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More…The Canon Pixma MX700 color inkjet multifunction printer offers strong overall performance for a comfortably midrange price. While no single multifunction unit could satisfy everyone--I dislike certain aspects of this model's print quality and design, for instance--the Pixma MX700 still deserves credit for its balanced mix of features.
Canon Pixma MX700
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Media Handling
| Manual Feed Slot | No |
| Maximum Number of Input Trays | 2 |
| Maximum paper size, height | 14.0 inches |
| Maximum Sheets With All Paper Trays | 300 |
| Output Tray Capacity | 150 |
| Standard Number of Input Trays | 2 |
| Maximum paper size, width | 8.5 inches |
| Standard input sheet capacity | 300 |
| Duplex printing | No |
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Pros
Fast; impressive photos on plain paper
High-capacity input trays
Cons
Confusing paper-tray design
Orangey cast to photos on special paper
Bottom Line
Cheap ink and good speed are balanced by orangey fleshtones and a crowded paper-tray design.
Canon Pixma MX700 Color Inkjet MFP
Pixma MX700 Review, by Melissa Riofrio January 17, 2008
One of the faster units we've tested to date (though it falls far short of the top engine speed Canon quotes), the Pixma MX700 pushed out text pages at a rate of 9.1 pages per minute; graphics pages averaged a swift 3.2 ppm overall. So far, only the HP OfficeJet Pro L7680 has performed faster.
Text looks nicely black. A slight unevenness to the edges makes closely spaced fonts look mushy, though. Color images have an orange cast. On plain paper, this helps enliven the palette; on photo paper, it can be overpowering, especially with flesh tones. Copy samples we made were quite crisp, while scan samples were reasonably (if not perfectly) accurate for color and precision.
Cost per page is low: 3.2 cents for a half-page of black text, or just 8.8 cents for a page with small amounts of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. (A full-color photo will use more ink.)
The Pixma MX700's design includes a clearly labeled front control panel with a mostly intuitive layout. Buttons for primary functions adjust what's shown on the small (1.8 -inch), tiltable color LCD, whose menus are navigable using the adjacent arrow buttons. The automatic document feeder, which unfolds from the machine's top, takes a generous 30 sheets of paper. Its media slots take most card types; you'll need a third-party adapter to add xD media.
The dual 150-sheet input trays are a nice bonus. The rear, vertical input takes all accepted media sizes. Use the control panel's toggle button or the printer driver to choose between it and the front input, which takes just letter, A4, and B5. But this front tray is literally overshadowed by the two-part output tray, which guides paper over the front input tray, concealing it entirely. That's more going on in a small space than I'd like. The MFP lacks automatic duplexing, but on-screen prompts step you through the manual process. Dell's 948 AIO and Lexmark's X6570 offer automated duplexing for a lower price (with other tradeoffs). Canon's Pixma MP830 features duplex printing and scanning, but we haven't tested this unit.
Canon bundles its own and third-party software to cover scanning, photo printing, OCR, and even document management. Its well-designed Solutions Menu interface centralizes most of the machine's functions for easy management through your PC. HTML-based guides cover both hardware and software. Canon printers also scored better than average overall in our recent Reliability and Service survey.
Pumpkin-colored people aside, the Pixma MX700 is, overall, one of the strongest multifunction packages I've seen to date. It stuffs a lot of functions into a fairly user-friendly package and offers scads of software to help you along.
--Melissa Riofrio
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Performance
| 300dpi Line Art Image (secs) | 10.87 |
| 4 by 6 Color Photo (secs) | 16.33 |
| 4 by 6 Grayscale Photo (secs) | 17.44 |
| Color Output Quality | Very Good |
| Color Photo Quality | Very Good |
| Copy Output Quality | Very Good |
| Copy Quality | Very Good |
| Final Scan Time, 2-by-2-Inch Document, 600 dpi | 12.92 |
| Final Scan Time, 4-by-5-Inch Document, 100 dpi | 6.23 |
| Final Scan Time, One-Page Word Document, 300 dpi | 11.16 |
| Grayscale Glossy Output Quality | n/a |
| Grayscale Output Quality | Good |
| Line Art Output Quality | Very Good |
| One-Page Copy | 12.42 |
| One-Page Copy (secs) | 12.42 |
| One-Page Line Art, Maximum Resolution | Good |
| One-Page Webpage (secs) | 19.58 |
| One-Page Word Document, 300 dpi | Fair |
| Overall Scan Quality | Good |
| Preview Scan, 2-by-2-Inch Document, 600 dpi | 6.2 |
| Preview Scan, 4-by-5-Inch Document, 100 dpi | 6.23 |
| Preview Scan, One-Page Word Document, 300 dpi | 6.2 |
| Sports Action Shot (secs) | 40.09 |
| Ten-Page Word Document | 85.64 |
| Ten-Page Word Document (secs) | 85.64 |
| Tested Color Speed (ppm) | 3.2 |
| Tested Glossy Photo Speed (ppm) | 1.5 |
| Tested Grayscale Speed (ppm) | 3.4 |
| Tested Lineart Speed (ppm) | 5.5 |
| Tested Text Speed (ppm) | 9.1 |
| Text Output Quality | Very Good |
| Three-Page Word Document | 43.31 |
| Three-Page Word Document (secs) | 43.31 |
| Total Scan Time, 2-by-2-Inch Document, 600 dpi | 12.92 |
| Total Scan Time, 4-by-5-Inch Document, 100 dpi | 6.23 |
| Total Scan Time, One-Page Word Document, 300 dpi | 11.16 |
| Two-Page Excel Document | 38.87 |
| Two-Page Excel Document (secs) | 38.87 |
Scanning
| Preview scan, 2-by-2-inch document, 600 dpi | 6.2 |
| Preview scan, 4-by-5-inch document, 100 dpi | 6.23 |
| Preview scan, one-page Word document, 300 dpi | 6.2 |
| Preview scan, one-page Word document, 300 dpi | 6.2 |
Text Printing
| Text output quality | Very Good |
User Reviews
Average User Reviews for Canon Pixma MX700
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Reviewed by: allansplace
Duration of ownership: 9 Months
Strengths: Good duplex scanning, prints are fast enough.
