In our beforehand reviews we mentioned how single-function accessories like printers haven’t absolutely fabricated a mark as far as innovation, development and end-user acquaintance is concerned. As compared to SFD's, multi action accessories cover printing, scanning and copying-all into one individual accessory and that does accommodate added functionality. But, added generally than not it comes at the amount of a arresting user acquaintance and a apparent bead in quality. However, Canon does try to breach that mindset with their new Pixma MG8170. But, is this multi action printer account your money? Read on to acquisition out.
Design and Build Quality
The Canon Pixma MG8170 is by no agency small. It weighs a massive 10.7kg and is hardly bigger than the admeasurement of the accepted desktop printer. It comes in a bright atramentous architecture and looks absolutely stylish. However, as with all bright designs, this one too admiring a lot of fingerprints and abrading them off was a above problem. The inkjet printer cum copier cum scanner has a accomplished bulk of panels that accessible out absolute the scanner and armament slot. The ancillary console includes the MS Duo, SD MS and Compact Flash agenda slots forth with a USB aperture underneath. The adjustment of the USB aperture could accept been bigger as accessories beyond in admeasurement ability accept a botheration applicable in.
The top of the 8170 includes the LCD awning and the blow panel. The blow console has the directional pad, home and acknowledgment button, ‘+’ and ‘-’ button for allotment the amount of prints, the book button – with colour and atramentous printout advantage – and three buttons for selecting the menu. From the looks of it, this initially sounds a little ambagious and ability accept a abrupt acquirements ambit but with the antecedent few button presses, or rather ‘touches’, you’ll get the exact action of all the options that are on the blow panel. The aback contains the ability slot, printer aperture and LAN anchorage for arrangement printer. Overall, the Pixma 8170 sports a accurate architecture but the bright exoteric may blemish the attending of the accessory in just a few canicule of usage.
Features
The 8170 has a best press resolution of 9600 x 2400 dpi. It has 5 cartridges in Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black and Gray colours. Both the foreground as able-bodied as the rear trays are accessible for cardboard accumulator and the printer can handle up to 150 pages at a time. It aswell has a flatbed scanner that allows users to browse abstracts and images at an optical resolution of 4800 x 4800 dpi. Network printing, active and wireless and USB press is accurate as well. As allotment of the features, the 8170 includes 2-on-1, 4-on-1, bifold press and press from endure page forth with accepted options like borderless, grayscale, fast, accepted and top superior printing. The cardboard antecedent can be called as able-bodied with the afterward options - rear tray, cardboard allocation or auto select. Canon has arranged in the all-important software and drivers for this device. They aren’t absolutely user affable but do plan as mentioned, namely, the built-in scanning, artful and fax software.
User Interface
We don’t about put a user interface area for printers, but the UI of the Pixma absolutely deserves a aces mention. Firstly, the blow buttons are acutely bland and accept a ablaze calamus acknowledgment which is allotment of the absolute experience. The user interface is blithely simple as able-bodied with icons for copy, photo, scan, photo reprint, fun photo print, accelerate show, certificate print, appropriate print, setup.
The icons are cocky allegorical and the fun photo book advantage in accurate is absolutely interesting. Users can adhesive a few presets to their photographs and again book them out. The slideshow advantage will not be absolutely advantageous but is included nonetheless. Also, the printer has an advantage of chain printing, which allows users to admission the card and adjustment added prints or copies while the printer is press the beforehand document. This absolutely helps save time if users aren’t press via the PC as they do not accept to delay for the beforehand book to get over, to alpha off with the next one.
Performance
When we initially set up the printer, armament accession took about 5 account as the user has to manually unclip and install the 5 cartridges in the slot. The printer has an boilerplate cat-and-mouse time of 5 abnormal if bare for over two minutes, which is not bad at all. To barometer the achievement we put it through a few tests. For printing, we put it through four analysis standards in both fast and top modes - argument only, a PDF certificate with argument and images, a complete angel printout (on accustomed and bright paper) and argument with altered chantry sizes. Below are the allegation of the tests we agitated out.
Post warmup time delay, the argument page took ten abnormal to book in the fast approach and fifteen abnormal in the top mode. The argument certificate with altered chantry sizes took 12 abnormal in the fast approach and 17 abnormal in the top mode. PDF certificate press was a little apathetic at 46 abnormal in the fast approach and 73 abnormal in top mode. Photo press took 122 abnormal on accustomed cardboard and 135 abnormal on bright paper.
There is a slight aberration in colour assimilation amid both the modes; acutely tiny colour blotting is present whilst press in the top approach and a few asperous edges can be apparent in the fast mode. Vertical amalgamation is apparent in the fast approach printouts for darker images. Photo prints on bright cardboard had a few blots and a few images had a few white atom babble on them. Photo prints on the accustomed approach attending a lot bigger than those on the bright cardboard which is a disadvantage for those absent to use the printer for photo printing. That said, they don't attending too bad either and the printer can be acclimated sparingly for photo prints.
Besides the accepted tests, we undertook the active connection, wireless, USB printing, and scanning analysis and afterward are the timings for the same.
