Canon PIXMA MX721 Review - Bring superior quality and many wireless capabilities to your home office with the Canon PIXMA MX721. This printer has built-in WiFi for printing and scanning virtually anywhere in your home. It also includes AirPrint, which lets you wirelessly print from your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch devices.
Cloud printing capabilities, an integrated 35-sheet Duplex Auto Document Feeder and Dual Function Panel are just some of the features that can allow you to multi-task easily. The Canon PIXMA MX721 also has a new high-capacity 250-sheet plain paper cassette so you can focus on your work and not running out of paper!
This can bring office efficiency to all-new levels and help reduce costs at the same time. Superior 9600 x 2400 maximum colour dpi and 5 individual ink tanks means incredible business document printing and efficiency with the option of a high yield pigment black ink tank to print more documents without changing the pigment black ink as often.
The Canon PIXMA MX721 also allows you to turn your office into a photo lab. Print professional looking, borderless photos up to "8.5 x 11" in size. With My Image Garden software make organizing and printing your photos fun and easy with great facial recognition, Fun Filters, Calendar Organization, Automatic Layout Suggestions, and more. The Canon PIXMA MX721 delivers outstanding business imaging quality and versatile solutions that will assist in bringing your home business to the next level.
Canon PIXMA MX721 Features:
Speed & Quality
- Extraordinary Resolution: 9600 x 2400 maximum colour dpi produces incredible quality and detail in both your business documents and photos.
- High Performance Individual Ink System: This 5-colour ink system consists of a pigment-based black ink, and four dye-based inks for business-quality text, colourful presentations and documents, as well as beautiful photos. Only replace the colour ink tank that runs out.
- Beautiful, Borderless Photos Fast: Print a borderless, "4 x 6" photo in approximately 21 seconds.
- ChromaLife100+: This system combines enhanced FINE print head technology with select genuine Canon photo papers and inks for beautiful borderless photos that will last up to 300 years when stored in an archival-quality photo album.
Ease of Use
- My Image Garden: My Image Garden software makes organizing and printing your photos fun and easy with great facial recognition, Fun Filters, Calendar Organization, Automatic Layout Suggestions, and so much more!
- Dual Function Panel: This streamlined control panel provides useful function buttons that transform into a keypad in fax mode for easier operation.
- Fully-Integrated, 35-sheet Duplex Auto Document Feeder: Easily copy, scan, and fax multiple documents without having to load them one page at a time. Enjoy full integration so the printer can better fit in tight workspace areas as well as automatic two-sided copying and scanning.
- Built-In Auto Duplex Printing: Automatically print on both sides of the page without the hassle of turning it over manually. This can reduce your paper consumption and cost by up to 50%.
- Full HD Movie Print: Full HD Movie Print software turns your favorite HD movie clips captured with compatible Canon EOS Digital SLR, PowerShot cameras or VIXIA camcorders into beautiful prints.
- 2.5" LCD: Easily view, select and edit your images for simple computer-free printing. No downloading needed, just choose your picture and print!
- Auto Scan Mode: With one press of the Scan button your original is automatically recognized and saved in the correct format.
- Auto Document Fix: This built-in software automatically analyzes and corrects both text and image documents so text will remain clear and easy to read with pronounced edges, and pictures will keep their true colour with highlights, shadows, and dots being smoothed out.
- Quick Start: After pressing the power button you can begin inputting commands in mere seconds so full operation is possible in a much shorter time.
- Auto Photo Fix II: This built-in technology automatically categorizes your images into one of five types Portrait, Scenery, Night Scenery, Snapshot with Scenery, and Snapshot with Night Scenery then applies optimal image and multi-zone exposure correction. So, unexposed areas of the photo will be optimized, area by area and faces that are backlit and under-exposed will automatically be brightened with correct colour cast to help ensure more accurate skin tones for gorgeous images.
- Advanced Media Handling: Allows you to load plain and photo paper at the same time so you are always ready to print.
- Evernote: Quickly and easily scan your documents and papers from your printer or scanner. Evernote will make your documents searchable, so you can always find what you need at anytime, on any device.
Connectivity
- Built-In Wireless: Print and scan wirelessly from any Wi-Fi enabled computer around the house.
- AirPrint: Wirelessly print photos, emails, web pages, documents and more from compatible iPad, iPhone or iPod touch devices to a compatible Canon PIXMA Wireless All-In-One. There's no software to download, no drivers to install, and no cables to connect. Just see it, tap it, and print it!
- Google Cloud Print: Allows users to print from Gmail and Google Docs on a mobile device, and from Google Chrome browser for Mac, Windows, Linux, and Chrome devices. With Google Cloud Print, you can print from wherever you are, from applications you use every day. You can even share your home and work printers with anyone you choose.
- PIXMA Cloud Link: Download and print office templates like stationary, check lists, calendars, memos, envelopes and more right to your PIXMA, without a computer. Also print photos from the online photo album sections of Canon image Gateway and Google Picasa.
