The Pixma MG4120 also features SD Card and Memory Stick slots for printing photos or offloading scans. Having to move your fingers to those buttons is a waste of time and effort the OK button and four-way cursor control would suffice. Canon needs to ditch the three “function” buttons for making selections, though. The unit’s flip-up 2.4-inch LCD screen is easy to read, and makes using the printer a breeze for the most part.
CANON PIXMA MG2120 PC
You can attach the Pixma MG4120 directly to your PC via USB, or network it using the integrated Wi-Fi. The black ink is pricey, however, so printing out everyday letters and term papers costs more than the norm. Color-ink costs are lower than average for a low-price MFP, too, so photos and Web pages are relatively cheap to print. It also produces nice-looking output at a reasonable pace. That makes a four-color page 13.8 cpp at best, which is about average for an inkjet MFP.The $130 (as of March 19, 2012) Canon Pixma MG4120 color inkjet multifunction (print/copy/scan) is one of the cheaper MFPs on the market to feature paper-saving automatic duplexing. The tri-color CL-241XL cost $30 and lasts for 400 pages, or 7.5 cpp. The $38, 600-page PG-240XXL black cartridge is only slightly cheaper at 6.3 cpp. The PG-240XL Extra Large black cartridge costs $21 and lasts for 300 pages, which is a pricey 7 cents per page (cpp). The Pixma MG2120’s black ink is expensive no matter which size of cartridge you purchase. They’re not terribly accurate in terms of their color palette, skewing orangeish even on Canon’s own photo paper.
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Color graphics have a warm, friendly vibe. Text is not laserlike, but certainly serviceable, even for business correspondence. The quality of the Pixma MG2120’s output is about the same as that produced by other Canon Pixma MG-series printers. Scans and copies on the other hand, are a on par with, or quicker than, those of most MFPs.
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The full-page photo we print from the Mac takes a little less than 4 minutes, or 0.3 ppm–a bit slower than the norm. Text prints at about 5.8 pages per minute on the PC, and 5.7 ppm on the Mac 4-by-6-inch photos print at 2.4 ppm on plain paper and at about half that rate on glossy photo paper. The output from the Pixma MG2120 is decently fast considering the price and its intended low-volume usage.
CANON PIXMA MG2120 DRIVER
Fortunately, Apple’s own Add Printer installation found, downloaded, and installed a suitable driver for the unit.
CANON PIXMA MG2120 MANUAL
Mac users, however, will be disappointed: You’ll find no manual duplexing support for the Mac, and Canon’s solution for supporting Lion (OS X 10.7) was to send me to a website where I could find no download specifically for the Pixma MG2120, only those for more expensive models. The unit has the regular panoply of layout options such as booklet and “n-up,” or tiled, pages (multiple pages reduced in size and printed on a single sheet of paper). There are no media-card slots, nor is there a display for navigating menus or previewing photos.Ĭanon, unlike HP with its Photosmart 5010, offers a full-featured PC printer driver. The single-digit LED and array of flashing-light indicators can be hard to decipher, despite some good labeling. The single input tray handles about 100 sheets, and the output tray directly above it handles 50.
CANON PIXMA MG2120 PLUS
On the plus side, the lid for the letter/A4-size scanner telescopes to accommodate thicker material, and you can even push-scan by changing a setting in the scanner dialog. Not surprisingly, given the price, it has no amenities such as an automatic duplexer, or an automatic document feeder (ADF) for the scanner. The Pixma MG2120 will handle low volumes of printing, copying, and scanning easily. On the other hand, if you normally print mixed text and color graphics, this MFP costs about the same to operate as most of the competition.
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But its black ink is hardly a bargain, so if you print mostly text, you won’t like the ongoing costs. Depending on how much and what you print, the $70 (as of ), USB-attached Canon Pixma MG2120 color inkjet multifunction printer may be adequate for a home user.