Canon PIXMA MX700 Office All-On-One Inkjet Printer

by Canon

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 21.5 x 21.2 x 12.5 inches ; 29 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 29 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000V2TTNG
• Item model number: 2186B002
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (173 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 2, 2004

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

From the Manufacturer This networkable 5-in-1 is all business, able to quickly produce beautiful photos and bold, professional-quality text. You can print photos right from compatible memory cards; selecting and enhancing images on the 1.8 inch color LCD display - or directly from a digital camera or DV camcorder. The Automatic Document Feeder (ADF) holds up to 30 originals, and two paper trays can store both plain and photo paper. You'll achieve up to Super G3 fax speed in color and B&W, and the expanded memory can store 40 speed dial codes and receive 100 incoming pages. Copies will be remarkably true to the originals, and when scanning photos you'll produce impressive 2400-dpi results, with vibrant 48-bit color depth.

The Canon Pixma MX700 All-In-One Printer offers: 4800 x 1200 dpi prints for spectacular detail and clarity. Print directly from compatible memory cards The Automatic Document Feeder (ADF) holds up to 30 originals.

The networkable 5-in-1 MX700 is all business, able to quickly produce beautiful photos and bold, professional-quality text.. View larger.

Superb Resolution
To achieve 4800 x 1200 color dpi resolution, Canon Full-photolithography Inkjet Nozzle Engineering (FINE) uses a patented print head with 1,600 precision nozzles, ejecting ink droplets as small as 2 picoliters. The result: Amazing images.

Four High-Performance Ink Tanks
This All-in-One uses four high-intensity dye-based color inks for rich photos and graphics, and a pigment black ink for clear, laser-quality text. Replace only the color that runs out, rather than a multi-color tank containing unused ink, helping to reduce your print costs.

Fast Printing
For extra productivity in the home or small office, you'll be able to produce up to 30 ppm black / up to 20 ppm color. You can also print a superb 4 x 6 inch borderless print in only about 46 seconds.

Automatic Document Feeder
The built-in Automatic Document Feeder (ADF) holds up to 30 originals, so it's faster and easier to copy, scan or fax your larger documents.

Auto Image Fix
The built-in Auto Image Fix feature helps you produce amazing results on all your photos. First, it categorizes your images into one of five types - Portrait, Scenery, Night Scenery, Snapshot with Scenery, and Snapshot with Night Scenery - then applies optimal image correction accordingly. For example, it will automatically brighten faces that are backlit and underexposed, and correct color cast to help ensure more accurate skin tones.

Auto Image Fix ensures a good print every time.

Two Paper Trays
Two built-in paper trays let you store photo paper and plain paper of different sizes - so you're always ready to print.

View, Edit and Enhance Images
With the 1.8 inchLCD screen you can view images on a compatible memory card without having to download them to your computer, then enhance them before printing.

Network Connectivity
An Ethernet interface lets you connect to a home or office network, with connected computers sharing the use of this versatile machine.

High Performance Faxing
This Office All-In-One achieves Super G3 Hi-speed fax in color and B&W, and its memory can store 40 coded speed dials and up to 100 incoming pages.

Print from Memory Cards / Cameras
Want to print photos directly from a compatible memory card without using your computer? Just insert the card into a built-in slot, select images on the LCD display, and print! You can also print photos directly from your digital camera/DV camcorder.

Product Description

With this networkable PIXMA MX700 All-In-One Office Printer, you'll be able to print photos right from compatible memory cards, selecting and enhancing images on the 1.8" color LCD display or directly from a digital camera or DV camcorder. You'll achieve up to Super G3 fax2 speed in color or Black & White and the expanded memory can store 40 speed dial codes and receive 100 incoming pages. Copies will be remarkably true to the originals, and when scanning photos you'll produce impressive 2400-dpi results with vibrant 48-bit color depth. The automatic document feeder holds 30 originals, making it easier to copy, scan or fax large documents. Dual Color Gamut Processing Technology automatically optimizes quality based on the type of originals you are copying. The Ethernet interface lets you establish or connect to a home or office network. Produce beautiful scans with vibrant 48-bit color depth Scanner Max Resolutions - Optical 2400 x 4800 dpi, Interpolated 19,200 x 19,200 dpi 8.5x11.7 Max Document Size Fax Modem Speed - 33.6 Kbps (Super G3 color fax), Black 3 seconds per page, Color 1 minute per page Print wirelessly right from your PictBridge enabled mobile camera phone Quick Start - Powering up your printer is now much faster Paper Sizes - Credit Card (2.13x3.39), 4x6, 4x8, 5x7, 8x10, Letter, Legal, U.S. #10 envelopes and Photo Stickers Compatibility - Windows Vista, Windows XP, 2000 and Mac OS X v.10.2.8 to 10.4.x10

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

87 of 92 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars LOVE it after one day with it, September 18, 2007

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B. Larson "Mul-T-Tasker" (East Palo Alto, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Canon PIXMA MX700 Office All-On-One Inkjet Printer (Office Product)

I bought this to replace my HP Photosmart 2710 that died after 2 years. I had spent 400 bucks on the old HP and for only 200 this thing blows it out of the water. A few specifics:

SCAN: The scan quality is noticably better than the HP and I also like the software a lot more. Note that I am using this machine on a mac so I can't speak to what the PC experience is like.

