A full quality 6x4in colour print on Canon's best Platinum Pro paper costs around 40p.Ĭolour and mono, prints and copies are as perfect as we have come to count on using this award-winning series of ink jet printers with well-defined text even at small-scale font sizes as well as vibrant, accurate colour on graphs and business illustrations.
Photograph prints are not extremely swift, however at about 49 seconds for each 6x4in print, you'll find few complaints. The MP990 includes a grey ink cartridge to produce magnificent accurate greyscale shading on black and white photographs.Ĭolour pictures also look surprisingly good, with vibrant hues, sharp detail and extremely subtle duplication of subtly gradated dark colours. The vast majority of current Pixma range calls for five ink cartridges - dye-based cyan, magenta, yellow and black for photograph printing, along with a pigmented black for razor-sharp document prints. These include wired and wireless networking, two 150-sheet paper trays, a colour display, memory card reader, Pictbridge port, CD printing tray and automatic duplexer. Nearly all of its other functions are shared with the more affordable Pixma MP640. It also has a backlight and transparency frame for negative scanning. The MP990 incorporates a CCD scanner, that has improved colour reproduction compared to CIS scanner engines in many MFPs, however it is also bulkier and more delicate. In contrast to most, Canon's Pixma MP990 is excellent in case your hobbies and interests involve good quality scanning and photo printing - for example design, photography or archiving traditional images. MFPs are generally made to sufficiently handle the essential printing and scanning duties of a normal home user.