Canon Wireless Printers

Wireless printers are getting very popular at home and at the office. Why is that? There are many advantages of having one. Let's say you want the printer in a centralised area in the house so your kids can have access to the printer. Instead of having them entering your personal office area to retrieve there printouts. Also, there won't be any long cables running all over the place. In this article I will explain how Canon wireless printers work.

Lets first go through a couple Canon printers.

Canon PIXMA MX870:

Not only can this printer use a Wi-Fi or optional Blue tooth, but has an exceptional resolution at 9600 x 2400 color DPI. and scans at 2400 x 4800 DPI. This is perfect for any home office. Has the ability to print out those special graph presentations and also those vacation pictures.

This printer also has a built in fax and has the ability to fax 100 coded speed dials.

It also has a 2.5 inch LCD display. You can easily view and edit the image without using your computer. I think that a nice feature.

It can use less paper because it has an option of printing on both sides without you manually turning the paper over. You can load paper on either the front or back of the printer.

Enjoy printing from your iPhone directly to your printer without the need of the computer. Whether you are running your business on a Mac or PC, this workhorse of a printer will meet all of your printing needs.

Canon PIXMA MP495:

Lets meet the Canon PIXMA MP495. It's a built in wireless printing and scanning machine. It is very compact and elegant looking printer. It has the HD movie print software that turns your HD movie clips from your Canon EOS digital SLR or Powershot cameras into fantastic pictures! The printing speed is more than adequate as it prints 5.7 PPM with regular text. This printer is best used for home printing.

Now lets investigate on how and what wireless is. Wireless local-area network is a wireless network that should be protected with an encryption code. This is called a Wi-Fi system. If not, some information can be leaked to your neighbors, as in credit card information and whatever is being downloaded can be charged to you. So as you can see it's very important that you use a code to protect yourself. With a wireless system there are no wires to trip over and it is very easy to connect it to all other computers in your network. You must use a router for a Wi-Fi to work.

Another wireless system is called Bluetooth. In this system you don't need any encryption code to protect it because it only uses momentary short bursts of energy to communicate to the other device. So the devices must be fairly close to each other, within lets say 30 feet.

Using Wi-Fi is a better choice if you are using more than two computers to communicate wirelessly. In this case you can share files, programs, printers, scanners, and other devices.

Canon Printer PIXMA MX870

Are you looking for one of the best home office printers on the market today? Well, the Canon printer PIXMA MX870 has many things to consider.

Not only that this printer is wireless and has a 2.5" LCD screen so you can view pictures that you are printing from the computer or camera, it can also print 2-sided documents without having to turn the paper over yourself. In this case you can save a lot of paper. To consider a home office printer there maybe a few things to look for. Is there a simple process to connect the printer to the computer? How is the print quality and can you print on both sides? How fast does it print? Is there a fax built in? These questions will be answered in this article.

The features to this printer are just amazing:

• Wireless
• Auto Duplex Printing
• 2 way paper feeding
• Easy web print
• 9600 x 2400 color dpi
• Fax
• Energy Star qualified

For this printer to be wireless there are obvious advantages. You can set the printer up almost anywhere and print and scan from any Wi-Fi computer. You can also use the Ethernet cable supplied so it can be connected to a home or office network.

With the auto duplex printing you are helping the environment keep green. This machine has the option to print on both sides without turning the paper over yourself. This saves time and paper.

Loading paper is a snap. It can be loaded either from the front cassette or from the rear tray.

Printing got so much easier from the web. With the program that comes with this printer you can choose exactly what and how to print from the web. You can crop out whatever you want, directly off the web and print pictures from different web sites on one paper.

With the excellent resolution of 9600 x 2400 maximum color dpi this would be outstanding for any documents or pictures.

The G3 fax from Canon is capable to send letters, documents, pictures, and information to other fax machines. With the G3 fax it enhance the fax by recognizing over 250 shades of grey. So the fax is super detailed. You can also fax to a multiple of different places at the same time.

And of course it is energy efficient.

The print speed for plain text pages were about 6.5 pages per minute. Color pages averaged around 2 pages per minute. The PIXMA MX870 is designed to use 4 colors in separate ink cartridges which in turn reduces the cost of the ink. The colors come in black,cyan, yellow, and magenta.

The Canon printer PIXMA MX870 has great performance and great features for the price.

