Canon mp490 printer reviews
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You can also scan from any TWAIN- or WIA-compliant application. Alternatively, you can start scans using the bundled MP Navigator software, which includes Easy-PhotoPrint for printing photos, ArcSoft PhotoStudio for editing photos, and ScanSoft OmniPage SE, which uses optical character recognition to convert a scanned document to text. You can initiate scans from the printer's control panel, which allows you to save the results to your PC, save it as a PDF, attach it to an e-mail, or open it on your PC. You can also print borderless photos on this printer. By marking the appropriate bubbles on the index sheet and placing the sheet on a scanner, you can print multiple photos of your choice in one fell swoop. With the media card reader, you can print individual photos from the card, or print an entire index sheet.
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When copying, you can reduce and enlarge, make borderless copies and borderless color prints, create stickers, and repeat an image multiple times on a single sheet of paper. This printer has the normal range of options for one in its price range. For comparison, the Pixma MP500 offers more ink flexibility: three separate dye-based color ink tanks, a black dye-based ink tank, and a black pigment-based ink tank. Canon estimates the cost per page for this printer to be about 4 cents for a page of black text and 11 cents for a page of color graphics. The high-capacity black tank costs $29.99 and the high-capacity tricolor tank costs $34.99. You can access the tanks by lifting up on the control panel a plastic support bar flips down to support the lid, much like a piano lid or a car hood. The Canon Pixma MP450 uses four-color ink: one black tank and one tricolor tank (it ships with the high-capacity tanks).
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The menu is easy to navigate, and your options are represented in both text and graphics. Two start buttons (one for black-ink only and one for color), a stop/reset button, and an on/off button round out the control panel. The panel has buttons for toggling between tasks, navigating the menu, and printing a photo index sheet. You can adjust the angle of the 1.9-inch color LCD according to your viewing conditions, and although it's small, it's easily readable. The control panel is fairly basic for an all-in-one printer. Hidden in the depths of the output tray is a lever that you can switch to adjust the printer according to the thickness of the media you're using: for most types of paper, keep the lever to the left, but for envelopes and T-shirt transfers, shift it to the right. Unfortunately, it lacks an extension to keep long paper under control. The output tray is simply the folded-out front wall of the printer. The paper input tray and support panel sit vertically in the back. It weighs a light 13.6 pounds-considerably lighter than the 21-pound Pixma MP500. With its input and output trays folded in, it measures 17.5 inches wide by 12.2 inches deep by 6.3 inches tall. The Canon Pixma MP450 is reasonably compact for a home all-in-one. If you need a basic yet versatile home printer that doesn't take up a lot of desk space, we recommend the Canon Pixma MP450. For about the same price, the HP PSC 2335 and the Lexmark P6250 offer roughly the same features but poorer performance and print quality. For its price, however, the MP450 score points for its excellent print quality, fast print speeds-copying is a bit slow, however-and its small footprint. If you want multiple paper sources (for different types of paper, for example) and autoduplexing, check out the next step up in the Canon line, the $179 Pixma MP500, which also features a larger LCD. It's a basic printer, with only one paper feeder and no duplexer. It offers neither fax nor networking capabilities, but its various functions let you print, scan, copy, and print photos from a memory card or a PictBridge camera without your PC. Unlike Canon's more expensive office all-in-ones, the $129 MP450 is designed for home users. The Pixma MP450 all-in-one printer resides in the middle of Canon's multifunction printer line.