It looks good, and I'm a big fan of Canon gear (I use their camera's and printers), but to have combined ink carts on a mixed-use printer is really dumb. To me separate tanks = cheap(er) to run, combined tanks (a la HP for one) = a small fortune in consumables.
The depth of field issues on the scanner might cause me a small problem, but the lack of either Ethernet, or better still wireless, is a major deal breaker.
Shame because I'm in the market for an all-in-one, and like I said, Canon have my respect.
The Pixma MX860 has separate colour ink cartridges, 2 paper cassettes, wireless and ethernet connections, in the same form factor. But it is twice the price...
Anonymous Coward
We had terrible results with the Pixma all-in-one #
Posted Wednesday 27th May 2009 17:46 GMT
Just an FYI that our company had chronic problems with several Pixma all-in-one machines and finally had to replace them with equipment from other companies. Canon support was good but the machines were totally unreliable with constant error messages, jams, out of ink messages when not, etc. Canon could not fix these machines so we switched to another brand and have had zero problems. We went thru HELL for over a year with the Pixma series machines.
HP (Hewlett-Packard) Officejet Pro 8500 All-In-One Printer (35 PPM, 4800x1200 DPI, Color, 128MB, PC/Mac)
Epson Artisan 810 All-in-One Inkjet Printer (38 PPM, 5760x1440 DPI, Color, PC/Mac)
HP (Hewlett-Packard) Officejet 6500 All-In-One Printer (32 PPM, 4800x1200 DPI, Color, 32MB, PC/Mac)
Brother TN360 Toner Cartridge (1 Cartridge, Black, 2,600 Pages)
HP (Hewlett-Packard) Officejet J4580 All-In-One Printer (28 PPM, 4800x1200 DPI, Color, PC/Mac)
Canon Pixma MX330
Lionel Baden
wireless ?? #
Posted Wednesday 27th May 2009 08:46 GMT
just wondering i know somebody who would love this with wireless capability !
Anonymous Coward
Not for me #
Posted Wednesday 27th May 2009 11:43 GMT
It looks good, and I'm a big fan of Canon gear (I use their camera's and printers), but to have combined ink carts on a mixed-use printer is really dumb. To me separate tanks = cheap(er) to run, combined tanks (a la HP for one) = a small fortune in consumables.
The depth of field issues on the scanner might cause me a small problem, but the lack of either Ethernet, or better still wireless, is a major deal breaker.
Shame because I'm in the market for an all-in-one, and like I said, Canon have my respect.
Anonymous Coward
Alternative Canon...? #
Posted Wednesday 27th May 2009 13:04 GMT
The Pixma MX860 has separate colour ink cartridges, 2 paper cassettes, wireless and ethernet connections, in the same form factor. But it is twice the price...
Anonymous Coward
We had terrible results with the Pixma all-in-one #
Posted Wednesday 27th May 2009 17:46 GMT
Just an FYI that our company had chronic problems with several Pixma all-in-one machines and finally had to replace them with equipment from other companies. Canon support was good but the machines were totally unreliable with constant error messages, jams, out of ink messages when not, etc. Canon could not fix these machines so we switched to another brand and have had zero problems. We went thru HELL for over a year with the Pixma series machines.