Description
Quickly produce business-quality documents with an average total cost of ownership savings of 85% over the top 10 laser and inkjet printers thanks to these reliable MegaTank printers with high-volume refillable ink tanks.
SMALL DECISIONS, MAXIMUM IMPACT
Enjoy highly productive business printing with MegaTank, which uses high-yield refillable ink tanks. It features business-quality prints and an extremely low total cost of ownership.
Satisfy your needs
Choose a cost-effective business printer that fits perfectly into your environment.
Low total costs
Keep business printing costs in check with an incredible 14,000-page yield from a set of colour ink bottles or 6,000 pages from a black ink bottle. Switch to economy mode to save even more.
Durable documents quickly
Print high-quality, detailed business documents at 24 ipm in black and 15.5 ipm in color. Pigment inks deliver outstanding business documents that are resistant to markers, rub-off and water.
Compact but with great capacity
Save time with this compact printer with tilting monochrome LCD screen, 250-sheet cassette and 100-sheet rear feed. Print on a variety of media, including posters up to 1.2 m (plain paper only).
Maximize efficiency
Go green with inkjet printing and high-yield bottles. User-replaceable maintenance cartridge keeps downtime to a minimum.
- General specifications
- Model Numbers
- MAXIFY GX5050
- Functions
- Wi-Fi, Ethernet, printing and cloud
- Printer specifications
- Print resolution
- Up to 600 x 1200 dpi
- Print margins (min.)
- Top: 3mm, Bottom: 5mm, Left and Right: 3.4mm
- Printing technology
- 1 print head
- Printer with refillable ink tank
- Black and white print speed
- Approx. 24 ipm
- Color print speed
- Approx. 15.5 ipm
- First print output time
- Black and white: 7 s (list/single sided)
- Color: 8 s (single-sided)
- Double-sided printing
- Automatic duplex printing (A4, Letter: plain paper, Canon Red Label Superior [WOP111], Canon Oce Office Colour Paper [SAT213])
- Consumables and yields
- Standard ink bottles
- GI-56 BK
- GI-56 C
- GI-56 M
- GI-56 AND
- Maintenance cartridge
- MC-G01 (user replaceable)
- Bottle Yield (Plain Paper)
- Printing A4 colour documents
- Black: 6000 pages (9000 pages in economy mode)
- Color: 14,000 pages (21,000 pages in economy mode)
- * Estimated additional performance
- Paper Compatibility
- Types of paper
- Plain paper
- Red Label Superior 80 g/m2 (WOP111),
- Canon Oce Office Color Paper 80 g/m2 (SAT213)
- Pro Luster Photo Paper (LU-101),
- Glossy Photo Paper II (PP-201)
- Matte Photo Paper (MP-101),
- Everyday Glossy Photo Paper (GP-501)
- High Resolution Paper (HR-101N),
- About,
- Photo Paper Plus Semi Gloss (SG-201),
- Self-adhesive photo paper (RP-101)
- Magnetic Photo Paper (MG-101)
- Heat transfer paper for light fabrics (LF-101),
- Double-sided matte paper (MP-101D)
- Maximum paper input
- Rear Tray: Max 100 sheets (plain paper)
- Cassette: Max. 250 sheets (plain paper)
- Paper sizes
- Rear Tray: A4, A5, A6, B5, LTR, LGL, 4' x 6' (10 x 15 cm), 5' x 7' (13 x 18 cm), 7' x 10' (18 x 25 cm) , 8' x 10' (20 x 25 cm), Square 5' x 5', (127 x 127 mm), Envelopes (DL, COM10), Custom Size (Width: 89 to 216 mm, Length: 127 to 127 mm) 1200 mm)
- Cassette: A4, LTR, A5, B5
- [Custom Size] Width from 148mm to 216mm; Length from 210mm to 297mm
- Paper weight
- Rear Tray: Plain paper: 64g/m2 - 105g/m2 or compatible Canon genuine paper
- Canon paper: maximum weight of approximately 275 g/m2
- (glossy photo paper II [PP-201])
- Cassette: plain paper, Canon Red Label Superior (WOP111), Canon Oce Office Color Paper
- (SAT213): 64g/m2-105g/m2
- Interface
- Screen type and size
- 2-line full dot matrix LCD (black and white)
- Display languages
- Possibility to select from 32 languages: Japanese, English (mm and inch), French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Greek, Polish, Czech, Russian, Hungarian, Slovenian, Turkish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Indonesian, Slovak, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Ukrainian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Vietnamese
- Connectivity
- Standard interface
- High speed USB (port B)
- Ethernet: 10/100Mbps (auto switching)
- Wi-Fi: IEEE802.11 b/g/n/a
- Wi-Fi Security: WPA-PSK (TKIP/AES), WPA2-PSK (TKIP/AES), WPA-EAP (AES)*, WPA2-EAP (AES)*, Admin Password
- Wireless LAN frequency band: 2.4GHz, 5GHz
- *: IEEE802.1X (EAP-TLS/EAP-TTLS/PEAP)
- Mobile Apps
- Canon PRINT Inkjet/SELPHY10 App
- Easy-PhotoPrint Editor App
- Printer Functions
- Easy-PhotoPrint Editor Software
- Canon Inkjet Smart Connect (Windows 10 version 1803 or higher)
- Easy-Layout Editor (Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows 11)
- PIXMA Cloud Link (print)
- Canon Print Service Plugin (Android)
- Apple AirPrint
- Wireless Direct
- Mopria (Android)
- Smart Assistant and Automation Help
- Amazon Alexa™
- Google Assistant™
- Software
- Supported operating systems
- Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 7 SP1
- Operation is only guaranteed on a PC with Windows 7 or later installed.
- Driver and IJ Printer Assistant Tool only: Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019 and Windows Server 2022.
- Display environment: XGA 1024 x 768 or higher
- Mac: OS X 10.13.6~ macOS 10.15, macOS 11, macOS 12.x
- Chrome OS
- Mobile operating systems: iOS®, iPadOS, Android™
- Minimum system requirements
- Windows: 1.5 GB or more
- Note: For the installation of the included software. The amount of hard disk space required.
- Included software
- Printer driver
- IJ Printer Assistant Tool
- Easy-PhotoPrint Editor (download)
- Wi-Fi Connection Wizard (Download)
- Quick Utility Toolbox (download)
- PosterArtist Lite (Windows only; download)
- Physical characteristics
- Weight
- approx. 9 kg
- Dimensions (W x D x H)
- Approx. 399 x 416 x 238 mm with trays retracted
- Approx. 399 x 639 x 332 mm with trays extended
- Noise levels
- Approx. 49 dB (A)
- Recommended operating environment
- 5-35°C 10-90% RH (non-condensing)
- Power supply
- AC 100-240V, 50/60Hz
- Duty cycle
- Up to 45,000 pages
- Electricity consumption
- Off: approx. 0.2 W
- Standby (USB connection to PC): approx. 0.8 W
- Standby (all ports connected): approx. 1.4 W
- Time to enter standby mode: 5 minutes 2 seconds
- Printing: approx. 20 W
- *The time to enter standby mode cannot be modified (Lot26)
- Typical electrical consumption
- 0.12 kWh