Canon Pixma MX860 All-in-One Photo Printer
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 |
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