Canon PIXMA MX300

If you print a lot, nonetheless, look somewhere else, since the Canon Pixma MX300's inks can be pricey.

As is regular of inkjet MFPs priced in this brace, the Canon Pixma MX300 has actually a feature established suitable for low-volume use. It has a back, vertical 150-sheet input tray and also a front, flip-out 50-sheet result tray.

A 30-page automated paper feeder unfolds from the top. The ADF could handle legal-size media (5 sheets at a time), yet the scanner platen fits letter-size sheets just. The scanner's lid telescopes to accommodate more thick media.

Duplexing is a manual procedure, and the Canon Pixma MX300 supplies helpful onscreen prompts to tip you through the process. Connectivity is restricted: a front port allows you publish images directly from a PictBridge-compliant gadget or save scanned data to a USB vital drive; Canon markets a Bluetooth adaptor.

The Canon Pixma MX300's control board is relatively well made. All of the switches have systematic word labels, however the 1.8 in colour LCD for watching menu alternatives is little as well as would certainly be much easier to utilize if its navigation signs were more clear.

In some cases you have to push the up/down arrowheads as well as various other times the Setups switch to move via the menus. The ranginged from documents covers the subtleties well, yet it really did not make user-friendly feeling to us when using the machine.

As you 'd expect of a printer this cost-effective, rate isn't a selling factor. At least Canon is sincere regarding it, declaring a leading message speed of 7.5 web pages per min, as well as a leading graphics rate of 4.5 ppm. In our tests, the Canon Pixma MX300's text rate actually exceeded assumptions a little, reaching 7.7 ppm, while our graphics samples peaked at 2.2 ppm.

Ordinary text pages looked quite crisp. Graphics as well as pictures differed a lot more. On ordinary paper, images appeared grainy and a bit off-colour, with orangey flesh tones or purplish monochrome images, for example. On Canon's very own paper, images looked pale and sometimes streaked, even after repeated maintenance routines.

The ink expenses for the Canon Pixma MX300 can build up quickly. The equipment ships with a 220-page black cartridge as well as a 244-page tricolour cartridge consisting of cyan, magenta, and yellow areas.