Printing via a active affiliation took 26 abnormal and press via the wireless affiliation took the aforementioned time. The alone botheration is that printer drivers charge to be installed on the computer that wants to affix to the printer. USB photo press took 88 seconds. The scanner can save scanned images to the PC, the USB drive, and anamnesis cards; however, our alien harder drive was not supported. Scanning at 600 dpi took nine abnormal while scanning at 300 dpi took eight seconds.
Verdict
The Canon Pixma MG8170 is currently affairs at a amount of Rs. 19,250. That’s the alone downside about this product. It has a bulk of features, the achievement was quick, and the acquaintance was seamless as well. Bluetooth is missing and the superior for images could accept been a tad better, but the Canon Pixma MG8170 prints at a acceptable acceleration and book superior is acutely acceptable as well. Add to it the user interface and it makes press an agreeable experience. If account is not a criteria, again the Pixma MG8170 is absolutely a acceptable buy.
 The LCD panel sits atop the printer |
Design and Build Quality
The Canon Pixma MG8170 is by no agency small. It weighs a massive 10.7kg and is hardly bigger than the admeasurement of the accepted desktop printer. It comes in a bright atramentous architecture and looks absolutely stylish. However, as with all bright designs, this one too admiring a lot of fingerprints and abrading them off was a above problem. The inkjet printer cum copier cum scanner has a accomplished bulk of panels that accessible out absolute the scanner and armament slot. The ancillary console includes the MS Duo, SD MS and Compact Flash agenda slots forth with a USB aperture underneath. The adjustment of the USB aperture could accept been bigger as accessories beyond in admeasurement ability accept a botheration applicable in.
 The output panel opens up automatically when you print |
 USB slot is placed at an inconvenient location |
The 8170 has a best press resolution of 9600 x 2400 dpi. It has 5 cartridges in Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black and Gray colours. Both the foreground as able-bodied as the rear trays are accessible for cardboard accumulator and the printer can handle up to 150 pages at a time. It aswell has a flatbed scanner that allows users to browse abstracts and images at an optical resolution of 4800 x 4800 dpi. Network printing, active and wireless and USB press is accurate as well. As allotment of the features, the 8170 includes 2-on-1, 4-on-1, bifold press and press from endure page forth with accepted options like borderless, grayscale, fast, accepted and top superior printing. The cardboard antecedent can be called as able-bodied with the afterward options - rear tray, cardboard allocation or auto select. Canon has arranged in the all-important software and drivers for this device. They aren’t absolutely user affable but do plan as mentioned, namely, the built-in scanning, artful and fax software.
 The interface is extremely user-friendly |
We don’t about put a user interface area for printers, but the UI of the Pixma absolutely deserves a aces mention. Firstly, the blow buttons are acutely bland and accept a ablaze calamus acknowledgment which is allotment of the absolute experience. The user interface is blithely simple as able-bodied with icons for copy, photo, scan, photo reprint, fun photo print, accelerate show, certificate print, appropriate print, setup.
The icons are cocky allegorical and the fun photo book advantage in accurate is absolutely interesting. Users can adhesive a few presets to their photographs and again book them out. The slideshow advantage will not be absolutely advantageous but is included nonetheless. Also, the printer has an advantage of chain printing, which allows users to admission the card and adjustment added prints or copies while the printer is press the beforehand document. This absolutely helps save time if users aren’t press via the PC as they do not accept to delay for the beforehand book to get over, to alpha off with the next one.
A side view
When we initially set up the printer, armament accession took about 5 account as the user has to manually unclip and install the 5 cartridges in the slot. The printer has an boilerplate cat-and-mouse time of 5 abnormal if bare for over two minutes, which is not bad at all. To barometer the achievement we put it through a few tests. For printing, we put it through four analysis standards in both fast and top modes - argument only, a PDF certificate with argument and images, a complete angel printout (on accustomed and bright paper) and argument with altered chantry sizes. Below are the allegation of the tests we agitated out.
Post warmup time delay, the argument page took ten abnormal to book in the fast approach and fifteen abnormal in the top mode. The argument certificate with altered chantry sizes took 12 abnormal in the fast approach and 17 abnormal in the top mode. PDF certificate press was a little apathetic at 46 abnormal in the fast approach and 73 abnormal in top mode. Photo press took 122 abnormal on accustomed cardboard and 135 abnormal on bright paper.
The printer's different panels
Besides the accepted tests, we undertook the active connection, wireless, USB printing, and scanning analysis and afterward are the timings for the same.
Printing via a active affiliation took 26 abnormal and press via the wireless affiliation took the aforementioned time. The alone botheration is that printer drivers charge to be installed on the computer that wants to affix to the printer. USB photo press took 88 seconds. The scanner can save scanned images to the PC, the USB drive, and anamnesis cards; however, our alien harder drive was not supported. Scanning at 600 dpi took nine abnormal while scanning at 300 dpi took eight seconds.
The MG8170
The Canon Pixma MG8170 is currently affairs at a amount of Rs. 19,250. That’s the alone downside about this product. It has a bulk of features, the achievement was quick, and the acquaintance was seamless as well. Bluetooth is missing and the superior for images could accept been a tad better, but the Canon Pixma MG8170 prints at a acceptable acceleration and book superior is acutely acceptable as well. Add to it the user interface and it makes press an agreeable experience. If account is not a criteria, again the Pixma MG8170 is absolutely a acceptable buy.
