Canon Pixma MP280 Review
The Canon PIXMA MP280 is a low cost all-in-one
, part of the firm's range released in autumn 2010. It bears a remarkable likeness to the MP495 but is about 20 per cent less expensive, since it has no wireless networking support and it is reportedly less quick.
It is a modestly sized unit, which has a matt black cover to its own scanner plus a regular paper route running from a close to vertical, 100-sheet tray at the backside right through to a horizontal one in front, made by folding down the front cover. The cover automatically drops down, in the event you neglect to open it before beginning to print, and contains a flip-over extension to completely support printed documents.
The control panel features a stunning quantity of indicators as well as buttons, though there is no LCD panel to exhibit menus or even image thumbnails. It won't require the latter, as there is no memory card or even USB drive slot with the device, either. There is a single-character LED display to select as much as nine copies at any given time.
Individual LEDs are employed to show paper jams and also low ink, and there are others pertaining to paper type as well as size. At the front end of the control panel are six buttons intended for starting and cancelling black and also colour print jobs, in addition to ones for scan, settings and also to fit a picture to the page.
Behind the right-hand side panel is a solitary USB socket, which is the sole data connection to the appliance. Once you've installed the software, which is pretty pain-free from the provided CD, you connect a USB cable and slot in the two ink cartridges, before you start making use of the device.
The rates of speed Canon quotes for the PIXMA MP280: 8.4ppm for black and 4.8ppm for colour, are actually extremely close to the exact same specs with respect to the PIXMA MP495, that happen to be 8.8ppm and 5ppm.
In the tests, the end results were found to be even closer, with this particular printer returning a rate of 5.5ppm for the five-page black document, rising to 5.8ppm on the 20-page version. The five-page black text and colour graphics test gave 2.4ppm, a colour copy required 39 seconds along with a 15 x 10cm photograph on an A4 sheet concluded in 1min 21secs.
As we observed when we examined the PIXMA MP495, black text benefited from the pigmented ink and this is clearly still true here. Characters are nicely produced, even though there are some signs of mis-registered text, offering a moderately wavy physical appearance to some lines.
Colours are usually solid as well as vibrant, with few apparent registration issues, though there's slight fuzziness to black text over colour, suggesting a little ink-run. Our photograph print presented a good quality image, with natural colours and sleek gradations of colour, but there was clearly a bit of loss in fine detail inside darker parts. It is nevertheless a pretty decent result with regard to an all-in-one costing below 50.
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Canon PIXMA MP280 ink cartridges can be found in two volumes: 220 as well as 244 pages for black and colour respectively in the standard cartridges, 401 and 349 pages in the high-yield versions.
There's about 10 difference between the PIXMA MP495 and this unit, the MP280, and for that you receive the wireless network support in the MP495. Canon would definitely like people to think you additionally get a speed improvement but, using our tests, you likely will see hardly any change in either speed or print quality. Both machines are fine value and you should choose between them based on whether or not you need wireless connectivity.
Canon ink cartridges can be found here.
Canon Pixma MP280 Review
By: Jack Underwood
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