Canon Pixma MX410 Ink Review

The style of the Canon Pixma MX410 is streamlined so that each and every drawer, tray, and port folds up flush in to the self-contained body. The effect is a really smooth matte black external surfaces with all the buttons you require to alter the settings positioned fittingly on the front panel.

The MX410 is basic with only a two-line dot-matrix graphic display in the center of the control panel, which is certainly adequate for just about all the day-to-day print, scan, and fax functionality.

Canon has incorporated an auto-document feeder (ADF) to make it easier to scan or copy heaps of documents. The ADF is only able to deal with as much as 30 pages at any given time, therefore the majority of the blank media flows through the rear input tray which in turn holds 100 pages, and a plastic guide folds out of the rear tray in order to corral bigger media.

We are sorry to see the MX410 doesn't have a multimedia card reader for direct prints, however you can certainly hook up a digital camera straight to the printer through the PictBridge USB port on the bottom part of the device.

The top of the unit lifts open to uncover the normal 8.5-inch-by-11-inch scanner bay, however you can additionally pop that open and get access to the two-ink cartridge bay below. To help keep costs low, the MX410 just makes use of two inks: one for black the other for tricolours.

The copy features on the MX410 are fairly standard for a multifunction: you can create up to 99 copies at any one time and readily alter the contrast and magnification of a document from 25 to 400 percent, all right through the configuration settings on the Liquid crystal display menus.

The MX410 presents only average output rates of speed. It lags behind the opposition just a little in the graphics speed test at only 2.03 pages per minute (PPM). Since this isn't a full-blown photo printer, we can easily forgive the MX410 for the slowish photo print test, because the remaining ratings are near enough to the rivals.

We printed all photograph as well as graphical documents with the Canon Pixma MX410 printer ink cartridges with the paper that Canon made available. Black text upon standard 20 pound paper looks nicely darkened, however a more detailed examination discloses characters containing jagged edges and step-downs, fuzziness in little font sizes, as well as severe contrasts in colour mixes.

In addition, our colour graphics prints ended up grainy with a lifeless shade marring the images. Thankfully, the 3-inch-by-5-inch photograph proved OK with sharper outlines as well as an even saturation, nevertheless the skin tones within the portrait photos all the same weren't able to shake the dull palette.

The Canon Pixma MX410 is truly a useful all-in-one answer for those who need an output system for sporadic month to month use to print out boarding passes, work papers, or periodic snapshot photographs. Its dual-ink cartridge bay hinders the output performance therefore we do not recommend it for photo-specific use, however you'll surely accept the Pixma's graphic and text high-quality. Include further features like wireless connectivity, an auto-document feeder, and also Canon's unique HD Movie Print that lets you pull as well as print still photos out from Canon compatible HD video cameras, and this particular product is more than worth its cost.

Canon Pixma MX410 printer cartridges are to be found here.