Canon Pixma MX 860 Review

The good: Large 2.5-inch LCD; built-in memory card reader; stylish design; robust software suite; fast output.

The bad: Output quality can use improvement.

The bottom line: The Canon Pixma MX860's auto-document feeder, large LCD screen, and quick print speeds are sure to increase your productivity, but it also includes plenty of software to nourish your creative interests. At $199, this multifunctional printer earns our recommendation.


Price range:
$129.84 - $238.76

Take a minimalist design Canon Pixma MX330, Canon Pixma add functionality MX7600, finish it off with a built-in Wi-Fi, and you have a Canon Pixma MX860. This is the only printer in the series that offers wireless retains all the features you need to print, scan, fax, and copy. Although one small step in the quality of output, $ 199 Pixma MX860 is a useful printer for buyers who need a multifunction printer at a very reasonable cost.

Design
The PIXMA MX860 maintain the same form as MX330, measuring 16.2 inches 18.1 inches wide by 7.8 inches high with a depth of grooved handle at the bottom of the device that makes it easy to move. The curved edges and well integrated control panel emits a very slender, attractive appeal that will work well together in the office because it would at home. 2.5-inch large LCD screen is fixed on the organized control panel houses the power button on the left side and a shortcut to copy, fax, and scanning, and the right side contains the usual fare menu, settings, numeric keypad and navigation keys. Canon also includes several buttons than the MX330 to justify the $ 90 price difference, including a dedicated Memory Card button to copy and print images directly from the reader at the bottom and several smaller keys automatically dial your preset fax.

Canon offers three different options for paper input; the easiest way is through a 150-sheet tray is pulled out from under the fold output bay. You can remove another 150 sheets to the back of the cassette loading, and both trays have a small plastic guide to meet various sizes from 4-inch by 6-inch all the way up to legal size media and No. 10 envelope. The flexibility of the dual paper feeds provides users the opportunity to save a smaller photo paper in the back of the tray and a normal 8-inch by 10-inch sheets in front. The driver also did a good job that automatically selects the paper tray and the right for a particular job. Third and last is the input paper tray auto-document feeder that sits on the unit and can store up to 35 sheets of plain paper to copy or scan. Like most of the other trays that extend out, ADF folds neatly back into the body of the printer.

Gulf scanner hidden in the printer, but you can also support open to reveal five MX860 ink cartridge bay covers four dye-based ink in addition to a pigment-based black ink for text. We've always been a big fan of separate ink cartridge bay because they save money, and the MX860 is no different. According to the Canon Web site, each with color ink tank costs $ 12.99 for a replacement cartridge, while pigment-based black tank costs $ 14.90 each. Canon black and white estimates will cost $ 0.03 a document, a document full of colors $ 0.05, and $ 0.0529 per 4-inch-by-6-inch color photo, all the average price for a typical day photo printer.

We are also pleased to see that the MX860 includes a dedicated, covered media card reader, especially since we read the MX330 because of negligence. Is located at the bottom of the printer to the right of the output paper tray and a slot for MS Duo, SD / MS, and Compact Flash card. After you insert the card, the MX860 gives you two ways to print the contents: You can select multiple images using the navigation pad to make a batch print, or you can view, edit, and print individual images directly on the LCD. Edit manually including red-eye reduction, color effects like sepia and black and white, noise reduction, image optimizer, and so on. There PictBridge USB port there is also that allows you to connect a compatible digital camera directly to the printer.

Features
The Pixma MP860 prints, scans, and copies via USB 2.0 connection by default, but you can also connect to a wired network via an ethernet port on the back or through a wireless network using Wi-Fi. Like many other wireless printers on the market, the software needs to make a USB connection first to make ad-hoc connection through the router. The assistant driver was setup in our printing wirelessly in less than 5 minutes, and we can connect using a Mac and PC.

Printer comes with a driver installation CD with a powerful software suite that would appeal to your creative side. Settings let you cycle between the quality commonly used as a standard template, business, saving paper, and print images that automatically adjust the size and orientation of paper, paper, and quality output. The driver allows you to dive deeper into the image with photo editing life choices, limits, monochrome effects, and even manual adjustment of color, while the pop-ups to monitor the status of the head gives you a top employment status, document name, printer status, and a rough idea of the level at This ink. We prefer to monitor the status of the drivers that came with the MP860, mainly because of conflict with the MP330's print does not show progress.