Photo Printers

HP OfficeJet 6000 Inkjet Photo Printer is a very simple printer without any fuzz and it is mainly targeted for audience who want simple and faster inkjet printer. It is far away from ‘all in one’ printer and does not offer some sophisticated and useful features that lets you to perform versatile printing solution. HP OfficeJet 6000 is mainly targeted under single function category with much focused selling points such as lower price tag, simple to use functions and compact size. What you can expect from this colour photo printer is print quality and print speed. All other major office functions like digital media card reader, USB cord and intuitive LCD screen is missing and could be found in higher end model like Canon Pixma MX330 by shedding extra money. But for simple office function and regular colour print requirements HP OfficeJet 6000 would definitely helps you a lot.

Compromising Design:

Design wise, this HP OfficeJet 6000 photo printer (CB051A) has nice finished edges and pleasant curves with black and white colour combination. The top cover has matte finish without any snazzy design and well matches you office environment. This OfficeJet 6000 colour photo printer has a considerably normal dimension with smaller foothold and conforms that the printer would fit your office desk without covering extra space. But the output tray has to be drawn out from the bottom of the printer in order to begin the printing process. This would double the space and increases the length of the printer, which would cover more area on your desk making it as a space consuming unit. This output tray is attached to the lid of the above paper tray found near the front face at the bottom of the printer.
The manufacturer should have come out with different solution to minimise the length to avoid the demand for extra space on the desk. There is a removable output tray found just above the fixed paper tray and it has the option to extend the length. All the control buttons are presented above the tray on the front face of the printer for easy access. The series of buttons along with four LED ink level indicators controls all the functions of the printer. This includes important operative buttons such as paper feed button, power button, network set up key and cancel button. The four LEDs indicates you the ink level of four individual ink tanks by blinking the light. The most annoying thing is this colour inkjet printer does not come with USB cord and you have to buy it separately.

Simple Installation:

HP provides step by step instruction on how to install this printer and more over being a single function printer you would not find any difficulty during installation when compared to high end ‘all in one’ colour photo printers. Once everything is set up the printer would take nearly 10 minutes to recharge and start the printing process.

High Yielding Ink Cartridges:

With the compact dimension and small foothold, this Hewlett Packard Officejet 6000 printer looks like a box until the output tray is pulled out of the printer. The setup design comes very handy and does not demand any complex parts handling as in the case of ink cartridges. The four ink cartridges are well housed inside the box shaped printer and it can be revealed when you pop open the top cover with a latch on the end. The ink cartridges are well rowed on the carrier inside the bay, which offers enough space for cartridge to handle efficient colour distribution job. Apart from standard ink cartridges, HP also provides high yielding cartridges for cost effective printing solution on the long run. This would definitely offer you a better platform for both colour and text document printing with less cost per page. When approximately calculated, the cost per page is surprisingly lower than the average cost found on many today’s standard printers.

Competitive Print Speed in Officejet 6000:

When compared with its close competitor brands, this HP photo printer performs well in both colour and text prints. HP has quoted that this printer has the capacity to churn out 7 ppm print speed for both colour and text print. Comparatively, this inkjet printer shows much quicker performance on long printing modes. For full colour graphic documents, it does not take too much time to produce excellent printing performance but it shows little lower text print speed when compared to Lexmark Z2420 that produces 11 ppm for text print.

Surprising Print Performance:

HP has quoted that OfficeJet 6000 has the capacity to produced equal print text quality when compared with laser printer. It has been proved by seeing visually appealing text documents and image printing and it has been precisely printed out without any jagged edges. The print quality of this OfficeJet 6000 photo printer is even better than other multifunction inkjet printers, which cost you extra money by adding additional features. This printer is mainly used for office purpose only and better suites for consistent text prints and occasionally colour prints. It cannot be compared with print quality of other higher end printers but at this price range this inkjet printer has better performance. Colour print is also equally good when produced on the premium glossy paper. This printer produces clear and bright prints with exceptional print quality without any doubt. It well supports the full colour graphic documents but you cannot use them consistently, since some of the colours would be washed away when frequently used. Moreover the colour gradations and facial colour are well produced with extreme clarity without a black spot .

