Canon PIXMA MG8150 Review

The canon PIXMA MG8150 is a multifunction inkjet printer containing just about every feature any home user could wish for - decent document as well as photo print quality, an excellent scanner for documents as well as film negatives, as well as wireless connectivity in addition to direct printing. Its touch-sensitive interface isn't particularly user friendly, on the other hand.

The MG8150 incorporates a very similar design to many other PIXMA products including the PIXMA iP4850, but it is broader as well as higher at 470x392x199mm. A 3.5in Lcd screen in the middle of the printer's top panel posseses an instantly easy to understand graphical interface, however the touch-sensitive control keys underneath it are not as easy to use as we'd want. Because there is no actual feedback you are able to push them twice unintentionally in case you're not careful.

The MG8150 has not got an Ethernet port allowing you to connect to a wired home network, however 802.11n Wi-Fi is provided. There's a USB 2.0 port to the back of the unit in order to connect a Pc (even though there is no USB cable included). A host USB port on the unit's front allows for PictBridge endowed cameras or USB memory sticks to be utilized directly.

Setting up the MG8150 is simple. Entering the print head and also the six ink tanks can be tricky, however an on-screen guide makes it simple. Setting up the supplied software requires approximately 10 minutes, though a thorough package of maintenance as well as printing applications is included.

The MG8150 makes use of six ink tanks to generate outstanding results with respect to both plain text documents and also photographs. It is a quiet and also reasonably fast inkjet machine, generating approximately 12 black and white pages per minute at regular quality settings in our tests. A 20-page colour A4 document was printed in a little over two minutes (9ppm). In the event that you are seeking to save on paper expenses the Canon PIXMA MG8150 is a great option - it offers an automatic double-sided printing feature with regard to standard A4 paper.

The caliber of the MG8150's colour prints utilizing Canon PIXMA MG8150 ink cartridges are really excellent, having sharp image fine detail as well as authentic gradation in colours. Printing good quality pictures with photo paper uses a lot of ink plus takes significantly longer when compared with printing a document, but the end results are worthwhile. Thanks to a separate grey ink cartridge the PIXMA MG8150's greyscale output is sparkling as well as detailed, without any visible banding throughout darker image areas.

The MG8150 has just about the most precise flatbed scanners we have seen in a consumer multifunction model. Having a maximum resolution of 4800x4800dpi it is able to extract significant amounts of first-rate detail out of colour as well as text documents in addition to photographs. If perhaps you happen to be wanting to digitise old pictures for posterity, the PIXMA MG8150 is definitely up to the work. Built-in film scanning - for 35mm negative as well as slide frames - may attract virtually anyone that has a number of old photographs, however the quality defintely won't be as good as a specific 35mm film scanner plus there is no included film scanning guides.

Scans are quick to complete whenever quality isn't set to maximum levels, yet 4800x9600dpi scans of film and also 4800x4800dpi document scans raise the time substantially. The MG8150's flatbed scanner is quiet throughout its functioning.

The Canon PIXMA MG8150 is filled with features, and it has a reasonably high cost to match. It is an impressive all-round multifunction machine - whether or not you are printing documents, photos or scanning it can create good quality results.

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