Canon PIXMA iX7000 Ink Review

The Canon PIXMA iX7000 is Canon's second business-focussed A3 inkjet printer, and it is one of the most expensive available on the market.

Large, slow and noisy, the iX7000 offers automated duplex as well as network connectivity, plus it produces excellent quality A4 and A3 output.

The iX7000 gives you three media input choices: a cassette, a rear tray along with a single-sheet manual feed. The input cassette lacks changeable guides to match media of different widths, and also the height manipulation will not match anything smaller than A4.

The rear paper tray is only able to be picked as a paper source when printing pictures and is simply not accessible using the regular print dialogue. There's no method to alter the paper source straight from the iX7000 either (this can make it challenging to select your sought after input source while printing on a network, unless you put in the printer drivers).

The printer offers both USB 2. and Ethernet connections. Its other standout aspect is surely an automatic duplexer, which will print double-sided A3 documents as well as A4. Another A3 inkjet to offer an automated duplexer, Brother's MFC-6890CDW, can just print double-sided A4 documents.

The Canon PIXMA iX7000 ink cartridges are pigment-based which supplies vibrant colours for both documents as well as pictures. A clear ink is layered over printouts to avoid water harm as well as fading.

Though the iX7000 can certainly put ink to page swiftly, it has a tendency to pause in between pages. You should be aware that draft documents from the PIXMA iX7000 are not the washed out rush jobs which other printers generate. Actually, draft documents happen to be legible and could actually possibly be practical with regard to rapidly generating documents for your workplace. Overall the A3 inkjet printer prints relatively slowly, but can nevertheless spit out three to four A3 documents each and every minute, and that is greater than what several the competition could claim.

Regrettably, the iX7000 is especially loud. It produces a notable bang when it retrieves a page from the cassette, which will grown to be irritating inside a peaceful work place.

At its finest, the iX7000 A3 inkjet printer creates lively colours which are better matched to glossy media than matte paper. Regular A4 documents can seem inky and over-saturated, though they're still legible. This isn't as obvious when documents are scaled to A3 (using the print drivers); text is exact and comfortably understandable over numerous font sizes.

The iX7000 really sticks out when ever producing A4 photos: it makes really deep blacks as well as lively, accurate colours which has no aberrations. Sadly, A3 pictures are usually to some degree lacking in fine detail, which might be attributed to the fairly low 4800x1200 dpi print resolution.

Canon's PIXMA iX7000 A3 inkjet printer is not the best choice for generating business documents on matte media. Although automatic duplexing along with Ethernet connectivity are undoubtedly useful, constraints with media input as well as its print rates as well as overall output quality hinder this printer. Nonetheless, individuals searching for a networked printer exclusively for glossy presentation documents plus the odd A4 photograph ought to benefit.

Canon PIXMA iX7000 printer ink cartridges are available here.