Safe Packaging:

HP OfficeJet 6000 Inkjet Photo Printer comes well packed and inside the box you can find four ink tanks, one black and other three are colours. HP has well handled the packaging of this photo printer and by looking at the quality of packaging method you can be rest assured that your printer will arrive safely without any damage. Each of four individual ink cartridges are well sealed and wrapped inside the cardboard box while print head clip specially put in separate plastic box.

Warranty:

This HP Officejet 6000 carries one year limited hardware warranty and includes all possible support features from HP.

Verdict:

HP OfficeJet 6000 is honestly targeted for office usage without any gimmicks. You would not get any additional features except colour printing with expected quality and speed. If you want to try printer with some more office functionalities then spend extra £25 and get Canon Pixma MX330 that comes with copier, colour LCD, built in fax machine and an auto-document  feeder, all this are considered to be necessary office multi-functionalities, which are used frequently.

HP OfficeJet 6000 Colour Printer - Technical Specification Table

Manufacturer	HP
Model Name	Officejet 6000 Injet Photo Printer
Product Code	CB051A
Printer type	Inkjet printer
Dimensions (W x D x H)	458 x 389 x 164 mm
Weight	4.8 kg
Colour/Finish of the printer	Black and White
Print speed	7 ppm for both colour and black
Processor speed	192 Mhz
Print quality in Mono	Up to 600 rendered dpi
Print quality in Colour	4800 x 1200 optimised dpi colour
Media types supported	Envelopes, Paper (plain, inkjet, photo), transparencies, brochure paper, cards (index, greeting), labels
Compatible Operating Systems	Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Mac OS X v10.4 and higher version
Memory	32MB
Duty cycle	Up to 7000 Pages per month>
Media sizes	A5, A4, B5, A6, C5, B6, C6, B6, B5, B7
Borderless printing	Yes
Input Tray capacity	250 sheets
Output Tray capacity	50 sheets
Duplex printing	No
Power consumption	50 watts maximum
Box content	HP 920 Black Officejet Ink Cartridge, HP Officejet 6000 Printer, HP 920 Officejet Printhead, HP 920 Introductory Ink Cartridges (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow), user’s guide on CD-ROM and printer software, setup poster, getting started guide, power cable
Energy star	Yes
Warranty	Standard one-year limited hardware warranty

Epson had determined to utilise the chance for reconsideration of the design in making Epson Stylus Photo PX800FW Printer, although producing an inkjet photo printer in to an all in one would be a pretty unremarkable adjustment to the model. The new model includes utilitarian business characteristics much like Automatic Document Feeder (ADF) and tray for CD/DVD, even though it was mainly proposed for fancier market for six ink photo.

Testing all in one devices is a very long and repetitious procedure, so that enjoying doing it occurs very rarely. But Epson Stylus PX800FW printer is not one of your average all in one printers. And it can also be undoubtedly said that Epson is a user friendly printer and you will enjoy using it.

Design

Long and Wide Touch Panel:
Epson stylus photo PX800FW is an all in one device with a posture from its low visibility, and a black external part for its long, broad touch panel, which has a flexible joint outside for control. The soft inclination of the outer black cover in plastic ascents and descents as you may open the ADF in a nifty and in a slender streaky manner.

Physical Buttons Admits Fattest Fingers:
Epson Stylus PX800FW Wireless Printer has an intelligent control panel. The buttons rendered to the right and left of the device are big enough to admit the fattiest fingers and retains the virtually common controls like yes, no, left, right, select, cancel, off the main screen region and allows the screen area to hold less often used keys.

Capable of Loading 30 sheets of 64 gm:
Once you open it you will be capable of loading documents of approximately 30 sheets for scanning. Epson estimates the weight of the paper to be 64 gm, which is very thinner than the usual papers used in offices of UK. The lid of the flatbed is smartly dented into the device’s upper surface to cut down its total height, and also makes it very easy to reach it.

89mm LCD Display in the Centre of the Device:
To exhibit at a diversity of angles the broad and long control panel ratchets up and down. At the centre of the device, a 89mm LCD display is sited and it is circled by the pre-specified touch button and are lighted in orange colour as needed. The two, power and the CD tray, are the only physical buttons available on the device. The Epson Stylus Photo PX800FW inkjet printer holds a thin grey tray that slithers out when the CD tray button is pressed, instead of bearing a separate holder for CDs which is positioned and slides in the front part of the printer.

