- Network Ready for Wi-Fi and ethernet networks
- 9600 x 2400 color dpi
- 4x6 photo in 36 seconds
- scan 35 mm slides and negatives
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Print-copy-scan plus direct printing
The PIXMA MP800R Photo All-in-One offers the freedom of wireless printing and scanning, along with exceptional print-copy-scan performance. It produces an amazing print resolution of up to 9600 x 2400 color dpi,1 for superb detail and clarity.
The PIXMA MP800R Photo All-in-One offers the freedom of wireless printing and scanning, along with exceptional print-copy-scan performance. It produces an amazing print resolution of up to 9600 x 2400 color dpi,1 for superb detail and clarity.
FINE technology and long lasting prints with the ChromaLife100 system
Canon Full-photolithography Inkjet Nozzle Engineering (FINE) uses a next-generation 3,584-nozzle print head that ejects precise, consistent droplets as small as 1 picoliter, for smooth, virtually grain-free images. FINE print heads are made with a micro-manufacturing process that allows for high density, smaller diameter, precisely aligned nozzles. ChromaLife100 inks are printed using Canon's own FINE (Full-photolithography Inkjet Nozzle Engineering) print heads. FINE print heads and the wide color gamut of ChromaLife100 dye-based inks combine to provide prints with exceptional detail and vibrant colors.
The MP800R copy and scan features
The AE (Auto Exposure) Copy feature automatically optimizes reproduction quality based on the type of original you’re duplicating. The convenient Photo/Film button allows you to make reprints of your photos and 35mm film without using your computer. The unit's high-resolution CCD scan-technology enables you to produce exceptional 2400-dpi scans, with vibrant 48-bit color depth. You can simultaneously scan up to 6 frames of your 35mm film (negatives or positives), or up to 4 mounted slides. For added convenience, two paper trays let you keep photo paper stored in one, plain paper in the other.
Print directly from your PictBridge readycamera
With its extra-large 3.5" LCD color viewer and memory card slots, this versatile all-in-one lets you view and enhance your images, then print them directly from compatible memory cards2 Or, you can print directly from a PictBridge ready device such as a digital camera. You can even print right from an infrared-enabled mobile phone,3 or from compatible Bluetooth devices4 using our optional USB Bluetooth adapter.
Discover the freedom of wireless printing and scanning
The PIXMA MP800R is network ready for both Wi-Fi and ethernet networks. This advanced all-in-one conforms to the IEEE 802.11b/g wireless (Wi-Fi) standards, enabling it to receive 54 Mbps wireless transmissions from up to 164 feet away.5 You can integrate the MP800R into to your wireless home network so the whole family can print and scan to it from their WiFi-enabled computer. To help make your wireless printing more secure the MP800R uses WiFi Protected Access (WPA). And if your home or small office runs a mix of Microsoft Windows and Apple machines that’s not a problem--the MP800R is designed to work with both operating systems.
1 Resolution may vary based on printer driver setting. Color ink droplets can be placed with a horizontal pitch of 1/9600 inch at minimum.
2 Compatible memory cards include CompactFlash,® Microdrive,® SmartMedia,® Memory Stick,® Memory Stick Pro,™ SD Card™ and MultimediaCard.TM xD-Picture Card,™ Memory Stick Duo,™ Memory Stick Duo Pro™ and miniSD™ Card require an additional adapter which must be purchased separately.
3 JPEG files 3MB or smaller only. Requires mobile phone with IrDA port and support for IrMC version 1.1 protocol, with phone positioned no more than 7.9 inches from printer.
4 Bluetooth v1.2 with optional Canon Bluetooth Unit BU-20. Bluetooth operation depends on the devices and software version used. Operating distance is approximately 10 meters but may vary due to obstacles, radio signals, locations where radio interference occurs, magnetic fields from microwave ovens, device sensitivity and/or antenna performance.
5 Wireless printing requires a working Ethernet network with wireless 802.11b/g capability. Wireless performance may vary based on terrain and distance between the printer and wireless network clients.
