The Canon Pixma MX330 is an inkjet all-in-one printer that is made for the small office at home plus company. There are no standalone ink tanks for this all-in-one, merely two cartridges, one colour the other black.
The black tank possesses a pigment-based ink whilst the colour tank is dye-based, in an effort to provide you with the best of both worlds; pigment intended for greater text quality, dye intended for better photo quality. Page yields are shown by Canon as 220 with regard to the black tank along with 244 with regard to the colour.
The MX330 has a 1200 x 2400 dpi scanner as well as an automated document feeder for batch scanning as well as copying, it will hold 30 sheets of A4. It's also capable of producing collated copies so you're able to put 2 or 4 on one page. You can put a memory stick in the front USB slot and thus scan straight to that in the event that you would like too.
There is a 1.8-inch Liquid crystal screen to help use the menus as well as make use of the unit: it's less space-consuming than a great many you will find on modern all-in-ones, yet it works. To add to the business facet of the Canon there is a 33.6kpps fax too.
With regards to style the Canon is inoffensive enough having a grey and black surface. The build quality is about the normal Canon quality additionally, the MX330 feels as though it's going to survive the rough and tumble of business office existence.
The lack of individual ink tanks and the auto document feeder as well as the fax, single the MX330 out as being a device targeted at those who do more with business documents than pictures. The test results reflected this also. Text quality is really healthy for an ink-based machine - it's up there with a few laser quality prints we have observed. Razor-sharp and strong text blocks are in evidence in normal as well as best modes and draft quality was spectacular. A page of draft text was out and ready to go in 9 seconds, and this is certainly not bad, however a page of best text was a bit slow at 1 minute 37 seconds. Hardly an age, however slower when compared with several of Canon's alternative all-in-ones.
Ten pages of graphics and text was slow as well at 6 minutes, though the quality more than made up for the period of time used. The quality of the combined text and graphics output was excellent so it's obvious exactly where this printer's skills lie.
Photographic overall performance was not as outstanding, but in no way terrible. An A4 picture took merely 1 minute and 42 seconds, and that is impressive, however the quality was more middle of the road. There was clearly deficiencies in fine detail within dark areas, nevertheless, colour was precise and in general the tone was decent. Should you only print the occasional shot then the Canon will probably be alright, but this is as far as we'd go.
The Canon Pixma MX330 is obviously targeted at those who are printing out more text and PDF documents than pictures and it's excellent at doing this using its two ink cartridges. At £80 it's superb value for money.
All round we were pleased by the Canon since it works efficiently, although pictures are not fantastic, it's not made for that thus we are able to let it go. For a small office all-in-one with a fax and auto document feeder, the Canon offers superb features and functionality for the price.
