Canon PIXMA MX850 Multifunction Photo Printer

PIXMA MX850 Office All-in-One Printer generates a 4 x 6 borderless photo in 21 seconds. Prints and copies 31 black/white pages per minute 600 dpi and 24 color pages per minute with 9600 x 2400 dpi. Networkable via an Ethernet connection. Offers an optional BU-30 Bluetooth interface to print wirelessly from a PC or PDA. Standard interface is USB 2.0 and memory card slots. Copy functions include copy scaling from 25 percent to 400 percent and multiple copying up to 99 pages. Printer features a 150-sheet input tray, 35-sheet automatic document feeder and high-resolution 2.5 color TFT display. Flatbed scanner offers a resolution of up to 9600 x 4200 dpi, and 48-bit internal/24-bit external color depth. Fax function features a modem speed of 33.6 Kbps, a 250-page memory, 100-location speed dialing, redial and remote reception. Black/white page transmits in 3 seconds, and a color page transmits in one minute. Printer weighs 30.7 lb. Energy Star qualified.

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• Reviewed by: Grayhair

  01-12-09

  Duration of ownership: 7 Months

  Strengths: Built in duplexing including for faxing, great text good photos.

  Weaknesses:Really do not like the network setup, works ok but not that fast. Big

  Overall Evaluation: This is a replacement for a MP780 that got hit by an electrical storm, totaly satisfied. One minor problem when I first got it it seems that there was a problem with some of the printheads originally shipped. I had to clean the blact cartridge if the printer was not used everyday. Contacted Canon support on line via chat, determined it was the print head and sent me a free replacement in two days. Flawless since.

• Reviewed by: chris4u

  01-30-09

  Duration of ownership: 1 Months

  Strengths: very good features, but..

  Weaknesses:..using the colour inks for grey and black makes it incredible expensive!

  Overall Evaluation: customer support from canon confirmed that..! Hard to believe: if a customer prints in black you for sure expect that the big black ink catridge is used, but no.. so these guys scams their customers. I m very dissapointed, had used canon products for years - but no more in the future..

• Reviewed by: aloha1_808

  01-26-09

  Duration of ownership: 2 Days

  Strengths: Fast print speeds; excellent color reproduction; lots of features.

  Weaknesses:Pricey; large and heavy; instruction manual could be clearer; no usb cable included

  Overall Evaluation: Set up the MX850 to replace a HP6310 I was having lots of problems with. The MX850 was much faster than any HP I've had in the past. I taped a color swatch to a paper and copied it. The machine was able to distinguish between the area covered by the tape and the unobstructed area. Fax speed was fast. Haven't had time to explore all of the features, but I'd recommend this unit without question. Best AiO I've had so far.

• Reviewed by: Sudhakar2k

  11-15-08

  Duration of ownership: 6 Months

  Strengths: Simply put this machine is a great printer, copier, scanner, and fax machine. It also connects to home networks via an ethernet cable easily. It has a great variety of features and very few flaws.

  Weaknesses:The main problem i have had with the machine is that it cannot differentiate between incoming telephone and faxes.

  Overall Evaluation: This all-in-one printer/copier/scanner/fax does a good job in every aspect. The printer is a high quality one and as good as any stand alone inkjet printer i have used at home. The Copier also works splendidly, although the copies come out a little lighter that i would like (requiring manual adjustments to darken each time). I haven't used the scanner that often, but when used the images were acceptable. Sames goes with the fax. There are some weaknesses with the printer. First the machine has trouble differentiating between an incoming telephone vs fax automatically. This requires me know in advance if a fax is coming, and i have to change the machine to "fax priority mode" to receive the fax. All other times i leave the machine in "telephone priority mode" so the fax machine doesn't pick up the call. Manually switching modes to recieve faxes (and not telephone calls) gets to be annoying. A second problem with the machine is that the flat bed scanner/copy/fax only accepts letter size paper. So if you want copy/scan/fax legal size paper you're out of luck. There is 2nd way to copy/scan/fax through a document feeder at the top. I don't know if that accepts legal size paper. Although there some weaknesses, this is still a great all-in-one printer. It has a lot of features, and does each one of them well. It has many features you don't find in other AIOs like a duplex printing, and network capability. The AIO is incredibly easy to setup on your home network. It connects to my wireless router via an ethernet connection, and i can print from the 3 computers around my house, although a USB connection is required to set up the printer initially. This printer uses 5 ink cartridges, (two black, and three color) and replacing all of them will set you back around $50. If you are patient you will find this printer on Amazon.com or Newegg.com for around $150 and at that price this all-in-one printer is an absolute steal.

• Reviewed by: caseyahenry

  08-23-08

  Duration of ownership: 1 Months

  Strengths: Outstanding text quality, built-in duplexing and automatic document feeder, two paper trays, Mac (Leopard) compatibility

  Weaknesses:Big and heavy, networking/sharing support could be improved, photo quality not fantastic

  Overall Evaluation: I purchased the MX850 as a replacement for a similar HP Photosmart 3310 that I had been using for several years with my Mac and Windows PCs. I was generally satisfied with the HP; it included built-in wireless networking and had outstanding photo quality. After upgrading to OS X 10.5 Leopard, however, the HP model was rendered useless for anything other than basic printing on my iMac, even with drivers updated for Leopard. I was very happy, therefore, to find that Canon's MX850 works flawlessly with my iMac running Leopard. The first thing you notice about the MX850 is its size; it's considerably larger and heavier than my HP multifunction printer. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but you'll want to take note of the dimensions and make sure you have room for this device before purchasing. This is likely due to the added functionality Canon has squeezed into the device. It includes an auto duplexer, automatic document feeder, and two paper trays (one at bottom front and one on the back). If you frequently scan multi-page documents, print double-sided materials, or switch between two types/sources of paper, then this machine will undoubtedly prove very convenient. Printer output is very good, with a few caveats. Everyday printing is very speedy, and the text output of the MX850 is fantastic, giving some laser printers a run for their money. There is one caveat pertaining to duplex printing which causes duplex-printed text documents to appear dark gray instead of black. In order to reduce bleeding through on double-sided documents, the printer uses only colored inks (no black) for double-sided printing. If you prefer to print most of your documents using black ink only (which I would recommend in order to conserve the expensive colored inks), know that you won't be able to do so when printing in duplex mode. Unfortunately, the photo quality of the MX850 is not as outstanding as the text quality. It produces nice-looking (even frame-worthy) prints on photo paper, but you won't mistake them for professional prints. This is the one area where the Photosmart beats the MX850 hands-down. The other features of this device also work very well. Scan quality is very good, and the automatic document feeder makes it very easy to scan multiple-page documents. Fax capabilities are built in as well, and I was pleased to note the inclusion of speed dial and a standard telephone-style number pad for inputting numbers. The MX850 also includes network connectivity in the form of an ethernet port, but it would have been nice to see built-in WiFi networking included as well. Even though Canon includes fully-featured drivers for both Windows and Mac OS X, it's not possible to attach the device to a Mac and share it with Windows PCs (I was able to use Bonjour printer sharing and a generic driver to allow my Windows PCs to print to the device, but you don't have the ability to scan or to set or use any advanced device functions such as the duplexer or print quality settings). The MX850 is clearly designed with a home office environment in mind, as its advanced document-handling abilities and unexceptional photo quality suggest. If you're looking for a full-time photo printer, then you should look elsewhere; but if your scanning and printing needs routinely call for excellent text quality, convenient duplexing, scanning multipage documents, and the flexibility offered by two paper trays, then the MX850 will fit the bill perfectly.

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