#Canon pixma mp990 review plus#

Arranged in a ring around the wheel are four direction keys that you can use instead of the wheel, and an OK wheel resides in the center of the wheel. The wheel gives a tactile response as it turns, which we liked. The menu options are arranged in a circle that revolves on the screen as you turn the scroll wheel on the control panel. Like the MP960, the MP970 has a very simple control panel, due in part to the fact that most of the functionality is accessed via the onscreen menu. Embedded on the underside of the panel is a large, 3.5-inch LCD. It's embedded in the scanner lid, hidden under a fold-up panel. The control panel is similar to last year's model, the Pixma MP960, with some minor differences. Hidden behind a door are two memory card slots, and a PictBridge USB port resides beneath the slots. The body is silver with black highlights. It measures 18.5 inches wide, 15.6 inches deep, and 8.4 inches tall, and weighs just over 26 pounds. The Canon Pixma MP970 is a monster of a printer, so make sure you have enough desk space for it.

And for a networked, photo-oriented multifunction, we recommend the HP Photosmart C6180, though it's a bit slower than the MP970. If you don't need network-support, we suggest you go with the Pixma MP960, if you can spare the extra $100. Overall, we feel let down by the Pixma MP960. Aside from the performance and quality issues, we'd like to see Canon take some steps to improve the onboard image editing options and include support for USB hard drives and flash drives via the front-mounted USB host port many other manufacturers have done so and we wonder why Canon hasn't.

#Canon pixma mp990 review plus#

On the plus side, at $300, it's $100 less than the MP960 and it includes Ethernet networking standard (otherwise, it offers a very similar feature set). Unfortunately, we were surprised to find slower task speeds and print quality that doesn't meet Canon's usual standards. We were looking forward to a top-notch photo-oriented photo multifunction, as we've come to expect stellar quality from Canon, and we loved last year's version. The Canon Pixma MP970 is the 2007 refresh of last year's Pixma MP960.