Weaknesses: Unstable while on network, multiple malfunctions.
Overall: Let's see - often loses network, yellow faulty (print head needs to be taken apart and washed out with hot water), now error 6A80 (scanner jammed). It started off being a good machine with great duplex (double-side) scan ability, but in the end I now know it's a lemon. NOT an office machine. Probably good for home use. My old HP6110xi (5 years old) whips this completely.
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Reviewed by: mdembski
Duration of ownership: 6 Months
Strengths: Print quality is great. Two paper trays is nice option. Works great over a network.
Weaknesses: Scan quality is average at best. Start up time is slow and it needs a lot of space. Software is not well integrated and not very intuitive. If there is a way to get the scanner to "know" to scan from feeder rather than platen without setting it up every time I can't find it. HP's sense something in feeder and do this automatically.
Overall: Compared to the reviews, I have been disappointed and find it very much a very average printer/scanner.
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Reviewed by: eberners76
Duration of ownership: 4 Months
Strengths: Printing, copying.
Weaknesses: Scaanner output is unusable.
Overall: For someone who does not need a scanner it's great. From a sharp, contrasty black/white doc it outputs a fuzzy, gray/white doc or pdf file that is readable only at 125% magnification or higher. From a nice sharp 5x7 color print it outputs a soft-focus or out-of-focus scan with pretty good color, but for me unusable. The scanner cover cannot hold a magazine page against the platen, so large areas of the scan are washed out by scattered light. My digital point/shoot camera can make pix of documents at its lowest quality setting that are readable on the camera LCD and are far superior to the output of this ridiculous scanner.
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Reviewed by: bamablitz
Strengths: Good quality scanning and decent printing.
Weaknesses: A little slow, could use a bigger hopper to hold more paper.
Overall: I do not use printers all that much so this printer is perfect for me. It has good quality scanning and printing all in one and at an affordable price. Perfect for home use!
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Reviewed by: GTEvo8
Strengths: Excellent print quality, fast printing and scanning and faxing
Weaknesses: None so far..
Overall: I bought this for my neice and nephew who both just started university because it is a printer which offers great print quality for their assignments. So far, they have not been disappointed with the performance. That is a good thing as it was cheaper than the alternative - a laser printer.It also has the benefit of scanning and printing photos for the facebook generation who are both constantly living the digital life, and it comes in useful when they realize that they need to have a physical copy and not everything is digital.My brother loves the fax and tells me that he is happy with it and it works well.
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Reviewed by: noahmercy
Strengths: Lots of functions
Weaknesses: Fascist approach to ink cartridges. Mediocre color output quality.VERY dissapointed long-time Canon fan.
Overall: I am SO sad and angry at Canon. I am a LONG time loyal Canon fan. I have several of there DSLR camera, copiers and prints and I have found their products to be well-designed, quality and reliable products. *** Shocked to see Canon use such underhanded tactics to FORCE you to buy their ink cartridges by putting a chip on each cartridge. When the chip reads empty the printer won't print, even if the cartridge has plenty of ink in it. Why would I buy such a product? It's like Honda putting a chip their gas tanks that forces me to buy Honda gas (no matter how expensive), or the car won't run. I'll never buy another Canon product, they may as well have spit in my face. FCK CANON! *** I bought this MX-700 at SAMS CLUB and the printer's going back tomorrow. I'm going to let them hear about it at SAMS also, not too happy they would sell me such a product.
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Reviewed by: lushcoconuts
Strengths: Design, Very good print, copy or scan images. G3 super fast fax.
Weaknesses: Big space consuming printer.
Overall: I bought this one because it had the LCD, which I now prefer on a printer. This printer takes up much counter space, as do all the other Canon printers in this line. When I purchased the printer I was not aware that it also takes an additional ink cartridge, 5 in all, hence the reason for the great images it also produces.
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Reviewed by: mumpkin
Strengths: Color LCD, print quality, Super G3 fax
Weaknesses: Takes up a lot of space, 5 ink cartridges.
Overall: My 3rd. Canon and the best yet. Has a nice easy to see LCD smack in the middle. IMO, the print, scan and copy print qualities are probably the best next to HP printers. The only2 issues I had were the size and this printer takes 5 ink cartridges to feed, 4 is my limit! On to another printer...
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