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More…Canon's Pixma MX860 color inkjet multifunction printer is a nicely equipped, moderately priced ($200 as of May 5, 2009) machine that would serve a small office well. Its older cousin, the Canon Pixma MX700, is faster and a little cheaper, but has fewer features.
Canon Pixma MX860
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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 |
| Standard Number of Input Trays | 2 |
| Maximum paper size, width | 8.5 inches |
| Standard input sheet capacity | 300 |
| Duplex printing | Yes |
Connectivity
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| Parallel Port | No |
| Serial Port | No |
| USB 1.1 | Yes |
| USB 2.0 | Yes |
PCWorld Rating, November 24, 2009
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Pros
Roomy paper trays; fast, capable scanner
Automatic duplexer; Wi-Fi connectivity
Cons
Average to slow print speeds
Printed photos suffer on plain paper
Bottom Line
You get nice print quality plus Wi-Fi and automatic duplexing, but speed is just average overall.
Canon Pixma MX860 Inkjet MFP
Pixma MX860 Review, by Melissa Riofrio, PC World May 15, 2009
This boxy, silver unit harbors a multitude of features. It offers two 150-sheet inputs: a bottom cassette exclusively for plain paper, and a universal, rear vertical tray. The rear tray's panels are prone to rattling and they collapse easily. There's also a flip-out, 50-sheet front output tray and a 35-sheet automatic document feeder. Automatic duplexing is available for letter-size media only, both for printing and for copying via the ADF.
Connectivity includes options for ethernet, USB, and Wi-Fi; Canon also sells a Bluetooth adapter for $50. Media slots for CF, MMC, MS, and SD nestle behind a front door. (You'll need an adapter for xD, miniSD, or microSD.) A front USB/PictBridge port lets you print photos directly from a camera or save scanned files to a USB key drive.
The control panel sports clearly labeled buttons and a 2.5-inch color LCD. I'd have liked clearer cues for navigating menus on the LCD; it's not always clear whether you should push the up/down arrows or the Settings button to make a change. Canon does a good job in the documentation--but not in the interface itself--of explaining what to do.
Canon tells you upfront that the Pixma MX860's top text-printing is just 8.4 pages per minute, and that's exactly what we got in our tests. Graphics pages meandered out at a rate of 2.2 ppm (Canon claimed 5.6 ppm for graphics). The results were pleasing: Text looked very black and crisp. Though graphics and photos printed on plain paper tended to look pale and pinkish or orangey, on Canon's own paper they looked great. Contrast this with the similarly priced Epson WorkForce 600, which is blazing fast, but produces unremarkable output.
The machine ships with a full set of five separate ink cartridges. The costs are a little better than average: A 324-page black cartridge costs $15, or 4.6 cents per page. Cyan, magenta, and yellow cost $13 each and last for about 510 to 535 pages (about 2.5 cents per page). A second black ink, also $13, is used primarily in photographic images and adds a minuscule cost to the industry-standard business documents used for calculating page yield. (Per Canon's own testing, it is good for 815 4-by-6-inch photos, which works out to 1.6 cents per photo for that color.) A page with all four main colors (plus a little photo black) costs about 12.8 cents to print.
The Canon Pixma MX860 supplies a wide array of features for an affordable price. But if you need more speed, step up in price to the HP OfficeJet Pro 8500 Wireless All-In-One.
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Performance
| 300dpi Line Art Image (secs) | 22.66 |
| 4 by 6 Color Photo (secs) | 28.04 |
| 4 by 6 Grayscale Photo (secs) | 26.65 |
| Color Output Quality | Good |
| Color Photo Quality | Superior |
| Copy Output Quality | Very Good |
| Copy Quality | Very Good |
| Final Scan Time, 2-by-2-Inch Document, 600 dpi | 12.33 |
| Final Scan Time, 4-by-5-Inch Document, 100 dpi | 8.2 |
| Final Scan Time, One-Page Word Document, 300 dpi | 10.97 |
| Grayscale Glossy Output Quality | n/a |
| Grayscale Output Quality | Good |
| Line Art Output Quality | Good |
| One-Page Copy | 17.08 |
| One-Page Copy (secs) | 17.08 |
| One-Page Line Art, Maximum Resolution | Good |
| One-Page Webpage (secs) | 30.94 |
| One-Page Word Document, 300 dpi | Good |
| Overall Scan Quality | Good |
| Preview Scan, 2-by-2-Inch Document, 600 dpi | 5.73 |
| Preview Scan, 4-by-5-Inch Document, 100 dpi | 5.87 |
| Preview Scan, One-Page Word Document, 300 dpi | 5.9 |
| Sports Action Shot (secs) | 49.3 |
| Ten-Page Word Document | 93.33 |
| Ten-Page Word Document (secs) | 93.33 |
| Tested Color Speed (ppm) | 2.2 |
| Tested Glossy Photo Speed (ppm) | 2.6 |
| Tested Grayscale Speed (ppm) | 2.3 |
| Tested Text Speed (ppm) | 8.4 |
| Text Output Quality | Very Good |
| Three-Page Word Document | 45.46 |
| Three-Page Word Document (secs) | 45.46 |
| Total Scan Time, 2-by-2-Inch Document, 600 dpi | 12.33 |
| Total Scan Time, 4-by-5-Inch Document, 100 dpi | 8.2 |
| Total Scan Time, One-Page Word Document, 300 dpi | 10.97 |
| Two-Page Excel Document | 50.54 |
| Two-Page Excel Document (secs) | 50.54 |
Scanning
| Preview scan, 2-by-2-inch document, 600 dpi | 5.73 |
| Preview scan, 4-by-5-inch document, 100 dpi | 5.87 |
| Preview scan, one-page Word document, 300 dpi | 5.9 |
| Preview scan, one-page Word document, 300 dpi | 5.9 |
Text Printing
| Text output quality | Very Good |
User Reviews
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Reviewed by: l8dvet
Duration of ownership: 3 Weeks
Strengths: print quality is so so
Weaknesses: It was hard to connect to wifi, the receive fax did not work,and the memory light would not go out. Even though it repeatedly said there was nothing in the memory to print out. None of these things could be resolved even on the phone with the Canon techs. They had no idea what was going on. They shipped me a replacement. I got it after about two weeks. They had the nerve to send me an email asking why I have not sent the broken one back when I had just gotten the replacement two or three days before. The printer is big and bulky and it takes up a lot of space. I am a single female so I have to get help taking it back. On top of all this they sent the replacement without any ink to replace all the ink used to print reports to figure out what was wrong with the thing. IT IS A PIECE OF JUNK!
Overall: I would not recommend this piece of junk to anyone. IT SUCKS AND SO DOES CANON. I WILL NEVER PURCHASE ANY MORE CANON PRODUCTS!
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Reviewed by: wazing
Duration of ownership: 3 Weeks
Strengths: Easy setup for both wired or wireless. Great text, photos, and graphs whether on 20 lb paper or 24 lb paper. The printer is very, very quiet - almost to silent. Scan and Copy qualities are FAST and efficient. The Duplex is an absolute must these days - I have already saved 3 or 4 reams of paper. Ink use is much better than expected
Weaknesses: Larger paper tray is needed - capacity should be 250 plus sheets instead of 150 sheets.
Overall: Absolutely worth the money - I bought mine at MicroCenter when on sale and I am very happy.
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