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Customer Reviews for PIXMA MP160
PIXMA MP160
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 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!
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Rating Snapshot (36 reviews)
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24 out of 36(67%)reviewers would recommend this product to a friend.
Customer Reviews for PIXMA MP160
Review 1 for PIXMA MP160
Nickname: mick
Location: New Mexico
Used this product for: more than 1 year
Expertise Level: Advanced Amateur
Mostly used for: Printing Documents
Canon Enthusiast: 6 to 10 years
Print quality
Overall Rating
Features
4
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5
Performance
2
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5
Price/Value
4
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5
Quality
3
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5
Satisfaction
3
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5
Date:January 14, 2013
Cons: Low Quality Output, unreliable
After having the machine turned off for a while it can print one copy fine and the rest have enough dropout lines that it's unusable.
0 of 1 people found this review helpful.
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Review 2 for PIXMA MP160
Nickname: Vonzo1974
Location: Loveland OH
Used this product for: more than 1 year
Expertise Level: Advanced Amateur
Product replacement: No
Dang thing won't scan!
Overall Rating
Features
4
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5
Performance
3
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5
Price/Value
3
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5
Quality
2
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5
Satisfaction
2
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5
Date:October 27, 2010
Pros: versitle when working
Cons: won't scan if no ink cartridges.
No ink cartridges so it won't scan. I don't want to PRINT. I WANT TO SCAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
26 of 30 people found this review helpful.
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Review 3 for PIXMA MP160
Nickname: Someone12345
Location: Hurst,TX
Used this product for: more than 1 year
Expertise Level: Casual User
Product replacement: No
Horrible
Overall Rating
Features
3
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5
Performance
4
out of
5
Price/Value
4
out of
5
Quality
4
out of
5
Satisfaction
1
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5
Date:August 19, 2010
After 2 years of having the printer. It just bailed on me. Nothing would print from it and if it did it would wrinkle the paper.
9 of 13 people found this review helpful.
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Review 4 for PIXMA MP160
Nickname: Me the second
Location: North Babylon,N.Y.
Used this product for: more than 1 year
Expertise Level: Casual User
Product replacement: No
KING OF ALL PRINTERS!
Overall Rating
Features
4
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5
Performance
5
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5
Price/Value
3
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5
Quality
4
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5
Satisfaction
5
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5
Date:June 25, 2010
Pros: Compact Design, Easy Setup, Low Ink Consumption, fast print speed, easy to use
Cons: Large Footprint, Heavy/Bulky, Dull Tones & Colors
Wow Canon, you really made a nice one here. I like how the printer goes really fast in printing.You could improve the print quality a little bit but thats ALL!
3 of 4 people found this review helpful.
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Review 5 for PIXMA MP160
Nickname: gabby
Best Printer on the Market!!!
Overall Rating
Features
4
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5
Performance
5
out of
5
Price/Value
5
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5
Quality
5
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5
Satisfaction
5
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5
Date:May 10, 2010
Pros: reliable, Compact Design, Easy Setup, durable, Low Ink Consumption, Lightweight/Portable, Sharp Tones & Colors, easy to use, pretty!
this sugar plum fits my life style in 5 words! easy, affordable, clear prints and, fun!
I bought this and I am completely overwhelmed at the efficiency of this handy babe!
I will forever uses canon. I <3 Canon!
I bought this and I am completely overwhelmed at the efficiency of this handy babe!
I will forever uses canon. I <3 Canon!
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.
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Review 6 for PIXMA MP160
Nickname: suzflorida
Used this product for: more than 1 year
Expertise Level: Casual User
Product replacement: No
Best Printer I have owned.
Overall Rating
Features
4
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5
Performance
5
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5
Price/Value
5
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5
Quality
5
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5
Satisfaction
4
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5
Date:May 6, 2010
Pros: reliable, Compact Design, Easy Setup, durable, Low Ink Consumption, Lightweight/Portable, fast print speed, easy to use
Its easy to use, quick to function and install on other computers. Good quality. Love it, i just need to figure out how to work the scanner.
