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| Brand | Canon |
| Type | Electronics |
| List Price | $149.99 |
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Features |
- Keep it Green - Built-in 2-sided printing helps the setting and cuts your paper usage by 50%
- Amazingly compact printer together with together wireless and built-in 2-sided printing
- Maximum 9600 x 2400 color dpi2 for unprecedented photo excellence
- Use the new “Auto Photo Fix II” to automatically change and correct your photos
- Effortlessly print your photos from compatible memory cards3 and USB Flash drives
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Description |
| High-Performance Wireless Photo All-In-One together with 2.0-Inch LCD |
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Customer Reviews |
 Another good product from Canon 2010-03-09 |
| By Nikhil Shaligram (Los Angeles, CA) |
| There was no hesitation in my mind when I bought this printer since I already own quite a few Canon products. As expected, it is fantastic. The setup is really easy and less time consuming. Even a non tech savvy guy can set it up along with wireless etc. I kind of like the functionality they have put into the small LCD screen on the printer. Quick and easy selections, and equally quick and good quality printouts/copies. Pretty good value for money. Just love the photographs it prints on photo-paper! Superb image processing techniques for getting the best out of your picture. And all this for a really cheap price. I would surely recommend this product to anyone who cares for the quality of prints and wants a wire free environment. Good going Canon. |
| Great Printer 2010-03-09 |
| By P. Snyder (Cranberry Township, PA United States) |
| Easy to set up and use. Print quality is really good. Wireless set up is a breeze. |
| great wireless photo printer 2010-03-06 |
| By J.E. Ramont (Southern California) |
I have been using this printer for a month and it performs beautifully! Great value for the price. The wireless printing is flawless. The printing software package is very useful for setting up the photo printing. My one regret is that you can't customize the layouts beyond the templates, and you are limited on your selection of paper types when you want to print. IF you want to print photos, for example, your only choices are types of photo paper, which feed from the back of the printer. IF you want to print photos on card stock, you can't use the layout feature unless you let it think you are printing on photo paper. This is a minor inconvenience for the great quality prints this printer produces. The colors are vivid and the auto-correct feature works wonders with photos I printed. No "bad" prints.
I haven't used the card reader yet, so I can't comment on that. But for basic wireless photo printing, I haven't found better.
The scanner/copier works great. Scans quickly and produces good quality copies with very little deterioration. |
| Fast and Easy to Use 2010-03-06 |
| By Spiegel (Boston, MA) |
I have been using the Canon PIXMA MP560 for over a month now. Setup was probably a lot more easier if I used the installation CD because it would install all of the required components to make my printer ready. I didn't use the installation CD that was shipped with the printer. Instead, I downloaded the setup software for the printer from Canon site. I first downloaded and installed the latest printer driver. When I tried to test the printer by sending it a Word document to print, the printer manager appeared to time out and print job eventually failed. I then called Canon technical support. The tech support person was very helpful. He guided me through each of the installation steps since I didn't use the setup CD. It turned out that I had to download and install all component software such as the MP Navigator, Easy Photo, and the Network Tool. Once the setup was complete, I had to setup the printer to use Wireless connection because I have three PCs connecting to the router on the LAN. If you want to use direct connection to the printer, you would need to purchase a special USB cable with a special head that is connecting to the printer. I have an old USB cable left over from my previous HP inkjet printer. But using a direct connection via the USB cable is inconvenient because the PC that is connected to the printer must be on before you could print anything. So, using wireless connection is much more preferable. I have no problem printing from any of my three PCs.
To use the wireless connection, I needed to use WPA2 option for wireless authentication protocol. That means, I had to set up a long pass phrase through the LCD control panel so that the printer can sign on to the wireless network automatically whenever it is powered up. Whether to use WPA2 is dependent on whether you desire to have a secure wireless network. Since I had already set up my wireless router to use WPA2 protocol, I had to choose the WPA2 option when I set up my printer. I also used MAC address filtering on my wireless router and so I had to navigate through the setup menu on the LCD control panel to find the MAC address of the printer. Once the setup is complete, the printer is ready to use. By the way, you have to assign a unique name to your printer so that you can select it from a dropdown box whenever you print a document.
After the setup, I tested the Easy Photo to print a color picture. It is pretty easy to use. Just start the Easy Photo on your desktop and pick a picture of your favorite to print. My test picture came out perfectly. The photo printing is pretty fast too. I haven't tried to use the memory slot on the printer to print photo directly using the control panel. But I like the Easy Photo because it makes the pictures selection so much easier.
Without the MP Navigator, it was pretty clumsy trying to scan a document that had multiple pages. Originally, I used the LCD control panel to scan the document one page at a time. It worked as expected except that the next page I scanned in was stored to the same directory under the same default file name. In effect, Canon PIXMA MP560 overrides the scanned in document unless I change the default file name right after scanning to prevent the file from being overridden. The whole process was rather arduous because I had to move the flash drive back and forth between the PC and the printer in order to change the name of the scanned in document before starting the next scan. That was rather slow and tedious. I highly recommend to use the MP Navigator.
Using the MP Navigator is so much easier for scanning documents. All I needed to do is to start scanning and the printer automatically saved the JPG image of the page to the selected PC. When I started the scanning on the printer, I had to choose which PC to save the image to. If I wanted to save one or more pages in a single PDF file, I could check all the related images in the sequence that I wanted my pages to appear in a PDF document. Then, I just clicked the Save All button to aggregate these selected images into a single PDF document. Without the MP Navigator, you can never collate the pages together in one document: Each page is saved as a PDF file by itself using the same default file name. That's why your file can be overridden if you forget to change the file name after the scanning if you don't install the MP Navigator on your computer. So, it is a good idea to install the MP Navigator before you do any scanning. Scanning photos works the same way as scanning documents except that you need to rename the image file names.
Scanning black and white document is good. But when I tried to copy a page that had dark red color, I got a light pink color instead. The printer couldn't quite replicate the color from my original document. Copying a color document might not guarantee color fidelity in the resulting copy. Overall, the printer is pretty good to have.
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 For the money, you can't go wrong 2010-03-06 |
| By Mac Printer (Charleston, SC) |
I am using this printer with a Mac running OS 10.5.8 with no problems at all. It's not the quietest or the fastest printer I've ever used, but it just works.
The software isn't the best printing/photo/scanning software I've ever used on the Mac, but it's functional.
My only complaint: on my older Canon printers I could set it up to auto-turn on and off. The printer would automatically turn on when I sent a job to it and shut off when it was done. The Canon MP560 doesn't offer this feature, which is very disappointing...especially for a printer line that claims to be "Green."
But for $98...bang for the buck is incredible for a general purpose printer. |