Description
With its diverse media handling and high-speed, high-quality colour printing, the MAXIFY GX5550 meets the many needs of your business. Whether you’re printing on thick or thin paper, glossy labels, envelopes or packing slips, the MAXIFY GX5550 can handle it all with minimal user interaction. With its large 600-sheet capacity (with two front cassettes and a rear paper tray), user-replaceable maintenance cartridges and ink bottles, it prints high volumes with less downtime so you can focus on driving your business forward. Plus, the intuitive LCD touchscreen, LED status bar and translucent output tray keep productivity moving forward. The versatile, compact and productive MAXIFY GX5550 is the ideal business printer.
Cover your business needs
Ideal for retail, logistics and pharmaceutical environments, print on a variety of paper weights, glossy labels, envelopes, packing slips and more thanks to versatile media handling.
Low printing cost
Keep printing costs down with an incredible 14,000-page yield from a set of colour ink bottles or 6,000 from a black ink bottle. Switch to economy mode to save even more.
Durable documents without waiting
Prints sharp, detailed documents with long-lasting detail at 24 ipm in black and 15.5 ipm in color. Pigment inks deliver prints that are resistant to markers, rub-off, and water.
High capacity in a compact format
Print high volumes without compromising space thanks to a compact design with two 250-sheet capacity cassettes and a 100-sheet capacity rear feed tray.
Simple user experience
Save time with user-replaceable maintenance cartridge and ink bottles. Meanwhile, check printer status at a glance thanks to the improved user interface.
Secure documents
Enhanced network security for worry-free printing of confidential documents such as address labels or recipes.
Compatible with your devices
Easy to use with your operating system, smartphone or tablet via the Canon PRINT app.
- General specifications
- 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)
- 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
- Thin paper (52 g/m² to 63 g/m²),
- Plain paper (64 g/m² to 105 g/m²),
- Thin paper (106 g/m² to 250 g/m²),
- 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,
- Greeting Card (made by Avery and RedRiverPaper)
- Cardstock (manufactured by Neenah Paper and INKPRESS)
- 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 1: Max. 250 sheets (plain paper)
- Cassette 2: Max. 250 sheets (plain paper)
- Paper sizes
- Rear Tray: A4, A5, A6, B5, B6, B6H, LTR, LGL, B-Legal, M-Legal, Folio, Executive, 4' x 6' (10 x 15 cm), 5' x 7' (13 x 18 cm) ' x 7'), 18 x 25 cm (7' x 10'), 20 x 25 cm (8' x 10'), Square 127 x 127 mm (5' x 5'), Envelopes (DL, COM10, C5 and Monarch),
- Customized size (width: 64mm to 216mm; length: 127mm to 1200mm)
- Cassette 1: A4, LTR, A5, B5, Executive
- [Custom Size] Width from 148mm to 216mm; Length from 210mm to 297mm
- Cassette 2: A4, LTR, LGL
- [Custom Size] Width from 210.0mm to 216.0mm, length from 279.4mm to 355.6mm
- Paper weight
- Rear Tray: Thin paper: 52 g/m² - 63 g/m², Plain paper: 64 g/m² - 105 g/m² or compatible Canon genuine paper
- Canon paper: max weight approx. 265 g/m²
- (glossy photo paper II [PP-201])
- Cassette 1: Thin paper: 52 g/m² - 63 g/m², Plain paper: 64 g/m² - 105 g/m²
- Cassette 2: Thin paper: 52 g/m² - 63 g/m², Plain paper: 64 g/m² - 105 g/m²
- Interface
- Screen type and size
- 2.7'/6.7 cm LCD (touch screen, color)
- Display languages
- Possibility to select from 33 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, Thai
- Connectivity
- Standard interface
- High speed USB (port B)
- Ethernet: 10/100Mbps (auto switching)
- Wi-Fi: IEEE802.11 n/g/b/a/ac9
- Wi-Fi Security: WPA-PSK (TKIP/AES), WPA2-PSK (TKIP/AES), WPA3-SE (AES)/WPA-EAP (AES)*, WPA2-EAP (AES)*, WPA3-EAP (AES)*, Admin Password
- Wireless LAN frequency band: 2.4GHz, 5GHz *: IEEE802.1X (EAP-TLS/EAP-TTLS/PEAP)
- USB and network can be used at the same time.
- Wi-Fi and wired LAN connections cannot be used at the same time.
- Mobile applications
- Canon PRINT Inkjet/SELPHY10 App
- Creative Park App
- Easy-PhotoPrint Editor App
- Printer Functions
- Easy-PhotoPrint Editor Software
- PIXMA Cloud Link
- Canon Inkjet Smart Connect (Windows 10, version 1803 or higher)
- Easy-Layout Editor (Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows 11)
- Canon Print Service Plugin (Android)
- Apple AirPrint
- Wireless Direct
- Mopria (Android)
- Supported printing services
- Amazon Alexa™
- 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.
- Mac: macOS 10.15.7, macOS 11, macOS 12, macOS 13
- Compatible mobile systems
- Chrome OS
- iOS®, iPadOS, Android™
- Minimum system requirements
- Display environment: XGA 1024 x 768 or higher
- 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)
- Physical characteristics
- Weight
- approx. 10.4 kg
- Dimensions (W x D x H)
- With trays retracted:
- Approx. 399 x 410 x 298 mm
- With the trays extended:
- Approx. 399 x 639 x 392 mm
- Noise levels
- approx. 48.7 dB(A)
- Recommended operating environment
- 5-35 °C
- 10-90% RH (non-condensing)
- Power supply
- 100-240V AC at 50/60Hz
- Duty cycle
- Up to 45,000 pages
- Electricity consumption
- Off: approx. 0.1 W
- Standby (USB connection to PC): approx. 0.8 W
- Standby (all ports connected): approx. 1.3 W
- Time to enter standby mode: 5 minutes 2 seconds
- Printing: approx. 22W
- 0.15 kWh