Memory Card Reader and PictBridge Socket:
Unusually for Epson Photo printer, the paper tray slithers outside from the fore-part is located beneath the control panel, and intakes approximately 120 sheets of extremely thin paper and also roughly 20 sheets of glistening photo paper in a different tray which is structured on the top. A two slotted memory card reader and a PictBridge socket are placed on the right side of the paper tray.

USB and Ethernet Connections:
On the rear of the device the sockets for USB connection and Ethernet connection are provided, along with connections for phone line and handset. The functionality of fax is in built as a standard connection.

Features:

Backup of the Contents of Memory Card:
Epson Stylus comprises of almost all types of surplus features, beside the common set up options, you are also provided with the capability to backup the subjects of the memory card inserted such as SD, MS, CF and xD picture formats, right away onto an external media storage slotted into the USB socket on the front. Quick buttons are also provided for printing grid patterns and lined onto a plain paper for specialised use. And this sounds more fun as it is providing an option to change any scanned image into an introductory sketch colouring book style image and makes it ready to scrabble by kids.

Perplexed Wired Connection:
Even though Wi-Fi connection is supplied, the routine for set up, which comprises of a wired connection to the router, is more perplexed than it ought to be. There is no answer for the question why a wireless is modified as all in one, with an excellent control panel, which ought to be capable of discovering wireless networks and even log on its own to whatever you choose. The printers from other manufacturers too can perform this.

Direct CD/DVD Printing:
The standard parcel of Epson software also admits utilities for CD/DVD printing and also printing from the web. A copy of Abbyy Finereader Sprint for OCR is also included along with it.

Marvellously Versatile Machine:
The All in One Device is marvellously versatile and with its connections provided like Wi-Fi, Ethernet, fax and ADF, it almost checks all the feature boxes available.

Performance:

Printing Speed Measured With Processing Time:
In the specification sheet of Epson it was adverted that its printing speeds are measured in draft mode and also without bringing into count the processing time. But some other tests performed on the device by experts are done in normal mode and are done by counting the processing time also as you should know them when you print. The expert tests prove that the device has a maximum black text print speed of 7.74 ppm when it prints a 20 page document, which is al-right but is not surpassing. It also holds a colour print speed of nearly 6.12 ppm, which is very quick and fairly impressive speed for the device.

Impressive Photo Developing Speed:
Nevertheless the most occupying functioning of all is the speed at which the device can develop a 15 x 10 cm photo print. It produces an exceedingly satisfactory photo in 21 seconds, just by punching in SD card in the front of the device. Out and away this is the quickest photo printer that we have seen from an all in one device this year.

High Levels of details Instead of Rubbish Print:
You will be astonished with the contrast produced of high levels of details, firm and also natural colours and you cannot notice any blemishes, instead of trash print. Though the standard photos produces from the PC contains fairly dark shadows, the some other photos in the tests are likewise very excellent.

Colours on the Plain Paper Are Effective:
Although Epson had never lived to be a monarch of the smooth and jet black text page, the print on plain paper is average. You will notice little unevenness in the characters and the text looks dark grey instead of ink jet black, which may be because of the utilisation of dye based black ink as a component of the Claria set. Even though you may detect muddy bands in the regions of solid colours grounded on yellow, mostly the colours on plain paper are effective. The issue of cartridges in place for the printer, may have stimulated some little black on yellow taint.

Epson Printer Comprises of Six Ink Colours:
Light Cyan, light magenta appended to the pattern of CMYK four comprises the total six colour inks in the device. Even though the machine is capable of running high capability T0791-6 set which is also more inexpensive, for some rationality, Epson commends a lower capability set of six inks, T0801-6 type. These are inks used to estimate the running prices.

Cost Per Print:
An ISO black page may cost you around 2.5p, which can be said as an excellent middle range cost for an inkjet. But an ISO colour page works out at around 10.2 p, which is said as rather a chip higher than from that of normal four coloured inkjets. It is averaged out at 7.5p, with entire costs also admitting the paper cost of 0.7p.

