Canon PIXMA MP 980 - Expert Reviews

Review summary: This color inkjet MFP is a little pricey but offers premium features for photo enthusiasts.

Verdict: The control panel (integrated into the scanner lid) is innovatively designed. Taking a cue from Apple's iPod, it features a scroll wheel that you push to rotate through menu items shown on the large, tiltable, 3.5-inch color LCD. Rotating feels faster ...

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Verdict: Considering the Canon Pixma MP980's price, we would have liked a faster machine with fewer oddities. However, it's solidly built and reasonably priced to run, and therefore still well worth considering.

Review summary: Canon's Pixma MP980 color inkjet multifunction printer offers many premium-level features for photo enthusiasts. For its price ($300 as of 12/09/2008), it could be better in some ways, but it is, at least, progressive.

Pros: Intuitive control-panel design Dual input trays; automatic duplexing

Cons: Expensive; odd colorings on plain paper Rattletrap rear input-tray design

Verdict: Ink costs are reasonable. The machine ships with standard-size cartridges: a 344-page pigment black (K), and 447-page photo gray, cyan (C), magenta (M), and yellow (Y). A replacement pigment black costs $13.99 (4.1 cents per page). The other colors ...

Review summary: WITH agonising slow speeds and print quality issues, the Canon PIXMA MP980 multifunction is a disappointing machine.

Pros: Ethernet connectivity, automatic duplexing, film negative and 35mm slide scanning, good scan quality

Cons: Agonisingly slow print speeds, some print quality issues

Verdict: Though the MP980 offers some decent features, its printing speeds and some quality issues make for a disappointing machine, particularly from Canon.

Pros: Ethernet connectivity, automatic duplexing, film negative and 35mm slide scanning, good scan quality

Cons: Agonisingly slow print speeds, some print quality issues

Verdict: Though the MP980 offers some decent features, its printing speeds and some quality issues make for a disappointing machine, particularly from Canon.