Canon PIXMA MX300

If you print a lot, however, look somewhere else, since the Canon Pixma MX300's inks could be expensive.

As is typical of inkjet MFPs valued in this brace, the Canon Pixma MX300 has actually an attribute established ideal for low-volume usage. It comes with a rear, vertical 150-sheet input tray and also a front, flip-out 50-sheet output tray.

A 30-page automatic file feeder unravels from the top. The ADF can deal with legal-size media (5 sheets each time), yet the scanner platen fits letter-size sheets just. The scanner's cover telescopes to suit more thick media.

Duplexing is a hand-operated procedure, and the Canon Pixma MX300 offers handy onscreen prompts to step you with the process. Connection is restricted: a front port allows you publish photos straight from a PictBridge-compliant tool or conserve checked documents to a USB vital drive; Canon sells a Bluetooth adaptor.

The Canon Pixma MX300's control board is fairly well developed. All the switches have meaningful word labels, but the 1.8 in colour LCD for viewing food selection alternatives is small and would certainly be less complicated to use if its navigation hints were clearer.

Sometimes you need to push the up/down arrowheads as well as other times the Settings button to relocate through the food selections. The ranginged from information covers the nuances well, however it didn't make user-friendly feeling to us when utilizing the equipment.

As you would certainly expect of a printer this low-cost, rate isn't a marketing factor. A minimum of Canon is sincere regarding it, asserting a leading text rate of 7.5 web pages each minute, and also a leading graphics rate of 4.5 ppm. In our tests, the Canon Pixma MX300's message rate in fact went beyond expectations slightly, reaching 7.7 ppm, while our graphics samples peaked at 2.2 ppm.

Plain message web pages looked rather crisp. Graphics and also photos varied much more. On ordinary paper, images showed up grainy and also a bit off-colour, with orangey flesh tones or purplish grayscale images, for instance. On Canon's own paper, images looked pale as well as often streaky, even after repeated upkeep routines.

The ink prices for the Canon Pixma MX300 could accumulate in a hurry. The device ships with a 220-page black cartridge and also a 244-page tricolour cartridge containing cyan, magenta, as well as yellow areas.