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If your printing and scanning needs are light, the $100 Canon Pixma MX432 color inkjet multifunction printer will likely fill your needs.Though the unit lacks an automatic duplexer, it provides asingle-sided automatic document feeder, and the price is certainlyattractive. On the other hand, black ink costs are quite high andCanon omits no manual duplexing support for OS X. So if you use alot of black ink or will be printing from a Mac, you should lookelsewhere. Setting up the Pixma MX432 is easy, though if your Wi-Fi routerdoesn't support Wi-Fi Protected Setup you'll have to use a USBcable (which, of course, is an option even if you do have aWPS-capable router). The Pixma MX432's control panel is plain but competent. Itstwo-line monochrome LCD makes complex actions such as scanning abit tedious, but the MFP's simple keypad and basic controls areeasy to use. The USB/PictBridge port on the front of the unit worksfor camera connection and also for scanning to USB media, but youcan't print from USB media. The Pixma MX432's paper-handling features, aside from the 30-sheetADF, are Canon's current low-volume setup. A 100-sheet input trayoccupies the bottom of the unit, and paper exits directly above it,half-landing on the outer part of the input tray. It's a perfectlyviable arrangement, though a bit disconcerting on first encounter.The only time this design might pose a special problem is when youhave to feed more paper while printing a long document. The lid ofthe Pixma MX432's A4/letter-size scanner telescopes to accommodatethicker materials. Canon bundles a nice array of software with the Pixma MX432. TheSolution Menu EX allows access to common scan chores including OCR,as well as printer maintenance and relevant online destinations.The printer driver is full-featured, at least on the PC. WhileCanon bundles the same software on the Mac, for some reason, manualduplexing support is missing from the OS X driver. Output from the Pixma MX432 is very good. Color graphics have theusual Canon orange cast, which works quite well on many subjects,giving them a warm feel. The effect on human faces, however, can beunrealistic especially on plain paper, but also slightly on glossystock. Text is as good as on any inkjet printer sharp and black,though with the edges of letters a tad soft. Grayscale graphicshave a slightly purple tinge. The Pixma MX432's performance is good for a $100 multifunctionprinter. Monochrome pages print at 6.5 pages per minute from thePC, and 6.7 ppm from the Mac. Snapshot photos print at 2.6 ppm onplain paper, and 0.6 ppm on glossy photo stock. A full-page phototakes about three minutes. Copies are fast, even when matchedagainst output from higher-priced inkjet MFPs, at about 6.2 ppm. The Pixma MX432 ships with 180-page starter cartridges. Thereplacement 240 black ink is very expensive, while the 241 colorcartridge is reasonably affordable. The PG-240XL black cartridgecosts $21 and lasts for 300 pages that's 7 cents per page. Thelarger, 600-page PG-240XXL (priced at $38), at 6.3 cents per page,isn't much cheaper. In contrast, the $30 unified-color (threecolors in a single cartridge) CL-241XL lasts for 400 pages, whichworks out to 7.5 cents per page. Factoring in the XXL black, youget affordable 13.8 cent four-color pages maybe. Since you mustreplace the cartridge when one color runs out, if you use colorsunevenly, the price per page will rise due to unusable ink leftover when you empty the compartment for the most heavily usedcolor. Macworld's buying advice The Pixma MX432 is a decent, inexpensive MFP for light use. Costsfor four-color pages are on par with its peers, and I find thelower-tech controls easier to use than the company's fancierefforts on its more expensive products. I am an expert from cell-phonesbatteries.com, while we provides the quality product, such as Nokia Cell Phone Batteries , HTC Cell Phone Batteries, Samsung Cell Phone Batteries,and more.
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