Canon PIXMA Mx850 - Expert Reviews

Review summary: The Canon Pixma MX850 is Canon's all-in-one scanner, copier, fax machine, and inkjet printer built for the small office or home office.

Verdict: Canon touts the Canon Pixma MX850 as a multifunction powerhouse, and it's worthy of such a description. On top of being fast, easy to use, and excellent at outputting documents and photos, the MX850 includes features such as a duplexer and an ...

Review summary: The Pixma MX850 is Canon's all-in-one scanner, copier, fax machine, and ink-jet printer built for the small office or home office. The MX850 prints impressively crisp, legible text that's comparable to laser quality. Add to that speedy performance, ...

Pros: Speedy ; user-friendly ; superior text quality comparable to lasers ; includes duplexer and automatic document feeder

Cons: Scan resolution is slightly fuzzy and jagged ; some colors look muted in scan output

Verdict: The MX850 is a bit bulky, at 31 pounds, but it sets up in a snap. The printer uses a five-color ink system, which includes the four traditional dye-based colors (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black) and a special pigment-based black to achieve ...

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Review summary: The Canon Pixma MX850 delivers all the right features for a small office, home office, or home use.

Pros: Fast performance. Automatic document feeder. Network connector. Standalone copier and fax.

Cons: Unusual approach to network setup. Full-page graphics tend to make plain paper curl.

Verdict: Equally capable at home and office tasks, the Canon Pixma MX850 is a good fit for the home or small office, or in the dual role of home and home-office all-in-one.

Review summary: The MX850 had its ups in the tray, menu and fax departments. Canon offers dual input trays with the MX850 and also three choices on how you'd prefer to use them, which makes it easy to switch from one paper type to another. The navigation on the unit ...

Verdict: Overall, the Canon MX850 had only lackluster photo print quality, but it had decent speed and did a decent job on printing to plain paper. And while it has a great selection of features, it's a tad pricey for its performance results and in comparison ...

Review summary: The Canon MX850 inkjet printer is an all-in-one device, capable of copying, printing from memory card and PC, faxing and scanning. This hefty (at 30.7 lbs) multifunction device is aimed at the home office user who wants it all, but in one device. As ...

Verdict: Outside of being a hefty printer for weighing in at just over 30lbs and taking up nearly half a standard size desk, the downfall of the printer comes with its black and white photo prints and the annoying banding it leaves behind. Even after cleaning ...