I have a Canon printer and I have selected the 'Black & White' option from the print dialogue, but the result is that it prints in grey-scale, and the greys are rendered using the colour inks. Copying is okay for the odd document, scanning is good the only drawback is that it is not rapid for text printing.I'd like to routinely print using only black ink when colour isn't important, because I have a whole lot more black ink than colour ink. Photo Printing is excellent for a four ink printer, it is also quick. So should you be looking for a four ink two cartridge solution this is extremely competitively priced.

I was somewhat puzzled by the button that let you choose plain paper, 15x10 photo or A4 photo on the unit as it does not have any card slots but if you look closely you will find a Pict Bridge socket to allow direct printing from your camera located very near the base of the unit on the right front edge.Ĭurrently Amazon have the Pixma MP210 for £37.99 including shipping. It is also possible to save the output as a PDF file. A novice could simple select Scan Import Photos or Documents from the Canon Solution Menu there are six basic choices Colour Document, Black White Document, Colour Photo, Black White Photo, Colour Magazine and OCR, the default is the first. In fact I found it easier and more convenient to do everything from within Windows. Quite unusually there is a scan button on the unit but for this to work you need the PC to be connected and turned on. Still if you have a lot of black printing to do then use a laser.īeing an AIO unit not only can you print, copy but you can also scan.

For a printer that can print so rapidly and clearly in colour on photo paper I wonder why the text printing is not quicker. Canon have long had Photo Print software and they were the first to allow you to print four near 15x10cm on a single sheet and this too took only two minutes. Moving onto photo images printing a full A4 borderless image on photo paper took just two minutes the quality was excellent and the image was completely dry. If you go to fast the output is nearly true black and not that much slower at 10PPM.

However the speed is not that fast at around 12PPM for both the nonsensical 200 word document and the more normal 1500 word offering spread over four pages. The fastest is custom when set to speed the output is a little grey but still okay for a memo. Printing gives you four modes high, standard, fast and custom.

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