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Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
40 of 40 people found the following review helpful
I recently purchased my Canon MP800R and so far I am quite happy with it. It took about 15 minutes to set up and configure my workstation and it was all very very simple.
The printing is what i've come to expect from Canon - perfect! No lines.. No paper jams like I enjoyed on a daily basis with my HP. Everything just works and works well. This thing is really fast. 30 PPM (2 seconds!) for Black and White photos and 24 PPM for color and they come out great. I haven't seen it really advertised anywhere but the printer does have duplexing built in right out of the box. The borderless printing and 9600 x 2400 dpi detail make my photos look absolutely amazing.
My main motivation for purchasing this unit was the networking capabilities. I had an old HP all-in-one but it required that it be hooked up to a computer that had to always be on in order to act as the print host, and there was no way to share the scanning capabilities. All these problems are gone thanks to this unit. Now, since my computers are all networked, I just load the Canon software on each machine and I am printing and scanning in no time. No need for a dedicated machine, and no confusing mappings. The software searches the network and finds it for me, and hooks me up. While I haven't tried it yet, it also supports wireless and bluetooth connectivity as well.
The scanning portion of the unit is really the only place where I can see a need for some improvement, but it still is very good. When it scans it automatically crops and aligns the photos for you. I can't tell you how many times in the past I scanned something with my HP and I had to then crop it, and it was never straight so i'd have to rotate the photo in Photoshop or something and it just a big pain. With this I don't have to do any of that. Where it can stand some improvement is with the speed. It takes quite a while to scan something, even at the low and medium resolutions as compared to other units I have tried. Perhaps it is slow because it is doing so much to improve the scan quality. It also doesn't have a document feeder so you can't scan multiple documents at once.
All in all I am very happy with this purchase. I've had many all-in-one systems over the years and Canon now has a new fan.
The printing is what i've come to expect from Canon - perfect! No lines.. No paper jams like I enjoyed on a daily basis with my HP. Everything just works and works well. This thing is really fast. 30 PPM (2 seconds!) for Black and White photos and 24 PPM for color and they come out great. I haven't seen it really advertised anywhere but the printer does have duplexing built in right out of the box. The borderless printing and 9600 x 2400 dpi detail make my photos look absolutely amazing.
My main motivation for purchasing this unit was the networking capabilities. I had an old HP all-in-one but it required that it be hooked up to a computer that had to always be on in order to act as the print host, and there was no way to share the scanning capabilities. All these problems are gone thanks to this unit. Now, since my computers are all networked, I just load the Canon software on each machine and I am printing and scanning in no time. No need for a dedicated machine, and no confusing mappings. The software searches the network and finds it for me, and hooks me up. While I haven't tried it yet, it also supports wireless and bluetooth connectivity as well.
The scanning portion of the unit is really the only place where I can see a need for some improvement, but it still is very good. When it scans it automatically crops and aligns the photos for you. I can't tell you how many times in the past I scanned something with my HP and I had to then crop it, and it was never straight so i'd have to rotate the photo in Photoshop or something and it just a big pain. With this I don't have to do any of that. Where it can stand some improvement is with the speed. It takes quite a while to scan something, even at the low and medium resolutions as compared to other units I have tried. Perhaps it is slow because it is doing so much to improve the scan quality. It also doesn't have a document feeder so you can't scan multiple documents at once.
All in all I am very happy with this purchase. I've had many all-in-one systems over the years and Canon now has a new fan.
27 of 27 people found the following review helpful
We expressly purchased this printer for its wireless capabilities. We own a lot of Canon products, and I am always impressed by the performance of their cameras. Some printers' quality too. Scanners... that's a different story.
So, my main complaint with this printer is that for the price and tauted features is not a solid network performer. It's an USB printer with a quick network job behind it. Here are highlights:
1. Software is buggy
- network re-configuration should be automatic. Instead, one has to reset the LAN settings on the printer's menu because the included software doesn't want to update new settings (e.g. WEP key change, DHCP server change to new IP, etc.) This applies to wireless.
