



canon pixma mp560 -
A brief review as I barely have had a chance to use this machine but it was easy to set up - took just a little while extra to configure the wireless mode for my mac laptop but once set up the wireless worked great and the machine prints well. The only shortcoming so far and perhaps I havent found the feature but it does not seem to have control features for you to differentiate between high quality photo paper and regular paper and some other features I am used to for fine tuning a print-
other than that ( and perhaps I have not found the feature) I think it is a great printer and am pleased with Canon in general.
2010-09-06




Convenient but a little slow and noisy
With two home offices, our printer always seemed to be in the wrong place or attached to a PC that was powered down. The network printer is a great solution for us. I've heard others say that they have had connection problems with network printers, but this one has worked fine for us.
The size is not tiny, but tolerable. One nice feature is that you can keep the output tray closed, and it will automatically open when it starts to print. This allows the unit to look smaller and less conspicuous if it is not in use.
It is a little slow in printing and scanning (it seems to take several seconds to "warm up" even if it had just printed or scanned something else), but it is adequate for our use. It also is noisier than our old HP printer, with several "clunk" noises in addition to the normal print head noise.
Standard print quality is good, and the scanning quality is also good (one hint: the default scan resolution is very high, so if you don't want very large picture files you need to change this parameter). We haven't tried printing photos yet.
2010-09-06