Canon MX340 printer ink cartridges

The Canon Pixma MX340 multifunction inkjet printer uses a black ink cartridge and a tri-colour ink cartridge, the printer is shipped with low capacity cartridges and for lower printing costs we recommend purchasing the high yield PG512 black ink cartridge and the CL513 colour cartridge.

 Canon Pixma MX340 Printer Review

Canon's newest PIXMA is a 4-in-1 printer (print, scan, copy and fax) available for less than £90.

Like a lot of the recent PIXMA devices, the compact MX340 is nicely fabricated in cream and black, and with the in and out trays shut it won't occupy much room on a cabinet, measuring 458 x 415 x 198mm and weighing around 8.6kg, which certainly will not put your back out whenever lifting it into location.

This is clearly intended to become a small business, light use printer intended for workplaces that don't need to generate huge quantities of documents. On top there is a valuable automatic document feeder which in turn is for up to 30 sheets additionally, the principal input tray at the rear keeps at the most 100 sheets. The control panel below the ADF provides big, plainly labelled buttons furthermore printing details may be issued directly, via the mono, two-line Liquid crystal display menus or by way of the provided software on your personal computer.

Even though there's no media card reader, a USB 2. port is available near the output tray for servicing flash cards or PictBridge camera transfers. Maybe unpredictably with this price group, the MX340 has Wi-Fi in addition to an Ethernet connection, although setting up the Wi-Fi link calls for a LAN cable to get you started. The manual is available as a hard copy and is likewise included on the available setting up disk along with Canon's regular set of MP Navigator and Easy-PhotoPrint software.

With regards to print speed, Canon's promises tend to be more precise compared to the vast majority. Black text documents of draft quality managed 7ppm (in contrast to the stated 8.4ppm), although this falls to 2ppm at high quality. 10 x 15cm pictures emerged spot-on the advocated 43 seconds and even the finest quality attained a good 1 minute 20 seconds. A4 sized pictures took just 1 minute 50 seconds at the standard level, rising to 3 minutes 35 seconds at best, furthermore A4 copies zoomed out in 55 seconds.

Even though the MX340's performance in general is outstanding (the highest resolution is 4800 x 1200dpi), Canon PIXMA MX340 printer ink cartridge usage and print quality are far less stunning. Unlike a number of other All-in-Ones, you will find only two ink cartridges: black, which is pigment based, along with a dye based colour cartridge which combines colours to create black on non-text output.

Black text documents are crystal clear, sharp and bold yet pictures have a clearly yellow tone and copies emerge noticeably more dark as opposed to originals. Additionally, the supplied black cartridge only has a 220 page life, plus the colour offers 244 pages, thus you'll probably need to make investments in more costly high-yield, but better value, alternate options.

Small businesses trying to find an easily affordable all-in-one printer inclusive of fax ability will probably be bowled over by the PIXMA MX340's versatility, Wi-Fi connection and speed of operation, though its ink utilization is costly and its colour quality variable.