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Canon Pixma MP280 Review

The Canon PIXMA MP280 is a budget all-in-one, part of the firm's series released in autumn 2010. It has an amazing likeness to the MP495 however is around 20 percent less costly, as it does not have any wireless networking support and is reported to be less quick.

It's actually a modestly sized unit, with a matt black cover to the scanner and a conventional paper route running from a virtually vertical, 100-sheet tray at the rear to a horizontal one at the front, made by folding down the front cover. The cover mechanically lowers down, should you fail to remember to open it before beginning to print, and it has a flip-over extension to completely support printed documents.

The control panel has a stunning quantity of indicators and also buttons, although there is no Liquid crystal display panel to show menus or even image thumbnails. It doesn't need the latter, since there is no memory card or alternatively USB drive slot with the device, either. There's a simple single-character LED display to select as many as nine copies at the same time.

Solitary LEDs are utilized to indicate paper jams and low ink, and there are others pertaining to paper type and also size. In front of the control panel are six buttons intended for starting as well as cancelling black and also colour print jobs, along with ones with regard to scan, settings and also to match up a photo to the page.

At the rear of the right-hand side panel is a single USB socket, which is the sole data link to the device. When you have installed the software, which in fact is fairly pain-free from the provided CD, you connect a USB cable as well as slot in the two ink cartridges, before you start making use of the machine.

The speeds Canon quotes with regard to the PIXMA MP280: 8.4ppm for black as well as 4.8ppm for colour, happen to be very close to the same specifications for the PIXMA MP495, that happen to be 8.8ppm and 5ppm.

In the tests, the end results ended up being even closer, with this particular printer returning a rate of 5.5ppm for the five-page black document, climbing to 5.8ppm on the 20-page version. The five-page black text and colour graphics test gave 2.4ppm, a colour copy took 39 seconds plus a 15 x 10cm picture on an A4 sheet concluded in 1min 21secs.

As we mentioned when we reviewed the PIXMA MP495, black text benefited from the pigmented ink and this is of course still true here. Characters are nicely formed, even though there are a few indicators of mis-registered text, giving a slightly wavy physical appearance to a few lines.

Colours are robust and also bright, with very few noticeable registration issues, even though there's slight fuzziness to black text over colour, indicating a little ink-run. Our photo print provided a good image, along with natural colours as well as sleek gradations of colour, yet there seemed to be some loss in fine detail inside darker regions. It is nevertheless a pretty decent end result with regard to an all-in-one priced at under £50.

The Canon PIXMA MP280 ink cartridges can be found in two sizes: 220 as well as 244 pages with regard to black and colour respectively in the standard cartridges, 401 and 349 pages in the high-yield versions.

There is about £10 variance between the PIXMA MP495 and this unit, the MP280, and for that you receive the wireless network support in the MP495. Canon would like people to think you also obtain a speed increase although, by our tests, you're likely to see hardly any difference in either speed or print quality. Both devices are fine value and you should pick between them depending on if you'll need wireless connectivity.

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