Printer Reviews - The Top 3 Printers For a Home Office

For business owners, there's one office equipment you will not do without, and that's a good printer. Currently there are 3 home office all-in-one printers from Canon. These are my printer reviews - the top 3 printers for a home office. Sometimes it's not easy to pick the best office printer. Do you want one to have a fax or not? Is print speed, and energy efficiency important? For me it's nice to have a fax built in with my printer. In my opinion this is what makes an office printer. The Canon PIXMA MX870, MX350, and the MX340 are all very good wireless printers. You can set them up almost anywhere so everyone has access to them. Each of these printers needs a code to access the editing and printing of PDF files.

Here is the breakdown on all 3 printers.

Canon Printer PIXMA MX870:

The resolution is brilliant at 9600 x 2400 color dpi. Great for business documents and photos. It also has an independent ink system which works with 4 dye based inks including black ink. With the independent ink system you can replace only the ink that runs out which saves money. It has an advantage of printing and copying on both sides of the paper without you turning the paper over. This definitely saves time and plenty of paper. Another cool thing is that there is a 2 way paper feeder. You can load paper on either the front or back of the printer. The printing speed I think is a little slow. It takes 30 - 40 seconds for the first page to print and 1 minute for 3.5 pages overall to print. What I didn't like was the lag time between pages.

Canon printer PIXMA MX350:

The resolution for this printer is terrific at 4800 x 12006 color dpi. Canon uses what they call a Full-photolithography Inkjet Nozzle Engineering. It's great for document and photo printing. It uses 2 ink cartridges. One is a black cartridge for detailed quality text. The other, a multi color cartridge. Both are very easy to replace. When you upload your pictures, the printer automatically categorizes the images into 5 styles. If any of the images were under exposed the printer has an option of automatically correcting the images. The print speed for this printer was pretty good at 5.7 pages per minute.

Canon printer PIXMA MX340:

This printer has the same terrific resolution as the MX350 at 4800 x 12006 color dpi. Which also uses the Canon Full-photolithography Inkjet Nozzle Engineering. At 5.8 pages per minute, this printer is the fastest. What all three have in common are these. 

• Built-In Wireless
• Built-in Ethernet
• Super G3 Fax
• USB 2.0 Hi-Speed
• Energy Star Qualified

Depending on what you are looking for, a good start up office printer that I would consider would either be the MX350 or the MX340. Both of these have fast printing speeds with great resolution with about a $15 difference. The MX870 has the best resolution overall. If you are printing many multi color graphs for presentations this one may be for you. The ink will come out to be cheaper in the long run.

Canon Printer PIXMA MX340

I have been looking for a printer for about a month and came across a wireless printer. It's the Canon printer PIXMA MX340. I wasn't even looking to get a wireless printer, but there are advantages. I do have 3 children ranging from 14 to 22 years of age and having the printer in a more centralized location works the best for all. What I thought was real neat was that you could print the pictures directly from your cell phone. With this workhorse of a printer the price was less than $80.00.

Design

The design to this printer is very sleek. The LCD display and the rest of the controls are on the top front of the unit and is easily read. The output tray can be closed when not in use. When it begins to print it can automatically open up so the paper can come out. The rear tray can have different paper sizes including 4x6 photo, 8x10 photo, letter, legal and envelopes.

Set up

After the printer out of the box it probably took me about 30 minutes get the printer running. Word of caution, do not read the user manual. I am one of those guys that actually love reading manuals. But this manual does get a bit confusing. After reading it about 3 times you will get the hang of it. Best bet is throw in the DVD and go with that. DVD is a step by step guide which is a snap to go through.

Print speed

I like the print speed. The first page always takes the longest. I'm not sure why this is the case. After the first page the rest of the printed pages are of normal speed. What I like about the printing, it has a draft print selection which I think doesn't change the printing speed but uses less ink. For the first page, the print speed is about 14 seconds for black and white and 16 seconds for color. After the first page, it goes into a fast print speed, printing 8 ppm, and 5 ppm for color.

Fax

Faxing was easy, just plug the telephone cord to the back of the printer. You have a way to switch it to fax only or to use it as a phone only.

Energy test

This Canon printer PIXMA MX340 is also Energy Star qualified. It uses anywhere from 10 to 15 watts of power comparing to around 30 watts from a non energy efficient printer. In sleep mode it uses only 3 watts.