On another occasion, we were notified by several callers that when they tried to phone our residence, they received the screeching of a fax machine rather than an answering machine. On a side note, we experienced a slight problem on one occasion with the fax function, as it appeared the printer was trying to fax during phone conversations. This is helpful if you have 2 lines, so you can program it to be fax 1st, or if you're running it on the same line as your household phone, select "Phone 1st" option and you won't have to worry about not receiving calls. There's a very nice feature built-in which allows you to choose an option of "Telephone 1st" or "Fax 1st", which allows the printer to act either as a phone or fax when it rings, depending on which you use it for. We've tested this feature several times and have had little to no problem sending faxes. The Canon MX310 also functions nicely as a home or small office fax machine, which you can use to send and/or receive fascimiles. Magazine scans were a bit less than desirable in terms of overall color output, but original photos seem to come out quite nicely when scanned using the flatbed area. The direct printing from Canon cameras feature is definitely a nice bonus, and great for people who want to quickly print out their latest images! No need to fuss with taking out your media card, putting it into the computer, opening a program and clicking print.
You'll have to option to print any digital picture you want, direct from your camera. Hook your compatible Canon digital camera to the cable, and select the preview mode of your camera. There's an inconspicuous front input port on the Canon MX310 which you plug in a simple USB to camera cable. Some prints on regular printer paper have been grainy, so definitely spend the extra money if you plan to print out quality digital images, and get some high glossy printer paper.Īnother nice feature is the ability to directly print via USB from compatible Canon digital cameras. In terms of print speed, it also claims to print about 30 pages a minute in black, and 20 pages per minute in color.Īs for digital pictures, the print quality has been very nice when done on special photo paper. The Canon boasts digital image quality of up to 4800 x 1200 color dpi, and claims to take approximately 46 seconds to print a borderless 4圆 digital photo. Both the black and white color print quality is very good for the money spent on this printer. For these purposes the printer is a very suitable everyday printer for your household or small office arrangement. The basic use for the Canon Pixma MX310 is of course printing color and black & white documents.
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CANON MX330 REVIEWS SOFTWARE
CANON MX330 REVIEWS MAC OS X
OS compatibility: Windows Vista/XP/2000 and Mac OS X v.10.2.8 to 10.4.x7.Transmission reception memory: Approx.Fax modem speed: 33.6 Kbps (Super G3 color fax).