Canon Pixma Prixma Cartridge Review

MFPs are frequently made to deal with basic printing and scanning projects of a normal home user. Contrary to nearly all, Canon's Pixma Prixma is great if your needs include good quality scanning and photo printing-such as design, photography or archiving old photos.

Canon Pixma Prixma Cartridge Review

Canon Pixma Prixma Cartridge Review

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Canon Pixma Prixma Cartridge Review

Canon Pixma Prixma Cartridge Review

The Prixma includes a CCD scanner, that has improved colour reproduction in comparison to the CIS scanner engines in the majority of MFPs, though it is also bulkier and more delicate. It also has a backlight and transparency frames for negative scanning.

Almost all of its other capabilities are shared with the less expensive Pixma MP640. For instance, wired and wireless networking, two 150-sheet paper trays, colour display screen, memory card reader, Pictbridge port, CD printing tray and automaticduplexer.

The majority of the latest Pixma range takes five cartridges-dye-based cyan, magenta, yellow and black for photo printing, plus a pigMented black for clear docuMent prints. The Prixma includes a grey ink cartridge to make spectacular greyscale shading on monochrome photos.

Colour photos also look astonishingly good, with vibrant shades and tones, well-defined detail and extremely subtle reproduction of subtly gradated dark colors. Photo prints are not incredibly Fast, however at close to 49 seconds for every 6x4in print, we've got few complaints. A full top quality 6x4in colour print on Canon's best Platinum Pro paper costs around 40 p.

Colour and mono, prints and copies are as good as we have come to anticipate from this award-winning range of models; withclear text even at tiny font sizes and also bright, accurate colour on business graphs and illustrations. Draft text is slimmer compared to its full-quality equivalent, although no less dark or sharp. However, at 10.5 ppm with normal quality text, you will not need to make use of draft for quick prints.

The Prixma's photograph scanning abilities are especially good. Individual objects on the platen are correctly recognized and separately scanned. To display within the cover of the scanner is easy to remove to uncover a backlight along with a negative frame, that may take a film strip of up to six pictures.

Canon's recently modified ScanGear interface provides a lot of advanced capabilities, from colour adjustMent and sharpening to software-based fade and scratchcorrection. By default, the interface shuts automatically after each scan, however it is simple to alter if you want it to stay open for batch scanning.

You may choose resolutions as high as 1, 200 dpi through a menu, but can also enter any specific resolution you would like. Scan quality was well defined and clear, with especially precise colour and sophisticated gradation, with distinct variations in tone reproduced on even our murkiest negative scans.

Canon Pixma Prixma Cartridge Review