Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Multi-function printer

I just tested out my new Canon PIXMA MX700 today. I have had it for about 10 days, but haven't had a chance to test it out. But today, I needed to sign a contract and scan it back in to e-mail to a business contact, so it was a good time to finally hook up my new toy.

It has a flat-bed scanner which I'm excited about because I can scan in things I couldn't scan in with our old HP all-in-one printer (like business cards or photos that I was worried about getting jammed). Anyway, I printed out the one-page contract, signed it, and scanned it back in. I tried 300 dpi first, which was pretty good, but then went with 600 dpi which seemed to be the best resolution for a black and white document.

I couldn't believe how fast it scanned in! Under a minute and much better quality than the HP (I'm not trying to knock HP - it is fairly old technology at this point and I'm sure a new HP all-in-one printer would be comparable to the Canon). I easily saved it to a PDF and went on my merry way.

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