0 of 1 people found this review helpful.
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Review 7 for PIXMA MP160
Nickname: Sy
Location: Loveland, CO
Used this product for: more than 1 year
Expertise Level: Advanced Amateur
Product replacement: No
Difficulty printing.
Overall Rating
Features
4
out of
5
Price/Value
4
out of
5
Quality
4
out of
5
Satisfaction
2
out of
5
Date:April 28, 2010
Pros: Compact Design, durable, Lightweight/Portable, Sharp Tones & Colors, works well but for problems noted in review., excellent photos easily fixed!
Cons: Difficult Setup, High Ink Consumption, set up for black ink it sometimes uses color--bad!, locked onto wrong size printing.
Recently, after 2+ years use, My MP 160 refused to print letter size--it is locked on 6.14 x 9.20 inches even though set up for letter. Have tried everything to correct with no luck. It also sneaks in color when set up to print black.
This has happened several times. Pretty expensive text work!
This has happened several times. Pretty expensive text work!
When it works okay it does great work on text and photos. Scans very well. Have found it very easy to use but for the stated problems.
6 of 7 people found this review helpful.
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Review 8 for PIXMA MP160
Nickname: jennifae
Location: NY
Used this product for: more than 1 year
Expertise Level: Advanced Amateur
Product replacement: No
Mediocre print quality
Overall Rating
Features
4
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5
Performance
4
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5
Price/Value
3
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5
Quality
2
out of
5
Satisfaction
3
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5
Date:April 13, 2010
Pros: Easy Setup, fast print speed, easy to use, reasonable ink consumption
Cons: Dull Tones & Colors, does not print good quality photos as suggested
The scan utility is very user friendly and it copies well, but the print quality is only average. Although the Pixma MP160 is not sold as a photo printer, Canon's own description claims that this machine prints photo lab quality photos. There is nothing true about that claim. Even using high quality photo paper - matte AND glossy - and with the appropriate settings, the colors are not true and the image is grainy. Overall clarity is average. I have a printer that cost half as much as this one, of another brand, that prints better quality photos than the MP160. Additionally, colors are not true on documents.
I have moved this printer to my office desk because it does scan, copy, and print documents very well (just keep in mind that if you are printing color documents the colors will probably be off). As for photos or image-based projects I would recommend you look for something with better image printing quality. For the price of this all-in-one though, I did not expect fabulous photos and, therefore, it is a good value for the money. It's a relatively inexpensive multi-function printer.
As for recommending this printer to a friend, it would depend on what their need would be. Casual use - yes; more detailed applications - no.
12 of 12 people found this review helpful.
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Review 9 for PIXMA MP160
Nickname: Bob
Used this product for: more than 1 year
Expertise Level: Professional or Expert
Product replacement: Yes
Can't hold more than 10 sheets of paper
Overall Rating
Features
1
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Performance
1
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Price/Value
1
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Quality
1
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Satisfaction
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Date:February 16, 2010
Cons: limited paper feed
Everything works well but you have to constantly add paper because it won't print with more than 10 sheets in the feeder.
6 of 10 people found this review helpful.
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Review 10 for PIXMA MP160
Nickname: Loopdy
Location: Denton, TX
Used this product for: more than 1 year
Expertise Level: Advanced Amateur
Product replacement: No
6yrs and still running like new!
Overall Rating
Features
4
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5
Performance
4
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5
Price/Value
4
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5
Quality
4
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5
Satisfaction
5
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Date:February 8, 2010
Pros: reliable, Easy Setup, durable, Lightweight/Portable, easy to use
I bought a laptop and printer when I went back to college in 2004. The printer has outlasted 3 PCs and 3 Laptops. I have used it to electronicly document correspondence with the Veteran Affairs, numerous professional papers, and even homework with all my kids.(Even some friends as well)
When a copier went out at the school I emailed the document to my home PC, went and picked up the 40 copies, and returned to clas in less than 45 minutes.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.
