Canon PIXMA iX7000 Inkjet Business Printer

The Canon Pixma iX7000 Inkjet Business Printer ($399.99 direct) may be the third inkjet printer I present in days gone by almost a year that will print on tabloid (11- by 17-inch) or larger-size paper and it is aimed tightly at small offices—particularly small and house workplaces. Alongside the Epson WorkForce 1100 ($199.99 direct, ) and HP Officejet 7000 open Format Printer ($229.99 direct, ), it signifies a newfound interest for these three manufacturers in supplying spending plan tabloid printers appropriate a tiny company with limited funds.

The Canon printer is considered the most pricey associated with three, but additionally the main one utilizing the fewest compromises. It is 2nd into the HP printer for speed, and second towards the Epson printer for production quality, not by much in any case. Regarding the positive side, it provides an Ethernet connector, which the Epson printer lacks, also it outshines both the HP and Epson printers about paper management.

The iX7000 could be the one associated with the three that features a duplexer for automated publishing on both sides of a page. Additionally it is the only person with a 250-sheet report tray (the HP printer keeps 150 sheets, the Epson printer only 100), and the only 1 with more than one tray, to load more than one kind or size of paper at a time.

Three Trays
Actually, the iX7000 offers three trays, that is two a lot more than either associated with other printers. But I have to be mindful here to not oversell the paper maneuvering, because there are crucial limits and uncommon compromises. The three trays consist of a 250-sheet cassette right in front and a 10-sheet handbook feed tray only above it. (It's a manual feed tray rather than a multipurpose tray, because if you load paper with it, you can't print from cassette.) Both cassette and handbook feed tray are restricted to simple paper.

Also, there is a tray inside back which is created strictly for picture paper and envelopes. Depending on the size and sort of the picture paper, the tray usually takes 1, 10, or 20 sheets. Alternatively—and of more use within most offices—it holds 10 envelopes. Note too that even though the back tray can hold photo report as huge as 13 by 19 inches, leading trays can print written down around only tabloid size (11 by 17 ins) and A3 dimensions (11.7 by 16.5 ins).

Having three trays would be much more of good use in the event that you could load an acceptable few sheets of letter-size basic report in one single tray and tabloid-size report in the other. That could allow you to have both sizes of report available at all times, while could then make use of the manual feed tray for envelopes as needed.

Even as its, however, obtaining the three trays lets you hold, state, letter-size report in the cassette, envelopes in back tray, and load a couple of sheets of tabloid-size paper in handbook feed tray as needed. That's a substantial convenience in contrast to being forced to examine what report is within the tray every time you printing then possibly the need to swap out the report within the tray.

Setup
Installing the iX7000 on a community is strange compared to many printers—including other recent Canon printers. It uses Canon's older network setup treatment, which makes you to connect by USB cable within the setup. This means you need to find sufficient level space near a pc even though you plan to place the printer on the other side associated with the company from closest Computer.

For a printer the size of the iX7000—10.2 by 25.5 by 20.4 ins (HWD)—finding the area is difficult, and that is over the job of experiencing to maneuver a 43.7 pound printer around. Really, at the very least the USB cable (although not the network cable) includes the printer, which means you'll end up with an extra USB cable when you are done.

Actual setup is mostly standard fare. Set the printer set up, load report, connect the energy cable, and change the printer on. Then install the printing mind and five ink cartridges—for cyan, yellow, magenta, and two black colored inks—one for text and one for pictures. Also, you have to install just what Canon relates to as a clear ink container, it is in fact an undercoating for printing on plain report using five other inks. The clear undercoat tends to make colors more vibrant along with liquid and smudge resistant.

For setting up on a network, you then operate the automatic set up routine from disk, and follow the directions on display. I installed the printer on a system working Microsoft windows Vista, but according to Canon moreover it is sold with motorists for Microsoft windows 7, XP, 2000, and Mac OS X v10.2.8 through 10.6.

Speed and Result High Quality
The iX7000's speed qualifies as sensibly quick but absolutely nothing unique. We timed it on our business applications suite at a complete of 12 minutes 21 seconds, which will be about midway between your HP Officejet 7000's 11:15 and also the Epson WorkForce 1100's 13:49. As a practical matter, the three printers tend to be close adequate in rate for business applications in order to make little useful distinction. If you are thinking about printing photographs, however, it's really worth mention your iX7000 may be the fastest into the team for photographs, averaging 1:06 for a 4-by-6 and 2:05 for an 8-by-10.

Result high quality for iX7000 generally speaking counts as a bonus with typical inkjet text quality, slightly a lot better than par photo quality, and notably a lot better than par photos.

On our text tests, more than half regarding the fonts within test collection qualified as both effortlessly readable and well formed at 6 points. The sole fonts that required a lot more than 8 things to pass both tests had been highly stylized, with dense strokes. Edges were not since sharp as you would anticipate from a laser, but until you have an unusual significance of tiny fonts or need a printer for high-quality desktop publishing, you should not have any difficulties with the written text for company reasons.

Graphics high quality was significantly more than adequate for any internal business usage. The only issue I saw that's well worth mention had been a small habit of lose thin lines. Even with thin outlines, but the iX7000 did a more satisfactory job than many printers. Steer clear of thin lines & most folks would judge the production as good adequate for marketing materials, thanks in huge component to its radiant colors and water resistance. Images within test suite competent as true picture high quality, a cut above drugstore photos. These were undoubtedly good enough for company need.