Canon Pixma MP760
Canon Pixma MP760 is a power packed friendly designed multifunction inkjet scanner, copier and printer. Though multifunctional you would wish it had FAX capabilities too make the device more complete. However to compensate, it has other features such as camera cared slots, camera port. Canon Pixma MP760 scans film, slide and negatives. You will be able to convert your precious old memories in preserved negatives to digital format. You can even get printed your slides without using your computer.
Canon Pixma MP760 has a well laid out design. It measures 18.6X10.5×19.1. It weighs 27.3 lbs. It has a black and silver casing that gives it an elegant and professional appearance. It has a semicircular control panel with user friendly layout of buttons. It has a pop up color LCD for its display that measures 1.5×2.0 inches. This displays images from scans, memory card or from the PictBridge camera.
At the base is of the printer you have slots for media cards that support MemoryStick, MagicGate, Microdrive, CompactFlash, MultiMediaCard and a PictBridge port through which you will be able to connect to your digital camera. The paper cassette is big enough to easily hold 150 sheets of regular paper. You can completely detach the scanner cover. It is a thoughtful design which you wish many other scanners had especially you wanted to scan a voluminous books like encyclopedia. The scanner cover also serves as a frame for holding your negatives and slides for scanning.
Canon Pixma MP760 has three color cartridges, single cartridge for text and an exclusive cartridge for printing photos. All the cartridges remain independent from each other – so refilling them is easy too. You will be able to replace just the needed cartridge or color.
Canon Pixma MP760 has interesting features. You will be able to connect this device to your PC. You will be able print with or without your PC. You will be able to print double sided documents, you can scan your slides, transparencies, film negatives without having to connect to your PC. You will be able to enlarge your copies as well.
You can connect to your PC through high speed USB 2.0 port. It is compatible with Windows 98 and above. It is compatible with Mac systems as well. The driver installation is fast and it occupies 430MB. The software used is a very user friendly user interface that makes life easy. It can print your 8×10 inch photo as fast as one minute which is almost twice the speed of its competitor HP. The quality of print is noticeably good and it has great clarity on finer details. However, it does not have great scan quality. It has a copying speed of 25 pages per minute on black and white and 17pages per minute for color copying. You can enlarge your copies up to 400% and reduce it up to 25%. The copy resolution is 600×600 dpi for black and white prints and has a maximum copying resolution of 1200×1200 dpi. At one stretch you will be able to make 99 copies. You have one year guarantee for the device.