost. This printer uses individual cartridges, which is good. It means you only replace the colour that runs out, not all cartridges at once as you have to do with some printers. With modern printers, you also need to check the price of the cartridges. Some printers now don t allow you to use cheaper compatible cartridges, which means you would have to pay full price for them. The type of cartridge for this particular printer is listed on the above link. Just pull up a search on compatible cartridges and see if there are any available for this model of printer. I use the ink2u website, but you may want to have a trawl of the net for other sites. All the best.

Yes, you can use your photo printer as a everyday printer. But be warned! You ll need to lower the print quality or you ll end up using a lot of ink. Photo printers do multiple passes for fine detail, and this will suck the ink out of the cartridges (and the money out of your wallet).

only the small photo-only printers can t do everything http://www.trustedreviews.com/printers/r…

As long as the printer has a USB or Parallel connection you can use it as a daily printer.

yes you can print anything any way you want any time

Certainly! the ink is often more expensive though, as are the printers themselves.

maybe if you want you text to show up on a small piece of photo paper

i think you can. it would just be more expensive. (because of the high quality ink.)

Yes, mine does.