Excellent Results in the Tests:
On the top, the good about the printer is that it produces all excellent results in the tests conducted over it, which made it really occupying. In the speed tests carried over it, it was like a flyer, rolling out the mono document at 9ppm of normal quality and a colour document in 8ppm with a shade under it.

Snappy Photos Printed By the Machine:
Copies taken by the printer are very snappy and take just 45 seconds to produce five mono copies and 55 seconds for colour copies. It is even admirable by proving to be best over Canon Pixma MP630 in the photo tests, producing a 6 x 4 inch print in just 72 seconds, and A4 collage in just around two minutes.

Warranty:

The Epson Stylus PX800FW is provided with one year manufacturer’s warranty.

Verdict:

Epson Stylus Photo Printer has had a first class piece of design work by the manufacturer, producing a voguish and efficacious all in one photo printer, with the surplus deftness like dual paper feed, CD/DVD printing and for providing control a comfortable touch panel. Even though there are one or more hang ups like high noise the device makes, nothing can drag it far from reaching the “Recommended” statement by us. Even though the print quality is not excellent, for the features it is providing and the print speed and print costs it is rendering, and the price at which it is available made it the most appealing device.

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Epson Stylus Photo PX800FW - Technical Specification Table

Manufacturer	Seagate
Model Name	Epson Stylus PX800FW
Print Engine type	Colour Inkjet
Dimensions (W x D x H)(trays closed)	446 x 385 x 198 mm
Weight (kg)	11.1
Maximum page size	A4
Capacity of sheet feed	120 x 64gsm + 20 sheets of premium glossy photo
Maximum weight of the paper(gm)	255
Resolution of print head(dpi)	5760
Carriage Resolution (dpi)	1440
Scan Resolution (ppm)	4800 x 4800
ADF sheets capacity	30 x 64 gsm
Rated black speed in ppm	40 draft
Rated colour speed in ppm	40 draft
Scanning Technology	A4 Flatbed colour image scanner
Sensor Type	CSI
Ink System	Epson Claria™ Photographic Ink
Number of ink colours	6
Connection Type	USB 2, Ethernet, 802.11g, Wi-Fi
Print Without PC	Yes
Photo card Readers	CompactFlash, Microdrive, Secure Digital, Memory Stick, xD
Power Consumption	26 W
Software included	Epson Event Manager, Epson Web-To-Page, Epson Easy Photo Print, Epson Print CD, Epson Net EasyInstall, ABBYY FineReader 6.0 Sprint Plus (PC), ABBYY FineReader 5.0 Sprint Plus (Mac)
Extra Features	Wireless connection, large colour LCD, touch controls, built in CD/DVD print, fax
Warranty	1 year
Optional warranty	3 years

HP being the 5th largest software company retains its global leadership position in laser, inkjet, large format and multi-function printers market. HP Photosmart A826 Compact photo printer is an outstanding product among the wide range of HP photo printers. Photosmart A826 shatters the statements like photo printers are generally small machines with tiny screens as it comes with a dedicated touch screen. This would enable the users to control all the actions in a fingertip.

Design:

The HP Photosmart A826 Inkjet photo printer comes with a smooth plastic body with rounded edges. It has a wide base of 264mm with narrower stop, 274mm tall and 244mm deep. It weighs around 2.6kg. The highlight of this printer is that it has a 178mm touch-screen and a totally enclosed paper. This photo printer holds a dedicated button which offers captions, frames, simple albums and a drawing function. Using the stylus, we can doodle over the photo and captions can be added by tapping an onscreen keyboard. We can customize the captions by selecting desired fonts and colours. It is also possible to re-size and move the caption on-screen. Four memory card slots, a PictBridge USB port and a plastic stylus in its own holder would be present when we flip down the front cover/paper output tray. A single print cartridge is hidden by a small panel on the printer’s front.

Paper Inputs in A826:

We can protect the paper from dust as we have an option to load around 100 sheets of 152 by 102mm or 178 by 127mm paper and close the lid which is hardly possible in other printers. The paper can be loaded by flipping the top panel of the printer.

