Canon Pixma MP960 Photo All-In-One Inkjet Printer (1454B002)

by Canon

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 16.9 x 18.6 x 8.9 inches ; 40.7 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 36 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• 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: B000IVE2BY
• Item model number: 1454B002
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (44 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 19, 2006

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The Canon Pixma MP960 Photo all-in-one is a premium photo printer for producing long lasting, quality photo prints.

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High quality, detailed prints
The MP960 can print sharp, detailed prints up to 9600 x 2400 color dpi. Users also have the flexibility of printing on thicker fine art photo rag paper. The FINE technology print head makes quick work of photos and text with a next-generation 3,584-nozzle print head that ejects precise droplets as small as one picoliter. The advanced seven-color ink system incorporates six dye-based inks, including photo cyan and photo magenta colors perfect for life-like photos, as well as a pigment-based black ink that produces laser-quality text for business documents. You can produce borderless 4 x 6-inch photo lab quality prints in approximately 35 seconds.

Preview images before printing and photo editing.

A simple user interface makes using the printer a breeze.

Acts as a copy machine and scanner
The MP960 can copy up to 30ppm in black and 22ppm in color and has a built-in duplexer, producing double-sided documents and photos. As a photo or document scanner, the high resolution maximum 4800 dpi color CCD scanning element with vibrant 48-bit color depth is designed for scanning up to eight slides, twelve negatives, and film using the built in adapter.

Sophisticated interface
The bright flip-out 3.5-inch TFT screen allows users to preview images before printing and photo editing. It also has a new Easy-Scroll Wheel interface that includes editing, copying, printing, and scanning options.

Advanced copy technology
The MP960 employs advanced copy technology to give you precise reproductions of original images and documents. Canon's Dual Color Gamut Processing Technology improves color accuracy by independently controlling brightness, hue, and other elements to make sure there are minimal differences between the original and the copy.

Wired or wireless
When used with a supported Canon digital SLR, the MP960 supports the user-friendly Canon-to-Canon Direct Advantage. Connected via the PictBridge port, the Canon-to-Canon connection allows users to brighten faces, print shooting information on a print, or even print a contact sheet with up to 35 images all directly from the camera controls without a PC. The Canon-to-Canon workflow allows you to take advantage of added convenience and the power to produce outstanding image quality directly from the camera to the printer without the need for a PC.

What's in the Box
Pixma MP960 Photo All-In-One, power cord, print head, ink tanks, PGI-5 black, CLI-8 (Black, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Photo Cyan, Photo Magenta), film adapter unit, easy setup instructions, document kit, setup software and user's guide CD-ROM, quick start guide, and registration card.

Product Description

Premium All-In-One Photo Printer with 3.5" TFT Display and Easy Scroll Wheel

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Customer Reviews

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65 of 65 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing photo printer!!!!, December 5, 2006

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D. E. Hoerman (Northern Wisc. USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Canon Pixma MP960 Photo All-In-One Inkjet Printer (1454B002) (Office Product)

My wife and I subscribe to the idea that when you purchase something and it does what you bought it for, then it's what you needed at the time. We finally deciced it was time to replace our old printer, because we wanted to print some photo's and scan our old 35mm negatives.
If there is a better tool out there then this for the money, it would truly have to be an amazing piece of technology. We have a large amount of photo's professionally printed and framed on our walls. Mostly family members. We scanned our negatives and couldn't believe the results after printing! As good as any of our framed prints, better then most, as they are aged. The scanner seems to be very fast.
My wife is making scrapbooks for our children as holiday gifts. Using the scanner and printer has been no problem for her. We just ordered our second order of photo paper. The ink is lasting longer then we figured it would. We use Canon paper and ink, figuring it is a system that works very well together.
I've read complaints about the size of this machine and the cost of ink refills in general for printers. This machine is not small by any means. However, place your scanner and printer on top of each other and see how big it is. And I'll bet you can't print both sides of the paper with what you've got now.
As far as the ink goes, You have 7 ink tanks, instead of 2 to 4 or 5. More tanks to me mean fewer changes. And you only change the empty color instead of throwing out 3 partially used tanks to refill one empty one.
This all-in-one machine does everything well!!!

39 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Does its job very, very well., December 5, 2006

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Pgh, PA (Pittsburgh, PA United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Canon Pixma MP960 Photo All-In-One Inkjet Printer (1454B002) (Office Product)

I bought this printer/scanner primarily for it's ability to scan negatives. It does this job very, very well. A plastic holder is provided into which up to 12 negatives can be placed. The scanner is then activated and it scans each negative into a .jpg file of about 5Mb (it will also do the same for slides). It takes about 10 minutes or so to scan all 12 negatives, but it's completely automatic so you can be doing other tasks while you wait. The resulting images are really impressive. They are of quite high resolution and look beautiful. A potential negative for some is the lack of an auto feed for print scanning. If you have a bunch of prints to scan, you might want to look elsewhere.

Oh yeah, this is a printer also. Like its scanning, the MP960 does this job superbly with ultra high resolution and well defined colors. I haven't compared costs, but I suspect it is cheaper to have prints made on line. Still, for the convenience a local printer can't be beat and the quality is equal to what you'll get from most online printing sources. Also, the ability to choose specific paper for different tasks is very useful as well a being a way to save a few cents.

If your looking for a color printer/scanner this one is hard to beat.

41 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Scanning quality subpar, March 3, 2007

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D. cohen (nj, usa) - See all my reviews
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This is a very good unit... it is fast and printing quality is excellent.

The big downside is the quality of the scans... This has been mentioned in reviews but not elobrated upon..

The scanner is overall fast and can scan a high dpi. However, the scans are "dull looking". There are manual controls to change saturation, sharpness, etc... (though in general it is better to do these things in Photoshop).

I have scanned 100+ slides and 10-20 photos.
Here are the scanning issues:
1) Colors are dull
2) The scanner does not do well with dark photos
3) With deep colors (like water in a swimming pool) the scanner gets confused and (rarely) all colors are too deep.

90% of my photos can be "fixed" using Photoshop... However, it takes time. I have to increase the saturation and adjust the levels (or curves) on each photo... an average of 5 minutes per slide (but usually more if I want it to look really good) .... I have an old Epson scanner (5 years old but it was decent at the time... so far about half of my old scans are better than the new ones)

If you dont have a decent editing photo program, you may be in trouble if you are relying upon high quality scans

Would I buy this again? Maybe. If you are buying this with high hopes as a reliable photo scanner, look elsewhere. For all other purposes it is great