Canon PIXMA MX300

If you publish a great deal, nevertheless, look in other places, due to the fact that the Canon Pixma MX300's inks can be expensive.

As is regular of inkjet MFPs priced in this bracket, the Canon Pixma MX300 has a feature established suitable for low-volume use. It comes with a rear, vertical 150-sheet input tray and a front, flip-out 50-sheet result tray.

A 30-page automated paper feeder unravels from the top. The ADF could deal with legal-size media (five sheets each time), but the scanner platen fits letter-size sheets just. The scanner's lid telescopes to accommodate thicker media.

Duplexing is a hands-on procedure, and the Canon Pixma MX300 offers practical onscreen prompts to step you through the process. Connectivity is limited: a front port lets you publish pictures directly from a PictBridge-compliant tool or conserve scanned data to a USB key drive; Canon markets a Bluetooth adaptor.

The Canon Pixma MX300's control board is fairly well developed. Every one of the switches have systematic word tags, however the 1.8 in colour LCD for watching menu options is small and would be easier to utilize if its navigating cues were more clear.

Occasionally you have to press the up/down arrowheads and also other times the Settings button to move via the food selections. The suched as paperwork covers the subtleties well, however it didn't make intuitive sense to us when using the equipment.

As you 'd expect of a printer this cost-effective, speed isn't a selling factor. A minimum of Canon is honest regarding it, claiming a leading message speed of 7.5 web pages each minute, and also a top graphics speed of 4.5 ppm. In our examinations, the Canon Pixma MX300's message rate actually surpassed expectations somewhat, getting to 7.7 ppm, while our graphics examples peaked at 2.2 ppm.

Plain message web pages looked quite crisp. Graphics as well as images differed a lot more. On ordinary paper, photos showed up rough as well as a bit off-colour, with orangey flesh tones or purple monochrome images, for example. On Canon's very own paper, pictures looked light and also sometimes streaky, after repeated upkeep routines.

The ink prices for the Canon Pixma MX300 can build up in a hurry. The machine ships with a 220-page black cartridge and also a 244-page tricolour cartridge including cyan, magenta, as well as yellow areas.