Features of HP Photosmart A826:

The Photosmart A826 being a standalone photo printer is a boon, which can be used PC-free and thus most of its features are incorporated in touch screen. It is nowhere less than other photo printers as we can set this printer to print from PC. The four memory card slots and PictBridge port makes it possible and easy to print from a memory card or PictBridge devices like a camera or camera phone as well. An optional USB Bluetooth adapter has been offered by HP for wireless printing.

A single touch could control most of the actions like viewing the image, editing and cropping. It has an option to view the images through slide shows and customizing the same. Editing the image is possible as there is an edit option when we look at a particular picture. Adjusting the brightness, reducing the red eye and cropping is possible with the edit option. Zooming in, zooming out and rotating the cropped area between portrait and landscape modes is very simple with crop feature.

One of the wealthy options of Photosmart A826 is the Get Creative option which enables users to add captions, frames, drawing on images, adding clip art, designing album pages and also imparting colour effects. Stylus can be used to edit the captions by changing the fonts, resizing or rotating the image.

In practical, Album option is not up to the mark as it has very limited options which really frustrate users. It allows us to change the album theme, layout and select the photos to be produced. In addition to the quality photo prints, if we have the proper paper, HP Photosmart A826 Colour Photo Printer can be used for panoramic prints, passport photos, photo stickers and CD/DVD tattoos.

Printing Speed:

HP Photosmart A826 has the capability to print 2.37 pages per minute for 152 by 102mm prints. This is a fabulous score when compared to other printers like Epson Stylus R380, Epson PictureMate Snap, and HP Photosmart D7360. The photos offered by Photosmart A826 are really good with lively colours and sharp details.

Performance:

The performance of Photosmart A826 is outstanding when compared to non-snapshot printers. The quality of the photos printed is awesome. Photosmart A826 proves its effectiveness by printing 2.37 pages per minute for 152 by 102mm prints. It has the ability to handle 180x 130mm prints as well as 152 x 102mm prints.

A826 Warranty Information:

Standard one-year limited hardware warranty. Warranty and support options vary by product, country and local legal requirements.

Verdict:

Hewlett Packard Photosmart A826 Compact photo printer is a standalone little printer with a wide dedicated touch screen and build-in paper tray which provides quality photos. This printer would be apt for people who are in need of a standalone printer in their room. Though Photosmart A826 is bit expensive, it is worth for the value.


HP Photosmart A826 - Technical Specifications, Features

Manufacturer	HP
Model Name	Photosmart A826
Printer Type	Colour Inkjet printer
Dimensions	264 x 274 x 244 mm
Weight	2.6kg
Display	14.2 cm LCD (colour graphics), touch screen
Print Speed (Colour Photo, Draft Quality) on Photo Paper	39 sec
Black print resolution	Up to 1200 x 1200 dpi
Colour print resolution	Up to 4800 x 1200 optimised dpi
Print technology	HP Thermal Inkjet
Printer memory	64MB
Print cartridges	HP 110 Tri-colour Inkjet Print Cartridge
Supported paper sizes	Sheets: Up to 100 Standard Media Sizes: 100 x 150 mm, 130 x 180 mm, 100 x 300 mm Custom Media Sizes: 100 x 150 mm, 130 x 180 mm, 100 x 300 mm Media Types supported: Photo paper
Memory Card Compatibility	CompactFlash™ Type I and II, Magic Gate, Memory Stick®, Memory Stick Pro®, Secure Digital/MultiMediaCard, SmartMedia, xD-Picture Card
Standard connectivity	USB 2.0, PictBridge, memory card slots
Optional connectivity	HP bt500 Bluetooth USB 2.0 Adapter, (Q6273A)HP bt450 Bluetooth Printer Adapter (Q6398A), HP Wireless Printing Upgrade Kit (Q6259A)
Supported operating systems	Windows® XP Home, Windows® XP Professional, Windows Vista® Ready, Mac OS X v10.3.9, Mac OS X v10.4, Intel® Mac
Print languages	HP PCL3
EPA Energy Star Compliant	No
Warranty	1 year

Remember the creative design of Canon Pixma MX330, and append the excellent functionality of Canon Pixma MX7600, complete it with built-in Wi-Fi, and that shows you the new model Canon Pixma MX860. It is the only printer which offers wireless amongst  all models available, retaining all its features like print, scan, fax and copy. Canon MX860 All-in-One Printer is worthy to the purchasers who need multifunctional printer at a very affordable cost in-spite of small stumbles in the output quality.

