Review

The auto document feeder and fax are the only reasons to take this machine over the other budget Canon printers.

The printer came with a black (PG-545) and a colour (CL-546) ink cartridge. The print quality is decent and the machine can print double sided.

If you need to use the manual scanner, the hinges on the lid raise up slightly to allow room for a thin book to be copied.

The auto document feeder holds around 20 sheets of paper but can only scan single sides, so copying double sided documents appears to be a little tricky. However, it copies a single sided document seemingly with ease, producing a copied page every 10 seconds or so. The auto document feeder pulls the paper in nice and slowly, rather than a fast jolt.

While the keypad feels fairly solid, the plastic is a little flimsy, but no worse than any other budget printer.

It's a great budget printer, and does everything to a decent standard. It is a handy little machine to have for scanning small documents and invoices to a computer. If you are looking for something more robust, you may find Canon's Maxify range to be more appropriate.

Unboxing

Unboxing, setup and quick double sided copy test of a Canon PIXMA TR4550 printer.

YouTube Video: Canon PIXMA TR4550 Unboxing, Setup and Quick Test

Wireless / WiFi Setup

YouTube Video: Canon PIXMA TR4550 Wireless / WiFi Setup

  1. Switch the printer on
  2. Press the "Settings" button
  3. Use the arrows to select "Device Settings"
  4. Select "LAN Settings"
  5. Select "Wi-Fi"
  6. Select "Enable / disable Wi-Fi"
  7. Select "Active"
  8. Select "Wi-Fi Setup"
  9. Select "Manual Connect"
  10. Use the arrows to select your router
  11. Press "OK" again to confirm the router
  12. Press "*" for lower, uppercase or number
  13. Enter your Wi-Fi password
  14. Press "OK" to confirm the password
  15. The printer will connect to the Wi-Fi
  16. Once connected Press "OK"
  17. The printer is now connected

Wireless / WiFi WPS Setup

YouTube Video: Canon PIXMA TR4550 Wireless / WiFi WPS Setup

  1. Switch the printer on
  2. Press the settings button
  3. Use the arrows to find "device settings"
  4. Press "OK"
  5. Use the arrows to find "LAN settings"
  6. Press "OK"
  7. Select "Wi-Fi"
  8. Select "Enable/disable Wi-Fi"
  9. Select "Active"
  10. Select "Wi-Fi Setup"
  11. Select "WPS (Push button)"
  12. Hold the WPS button on your router for 5 seconds
  13. Press "OK"
  14. Press "OK" to complete

Changing the ink cartridge

YouTube Video: Canon PIXMA TR4550 Change the ink cartridge

  1. Switch the printer on
  2. Open the printer cover
  3. The cartridges will move to the middle
  4. Push down on the cartridge to release it
  5. Slide the empty cartridge out
  6. Slide the new cartridge in
  7. Push up until it clicks in to place
  8. Close the printer cover

Reset the ink levels on the cartridge

The printer is unable to see exactly how much ink is left inside the cartridge. The copper contacts on the outside of the cartridge contain the ink level information. It is not possible to reset the ink levels to full. If you refill your cartridge, the printer will always show an empty cartridge message.

Print Head Alignment

YouTube Video: Canon PIXMA TR4550 Print Head Alignment

  1. Press the "maintenance" button
  2. Use the arrow keys to find "Maintenance"
  3. Press "OK"
  4. Select "Head alignment"
  5. Press "OK"
  6. The alignment pattern will print
  7. Lift the scanner cover
  8. Place the alignment page face down
  9. With the triangle in the arrow corner
  10. Close the scanner cover
  11. Press "OK"
  12. The printer will align itself

Load the Paper Tray

YouTube Video: Canon PIXMA TR4550 Load the Paper Tray

  1. Open the printer cover.
  2. Genlty pull the paper tray out.
  3. Expand the paper guides.
  4. Slide the paper in to the tray.
  5. Close the paper guides in to position.
  6. Push the paper tray back in to the printer
  7. Extend the output tray ready to print.

Copying

YouTube Video: Canon PIXMA TR4550 Copying

  1. Press "Copy" mode
  2. Either place the original on the flatbed
  3. Or the Auto Document Feeder
  4. Choose either black or a colour copy
  5. The printer will now copy
  6. To convert to a double sided copy
  7. Press the "menu" button
  8. The "special copy" and "2-sided copy"
  9. Choose either black or a colour copy
  10. The printer will now copy
  11. To copy 2 pages on to 1
  12. Press the "menu" button
  13. Then "special copy" and "2-on-1 copy"
  14. Choose either black or a colour copy
  15. The printer will now copy
  16. To copy 4 pages on to 1
  17. Press the "menu" button
  18. Then "special copy" and "4-on-1 copy"
  19. Choose either black or a colour copy
  20. The printer will now copy

Scan to Windows 10

YouTube Video: Canon PIXMA TR4550 Scan to Windows 10

  1. Switch the printer on
  2. Open the auto sheet feeder
  3. slide the document in face up
  4. Open "Windows Fax and Scan"
  5. Click "New Scan"
  6. Choose the settings for your scan
  7. "When ready, click "scan"
  8. Each page will be in its own file
  9. The scans will be in "Scanned Documents"