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Canon Pixma MP540 Ink Review
Canon, like the majority of of its competitors, has been able to develop a few all-in-one printers centered on exactly the same print engine and differentiate the models depending on the features. The PIXMA MP540 has exactly the same five-ink print system as with the £100 MP620, however this machine is priced at 25 % less, therefore something has to go.
Looking somewhat like previous Canon all-in-ones, having gloss black piping along with highlights similar of an oriental lacquer box, this machine looks clean and well-proportioned, when closed.
The A4 scanner is accessible after you lift the silver and black cover and to the right of this is a flip up cover with a 48mm LCD display set into the underside that shows a standard Canon control panel, that includes a click-wheel for menu selection. A flip-open cover under the control panel shows three memory card slots, which handle all the usual kinds, and underneath it is a PictBridge socket.
At the back you can find sockets for the main cable and USB. There is no Ethernet or Wi-Fi option on this particular machine and other things lacking in comparison with other models further up the range include features like CD/DVD print, an Automatic Document Feeder and also duplexing.
Canon does not make full unrealistic claims for the speed of the PIXMA MP540, stating 7.3ppm for the black print and 5.5ppm for the coloured ones. With that, they are still somewhat behind from the day-to-day speeds you could possibly expect, particularly if your print runs tend to be short. It is mainly because of the amount of fidgeting on the printer before beginning to print.
We measured a speed of 3.95ppm for our five-page black text document and then rose to 6.09ppm for the twenty-page one. The black text as well as the colour graphics job, again five pages, returned a speed of 2.94ppm, therefore only the longer text document got near to the claimed speed.
Photo prints are notably more faster, with a 15 x 10cm print getting 1:48 in Best mode and 1:03 in Standard mode. Only if you really need high quality reproduction do you have to change to anything other than Standard mode.
The level of quality of prints out of this machine is very good all through. Black text were clean, however it’s not equal to laser standards , coloured graphics are bright and spectacular, with excellent registration of black text over the top. Even the colour photocopy delivers workable colours and clean text, however there is a few minor blurring of black text over the colour.
Our test photo on Canon’s high quality Platinum photo paper is extremely good, having beautifully smooth colour variations, lots of detail in areas of shadow and natural colours all the way through. Even on the a little less expensive Pro paper, photo images were natural and have a good range of detail. These are the best photos we have personally seen out of any machine below a hundred pounds.
There are five Canon MP540 printer ink cartridges, 2 black and one each cyan, magenta and yellow. Since this is a PGI-520BK ,CLI-521 cartridges are used, in other Pixma printers. They can easily be bought at discounted prices as well as affordable fine quality compatible cartridges can easily be found.
There are not many all in one printers below £75 that has thesame quality as the MP540 and additionally not one of which offer twin paper sources as standard and the quality of the results as high as from this machine. It may not possess some of the great features of the MP620, nonetheless it has a lot more than most of the competition from other manufacturers.
Canon MP540 printer ink cartridges are available here.
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