Size And Setup:

Canon MX860 Photo Printer is identical in shape to the model Pixma MX330, with dimensions measuring 18.1 inches wide, 16.2 inches deep, 7.8 inches height with grooved grips under the device that makes easy to relocate it. The setup is standard for a Canon printer, remove the packing materials, snap in the printer head and ink cartridges, load the paper into trays, connect the cables and run the initial installation routine.

Design:

Because of the curved edges and incorporated control panel it apparently makes the printer look very sleek, captivating appeal makes it suitable to office as well as home usage. Inside the orderly organised control panel the large 2.5 inches LCD screen is fixed. The left part puts up the power button along with short cuts for copy, fax and scanning and the right part bears the normal make out of menu, settings, navigation buttons and numerical keys. Canon Pixma MX860 Wireless Photo Printer also developed few extra buttons to make it modernised by including consecrated Memory card button for copying and printing images directly from the reader at the bottom and some small keys which automatically dial your preset fax numbers.

Paper Inputs:

Canon provides three different choices for paper input. The simplest method is through the 150-sheets tray that pull from the bottom of the folding output bay. You can load another 150 sheets into another rear-loading cassette, and both trays have small plastic guides to fit an assortment of sizes from 4 inch X 6 inch al the way up to legal-sized media and envelopes of size No. 10. The versatility  of the dual paper feeds gives the user ample choice to store small photo paper in the rear tray and 8 inch X 10 inch sheets in the front tray. The driver also does an excellent job by selecting right tray and paper for any specific job. The auto-document feeder holds only 35 sheets of plain paper to copy or scan which sits on the top of the device is the third and last paper input tray. Similar to the other trays that extend out, the ADF nicely sits back into the body of the printer.

Ink Cartridges:

The scanner bay is hidden in the middle of the printer which can also be propped open to reveal the Canon MX860’s five-ink cartridge bay that consists of four dye-based ink cartridges( yellow, cyan, magenta and black) and one pigment based ink cartridge for black text. We are often of great interest to have separate ink cartridge bays as it saves money, MX860 also has the same system.

About The Card Reader:

It is a matter to be very happy as MX860 colour inkjet photo printer included a committed, covered media card reader, specially since we battered the MX330 for its deletion. The card reader is located at the bottom of the unit to the right of the paper output tray and has slots for MS Duo, SD/MS and compact flash cards. Using MX860, when you plug in a card there are two ways to print out the contents; you can either pick many pictures to create a batch print using the navigation pad, or you can view,edit and print individual pictures directly on the LCD. Red-eye reduction, colour effects like sepia and black-and-white, noise reduction, image optimiser, and so on can be done in manual edits. A compatible digital camera can be directly connected to the printer using PictBridge USB port.

Features of Canon MX860:

Different Connections Available:
Canon MX860 by default prints, scans and copies over a USB 2.0 connection, but you can also connect it to the wired network through the Ethernet port which is present on the back or to a wireless network using Wi-Fi. To create an ad-hoc connection over a router, first the software needs to establish a USB connection. The set up assistant on the driver allows us to print wirelessly in less than 5 minutes, and we were able to connect using both Mac and PC.

Photo Editing In The Printer:
A driver installation CD comes with a robust software suite which comes along with the printer will definitely appeal to users creative side. The MX860’s settings lets you cycle between usually used quality templates like standard, business, paper-saving  and photo-printing which automatically adjusts paper size and orientation, paper and output quality. The driver permits to go deeper into photo editing with many choices for bright photos, border less, monochrome effects, and even manual colour adjustments, while pop-up status monitor gives you a heads up view of the job status, document name, printer status and a rough idea of the ink levels. We mostly prefer the status monitor on the driver which comes along with MX860 which is an disadvantage in the case of MX330 that do not show printer progress.

