Canon PIXMA MP500 All-In-One Photo Printer, Copier, and Scanner
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Digital Photo Product Details
Manufacturer: CanonRelease Date: 2005-08-29
Model: 0579B002
Product features:
- Print resolutions up to 9,600 x 2,400 dpi color and 600 x 600 dpi black
- Optical scan resolution of 1,200 x 2,400 dpi
- Print and copy at speeds up to 29 ppm black and 19 ppm color
- Preview images on 2.5" digital screen
- One-year warranty
- Canon PGI-5 Pigment Black Ink Tank
- Canon CLI-8C Cyan Ink Tank
- Canon CLI-8M Magenta Ink Tank
- Canon CLI-8Y Yellow Ink Tank
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Canon PIXMA MP500 All-In-One Photo Printer, Copier, and Scanner
Customer Review: Great Photo Printer, Mediocre Everywhere Else
Summary: 2 Stars
One could argue the PIXMA line of printers are made for solely printing digital photos, and it does so exceptionally well. The colors are nice and the photos come out looking great. If you're looking for a printer that prints just digital photos, then you'd be happy with this one.
If, however, you're looking for a basic printer to print and scan documents (emails, receipts, etc.), you'll be sorely disappointed. The main issue here with the PIXMA MP500 is with the ink cartridges, and believe me there are plenty! You have your typical CMYK colors plus an extra black for cartridge for black & white printing.
Count them. There are five cartridges to purchase, and they're not cheap. And they're small cartridges (except for one large black cartridge) that go down so fast you'll swear you're changing out a cartridge or two once every 20 print jobs. It's painfully obvious printer manufacturers are making their money from these expensive cartridges, and you will fork out a fortune to keep up with your printing needs.
It gets worse. The PIXMA MP500 has some dumb, frustrating logic programmed inside it. If one of your color (CMYK) cartridges runs out, you won't be able to print black & white using your black cartridge (remember, there are two blacks: one for B&W printing and one for Color printing). One would think as long as you're not printing color, you should be able to print B&W, but the PIXMA MP500 is so smart it won't let you print anything unless all FIVE cartridges are full.
It gets better: Not only can you not print if ANY OF THE FIVE cartridges are empty or reporting an error, but you cannot even scan documents! That's ridiculous! Also, the printer is buggy. I have a near new magenta cartridge I just put in a couple weeks back, and the thing is sometimes reporting it as empty and the other times reporting it as being a duplicate color! Ugh. That means until I replace that cartridge, I cannot use the PIXMA MP500 to print, copy or even scan!
THE BOTTOM LINE: I don't believe I'll purchase another Canon PIXMA printer/scanner. I give this printer a very low two stars, because although it does a great job printing color photos, it's too expensive to operate with its five pricey cartridges that run out of ink way too often. And when a cartridge runs out the printer/scanner is rendered useless because it won't operate until you replace the cartridge.
Description of Canon PIXMA MP500 All-In-One Photo Printer, Copier, and Scanner
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