- On OS X 10.4.7 one has to disable the firewall to be able to scan. No documentation shows the TCP/IP or UDP ports needed to be opened so that the scanner can transfer the image to the computer.
- printer driver features are hidden behind friendly names like photo-print, tables-and-charts, etc. The "detailed-settings" shows a slider with "fast" at one end and "fine" (print quality) at the other. Detailed settings indeed.
- printer does not enter standby after a predetermined time unless all computers on the network are off or standby too. Even the LCD does not turn off.
2. The device lacks a dedicated hardware engine with queue support for each function. Some RAM for buffering wouldn't hurt either. So that means one user has to wait until the device is available. Here's a scenario (both users on laptops):
- user1 prints or scans
- user2 wants to print but is queued
- an HP (or true network-enabled printer) would accept both jobs (buffer them) and both users would be free to do whatever else they want. Because this printer doesn't have such features, user2's printjob would go into polling mode (querying the printer every now and then: are you available yet?). This translates into poor CPU usage and eating away battery like crazy on user2's laptop, until his computer can finally send the job to the printer.
3. Wireless connectivity is extremely bad. The access point is about 9ft away from the printer, link quality is at 63% and consequently, the super-fast advertised printing speed of 30ppm translates into about 2ppm (black-only, medium-quality prints). Forget about color photos, they take bloody ages. USB or LAN printing is obviously faster. LAN printing still suffers from the same queue problems.
On the bright side, technical support is handled by friendly people. Unfortunately, their most typical answer is Windows-like: "did you reinstall the drivers?" although they have a dedicated Mac team for driver and application software development.
Okay, enough with the negatives.
1. Scan quality (from film negatives, pun intended) is great. Scan from printed pictures, magazines, books, etc. is good too.
2. Print quality is great. Individual monitoring of ink levels is a very nice touch.
3. Duplex-printing. Yee! Enough said.
So, would you pay the $100 difference between the MP800 and MP800R in light of the above? I definitely wouldn't have done it, if I knew beforehand the above problems. Instead, I would've looked elsewhere. But all reviews tend to be so simplistic, and so they also are misleading.
If the people from Canon care enough, they could fix this with updated software (I can think of several ways of doing this). Unfortunately, queue support requires hardware changes.
Hope above helps.
Virgil
So, my main complaint with this printer is that for the price and tauted features is not a solid network performer. It's an USB printer with a quick network job behind it. Here are highlights:
1. Software is buggy
- network re-configuration should be automatic. Instead, one has to reset the LAN settings on the printer's menu because the included software doesn't want to update new settings (e.g. WEP key change, DHCP server change to new IP, etc.) This applies to wireless.
- On OS X 10.4.7 one has to disable the firewall to be able to scan. No documentation shows the TCP/IP or UDP ports needed to be opened so that the scanner can transfer the image to the computer.
- printer driver features are hidden behind friendly names like photo-print, tables-and-charts, etc. The "detailed-settings" shows a slider with "fast" at one end and "fine" (print quality) at the other. Detailed settings indeed.
- printer does not enter standby after a predetermined time unless all computers on the network are off or standby too. Even the LCD does not turn off.
2. The device lacks a dedicated hardware engine with queue support for each function. Some RAM for buffering wouldn't hurt either. So that means one user has to wait until the device is available. Here's a scenario (both users on laptops):
- user1 prints or scans
- user2 wants to print but is queued
- an HP (or true network-enabled printer) would accept both jobs (buffer them) and both users would be free to do whatever else they want. Because this printer doesn't have such features, user2's printjob would go into polling mode (querying the printer every now and then: are you available yet?). This translates into poor CPU usage and eating away battery like crazy on user2's laptop, until his computer can finally send the job to the printer.
3. Wireless connectivity is extremely bad. The access point is about 9ft away from the printer, link quality is at 63% and consequently, the super-fast advertised printing speed of 30ppm translates into about 2ppm (black-only, medium-quality prints). Forget about color photos, they take bloody ages. USB or LAN printing is obviously faster. LAN printing still suffers from the same queue problems.