Use Of Canon’s Easy Photo Print EX Software:

The Canon MX860 driver automatically installs Canon’s Easy Photo Print EX software onto the PC which flashes all the creative features of the MX330. This software allows you to print simple snapshot photos on the fly, create whole albums with art work and print calendars with custom pictures and custom stickers using Canon’s proprietary sticker paper. The explorer window on the main page works similar to the Windows Explorer pane, except that we mostly prefer HP’s Solution center layout that automatically scans and detects printable pictures on your hard drive. The Canon’s creative suite is unbelievably easy to use which also allows you to make simple photo edits like red-eye correction, face sharpening and blemish removal which is great for yours who do not want other people editing the photos using software like Adobe Photoshop.

Copy Functions:

For a multifunction device the copy functions on MX330 are relatively standard, some of them are you can make 99 copies at a time and can easily adjust the contrast and the magnification of a document from 25 to 400 percent, all are done directly through the settings on the LCD menus. Using the automatic document feeder the scanner gives you two options to scan either single photos and document or a stack of documents. MX860 provides many choices in terms of where you want to send a scanned document, such as to PC as JPEG, TIFF, BMP or to a PDF file or you can attach to an email with an option to convert and scan to text using optical character recognition. All the scanned copies are saved in your custom ‘My Box’ directory in which you can also find all imported and scanned as well as recently saved images on to the hard drive for future projects.

Printing Speed of MX860:

Canon multi functioning printers are never titled for high speed printing and MX860 also continues in the same trend. It takes 12.2 seconds to print the first page of mono draft documents and 15.8 for colour documents. Mono draft documents printed at an average speed of 10.6 pages per minute, where as it is 7.9 ppm for a normal quality document. The colour print takes more time.

Performance:

Canon Pixma MX860 all-in-one printer has the whip hand on the competition when it comes to the print speeds, setting the race in the colour graphics speed, single-photo speed, grayscale scan, and black test copy speed tests. The new model stands ahead of MX330 except in text, where it printed only 4.47 pages per minute compared to MX330’s 5.54ppm, knotting the first place to HP OfficeJet J6480. The text copy rate is 3.48ppm, Grayscale scan is 4.1 ppm, Photo speed is1.28 sheets, colour graphic speed is 2.29ppm.

Warranty Information:

Canon MX860 comes with a one year warranty for parts and labor under Canon’s Instant Exchange Services. If Canon cannot fix the problem by phone for printer under warranty, it will ship you a replacement along with a prepaid return shipping label. Canon picks up the cost of shipping in both the directions.

Verdict:

When compared to the two other printers which bracket Canon in the price, you will find balance in the features of Canon MX860 like particularly in the output print quality(better than the Epson Workforce 310), in price(lower than HP Photosmart Premium Fax All-in-one), prints, scans and faxes over network and even offers a wide array of functions, but its small paper tray and the printing speed makes it relatively slow for business purposes. A shopper who is looking for a printer to use in home or small business with a varied range of features at an affordable price and not bothered about the print speed doubtlessly Canon MC860 is an extremely best buy compared with the similarly priced competitors.

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Canon MX860 Multifunction Printer - Technical Specifications, Features

Manufacturer	Canon
Model Name	MX860 All-in-One Printer
Printer Category	Inkjet
Type	All-in-one
Colour or Monochrome	1-pass colour
Ink Jet Type	Standard All-Purpose
Connection Type	USB, Ethernet, Wireless
Maximum Standard Paper Size	Legal
Copier Reduce/Enlarge	25% to 400%
Maximum Number Of Copies	99
Number Of Cartridges	5
Number of Ink Colours	5
Direct Printing From Cameras	Yes
Direct Printing From Media Slots	CompactFlash Type I, CompactFlash Type II, Microdrive, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, Memory Stick Duo, Memory Stick Pro Duo, MultiMedia Card, xD-Picture Card, MiniSD Card.
LCD Preview Screen	Yes
Scanner Type	Flatbed with ADF(Standard or Optional)
Scanner Optical Resolution	2400 dpi X 4800 dpi
Maximum Scan Area	8.5″ X 14″
Standalone Copier and Fax	Copier, Fax
Input Capacity(printer input only)	300 sheets
Network-Ready	Yes
Duplexing	Yes
Cost Per Page	Mono: 4 cents Colour: 12 cents
Warranty	One year