Decent Printer at a Good Price

This no-compromise Photo All-In-One lets you get more done, right at home. You'll print beautiful, long-lasting photos, along with copies that are truer to your originals' images...
more...and text. The unique Z-Lid lets you produce clear, complete scans even of thick originals like personal notebooks. You can even print photos directly from a PictBridge compatible camera or DV camcorder - no computer required! Precision ink nozzles create high resolution photos - up to 4800 x 1200 color dpi. Microscopic 2-picoliter sized ink droplets produce finely detailed photos. Just capture an image with a PictBridge ready digital camera/DV camcorder, then connect and print! Produce high-quality scans up to 600 dpi with vibrant 48-bit color depth. Using select Canon photo papers, you can create beautiful photos that last up to 100 years. You can even copy or scan thick items that do not lie flat on the platen. The USB 2.0 interface enables the fastest possible image transfers and scanning speeds. Dual Color Gamut Technology ensures quality is automatically optimized based on the type of originals you are copying.

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Decent Printer at a Good Price

A review by iToast on Canon Pixma MP160
January 2nd, 2008

Author's product rating: Canon Pixma MP160 - rated by iToast

Picture quality	Good
Printing speed	Average
Colour sensitivity	Good
Ease of use	Very easy
Value For Money	Excellent

Advantages:	Prints, Scans and Copies and isn't that expensive
Disadvantages:	Not top notch quality; slightly flimsy

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

=== Design ===
Looks & Feel: Not the most attractive printer, but suitably executive looking and smart enough for any office. It is designed compactly, and so a lot of functions are crammed into not that much space. The scanner/photocopier part that lifts up is very flimsy and does not give the impression of a good, solid piece of equipment.
User Interface: The button panel on the front of the printer is incredibly easy to operate. There's one button for "photocopy in colour" and one for "photocopy in B&W". There's a "SCAN" button, and an LED display that shows how many pages there are left to print. Completely foolproof!
Size: As I mentioned, it is relatively small and fairly light, and will fit on most coffee tables or even on most chairs. About the size of four shoeboxes.

Installation/Connecting to the PC

Fairly simple. You are provided with a CD, from which you install the basic software. Then you just need to install the printer with Windows's wizard, and you can print. I have also set mine up so that two different computers are connected to it, which was very easy. However, now whenever the printer is disconnected from my computer, it disconnects me from the internet. This is obviously far from ideal.

Quality of Printing

I have only used if for simple pictures and word processing, but I have found it to be perfectly good so far. I do not print off my photos at home, however, so I cannot vouch for the printer's quality when printing photos.