Canon Pixma MX870 Printer

Canon Pixma MX870 shade of color inkjet multifunction copier bids many of aspects and recital for the wealth, principally for small-office or home-office users. Its ink costs are good, too.

One of numerous new inkjet MFPs ushered in by Canon in fresh months, the bright (with pitch black accents) Pixma MX870 is both sporty and not hard in design. Big buttons on the front manipulate board let you carry up its greatest roles (copying, faxing, scanning, and memory-card reading), and the food items show on a 2.5-inch shade of color LCD. Augmenting the conventional four-way rocker navigation button is a scroll wheel throughout its for instance if you have a favourite to twirl through options; an 'OK' button inhabits the middle of the rocker nav.

The MX870's recital is more than enough for a tiny office. On both our PC and Mac investigate podiums, plain-text pieces of paper arose at a rate of 6.4 pieces of paper per minute. Color pieces of paper evened out 1.8 ppm on the PC and just under 0.5 ppm on the Mac. Also on the Mac, scanning a 7.5-by-9.9-inch image at 600 spots per inch evened out about 45 seconds, while scanning a 4-by-6-inch image at 1200 dpi took about 90 seconds. Color issues on both basic and image paper had affluent, flat shade of color, and text pieces of paper looked pitch black and sharp. Our only beef included shade of color scans: At the default surroundings, they were excessively dark, giving the facade of being shot on a rainy day.

Business-friendly aspects abound: You can bind by ethernet, USB, or Wi-Fi. The beveled scanner bed cover embraces a foldout, 35-sheet automated written material feeder, an very needed aspect for any office. The Pixma MX870 in addition has an strangely lavish paper scope for, with a 150-sheet undermounted pullout sill for basic paper only, added to a 150-sheet behind perpendicular platter for feeding all other varieties of media. The automated duplexer aids you save wealth and trees. The unit will even worse the front end wares platter self-acting before printing. ("Open the pod coastal inlet entrances, HAL.") Card readers accommodate CF, MS, and SD formats; you'll want a third-party adapter for xD. There's in addition a PictBridge port. Canon trades a Bluetooth adapter (BU-30) for $50.

The Pixma MX870 has a split ink cartridge for each color. The pigment pitch black (PGI-220) charges $15 and is specced to last for 324 pieces of paper, or 4.62 cents per page. The cyan, magenta, and yellow CLI-221 cartridges cost $13 each and should last for 510 to 535 pieces of paper each, which works out to about 2.5 cents per shade of color per page; a piece of paper with all four colors would cost about 12.4 cents. The CLI-221 image pitch black will lasts for about 814 4-by-6-inch images, by Canon's reckoning.

The Pixma MX870 is one of the best-balanced inkjet MFPs we've investigated recently. It brings ahead good recital and good aspects for the price. While the device is best fitted for a tiny or household bureau, its broadcasting slots and good shade of color end wares make it practical for a occupied family as well.