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Review 11 for PIXMA MP160
Nickname: Steph
Location: Las Vegas
Used this product for: more than 1 year
Expertise Level: Casual User
Product replacement: No
EASY!!!
Overall Rating
Features
4
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5
Performance
4
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5
Price/Value
4
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5
Quality
4
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5
Satisfaction
4
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5
Date:January 28, 2010
Pros: Easy Setup
Recently had to install printer after getting new hard drive... didnt have my manual, but even I as a complete computer idiot managed to download hardware from site with ease...
7 of 9 people found this review helpful.
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Review 12 for PIXMA MP160
Nickname: sunfunrb
Used this product for: more than 1 year
Expertise Level: Advanced Amateur
Product replacement: Yes
Overall Rating
Features
5
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5
Performance
5
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5
Price/Value
5
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5
Quality
5
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5
Satisfaction
5
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5
Date:November 9, 2009
Pros: Compact Design, Easy Setup, reliable, Sharp Tones & Colors
Cons: High Ink Consumption
The lPIXMA-160 Multifunctional Inkjet printer has worked very well for all phases of my personal and business activities. Recently, when I upgraded to Windows 7 (64 bit) a Cannon teck sent me a very understgandable EMaIL ON HOW TO UPGRAdE the driver TO WINDOWS 7 AND IT WORKS PERFECTLY. I did have to reload the disk to get the Copier function and the manual on the computer but that worked out very well.
Thank you for mfg such a great printer!
Thank you for mfg such a great printer!
12 of 14 people found this review helpful.
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Review 13 for PIXMA MP160
Nickname: nutso-dog
Location: Boston, MA
Used this product for: more than 1 year
Expertise Level: Advanced Amateur
Product replacement: Yes
Not bad while it lasted
Overall Rating
Features
3
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5
Performance
2
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5
Price/Value
3
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5
Quality
2
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5
Satisfaction
2
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5
Date:October 31, 2009
Pros: Compact Design, Easy Setup, easy to use
Cons: Slow Print Speed, High Ink Consumption, unreliable, a record of paper feed issues (check the internet)
This printer worked pretty well for 2-1/2 years, but then ran into major paper feed issues. It would grab multiple sheets at once and jam. So we started loading only one sheet, but eventually it got so it would not load the one sheet most of the time. It would complain about a jam without loading the paper even a little.
Prior to that, I was generally happy, except that ink usage seemed overly high, the output was not always aligned (despite going through alignment procedures), and the beginning of a print cycle (or resetting an error, like out of paper of paper jam--even when the jam was a non-feed situation) was often very slow.
15 of 17 people found this review helpful.
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Review 14 for PIXMA MP160
Nickname: madre
Location: Missouri
Used this product for: more than 1 year
Expertise Level: Advanced Amateur
Product replacement: Yes
overall good workhorse
Overall Rating
Features
4
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5
Performance
4
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5
Price/Value
5
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Quality
4
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5
Satisfaction
4
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5
Date:October 5, 2009
Pros: fast print speed, Low Ink Consumption, reliable
Cons: Heavy/Bulky
One of the most reliable all-n-one printer/scanners I've had. Initially had problems when I used it with an Apple laptop. To the person who blamed lack of page numbers on the MP160 - that is a user error not the fault of the printer.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.
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Review 15 for PIXMA MP160
Nickname: John
Location: Daly City, California
Used this product for: more than 1 year
Expertise Level: Hobbyist/Enthusiast
Product replacement: Yes
Jack of all trades, value for money!
