The rivalry for the most effective and inexpensive All-in-One printer exhibits no sign of cooling down, with Canon issuing the most recent in their PIXMA multifunction collection for around £40. Cheap, however, does not always necessarily mean the best value so the important question is: will the PIXMA MP270 deliver everything it claims? Well this is certainly a small and chic product in cool hues of cream and black, that has a simple drop-down output tray at the front and a fold-back input tray at the rear. Measuring 450 x 335 x 155mm and weighing a comparatively light 5.6kg, this would be a perfect All-in-One for a college student or home worker with moderate printing demands who doesn't want a printer which occupies a great deal of space.
Three functions are available (scan, print and copy) and you've got a choice whether or not to use the supplied software or the quick function controls to the right of the top, which don't include an organising LCD display screen. The MP270 has built-in Auto Photo Fix II technology, nonetheless, that takes care of red-eye elimination and multi-zone exposure modification without needing to use a computer. PC connection is, as you'd anticipate, by way of USB 2. lead (no possibility of WiFi at this price tag) and there is additionally a separate PictBridge enabled USB port at the front for connecting cameras or memory sticks.
In terms of quantity, the input tray holds up to 100 sheets of A4 which is decent for a low-yield device like this. By using print resolutions as high as 4800 x 1200dpi, we were basically satisfied with the caliber of the results: black text, even in draft mode, is clearly legible and the 'best' version stands out boldly and unbroken, while colour prints kept the true hues of the originals with a bit of softening noticeable solely in A4 copies. We did spot, nevertheless, that larger sized copies tended to possess a yellowish tinge.
Canon, in contrast to several of its competitors, has tended to be a bit more reasonable in terms of advertised print speeds and its claimed 8.4ipm for black text printing was very accurate when it came to draft quality (going down to 2ppm in 'best' mode). On average it required 43 seconds to generate a 10 x 15cm colour print of standard quality and 1 minute 35 seconds at the highest, while standard copies took 37 seconds.
A4 photos only took 2 minutes in standard form and twice that at the top setting, with relatively quick copies taking 2 minutes and 40 seconds. Therefore even though printing was usually quite noisy, the rates of speed were encouragingly greater than predicted.
Canon has also included a bunch of efficient software in the form of MP Navigator EX (for scanning choices which include OCR and saving as PDF), Easy-PhotoPrint EX (that will enable you to produce albums, calendars and stickers) as well as the helpful Easy-WebPrint EX which will clip particular regions on a Web page for printing, thus minimizing waste. What you may gain here, however, you will lose when it comes to ink usage because you have just two ink cartridges to take care of your print needs and even the high-yield versions are rated to do merely 401 black text or 349 colour pages.
While you might find yourself to be getting through the ink cartridges relatively quickly, both the caliber of the prints and also the rate of operation were notable and, for the price tag, the PIXMA MP270 is a great option for a low-yield All-in-One.
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