Canon MP980 Wireless All-in-One Photo Printer

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 18.5 x 15.2 x 7.9 inches ; 34 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 31 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B001DJ6C2W
• Item model number: 2922B002
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (109 customer reviews)
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• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 26, 2008

Product Description

Manufacturer Product Description

Manufacturer Product Description Get ready for premium performance – and fabulous results. The new ChromaLife100+ 6-color ink system includes a unique grey ink, which helps you achieve the exceptional monochrome and color values sought by discerning photographers. And it’s blazing fast: You can create long-lasting 4 x 6 inch photos with spectacular 9600 x 2400 color dpi resolution in about 20 seconds. The high-resolution CCD scanner will yield spectacular 4800 x 9600 color dpi results, and copies will be more faithful to your originals.

PIXMA MP980 All-In-One Photo Printer: 9600 x 2400 color dpi resolution. The Easy-Scroll Wheel’s user interface makes it easy and fun for anyone to use. This All-In-One’s built-in Wi-Fi capability lets you print wirelessly from a laptop or desktop computer anywhere in the house, with simple setup.

This stylish home printer delivers a resolution of up to 9600 x 2400 color dpi, with droplets as small as 1 picoliter for spectacular photo detail and document clarity.

Talk about print options: Go wireless and print from anywhere in the house via WiFi, or you can network this All-In-One using Ethernet cable and print from a wired computer in another room. Want to go computer-free? Produce photos directly from memory card, previewing and enhancing images on the 3.5 inch TFT display. Or, print from a compatible digital camera or camera phone, even a Bluetooth device via the optional BU-30 Bluetooth interface.

Beautiful, Long-Lasting Photos
The Canon ChromaLife100+ system combines enhanced FINE print head technology and five new ink tanks with select new Canon photo papers. This unique system lets you create beautiful photos that will last up to 300 years when stored in an archival-quality photo album.

Six Individual Inks Tanks + Special Gray Ink
Six individual ink system featuring gray ink provides professional color and monochrome photos. The six ink system features a Canon exclusive gray ink that gives you professional black and white photos.

Premium Print Performance
You’re going to love the print quality – and the speed. Beautiful 4x 6 inch photos with spectacular 9600 x 2400 color dpi resolution take only about 20 seconds.

No Warm-Up / Low Energy Usage
Thanks to the high-luminance white LED lamps, the unit is ready to scan the instant you press Power, with zero warm-up time. Plus, these advanced lamps quickly switch to Standby mode after scanning, saving energy.

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Wireless Printing
This All-In-One’s built-in Wi-Fi capability lets you print wirelessly from a laptop or desktop computer anywhere in the house, with simple setup.

3.5 inch LCD Screen
The 3.5 inch high-resolution LCD display lets you view images from your compatible memory card, without having to download them to your computer. For better results, you can enhance the images before printing.

Easy Scroll Wheel
The Easy-Scroll Wheel’s user interface makes it easy and fun for anyone to use. You can view and control all of the functions of the MP980 by gliding a finger around the wheel in either direction.

Auto Duplex Print
The two paper trays let you store photo paper in one, plain paper in the other – so you’re always ready to print either photos or documents. Plus, you can automatically print 2-sided to save paper.

Smart Copying
Dual Color Gamut Processing Technology automatically optimizes quality based on the type of originals you are copying

Automatic Image Optimization
Just one of the features on the included Easy-PhotoPrint EX software – Auto Photo Fix - optimizes your images for such factors as skin tone, white balance and brightness, and makes red-eye corrections.

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

Click-Connect-Print  
Enhanced photo printing from memory cards, cameras and camera phones, no computer needed!

