Using the Canon Pixma MX700

It’s been a little over a month now, since I finally got this sweet multi-function printer, the Canon Pixma MX700. I remember reading about its release here in Australia, and ever since, had my eyes set on it… especially since back then, we didn’t have a printer to use.

The very first thing I tried was hooking up our Canon Powershot SD400 to the printer using PictBridge. It does take a while to detect the connection at first, but once that’s done, everything goes smoothly. By default, photos were printed without borders, which I found pretty cool. The 2 picolitre FINE print-head technology really brings out the fine details of a photo.

Printing off of iPhoto turned out to be a bit more of a problem. For some reason, no matter what kind of settings I do, it still manages to print photos with borders. Now that may be good sometimes, but in my case, I was thinking of making more use of the photo paper. I have yet to solve this issue, but I managed to print photos the way I want by using Canon’s Easy PhotoPrint EX application.

Scanning was pretty straightforward. I scanned the same photo I previously printed and at a maximum resolution of 4800 x 1200 dpi, it looked great. Doing photocopies was good too. A combination of scanning and printing, it was real handy when I needed to prepare the documents required for me to send Canon my application for the $50 cash back.

I have yet to try out the fax features of the printer, but I will be posting an update once I have done so.

All the tasks I have done with the MX700 takes a while to begin, but pretty much starts within a few seconds once the initial connection has been made. Aside from the PictBridge connection, all the other printing / scanning / copying jobs I have done were through a wireless connection. I connected the included ethernet cable to one of the ports on my wireless router, which is pretty convenient. I don’t know if I will ever go back to traditional wired solutions again.

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