Canon PIXMA MG3620

The Canon Pixma MG3620 ($ 60) is a bare-bones wireless multifunction device for people that don't intend to pay added for functions they don't require. You won't discover an LCD control board for running stand-alone operations, and also there's no automatic document feeder (ADF) for copying or scanning multipage documents. Yet you will certainly get a duplexer for making two-sided prints, and also the MG3620 performs most jobs at better-than-average speeds. Most important, this gadget provides top quality prints.

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The scanner cover uses up the majority of the top of the unit; you lift it to reveal the scanner platen. To the left of the cover, a control board with switches allows you switch between plain letter-size paper and 4 x 6-inch photo paper, however not other sizes. There is just one paper tray, so you will have to exchange in photo paper when it's time to print out photos. You press the 4 x 6-inch picture paper completely into the paper tray, yet the ridge created by the input tray's joint makes it challenging to eliminate extra sheets.

The control board additionally features buttons for color and also black-and-white duplicates. Since there's no LCD screen on the MG3620, you need to push the suitable Replicate button repetitively to make several copies. Using the control board, you can make copies to photo paper, but only onto 4 x 6-inch image paper. You can't execute much more complicated copy jobs because there is no actual copying software application.

An extension to the MG3620's input tray swings outward, but the two-piece outcome tray is quite brief. It expands simply long enough to sustain letter-size prints, which hang off the end.

At duplex printing, the MG3620 was substantially slower compared to the HP Envy 5540, taking greater than twice the time (3 mins and 1 second) to publish our five-page text file. By comparison, the MG3620 was quickly at publishing graphics on simple paper. It published our six-page text-and-graphics document in 2 minutes and 24 secs, or 2.5 ppm, versus the inkjet average of 2:46, or 2.2 ppm. Canon's printer was just 5 secs slower compared to the HP Envy 5540, which is the fastest design we've examined to date.

The MG3620 published a letter-size shiny image at roughly typical speed, taking 3 minutes and also 37 seconds. The HP Envy 5540 published the photo in 2:12. However, the MG3620 bested the HP when generating 4 x 6-inch photos. It balanced 43 secs, versus 1:05 for the Envy 5540.

The Canon MG3620 uses both color as well as pigment inks-- the former in the color cartridge as well as the last in the black cartridge. The theory behind that technique is that dye inks provide more vivid color, while pigment ink produces sharper, much heavier message. On basic paper, message printed by the MG3620 looked as sharp and also hefty as the output on contending designs such as the HP Envy 5540, but didn't exceed it. Some edges looked a little harsh, and also I saw some small speckling from wayward ink spray. Results were a lot more remarkable on top notch inkjet paper: The MG3620 created book-worthy text with incredibly sharp sides comparable with a printer's result when publishing from a text file.

Surprisingly, prints general looked lighter when the MG3620's duplexer was made use of. Text looked a little fuzzy around the edges, as well. Using premium inkjet paper did not improve the sharpness of the text. The MG3620 utilizes the dye-based shade inks only when making two-sided prints (and mixes them to make a composite black). As well as it deliberately prints lighter to prevent the ink from revealing with the opposite side of the paper.

The graphics top quality was in a similar way high for MG3620 prints. Colors looked abundant, dark tones looked vibrant and also message was amply sharp. The MG3620 likewise published shiny photos with vibrant colors and sharp information. Nevertheless, shades were not quite as saturated as we would have suched as, neither were fine details quite as sharp, leading to a little much less comparison and also "pop" to the prints.

Scans of pictures looked outstanding, with abundant, exact colors as well as sharp information. Dark, shadowy locations kept their subtle information. Copies from the MG3620 dealt with darkness areas in graphics that were too dark, resulting in shed information. Text kinds in copies shed the intensity of the initial, acquiring some bumpy sides.