
A motorized tilting front panel and output tray add refinement, along with auto paper width detection, which can save setup time when using different types of paper. Mono and color print speeds are fast and there’s an auto duplex facility. Key features incude Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, a memory card slot and facility for printing on white-faced CDs and DVDs. For our money, it’s the best letter sized photo printer on the market, but it’s equally adept at document printing. Along with the usual mix of pigment-based black and dye-based CMYK, it features an additional ‘photo blue’ ink for more vivid photo output with even smoother graduations.

As usual with document/photo printers, there’s a built-in scanner, ideal for creating photocopies, but this model lacks a memory card slot for direct photo printing, although it does have built-in Bluetooth.Ī step up from Canon’s 5-ink printers, this model goes one better with six separate ink cartridges. The motorized output tray adds a touch of automation and the on-board controls are simple and intuitive, based around an OLED screen.
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The four dye-based inks for photo printing naturally have a smaller gamut (or color space) than in Epson’s competing photo printers that use six dye-based inks but, even so, the Canon’s color rendition looks very lifelike and natural for everything from portrait skin tones to vibrant landscapes. Better still, you can keep plain paper for document printing in the internal cassette, and load sheets of variously sized photo paper into the upright rear feeder, as and when you want to create photo prints. Typical of Canon 5-ink printers over the years, this one runs on a pigment-based black cartridge for rich, solid text in document printing, along with dye-based cyan, magenta, yellow and black inks for photo output. Relatively limited ‘photo’ ink range -No memory card slot