- Built-in Ethernet: This wired LAN interface lets you connect to a home or office network, with connected computers able to share printer functions and display the printer's status at any moment.
- Super G3 Fax: The high speed business fax standard for color and PC facsimiles on plain paper meets the home office workhorse with 100 coded speed dials and up to 250 incoming pages.
- Mobile Device Printing: The free EasyPhoto-Print app lets you wirelessly print and scan jpg and pdf files from compatible iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and Android devices.
- USB 2.0 Hi-Speed: Plug the cable into your PC for a super-fast connection for your data transfers.
Canon PIXMA MX721 Specifications:
Printer
- Print Speed (up to): "4 x 6" Borderless Photo: Approx. 21 seconds
- Print Speed (Approx): Black: ESAT: 15.0 ipm, Colour: ESAT: 10.0 ipm
- Number of Nozzles: Black: 1024, Colour: 4,096=Total: 5,120
- Picoliter Size (colour): 1,2 and 5
- Print Resolution (Up to): Colour:Up to 9600 x 2400 dpi, Black:Up to 600 x 600 dpi
- Ink Compatibility: PGI-255 PGBK XXL XXL Pigment Black, PGI-250 PGBK XL XL Pigment Black, CLI-251 C XL XL Cyan, CLI-251 M XL XL Magenta, CLI-251 Y XL XL Yellow, CLI-251 BK XL XL Black, PGI-250 PGBK Pigment Black, CLI-251 C Cyan, CLI-251 M Magenta, CLI-251 Y Yellow, CLI-251 BK Black
- Paper Sizes: 4" x 6", 5" x 7", 8" x 10", Letter, Legal, U.S. #10 Envelopes
- Automatic Sheet Feeder: ADF: 35 Sheets 10 Sheets Photo Paper "5 x 7"
- Paper Compatibility: Plain: Plain Paper, High Resolution Paper, Super High Gloss: Photo Paper Pro Platinum, Glossy: Photo Paper Plus Glossy II, Photo Paper Glossy, Semi-Gloss: Photo Paper Plus Semi-Gloss, Matte: Matte Photo Paper, Envelope: U.S. #10 Envelope
- Printer Features: AirPrint, Auto Duplex Print, Auto Sheet Feeder, Borderless Printing, Dual Function Panel, Document Printing, Full HD Movie Print, Google Cloud Print, Photo Printing, Template Print, Evernote.
- Output Tray Capacity: Lower Cassette: 250 Sheets Plain Paper Upper Cassette: 20 Sheets Photo Paper "4 x 6"
Copier
- Copy Speed (up to): ESAT: Colour: 8.4 ipm
- Reduction / Enlargement: 25% - 400%
- Copy Features: Auto Duplex Document Feeder, AE (Auto Exposure / Intensity) copy, Auto Duplex Copy, Borderless, Fit-to-Page, Gutter Shadow Correction Copy, Image Repeat, Intensity, Multiple Copy: 1-99 pages, Preset Copy, Ratios, Reserve Copy, Sort (ADF), Zoom
Scanner
- Scanning Element: Contact Image Sensor (CIS)
- Max. Resolutions: Optical: 2400x4800 dpi, Interpolated: 19,200x19,200 dpi, ADF: 600x600 dpi (Optical)
- Scanner Features: Auto Document Fix, Auto Duplex Scan, Auto Scan Mode9, Network Scan, Push Scan, Scan to Memory
- Colour Depth: 48-bit internal/24-bit external
- Max. Document Size: Flatbed: "8.5 x 11.7", ADF: "8.5 x 14"
Fax
- Modem Speed: 33.6 Kbps (Super G3 colour FAX)
- Transmission Speed (approx.): Black: Approx. 3 sec per page, Colour: Approx. 1 min per page.
- Memory Capacity: Approx. 250 Pages
- Speed Dialing: 100 Locations
- Fax Features: Answering Machine Connectivity, Caller Rejection, Check RX Fax Info., Fax Reception Reject, Fax Number Re-Entry, F/T Changing(manual), Group Dialing, Memory Transmission, Redial, Remote Reception.
General
- Other Features: AirPrint, Google Cloud Print3, Wireless Printing1, 3.0" LCD, Dual Function Panel, Dual Colour Gamut Processing Technology, Ethernet, Full HD Movie Print, Fully Integrated Auto Duplex ADF, PictBridge (Wireless LAN), Mobile Device Printing, Quick Start, PIXMA Cloud Link.
- OS Compatibility: Windows 8, Windows RT, Windows 7, Windows 7 SP1, Windows Vista SP1, Vista SP2, Windows XP SP3 32-bit
- Mac OS X v10.6.8, 10.7, 10.8.
- Standard Interface: Wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11b/g/n), Ethernet, USB 2.0 Hi-Speed, PictBridge (Wireless LAN), Bluetooth v2.0 (Optional)
- Dimension (W x D x H): 19.4" (W) x 15.6" (D) x 9.1" (H)
- Weight: 25.7 lbs
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