Canon Pixma MP600

It’s a funny thing with domestic inkjet printers but they seem to be just a vehicle for selling over-priced replacement cartridges. There are options to buy unbranded or recycled cartridges but I’ve had mixed results with these so tend to stick with the manufacturers products. My venerable HP Officejet 6100 was approaching four years old (and that is venerable in PC terms) and all three ink cartridges were running out at the same time. To replace them all would have cost in excess of £60 so I thought for a few extra quid I might as well get a new printer. My old HP was a three way multi-function device that printed, scanned and faxed. It also copied ...  Read the complete review

This is a good printer for home and small home business use. I have had mine as my main printer for a year or so, and although I wouldn't be without a spare printer for emergencies, the Pixma MP600 is everything I need. It's easy to use and prints high quality documents and images. The scanner is great quality and will scan colour documents at up to 600 dpi, which gives great quality for any document. It's also a great little photocopier - you don't have to turn the pc on to use it as a photocopier, and it's fast in colour and black & white. Ink cartridges are expensive, so shop around. I've always used the genuine canon ...  Read the complete review

Bought this printer a few years ago, I wanted a device that would scan, photo copy, print documents and photos. The device uses 5 ink cartridges Big black for mono printing, then yellow, blue , red and wee black for colour and photo printing. This prevents the printer using all three colours to print black. Cartridges are reasonable at around £8 and I only need to change one at time every other month. One issue was the ICs on the cartridges, after a certain number of prints, it flags that is need to be replaced. The printer will warn for a few more prints then it will stop printing until the cartridge is replaced. This is very frustrating as you ...  Read the complete review

I was very unhappy with this printer. I am an architecture student so therefore need a high quality printer for my images. I bought this printer and because it was very expensive and apparently highly rated I thought I could rely on it. I have many issues with this printer and they include: initially VERY expensive printing ink. The printing ink runs out very quickly and needs to be replaced often so in the long term you are spending more money on the printing. The printer is quite slow and also I found that it produced very streaky images. It is extremely easy to drop things down the paper feed, and this has resulted in many blockages. I think that the paper feed should ...  Read the complete review