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CANON · PIXMA E470 SERIES · TECH DEEP-DIVE
PIXMA
E474
Print. Scan. Copy. Wi-Fi.
A whole office stack in 3.5 kg.
[Your name] · [University / course] · 2026

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THE THESIS
One box. Three machines.
Zero cables required.
3-in-1
1,280
0.2 W
print, scan and copy share one
chassis and one power supply
microscopic nozzles firing ink, 320
per colour
drawn when switched off, less
than a phone charger left in the
wall

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ANATOMY
Five zones, one footprint
5
2
1
1 · Control panel
Wireless, Direct, Stop, Black and Colour start keys.
LEDs, no screen.
2 · Scanner lid and glass
3
CIS flatbed, up to 216 × 297 mm.
3 · Cartridge bay
Two FINE cartridges: black and tri-colour.
4
4 · Output tray
Pages exit at the front, face up.
5 · Rear tray
Folds up behind the lid, holds 60 sheets.

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01 · PRINT HEAD
The engine is called FINE
1,280
nozzles in total: Full-photolithography Inkjet Nozzle
Engineering
BK 320
C 320
M 320
Y 320
• 4800 × 600 dpi: droplets placed 1/4800 inch apart ≈ 5.3 µm
• Thermal inkjet: a heater boils ink, the bubble fires the drop
• The head lives in the cartridge: every new cartridge is a new
head

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02 · SPEED
Speed, measured by ISO
8.0
4.0
ipm black · 7.5 s a page
ipm colour · 15 s a page
ipm = images per minute under ISO/IEC 24734: real office
documents, averaged, not the “draft mode” numbers on the box.
28 s
2.1 ipm
14 s
first colour copy
copying, steady
colour A4 scan

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03 · COLOUR
Four inks, every colour
Paper reflects light; ink subtracts from it. Cyan, magenta
and yellow overlap to build every hue. Black gets its own
cartridge because C + M + Y makes muddy brown, not
deep black.
PG-46 · BLACK
CL-56 · TRI-COLOUR
pages, ISO/IEC 24711
pages, ISO/IEC 24711
400
300
C, M and Y share one cartridge: when one colour runs dry, the
whole cartridge is replaced.

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04 · PAPER PATH
What goes in, what comes out
Parameter
E474
Input
Rear tray, 60 sheets of plain paper
Weight
64–105 g/m² plain · up to 275 g/m² Canon photo
Office sizes
A4, A5, B5, Letter, Legal
Photo sizes
10×15, 13×13 (square), 13×18 cm
Envelopes
DL, COM10
Margins
3 mm top · 16.7 mm bottom · 3.4 mm sides
Borderless
Not available
Two-sided
Manual: flip the stack by hand

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05 · SCAN AND COPY
The scanner is the second brain
SCANNER · CIS FLATBED
COPIER · NO PC NEEDED
• Optical, ISO 14473; 19200 dpi interpolated
• Colour 48-bit in / 24-bit out; grey 16 / 8-bit
• A4 colour scan in about 14 s · max 216 × 297 mm
• Contact Image Sensor: LED bar and sensor right under the glass
• Up to 21 copies per run
• First copy ≈ 28 s, then 2.1 ipm
• Copy area 203 × 277 mm
600 × 1200 dpi
21×

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06 · CONNECTIVITY
Wireless by default
Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n
Security
Setup
2.4 GHz only · up to 50 m indoors · TCP/IP
WPA2-PSK, WPA-PSK (TKIP/AES), WEP ·
admin password
WPS button or PIN, WCN, Easy wireless
connect
Access point mode
Apps and cloud
Hi-Speed USB
The printer becomes its own hotspot: no
router needed
Canon PRINT, PIXMA Cloud Link, Android
print plugin, WLAN PictBridge
USB B port; USB and Wi-Fi work at the
same time
Spec sheet also lists Google Cloud Print: Google shut that service down on 31 December 2020.

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07 · POWER
The power budget
10 W
Copying
1.6 W
Standby
Off
0.2 W
14 kWh
7 min
46.5 dB
100–240 V
a full year in standby, 24/7
idle before standby; wakes
itself for a print job
printing noise, quieter than
normal speech
universal supply, 50/60 Hz

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08 · FORM FACTOR
Smaller than it sounds
3.5 kg
with both cartridges installed
426 × 306 × 145
mm, W × D × H, trays closed
0.13 m²
footprint: about one A3 sheet
15–30 °C
recommended room, 10–80 % humidity

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09 · VERDICT
Where it wins, where it stops
Wins
Stops
• Print, scan, copy and Wi-Fi at entry price
• Access point mode: prints with no router
• 0.2 W off, auto power-on
• 3.5 kg, A3-sheet footprint
• Square 13 × 13 photo media
• No borderless, no automatic duplex, no ADF
• 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi only
• 60-sheet tray, 8 ipm: tens of pages, not hundreds
• Tri-colour cartridge: one empty colour ends all three
• Head in every cartridge raises cost per page
Best fit: students, home offices and micro-teams printing a few pages a day.

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10 · SPEC SHEET
Everything on one page
Resolution
4800 × 600 dpi
Wi-Fi
802.11 b/g/n, 2.4 GHz
Nozzles
1,280 (BK 320, CMY 960)
Security
WPA2-PSK, WPA-PSK, WEP
Speed (ISO)
8.0 ipm mono / 4.0 ipm colour
Direct
Access point mode
Cartridges
PG-46 (400 p), CL-56 (300 p)
Wired
Hi-Speed USB
Paper tray
Rear, 60 sheets
Mobile
Canon PRINT, PIXMA Cloud Link
Paper weight
64–105 g/m², photo to 275 g/m²
Power
Sizes
A4, A5, B5, Letter, Legal, 10×15,
13×13, 13×18, DL, COM10
0.2 W off · 1.6 W standby · ≈10 W
copy
Supply
AC 100–240 V, 50/60 Hz
Duplex
Manual · no borderless
Noise
≈ 46.5 dB(A)
Scanner
CIS, 600 × 1200 dpi optical
Size
426 × 306 × 145 mm
Scan colour
48-bit in / 24-bit out
Weight
3.5 kg
Copy
FCOT ≈ 28 s, up to 21 copies
OS (at launch)
Windows 10 → Vista SP2, OS X
10.8.5–10.11, iOS, Android

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11 · CLOSE
Small machine.
Full stack.
Questions?
Sources: canon.ie PIXMA E474 specifications · Canon E470 series online manual (ij.manual.canon) · Photos: Canon