Canon PIXMA MX300

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

As is regular of inkjet MFPs valued in this brace, the Canon Pixma MX300 has actually a function set ideal for low-volume use. It comes with a rear, upright 150-sheet input tray and a front, flip-out 50-sheet result tray.

A 30-page automated file feeder unfolds from the top. The ADF could handle legal-size media (5 sheets at once), but the scanner platen fits letter-size sheets just. The scanner's cover telescopes to suit more thick media.

Duplexing is a hand-operated operation, and the Canon Pixma MX300 provides valuable onscreen motivates to step you with the procedure. Connectivity is restricted: a front port lets you print photos directly from a PictBridge-compliant device or save checked documents to a USB crucial drive; Canon sells a Bluetooth adaptor.

The Canon Pixma MX300's control panel is fairly well designed. All of the switches have meaningful word tags, however the 1.8 in colour LCD for viewing food selection choices is little and also would be less complicated to make use of if its navigation hints were clearer.

Occasionally you have to press the up/down arrowheads and also other times the Settings switch to relocate through the food selections. The ranginged from documentation covers the subtleties well, but it didn't make instinctive feeling to us when making use of the maker.

As you would certainly expect of a printer this cost-effective, speed isn't a marketing point. At the very least Canon is truthful concerning it, declaring a top text speed of 7.5 pages each minute, and a leading graphics speed of 4.5 ppm. In our tests, the Canon Pixma MX300's message speed really surpassed expectations a little, reaching 7.7 ppm, while our graphics examples peaked at 2.2 ppm.

Simple message pages looked very crisp. Graphics and also images varied a lot more. On ordinary paper, photos showed up grainy and a little bit off-colour, with orangey flesh tones or purplish monochrome photos, for instance. On Canon's own paper, images looked light and also in some cases streaked, even after duplicated maintenance routines.

The ink expenses for the Canon Pixma MX300 can build up 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 compartments.