Canon PIXMA MP500 All-In-One Photo Printer & Sanner
With the versatile PIXMA MP500 Photo All-In-One on your desktop, you'll ask yourself how you ever got along without it. This amazing machine delivers an impressive resolution of up to 9600 x 2400 color dpi, for remarkable detail and clarity, using superfine ink delivery. Its 5-color ink system - four dye-based inks and a pigment-based black ink - produces true-life photos with a wide color palette, along with laser-quality text. You won't have to wait long to see your results; a beautiful photo lab quality 4"x 6" borderless photo takes approximately 51 seconds. AE (Auto Exposure) Copy feature automatically optimizes reproduction quality based on the type of original you're duplicating. When scanning photos or graphics, you'll see high-quality 1200-dpi reproduction with vibrant 48-bit color depth. With the large 2.5" color LCD viewer you can evaluate your images in beautiful color, then enhance them before printing! Just insert your compatible memory card into a built-in card slot and begin viewing. As needed, your images will automatically be enhanced for red eye, sharpness and brightness on your subjects' faces. Or, you can fine tune the images using the easy control panel. Dimension (W x D x H) - 17.7 x 16.8 x 8.1 / Weight 21.1 lbs Interfaces - USB 2.0 Hi-Speed (cable not included), IrDA 1.2 (JPEG only), Bluetooth v1.2 ( Optional BU20 accessory required)
Canon PIXMA MP500 All-In-One Photo Printer & Sanner Accessories
 Canon CLI-8 4-Color Multipack Ink Tanks
Canon PGI-5 BK 2-Pack Pigment Black Ink Tanks
Canon PGI-5 Pigment Black Ink Tank
Canon CLI-8Y Yellow Ink Tank
Canon CLI-8Bk Black Ink Tank
Canon CLI-8M Magenta Ink Tank
Canon CLI-8C Cyan Ink Tank
Canon PIXMA MP500 All-In-One Photo Printer & Sanner Reviews
For the amount of printing I do, mostly text and some pictures, it goes through ink pretty quickly given the number of pages actually printed. The reason how quickly the printer runs through ink is important goes beyond the obvious; everything in this all-in-one is connected to how much ink you have. If you don't have ink, you can't even scan. If one of them reads as empty it will not pull from the other to finish the job. I print a lot at work on my desk top printer, but I replace the ink cartridge more with this printer then I do the printer I have at work. This printer also has two black ink wells, and you have to have both black ink wells with ink in them to print. I bought this all-in-one over a year ago, so I've had sometime to wear this thing in.
- reasonably quick scanning. The scanner and the printer both worked flawlessly on both a Mac (Lepoard OSX) and a PC (XP) through USB connection. The scanner wouldn't work through Bluetooth - only the printer would. - build feels relatively sturdy.
- First print is somewhat slow (coming out of 'hibernation appears to take time). I turned this sucker into a bluetooth wireless printer by purchasing a $20 Kensington USB Bluetooth dongle. I haven't used the built in card reader or printed photos. - quiet. - drivers available online. - Couldn't get scanner working wirelessly (printing is fine).
Main Pros:. - $20 USB bluetooth dongle (non-Canon) turned this puppy into a wireless printer. - doesn't appear to be too much of an ink hog. I paid a ridiculously low $60 for this second hand and after a couple of months with it, I still give it a big thumbs up. - quite quick once it's up and running.
I can't speak for its color quality so I wont. I purchased this printer second hand and I am absolutely delighted with it. - You need to buy your USB cable separately.
Quiet as a mouse, clear crisp output, quite quick and altogether in a word, "great." I print almost completely in Grayscale simply because it saves money but the cartridges are not too pricey and I've found the machine most reliable. - footprint is larger than many scanning printers. Cons:.
(I had problems using a security code with Windows but not with Mac. I didn't get the Canon one ($50+) and it works fine regardless. - Works on Mac and PC.
In the end I decided I'd go without security).
Scans come out very clear, picture printing quality is impressive, and the ink cartridges won't break the bank. I bought this printer a couple of years ago, and have had no problems with it at all. I like that you can replace the ink tanks individually instead of having to replace all at once.
And that's just annually. The printer and scanner work just fine. You also cannot simply fill the cartridges because the ink tanks have a special chip on them to make sure you use the "right" ink tanks.Cannon.
So don't buy it unless you're printing mostly color photographs. So if you want to print black and white documents, you must spend $50 every 3 months for the color ink cartridges too. However, the color ink tanks either dry up quickly or you have to use them up quickly.
Basically, you spend 2-4x as much on Cannon ink tanks as you did for the printer. This would not be a problem except the color tanks must be in operation to print black and white.
When printing color it does not print a good quality color. So you lose all the way around. You can not turn it off. This is the biggest problem. Until that. Well the photo cartridges run out just printing black even when you indicate not color ink.
This could have been a decent product. Next, it runs out very very fast. STAY AWAY. The main reason I bought this printer was the duplex printing so I would not waste so much paper. That's right 5. But for the ink problems.
They should put some software together so you could not use the color cartridges just the one black. 4 cartridges cost 15.00 each and the second black costs 18.00. That's 78.00 a total refill. I print almost exclusively plain paper black text. First you need 5 cartridges.
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