Overall Rating
Features
5
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5
Performance
4
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5
Price/Value
5
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5
Quality
4
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5
Satisfaction
5
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5
Date:September 10, 2009
Pros: Easy Setup, easy to use
Cons: High Ink Consumption
My other AIO printer from other manufacturer bonked down, and was in need of a cheap replacement AIO. Glad I made the right choice with this one. Good scanning capabilities and printing for home use. Best of all, it doesn't cost a bomb.
7 of 7 people found this review helpful.
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Review 16 for PIXMA MP160
Nickname: Computer Guru
Location: Virginia
Used this product for: more than 1 year
Expertise Level: Professional or Expert
Product replacement: Yes
Great Performance
Overall Rating
Features
5
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5
Performance
5
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Price/Value
5
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Quality
5
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Satisfaction
5
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5
Date:September 9, 2009
Pros: durable, Easy Setup, easy to use, reliable, Sharp Tones & Colors
I have found that many Inkjet based printers consume a lot of ink and this one is not any different. However, the overall performance of this unit is great. Excellent scanning (color tones). And, in may cases, I have found it to actually improve the scanned image when printing through this device.
Also, printers generally do not number the pages themselves. That function is found in your word processing software. So, ignore the review about page numbering.
7 of 7 people found this review helpful.
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Review 17 for PIXMA MP160
Nickname: not
hate that it won't number pages
Overall Rating
Features
1
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5
Performance
1
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5
Price/Value
1
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5
Quality
1
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5
Satisfaction
1
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Date:August 19, 2009
Cons: High Ink Consumption, no option for numbering pages
There is no option for numbering pages. This function is so basic. How can they not include it? I have had this printer for 3+ years, trust me it is not there, and there is no fix for it in product support on cannons site. Large documents are difficult to manage without page numbers. I would not recommend this junk to anyone.
6 of 31 people found this review helpful.
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Review 18 for PIXMA MP160
Nickname: Blessed Not Spoiled
Used this product for: more than 1 year
Expertise Level: Advanced Amateur
Product replacement: Yes
Great Multifunctional Printer!
Overall Rating
Features
4
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5
Performance
5
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5
Price/Value
5
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5
Quality
5
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5
Satisfaction
5
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5
Date:August 16, 2009
Pros: Compact Design, durable, Easy Setup, easy to use, fast print speed, reliable, Sharp Tones & Colors
Cons: Heavy/Bulky, High Ink Consumption
I scan and print a lot of my own photos and this is a wonderful compact printer! My scanned photos always print in their original color. Scans/copies very clearly. Great quality, great price.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.
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Review 19 for PIXMA MP160
Nickname: azroadwarrior
Location: coolidge, az
Used this product for: more than 1 year
Expertise Level: Professional or Expert
Product replacement: Yes
nice all-ijn-one; ink hog
Overall Rating
Features
5
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5
Performance
5
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5
Price/Value
4
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5
Quality
5
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5
Satisfaction
4
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5
Date:May 14, 2009
Pros: durable, Easy Setup, easy to use, reliable, Sharp Tones & Colors
Cons: Large Footprint, Heavy/Bulky, High Ink Consumption
It does everything it says it does pretty well. It uses a lot of expensive ink doinfg it though
11 of 13 people found this review helpful.
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Review 20 for PIXMA MP160
Nickname: okatie!
Location: Baltimore, MD
Used this product for: more than 1 year
Expertise Level: Advanced Amateur
Product replacement: No
Best Little Scanner!
Overall Rating
Features
5
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5
Performance
4
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5
Price/Value
5
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5
Quality
5
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5
Satisfaction
4
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5
Date:April 29, 2009
Pros: Compact Design, Lightweight/Portable, durable, Easy Setup, fast print speed, reliable, Sharp Tones & Colors
Cons: need to change printer setting when scanning to pc
In it's 3rd year now and I would not trade it. I am very happy with the way it prints and scans. I have a small business and my invoices look great. I have never had a problem with it. The only draw back for me, If I want to scan opictures to my pc I need to change my printer settings. But I would not give up this product!
10 of 11 people found this review helpful.
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