Canon’s Pixma MX7600 weighing nearly 40lbs is an efficient printer in all means. With its excellent features and great quality, it more than compensates for its weight. The printer boasts of an advanced technology known as PgR. The printer has six color and black ink tanks and this technology adds clear ink to these tanks.
This helps in improving the overall quality of the text and the graphics. The clear ink forms a thin layer, well before the other inks. The text thus looks well formed and clear. The clear layer of the ink helps in preventing the mixing of the ink. The edges appear to be clean and neat. The color graphics also look great. The drawback with this is that you have one more cartridge which needs to be replaced on a regular basis.
The printer works at a good speed. Black text is printed at a rate of 28 pages/ minute. Color graphics are produced at a speed of 23 pages/ minute; though it depends on the settings. A color photo measuring 4x6 is produced well within a minute. Even an 8x10 size photo doesn’t take more than a minute. The photos look bright with good contrast.
The ink doesn’t take much time to dry up. The pictures are dry to touch the moment they are printed. However the result in not excellent when a fully colored print out is taken on a plain paper; though it’s still reasonably good. The best part is that the paper isn’t moist even when taking prints in full color.
It’s a multifunctional machine. Other than printing, Canon’s Pixma MX7600 also has features for copying and scanning. All these functions work pretty well. The fax system is also efficient. Working on this printer is pretty easy since the instructions are given clearly and machine is also designed simply.
The control panel has a LCD screen; which appears to be small especially when compared to the big size of the printer. The buttons are properly spaced and easy to use. There is also a memory card button which is to be used when printing pictures from some SD card. Its can also be used while printing photos from various other medias. The control panel is quite user-friendly.
The instructions and messages displayed on the LCD are easy to understand and follow. Other software offered by Canon is also there like MP Navigator EX, Easy Photo Print EX and the Newsoft Presto Page Manage. These all work quite well; though individually they aren’t very good software.
The biggest high point of this printer is definitely its print quality, which is excellent. It produces good result even on a plain paper which is not possible with most of the printers today. Internet connectivity is also there though Ethernet. Memory card functions are adequate and convenient. One of the major drawbacks of Pixma MX7600 is its heavy weight. Its takes lot of power to move it from your car to your desk! It is also pricey.
Canon is known for its supreme quality product and this printer is no exception. This is an all purpose printer which also has scanner, copier and fax facility. This product is for you if you are one of those who do not mind paying a bit more for a quality item. You will love Pixma MX7600 if you belong to this category. Definitely a top printer!