Canon PIXMA MX897 All in One Printer

Canon Pixma MX897 is new All in Printer with rich features and cool design. The printer is designed for home and office purpose giving you a full Auto Duplex scanning feature. There are rare printers in the market which feature duplex scanning. But this printer is somewhat different in many things. There are among 4 new models which are announced with this printer. Among them Pixma MX897 is the most costliest and rich in features. The printer with duplex scanning provides you rich color printing options. It supports usb and microsd card printing with ADF. ADF is the Automatic Document Feed is in printer which can hold up to 35 sheets of paper or photos for scanning or printing purpose. Inshort with ADF support you can scan or print 35 non-stop documents. The design of Canon Pixma MX897 features rich look and easy buttons on the front panel for quick usage. Unlike other all in one printer, this printer does not have a scanner lid over the top side. It is integrated inside with automatic document feeder on the top scan your photos instantly. Because of ADF you can simply print front and backside easily. As a small powerhouse it offers you a 3inch LCD touch screen on the print with easy menu to control and navigate a number of different features. Even if your computer is turned off you can use insert your usb to print and adjust the document settings.

Other than this the printer also features wifi connectivity. Canon PIXMA MX897 features some additional benefit that would help you easily at your office work. The printer prices lies between Rs.16,000 to Rs.17,000. At first look it a bit large and heavy which clearly shows that it is not any other cheap model. Well designed with black color and perfectly laid button on the front part makes the printer more easily accessible. Maximum controls are placed over the top edges giving you a full navigation menu. The scan and print quality can be controlled and modified as per your needed. The feed below provides you quick printer. Canon claims that the printer can print a regular size image in 20seconds. Living that behind what is more important to check is the pages printer and affordability. As color printers are bit costlier compared to regular one, but they give you rich ink quality and advance feature.

Detailed Specification :

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Display - LCD (3.0-inch / 7.5cm TFT color)
Maximum Printing Resolution - 9600 (horizontal)*1 x 2400 (vertical)dpi
Individual Ink Cartridge 4,608 Nozzles
Printable Width - Up to 203.2mm (8-inch) and Up to 216mm (8.5-inch) borderless
Paper Size - A4, A5, B5, LTR, LGL, 4 x 6", 5 x 7", 8 x 10", Envelopes (DL, COM10)
Scanner Type - Flatbed Platen & Duplex Auto Document Feeder (ADF)
Scanning Method - CIS (Contact Image Sensor)
Optical Resolution - 2400 x 4800dpi
Line Scanning Speed - 1.4ms/line (300dpi) Grayscale and 4.2ms/line (300dpi) for Color
Scanning Speed - For Reflective: A4 Color / 300dpi - Approx. 18secs.
Maximum Document Size - Flatbed - A4, LTR (216 x 297mm). ADF - A4, LTR, LGL
Maximum Document Size - (ADF: A4, LTR, LGL)
Compatible Media - A4, A5, B5, LTR, LGL, 4 x 6", 5 x 7"
Image Quality - 3 positions (Fast, Standard, High)
Multiple Copy - Black / Color - Max. 99 pages
Fax - Desktop Transceiver (Super G3 / Color Communication)
Applicable Line - PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network)
Fax Scanning Width - 208mm (A4), 214mm (LTR)
Fax modem speed - Max. 33.6kbps (Automatic fall back)
Network - TCP/IP
Wired LAN - IEEE802.3u (100BASE-TX) / IEEE802.3 (10BASE-T) @ 100M / 10Mbps (auto switchable)
Wireless LAN - IEEE802.11n / IEEE802.11g / IEEE802.11b (infrastructure mode) @ 2.4GHz
Power - AC 100 - 240V, 50 / 60Hz
Duty Cycle - Up to 7,000 pages/month
Weight -Approx. 11.7kg

Canon PIXMA MX897 All in One Printer Detailed Specification

Regular printers offer you average usage. In case of presentation or color printer compromising with quality is something not recommended. Canon Pixma MX879 is the current age printer which comes with enhanced featured, wifi connectivity and cloud printing options. With a LAN port at the backside you can print from printer from where ever you want. The printer also support wifi printer through which you can use your iphone to print photos instantly. The design is made for ease and comfort. With a widescreen 3inch LCD screen on the front, you can operate the printer, scan your photos or send faxes instantly. As you can see the small glimpse of front screen buttons. The Menu is provided just below ON button which is much easier to locate. The COPY, FAX, SCAN and PHOTO button offer you easy access for printing and faxing your documents. The screen is quiet wide giving you a full touch panel with various options listed at the time of scanning or printing. There are other buttons towards the right size for more support. I liked the Black and Color buttons which can easily give you a choice t print a black or color photo.

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Check the below images, which will provide you a more clear idea about the design. As the image is shown compared to that the printer is quiet big. I like the designed very well. It offers you a different look. It is not like just all other All in printer The ADF (Automatic Document Feeder) at the top is added separately to put only documents for scanning or printing while the below one gives you result. So if you want to copy a document instantly you just need to insert that on the top make the settings and you can receive the print below. The same is applicable for multiple printing. Canon PIXMA MX897 looks a great combination of nice design and feature. What we most expect from an All in one Printer is affordable printing quality, fax and scan support. This gives a bit higher. The printer prints documents very silently. Noise is another annoying thing in printers. Mostly when you had keep a number of documents. Canon has take special care to make this printer as much calm as possible, so that it does not disturb you much while working. I am not sure about the any special sound control mechanism but the body itself gives the idea about the same. With color printer you can go a bit economical with black and white printing. The quality of the same can be adjusted as per your need from the menu itself.

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Another great feature this printer has is connectivity web to give you more features of online printer. Somehow Canon Pixma MX879 offer you Web Album printer through Canon iMAGE Gateway. If you have a Picasa account then you can simply print your photos directly from the printer. It does not matter what number of albums you had stored. You can get the same rich quality photos that usually print from your existing photos. Canon introduced a new Cloud Ink support where you can print many themes from web. You can print various web templates from Canon server directly from the printer. Also you can use Google Cloud Print. For accessing this feature you have to create an account in Google Cloud Print. This is a new integration which provides you to print directly from the web without worrying about the printer drive. Cloud Print also supports different kind of Smartphone’s. There is no need to put the printer on wifi network or install different kinds of applications. So if you have an Air Print setup or simply a Windows wifi network with single Google Cloud Print account multiple devices on the network can access the printer. This is quiet a better way to express your ideas. For those who need some ready to use templates for office work, Canon server can help you. You can create nice office stationeries from the default templates stored on the web server.