14 PPM Black, 9 PPM Color, and a 2-Cartridge Hybrid Ink System
Canon rates the TS4320 at up to 14 pages per minute in black and white and 9 in color, with the first page out in 9.5 seconds and print resolution up to 1200 x 1200 dpi. Those are sensible speeds for homework, recipes, letters and the odd photo rather than long reports, and print speed is one of the themes buyers are split on. Ink comes from Canon's 2-cartridge hybrid system: a PG-295 black cartridge and a CL-286 tri-color cartridge, which Canon says delivers sharp text and vivid colour on both documents and photos. Print quality is one of its two clearest strengths: text comes out crisp, alignment is clean straight out of the box, and output is good enough to impress colleagues, often beyond what you would expect at the price. The trade-off with a two-cartridge design is simplicity against economy: swapping cartridges is easy, and owners find it so, but when one colour in the tri-color cartridge runs low the whole cartridge needs replacing.