Canon Pixma MG5550 Ink Cartridges

Canon Pixma MG5550 All-In-One Wi-Fi Printer

The Canon Pixma MG5550 is a budget A4 all-in-one wireless photo ink jet printer that first rolled off the production line in 2014. The Canon MG5550 is a 5-ink all-in-one printer for printing, copying and scanning. It is also tablet and smartphone ready...

This photo all-in-one airprint compatible printer uses a 6.2cm colour LCD screen to direct the inkjet all-in-one functions. These includes the ever popular cloud based printing and an automatic duplexer, but no ability to print on CD/DVD's.

You can download the PIXMA Printing Solutions app and control your printer remotely.

With individual Canon MG5550 ink cartridges (sometimes called ink tanks) you only have to replace the colour used, saving you money on your printing costs. Printing speeds are: 12 pages/min monochrome and 10 pages/min colour with borderless photos 10x15cm approx. 44 seconds. This inkjet printer is also capable of double-sided (duplex) printing automatically.

Experience the creative freedom of cloud printing and scanning with PIXMA Cloud Link. Superior prints using a 5 individual ink system (PGBK, BK, C, M, Y) with optional XL capacity ink tanks that help to deliver a maximum printing resolution of 4,800 x 1,200 dpi.

Printing is average for this photo all-in-one inkjet printer speeds of 12 ipm mono and 8 ipm colour. You can have a 10 x 15 cm borderless photo printed in around 44 seconds. (The IPM standard is Images Per Minute and is an ISO standard for measuring the printing speed using a standard A4 document with images and text. It has replaced the older PPM – Pages Per Minute.)

Comes with a front tray: Max. 100 sheets (plain paper). You can print onto a variety of paper sizes: A4, A5, B5, 10x15cm, 13x18cm, 20x25cm, Envelopes (DL, COM10), Letter, Legal. There is a 2-sided printing facility available for A4, Letter - plain paper.

Paper Weights used are - Plain paper 64 - 105 gsm and Canon photo paper up to 260 gsm but there is no facility for direct printing to CDs or DVDs.

The Canon Pixma MG5550 airprint compatible printer also has a built-in colour flatbed photo and document scanner with a DPI of 1200 x 2400.

Canon MG5550 Product Details

• Manufacturer’s part number: SKU 8580B008
• EAN code: N/A
• Printer weight: 6.2 kg
• Printer dimensions: 455mm (W) x 369mm (D) x 148mm (H)
• Supported OS: Windows 10 / 8.1 / 8 / 7 / Mac OS X v10.6.8 or later
• WiFi: Wi-Fi: IEEE802.11 b/g/n
• Printing Options: PIXMA Cloud Link, AirPrint and Google Cloud Printing

Canon MG5550 Ink

Here at InkFactory.com we supply a range of quality ink cartridges for the owner of this printer.

You can select from either original Canon MG5550 inks:

• Canon PGI-550XL
• Canon CLI-551XL

Ink is available in XL sizes.

Or we offer our premium compatible Canon MG5550 ink cartridges Canon PGI-550XL/CLI-551XL ink cartridges which print as many pages as the Canon originals. Our Canon MG5550 ink cartridges are guaranteed to work in the printer or we'll give you your money back.

Canon Pixma MG5550 Photo All-In-One Photo Print Quality

This popular airprint compatible printer benefits from using the Canon original manufacturer ChromaLife100+ inks.

Back in 2005 Canon developed their ChromaLife100 system to improve the quality and longevity of printed images on photo paper. They did this by developing a new range of dye colour and pigment black ink along with a new printhead and photo paper such as the PT-101, PR-201 and PP-201.

These new colour dye inks are used for quality photo paper prints with vivid colours. The pigment black inks produce pages of text and sharp lines in photo paper images.

Then in 2008 the original manufacturer Canon created an improved print system (including a new printhead) and named it ChromaLife100+ which the all-in-one Pixma MG5550 inkjet printer uses.

Canon MG5550 Ink Cartridge Print Yields

On this page you will see that we list how many pages each ink cartridge approximately yields. Each original manufacturer will perform their own set of tests on their ink tanks to identify the approximate yield.

There are agreed international standards that all manufacturers of ink cartridges have to follow and these are known as the ISO IEC standards.

Canon MG5550 ink usage for A4 pages is measured using ISO IEC 24711 which is for the evaluation of ink cartridge page yield for colour inkjet printers. It involves the continuous printing of five pages of colour printing and is designed to represent a typical business document.

Canon MG5550 ink usage for photographs is calculated using ISO IEC 29102 and a borderless 10 x 15cm photo. By continuous printing of 6 standard photos the ink yield is calculated. The Canon price-per-photo is measured at 5% print coverage on a 10 x 15cm photo.

We also sell non original ink cartridges and these will also yield at least as many pages as the original Canon ink cartridges in the same conditions.

Please note that actual page yields will vary depending on the actual document content, on the paper type used (some papers absorb more than others so more ink is used by the printer driver) and the print environment such as room temperature and humidity. In addition printing frequency will also have an influence.

A Note about Supplemental Ink Use

It is worth noting that every inkjet printer, regardless of the original manufacturer, will use a small amount of ink to clean the print heads during normal use. In the case of the Canon MG5550 all-in-one printer this supplemental ink use is accounted for in the PGI-550PGBK and PGI-550PGBKXL page yields.