On the bright side, technical support is handled by friendly people. Unfortunately, their most typical answer is Windows-like: "did you reinstall the drivers?" although they have a dedicated Mac team for driver and application software development.
Okay, enough with the negatives.
1. Scan quality (from film negatives, pun intended) is great. Scan from printed pictures, magazines, books, etc. is good too.
2. Print quality is great. Individual monitoring of ink levels is a very nice touch.
3. Duplex-printing. Yee! Enough said.
So, would you pay the $100 difference between the MP800 and MP800R in light of the above? I definitely wouldn't have done it, if I knew beforehand the above problems. Instead, I would've looked elsewhere. But all reviews tend to be so simplistic, and so they also are misleading.
If the people from Canon care enough, they could fix this with updated software (I can think of several ways of doing this). Unfortunately, queue support requires hardware changes.
Hope above helps.
Virgil
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
I recently, within the last week, went from a single computer connected to a regular laser printer, to a 3 computer wireless network with 2 printers.
This printer (MP800R) was a breeze to set up AND the wireless connectivity works for both the printer and scanner functions. I tried to network the MP800 with a print server but the scanner functions would not work, just the print functions. In addition, the color print quality is OUT OF THIS WORLD. I printed a picture of my son by a lake on a full size sheet of paper (8.5 x 11). The photo covered the entire page. This printer was capable of rendering THE DIRT that was on my son's shirt. Simply outstanding.
Highly recommend.
This printer (MP800R) was a breeze to set up AND the wireless connectivity works for both the printer and scanner functions. I tried to network the MP800 with a print server but the scanner functions would not work, just the print functions. In addition, the color print quality is OUT OF THIS WORLD. I printed a picture of my son by a lake on a full size sheet of paper (8.5 x 11). The photo covered the entire page. This printer was capable of rendering THE DIRT that was on my son's shirt. Simply outstanding.
Highly recommend.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Great for scanning; home-office friendly
I purchased this about four months ago, on sale for $260, and am quite pleased with its performance. Read more
Published on February 1, 2008 by Todd
Canon PIXMA MP800R: A Great All-in-One Printer
I researched color all-in-one printers carefully before selecting the Canon PIXMA MP800R. If I could use half stars, I would rate this a 4 1/2. Read more
Published on March 15, 2007 by JB Gilbert
Perfect for all around functionality - bit expensive
I use this in a home/office setting with Mac OS X and Windows XP machines connecting via 802.11g(WPA). Read more
Published on October 16, 2006 by Viking 22
Poor wireless performance
Positives:
Print quality is good to excellent, especially photos.
Printing from my Canon camera is easy. Read more
Print quality is good to excellent, especially photos.
Printing from my Canon camera is easy. Read more
Published on September 9, 2006 by DKDC
Satisfied
Print quality is very good. Ability to access scanner, printer and memory card reader over network is a plus. Read more
Published on August 23, 2006 by BlueFrog
feeling positive
Over the past couple of months I updated some of the electronics in our house. I replaced an older single desktop iMac with a new iMac, and added a MacBook laptop. Read more
Published on August 7, 2006 by CCC
Small annoyances
I really wish that I liked this machine more than I do, since I researched it carefully and decided that "price is not an issue." But it does small dumb things. Read more
Published on August 4, 2006 by Working at Home
easy wireless set up for Mac Book Pro & Dell Latitude!
We have a Mac Book Pro (laptop) as our home computer and a Dell Latitude (laptop) that I bring home from work. Both are wireless through our airport (mac). Read more
Published on July 11, 2006 by K. Ramirez
Amazing all-in-one printer
I've been looking for a good multifunction for a while.
This unit not only prints amazing photos but the black text quality rivals lasers. Read more
This unit not only prints amazing photos but the black text quality rivals lasers. Read more
Published on July 2, 2006 by M. Wang
Great printer but network scanning/printing has its quirks...
Overall we are very impressed with this printer. The quality of the printer hardware, software, user interface, and printing is outstanding. Read more
Published on June 30, 2006 by Brian Yamanaka
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