Canon Pixma MG5250 Review

Recent years have seen Canon's Pixma range become a byword for inkjet quality, so we were fascinated to determine if the latest MG5250 would continue with this trend. It is definitely a good-looking printing device. Just like most Pixma items, you'll find it clad in glossy black plastic and it'll sit perfectly within the trendiest of studies or living rooms.

Canon has put emphasis on just how straightforward it is to make use of, also. The right-hand side of the appliance houses the control panel, which is dominated with a small 2.4in colour display, and seated beneath is an iPod-style round control that is used to scroll over the broad array of alternatives. Additional buttons insure that it is easy to modify nearly every print, scan and also copy setting.

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It is well-designed elsewhere, as well; a USB port may be used to download photos right onto the printer out of your camera - they are previewed on the screen - plus there is a card reader at the rear of a little flap. The screen itself can be tilted upwards, and also paper tray will take 150 sheets of A4.

Design and style is matched up with good print quality. Photographic prints are often the strong suit of Pixma printers, and that's dead-on here: bright, vivid colours as well as dark, even blacks dominated photographs. We discovered minor graining across broad parts of colour as well as, occasionally, jagged edges on sharper parts, but it is nothing too annoying and also, crucially, superior to its competition.

Quality in other places was a mixed bag. Mono text wasn't as well-defined as we favored, along with fuzzy edges to the solid, dark letters, whilst draft quality seemed poor and also washed out. On non-photographic paper images and graphics ended up reasonably bright, but a little blurry. Again, it is acceptable for every day use, although not as effective as it might be. As we've come to expect from Canon's MFPs, scans possessed lots of depth and also you get Canon's outstanding ScanGear software.

The MG5250 could just produce average results in our speed tests, as well. Although its 13.4ppm rate from draft as well as 9.4ppm pace with normal quality is okay, these figures plummeted when we tasked it with even more demanding jobs: it chugged through our 24-page colour document at only 3.4ppm. Scan rates of speed are average for an MFP at 2.6 pages per minute.

The MG525 is brand-new therefor the £150 cost really should decrease slightly as soon as suppliers begin to compete. Canon Pixma MG5250 ink cartridge prices in addition seems costly at the moment so every one of the five cartridge costs work out somewhat high, but we fully expect them to drop in line with various other Canon ink jet printers, like the MP640.

The Pixma MG5250 is located down the middle of the road in many areas, with good design, adequate print quality and variable print speeds. At this price level, though, you could purchase the Pixma MP640 if you would like increased print quality or perhaps the HP Officejet 6000 if you're after speed. When compared to the opposition, the MG5250 basically doesn't do enough to stand out.

Canon Pixma MG5250 Review