Customer Reviews

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

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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!!!

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.

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

Owned a Canon BJ600 years ago - hated the piece of junk. Only owned HP since then. Bought new computer with Vista (shame on you Microsoft - Vista really sucks). HP printer and scanner not supported by Vista. HP's solution...buy new HP products (not gonna happen). After reading Consumer Reports and other reviews discovered that HP all in ones don't cut the mustard. Figured I'd try Canon one more time. The MP960 is great. Installation was smooth. Scanning "Ok". Purchased mainly for quality text and image printing...EXCELLENT!(for quality text remember to select "Greyscale" printing option). When end of product life occurs will attach chain and convert to boat anchor.

This is my first photo printer and I am very happy with it. The photos printed from this printer are clear and amazing. In my opinion they are better than the photos I print out from the Kodak Photo Maker at Wal-Mart.
I live in a small town and cannot find Canon photo paper but have used Kodak and Hp photo paper and the photos were beautiful. One note though, don't waste your time on 'everyday' photo paper. The best photos are printed on the ultra premium Kodak paper and the Premium Plus HP photo paper. I haven't tried other brands yet and will.....as soon as I make a trip out of town where they are available.

This photo printer is very easy to use, easy to learn. It is also very quiet. I have not used the scanner yet but have used the copier. It works wonderfully. I have copied photos and downsized them in seconds to print out wallet-sized photos.

The only drawback for me is I have the XD picture cards and this printer will not accept them. I have to buy and adapter for it.

The separate ink cartridges is a nice feature. No need to throw away your ink cartride because one color ran out - just replace the one that goes empty.

All in all, very pleased with this printer.

The results produced by this printer are excellent. Making a print from a color slide or a color negative is easy and produces surprisingly fine quality results. The ability to restore faded colors and other flexibility features is very impressive. Prints from memory card show great color accuracy and very fine detail. Disappointment is that modifying an image (such as lightening, darkening, increasing or decreasing contrast, etc.) can not be reviewed on LCD screen prior to printing.

I chose to go for this product after extensive reviews. The objective was to get a good all-in-one printer. I compared HP, Epson and Canon printers and decided to go for Canon after reading the reviews. As noted in all other reviews, I'm very happy with the quality of photographs, normal prints. The speed is also very good. Scanning quality can be improved though. Again, direct printing, which I don't do often can be improved too. Overall, I recommend this printer to any serious hobbyist who wants quality photo printing and can afford a little extra bucks.
Pros: Quality, speed, features, ease of use, built in duplexer, film negative scanning
Cons: Scan quality, direct printing navigation, expensive

I should add that the scanning unit stopped working after 6 months. This is a big disappointment for me and I'm not able to get this repaired locally(I live in India)

I ordered this printer from Amazon but never actually used it. I read one review that said the MP960 printed pictures better than the MP970 and was slightly faster. That may be true, but the MP970 prints pictures extremely well and the difference in speed comes down to a few seconds. That said, the following sold me on the MP970:
1) MP970 has built-in networking
2) MP970 can read xD picture cards
3) MP970 has on-board storage for 35mm negative holder
4) MP970 has a smaller footprint than the MP960 (it is also not as tall)

This printer has excellent photo quality and the side benefit I never anticipated was the incredible ease of use to scan and print documents. The menu wheel feature is too easy! I can scan and print in less then a minute. Canon printers come with great monitoring and application software. That's one reason I switched from years of HP printers.

It took me an hour or maybe a little more to get the MP960 set up but the instructions were clear and easy to follow. I bought this item for its high resolution scanning capability. So far, I have only used the machine to scan old (circa 1950) black and white photos. I have done very little printing since I'm saving these old photos to CDs and an external harddrive; however, I'm very pleased with the scanned result.