Canon Pixma MP550 Printer Review

Canon has released a new mid-range Pixma All-In-One printer, the Pixma MP550, which delivers picture laboratory high quality prints along with great simplicity of use. The Canon Pixma MP550 is a member of a comprehensive Pixma All-In-One printer line-up for 2009, all of which allow home users, photograph lovers as well as professional users to obtain superior results from their prints – from plain paper documents to high quality digital pictures. The MP550 includes a selection of improved features that will supply photograph laboratory quality images in even less time when compared with comparably priced forerunners, whilst making the printer easier to utilize.

The cutting edge Canon printer utilizes Canon’s 1pl FINE (Full-photolithography Inkjet Nozzle Engineering) print technology and this generates grain-free images at resolutions up to 9600 dpi. Ink is delivered to the print head by means of five specific ink cartridges – one featuring pigment-based black ink to get laser-quality text printing, as well as four dye-based coloured inks for lab high quality prints of users’ much-loved digital pictures. Built-in LED warning lights inside the single inks ensure it is simple for users to determine whenever each cartridge requires replacing.

Improvements to the print engine utilized in the Canon MP550 will mean that Canon’s mid-range designs are faster than ever before. The new Canon All-in-One is capable of making photo lab quality, borderless, 10x15cm (4×6″) prints in roughly 39 seconds. Canon has additionally turned out to be one of the very first printer makers to embrace the ISO/IEC 24734 and 24735 print and copy speed measurements tests, permitting people to directly assess print and copy rates of speed from various models and manufacturers. The MP550 is capable of producing roughly 9.2ipm (images per minute) with regard to mono documents and roughly 6.0ipm for colour documents.

The MP550 features Easy-PhotoPrint EX which helps make it even easier to produce superior quality output from users’ digital photograph collections. These incorporate Auto Photo Fix II, which makes use of multi-zone algorithms to supply just the correct level of image correction to various parts of users’ photos – producing superbly balanced photograph prints.

Auto Photo Fix II is joined by Easy-WebPrint EX, which allows users to intelligently clip crucial parts of a website page and subsequently choose to print them or save as a Pdf. The Canon Easy-WebPrint EX software allows users to mix material from many online pages into a single document, helping decrease paper and ink costs.

The Canon MP550 additionally gives long-lasting photo print thanks to Canon’s ChromaLife100 technology and ink cartridges. Pictures printed using Canon inks and photo paper are colour-fast for a stated 300 years if put in an album, and last for roughly 20 years when exposed to the air or located beneath glass.