Product Description

Canon MP980 all-in-one photo printer is ultimate wireless printer with 3.5-inch LCD.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

85 of 87 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great prints and convenience on home wi-fi network, November 3, 2008

By	A. Patterson - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I have now been using this printer/scanner for over two weeks. This replaces an old HP multifunction device which had problems with my Mac when printing over the network.
I work from home and have several computers running, Vista, XP and OSX and wanted them to share a printer/scanner. I must admit the driver setup is not the cleanest, and I needed to download versions newer than on the supplied disk to enable printing from 64bit applications on the mac. The only setup I got stuck on was that it is not clear that you need to have the printer connected by USB to create the initial connection to a secure wi-fi network.
Now that its up an running it works a dream enabling me to print and scan from any computer anywhere in the house. The scanning is decent (I don't have a huge quality need, but I can't complain about anything I've scanned), the printing is stunning. Colors are accurate for photos and the double sided printing is a great paper saver for general printing.
The only things which I feel could improve this device, for my purposes, are a document feeder for bulk scanning and a built in fax capability.

55 of 55 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Well worth the price!, December 1, 2008

By	Christian Williams "Action Guy" (Bay Area, CA. USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Before I had this printer I purchased a Kodak All-in-one. The one that advertises lab quality prints at half the price. It worked really well the first month of having it. After that I have never been more frustrated with an electronic device. It's main issues were a design flaw in the print head, noisy operation, inks didn't last very long, paper feed problems, bad software, and it wouldn't let me print photos on anything other than kodak paper. So after replacing the print head three times I called it quits and decided I wanted something I could count on. Enter the Canon MP980. This printer was twice as expensive as the kodak, but worth every penny. The prints are AMAZING, and 4x6 Photos print faster than any printer I've ever used. There is also a dedicated Gray Ink cartridge allowing for true gray scale/Black & White photo prints. Printing is completely effortless. Everything just works. Setup was a breeze. I can replace each ink individually (not that I've had to yet). It has all the basic features like multi flash memory card reader, pic bridge, separate try for regular paper and photo paper, double sided printing and then some advanced features. Such as "quiet" mode. Optional blue-tooth, and built in Wi-Fi. BIG LCD. Connecting wirelessly is made easy. The scanner is fully functional and in addition to doing all the basics, it will do film and negatives as well. It also features LED's so there is no "warm up" time. Although a message will show up saying to stand by for the scanner to warm up but it's only for about 1 second. Things I thought are a nice touch. The standard paper tray slides inside the printer. When in a Standby mode, all the trays and openings to the printer are closed. When you execute a print, the door where the paper exits, opens automatically. There is no worry of things inside the printer getting dusty. The software bundled with the printer is really nice, straight forward, and works well. So far, no problems. I couldn't be happier with this amazing machine.

Of course nothing is perfect. I thought it might be neat to print directly on DVD's like some other printers do, not with this one. It's largest borderless photo print is only 8.5" x 11". When turned on for the first time of the day, it goes through a priming routine where it gets the ink tanks and print head ready (I'm assuming). The process could take up to a minute. My biggest gripe is that the photo paper try loads from the rear. When you want to print from specialty paper you have to pull open the tray. It doesn't store paper inside like the standard paper tray. So when you want to print photos, you have to open the tray and load it with whatever specialty paper you're using. The tray pulls out in a virtical position so you can still position the printer up against a wall if you're limited on space. When finished, you then unload the specialty paper and slide the tray back inside the printer. You could leave it out and loaded, but then you risk getting dust on your specialty paper unless you have a printer cover.

I highly recommend this printer. It's well refined and quality is top notch.

35 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent performance and quality; crappy software, November 30, 2008

By	Rus Healy (Canadice, New York) - See all my reviews

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This printer does everything I wanted it to do, and does it well in excess of my expectations. Plain paper printing is excellent, and the photo prints are simply gorgeous. I cannot tell the difference between this printer's photo output and store-bought prints. Furthermore, the memory card, wireless functionality, and the built-in display work great. The UI is intuitive and works well for printing photos directly from a camera's memory card. The card also appears as a disk drive on the networked machines, making for easy transfer of photos and video clips to fixed storage (a PC or NAS box, for example).

On the other hand, the software installation process is a complete dog. It takes almost 20 minutes (!) to complete. This is not at all pleasant and it's not intuitive. I found it to be the same level of hassle on Windows XP and Mac OS X platforms. The process has a few pitfalls as well as taking a long time. It's not worth going into the details (some other reviewers have), but you should be aware of it before going into the project.

It's a shame I have to rate the product at 4 stars when it's really an outstanding multifunction device, but the software is inseparable from the product at the end of the day.