With more and more people working from home, the demand for better home office printers is on the rise. Canon, the camera and photo conglomerate, has released a new set of all-in-one printers for the home office.
The Canon PIXMA MX330 and PIXMA MX860 both have an impressive list of features that include Auto Duplexing which allows for printing double-sided documents automatically, wireless LAN, Ethernet, Auto Scan which automatically detects the type of media being scanned, and Super G3 fax. Both are Energy-Star compliant as well.
The PIXMA MX330 prints at color resolutions up-to 4800 x 2400 dpi and scans at up-to 1200 dpi. It also comes with a 4 cartridge ink setup and a 1.8 inch color screen. Printing speeds range from 4.5 to 7.5 images per minute for color versus black-and-white. It is the more affordable of the two.
If you are looking for a little more printing power, the PIXMA MX860 prints at color resolutions up-to 9600 x 2400 dpi and scans at up-to 2400 dpi. It comes equipped with a large 2.5 inch screen and a 5 ink tank-style system. Printing speeds range from 506 to 8.4 images per minute for color versus black-and-white.
Canon’s new line of PIXMA printers are nice looking and both printers are small for sitting on a desktop and as someone with a small office, I find this to be as important as the capabilities of the printer. Unfortunately, no information on ink usage could be found for these specific printers but the systems they both use are designed to use less ink that traditional two or three cartridge systems.
Source: [Press Release]
Just sold a Canon MX850 to one of my customers. Pretty nice MFC, supposed to scan at 31 pages per minute.