Canon Pixma MP230 Ink Cartridges

Canon Pixma MP230 Printer Description

As a stylish all-in-one, the Canon Pixma MP230 is able to print, copy and scan.

Ideal for carrying out those tasks on a daily basis, this machine benefits from the added convenience of a FINE ink cartridge system. Productivity, when it comes to your home printing, will be improved by print speeds of 7.0ipm for mono and 4.8ipm for colour. Incidentally, an A4 colour scan will take around 14 seconds and an A4 colour document can be copied in approximately 30 seconds.

Representing a cost saving for customers, high yield cartridges are compatible with this machine making your printing go further. These high capacity cartridges can be ideal for those who print on a regular basis. Meanwhile, the FINE print head technology used in the MP230 will deliver a print resolution of 4800dpi.

Whether you’re looking to print or scan photographs, this printer has a toolbox setting that allows you to print and scan pictures with ease. Using photo organising capabilities that include face recognition, users will be able to find long forgotten photos on their PC and create new designs.

For those who wish to print directly from Facebook, there is the Print Your Days app which can help you create collages of images taken from the social media site. The ease at which you can print from the web also extends to taking sections from various web pages and placing them on one page. This is due to Canon’s Easy-WebPrint EX feature which is an Internet Explorer plugin that can cut down on your waste paper usage.

Energy savings can also be made thanks to the Auto Power Off feature that will turn the printer off after not being used after a certain time. Auto Power On will see the device ready to print just seconds after being powered on.

Canon Pixma MP230 Expert Review

The Canon Pixma MP230 All-in-One Colour Printer provides printing, scanning, and copying features while taking up little space on the desk.

This stylish printer uses Canon’s FINE printing technology to create documents and photos in resolutions up to 4800dpi. It is rated for speeds of up to 7 pages per minute in monochrome and 4.8 pages per minute in full colour and it can print a borderless photo within 30 seconds. The FINE print heads use less than two pixels of ink to create vivid prints without draining a cartridge. The MP230 has built-in wireless so users can print directly from PCs, laptops, smart phones, and tablets. They can also scan images to any of these devices directly from the printer. Canon’s Print Your Days app allows for instant printing from Facebook, while as an added bonus, Easy-Web Print EX software lets users print parts of different web pages or even take different sections of different pages and print them as a single document.

The printer also comes with Canon’s My Image Garden. This software gives users the ability to quickly and easily edit photos, print them, organise them and share them online and with others which will be excellent news for photo enthusiasts. Photos are automatically laid out for the best printing and face recognition software can be used to automatically group photos of the same person.

Pros

• Sleak design has a very small foot print
• Prints are of good quality and don’t take long to produce
• Very easy to set up
• Scanner produces very high quality scans in a fairly short amount of time
• Included software is very user-friendly and useful

Cons

• Does not include a USB cable
• No LCD screen
• Uses a fair amount of ink
• Only uses two ink cartridges, so some ink will be wasted when replacing the colour
• Printer requires both ink cartridges to be in the printer before it will do anything

Star Rating: 4