FAX: The fax is much smarter. I used to have to unplug the HP so it wouldn't answer the phone when I didn't want it to. The Canon can simply be told that phone should take priority and it won't pick up... at least not before my answering machiine does on ring number 4. This is nice because it means I don't have to mess with phone cords when I want to send a fax.

PRINT: Works great. Set up three different computers to access on my network, although it did take me a minute to realize I had to use the "Canon IJ Network" option in the drop down for my computer to see the printer. If I had bothered to read the instructions it probably would have been quicker. ;)

COPY: Also seems to work great. Similar to the HP here although the quality of the print seems a little better.

I'll try to come back and add more detail after more use, but since there weren't any reviews yet I thought I'd add one now.

88 of 94 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Great for small jobs but slows down to a crawl on larger jobs., October 1, 2007

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T. Smith "T. Smith" (California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Canon PIXMA MX700 Office All-On-One Inkjet Printer (Office Product)

I got this to replace a HP unit that had constant problems. At first I was in love with the MX700. Excellent print quality, fast scanning, network compatible, etc. However, today I needed to do a large copying and scanning job and love turned to frustration. At first the copies were coming out at about 12-15 seconds per page. But after about 30 or so pages it slowed down to about a minute per page making copies. Then I needed to do a large scan job of about 100 pages. Similar experience. Pretty quick on first 30 or so pages then slowed down to 70 seconds per page while scanning black and white text at 300dpi. Display frequently says "Scanner warming up..." Come on now, I am in Southern California and not Siberia. It is 82 degrees right now in my home office! Unless I got a defective unit I plan to return this printer. I will call Canon when they open to see if the slow down and frequent "Warming up" messages is "normal" or a defect. If this is normal, I would not recommend this printer/scanner unless you only do small print and scan jobs with it. Based on the review from another unhappy user, it appears that it slows to a crawl when the memory is filled up. Too bad as other than for that this would be a great unit. I got impatient waiting for it to copy a larger document and turned the unit off and then back on. After doing that it was fast again making the copies until several pages later when again it when into slow mode. I'd like to go to bed now but it is going to take about 40 more minutes for it to scan the last 40 pages! Arrrgggg!

Update: 10/2008 - After a year with this printer I really don't like it. My 2 star rating stands. The printer uses a lot more ink than it appears it should. While my Macs printed fine right away over the network, the mediocre Canon software was never able to get my PC or PC laptop to print over the network. Today I spent 90+ minutes manually messing with my PC to finally get it to print over my my network. 30 years of PC experience came in handy but this is something the Canon installation software should have done automatically. Also with my Macs I get inconsistent connectivity to scan. I can always print over the network but it is hit and miss for the scanner to work over the network. I also had to disconnect my fax line from the MX700 as it will at random take over the phone line when you are in the middle of a conversation. Despite setting the fax function to manual mode, it has a bug that makes the MX700 listen in on all calls and take over a call if it thinks it hears a fax tone. VERY ANNOYING! Although I was not a fan of the HP unit this Canon replaced, I may go back to HP after my experience with this MX700. Oh, and as far as that pesky "Scanner warming up" message when the unit slows to a crawl, well the Canon tech person said that it literally means that the unit is warming up as in getting too hot. So it slows down to allow it to cool off. Seems like Canon really went low budget on this unit...

Update: 05/2009
I have been wishing this unit would die to replace it with something else. The print quality started to get poor the last couple months. I figured it was the print head. I print quite a bit. At about $100 it was not worth replacing the head. But I found one on sale for $50 and replaced the head and now the print quality is good again.

INK TANK TIP TO SAVE YOU CASH : I discovered that there is often still quite a bit of printing capacity left when you get the out of ink warning. When the unit stops working you can force it to continue to print. Simple hold down the Stop/Rest button until the out of ink message goes away and it starts to print. By doing this you can even refill the Canon cartridges. Simply use a syringe to drip ink on the fabric/sponge opening of the cartridge. Don't over fill it! Let it sit a couple minutes and put it back in the printer. If the out of ink message appears, hold down the Stop/Reset button to clear the message. You can now print until the tank runs out of ink. NOTE: You can damage a print head by running it dry. I recommend that every so many days/weeks you put several more drops of ink in the cartridge so it never runs out of ink. Now you can spend pennies refilling instead of bucks replacing the ink tanks.

Update 03/2010
Replaced it with a Brother color laser unit DCP-9040CN. The Brother printer is at least 5 times faster printing when there are images on the pages. Overall at least twice as fast as the ink jet. Cost was under $300 for the DCP-9040CN. Will never go back to ink jet.

115 of 133 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Do not buy: Get the MP830 instead, September 21, 2007

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A. Sindher (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Canon PIXMA MX700 Office All-On-One Inkjet Printer (Office Product)

Unfortunately, Canon tried to get too smart and hurt the product offering substanially in this case. They were afraid of hurting the MP830's sales so they removed lots of good features from this product. The MX700 cannot print double-sided unless you manually flip pages...my $60 Canon printer can do this, but not this one. Also, they striped the memory down so much that it can't actually use the full 30 page capacity of the Automatic Document feeder. Put in 15 pages and the memory is full...and the scanning slows down to 1 page per minute...which is very very slow.

Overall, I do not recommend this machine. Buy the old Canon MP830 or go with the new HP's. I've used both and feel they are a lot better values.