Canon PIXMA MG5150

The PIXMA MG5150 is a daily option to producing high quality prints, copies and scans at home while making use of cost-saving specific ink containers. High resolution and also tiny ink dots guarantee you create high quality borderless pictures in the house.

The Canon PIXMA MG5150 mirrors the PIXMA MG5250's style, with a rear-loading 150-sheet tray and a 150-sheet cassette. It has the very same clear and brilliant 2.4 in LCD that we liked on its more costly counterpart, along with the same basic button design. It's simple to mount the print head and the five ink cartridges, and also connecting the printer to your COMPUTER or Mac using the USB 2.0 port is very easy.

Along with the rear USB 2.0 port the Canon PIXMA MG5150 likewise has a front host port for PictBridge-enabled camera connection, in addition to Bluetooth 2.0 for sending out content from a cellphone.

The major disadvantage of choosing the Canon PIXMA MG5150 over the more expensive PIXMA MG5250 is its lower resolution scanner. You just get a 1200x2400dpi flatbed scanner as opposed to a 4800x2400dpi device. Scans are acceptable however fine photo detail is missing-- pick a better scanner if you're meaning to digitise old pictures or vital files.

The Canon PIXMA MG5150 utilizes the exact same print head and also innovation as the Canon PIXMA MG5250, so its outcome quality is essentially similar. Monochrome documents in Conventional quality are smooth and clear in spite of being somewhat under-saturated. If you hunger for strong, solid message the Premium quality setting offers completely-- although printing is slightly slower. Colour files in Basic high quality are similarly like monochrome prints. We would have preferred slightly a lot more saturation yet typeface edges are smooth and also prints are conveniently legible down to 6pt dimension.

Like the Canon PIXMA MG5250, the PIXMA MG5150 creates good results when publishing high resolution pictures on photo paper. In Top quality mode on Canon's Image Paper Plus Glossy II stock we discovered our colour examination images to be clear and also in-depth, with great saturation degrees as well as no noticeable posterisation. The Canon PIXMA MG5150 likewise excited us when it involved producing greyscale pictures, with only a small amount of banding and graininess visible in images' darker areas.

One location where the Canon PIXMA MG5150 falters is in its print rates. The PIXMA MG5250 could handle 11 monochrome pages per minute-- one sheet per six secs in our screening-- while the PIXMA MG5150 takes around 7 seconds on average per black and white A4 web page. This is just somewhat slower each sheet, with an overall speed of 9.7 web pages each minute. Colour printing is significantly slower, however-- the PIXMA MG5250 handles 9.3 web pages per min while the PIXMA MG5150 can only outcome 6.3.

Model	PIXMA MG5150
Type	All-in-one (printer/scanner/copier)
Width	17.8 inch (455 mm)
Height	6.3 inch (160 mm)
Depth	14.4 inch (368 mm)
Weight	15.4 lbs (7.8 kg)
Printer
Printer Type	Thermal Ink-jet
Output Type	Color Printer
Format	A4
Print Resolution	9600x2400 dpi
Input Feed Capacity	300 pages (standart), 300 pages (maximum)
Manual Feed Tray Capacity	150 pages
Media Types	Plain Paper, Cards, Transparencies, Stickers, Photo Paper, Glossy Photo Paper, Envelopes, Matte Photo Paper.
Paper Weight Support	64-300 g/m2
Ink Cartridges Count	5
Colors Count	5-ink
Printing Photos	Yes
Borderless Printing	Yes
Min Ink Droplet Volume	1 picolitres
Time of Printing Photo (Color, 4 x6 /10x15cm)	39 s
Duplex Auto Printing	Yes
Direct Print (PictBridge)	Yes
Cartridge Capacity (Black)	323 pages
Cartridge Capacity (Color)	500 pages
LCD Screen
LCD	Yes
LCD Type	Color
LCD Diagonal Size	2.35 inch
SCANNER/COPIER
Scanner Type	Flatbed
Scanner Format	A4
Scanner Size	216x297 mm
Scan Element	CIS
Pixel Depth	48 bit
Shades Of Gray	256
Optical Resolution	1200x2400 dpi
Zoom Range	25-400 %
Zoom Step	1 x
Support Standarts	TWAIN, WIA
Maximum Number Of Copies	99
Features
Interfaces	USB 2.0
OS Support	Windows, Mac OS
Power Consumption Operational	18 W
Power Consumption Standby	1.4 W
Noise Level	44.5 dB
Card Reader	Yes
Supported Flash Cards	Compact Flash, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Duo, Memory Stick Pro, Memory Stick Pro Duo, MMC, SD, xD-Picture