

Their MX922, however, is an office-style model that can still print top quality photos. Good stuff here.Canon’s PIXMA line is split up into their MX line for office-style use, and their MG line for photo-style use. No striations, no banding, no muddled edges. Text is sharp, and there was nary a defect in large areas of black, which is where you’ll usually spot any problems with a print system. Photos are superb for a $200 photo printer, and the color palette is nicely balanced, neither overly warm or cold. The quality of the Pixma MG7120’s output is where it earns its keep. If you print lots of monochrome business documents, not so much. If you print occasionally-tickets, web pages, and the like-then the MG7120 has decent costs.

The XL-capacity cartridges are only slightly cheaper: 4.6 cents per page for black, and 12.7 cents for all four colors. This is not counting the extra photo-black and photo-gray, which contribute miniscule amounts to a non-photo page. In standard capacity, black pages cost about 5 cents, and four-color pages 16.6 cents. All are available in both standard and high-yield (‘XL’) capacities.

But Canon could do better with the ink costs.The Pixma MG7120 uses a six-color system: black, pigment black, cyan, gray, magenta, and yellow. To get the best results from the Pixma MG7120, you’ll need to use good photo paper, which will always set you back a few dimes. For occasional use, they’re probably overkill. The top-mounted scanner bed is A4/letter-sized with a lid that telescopes an inch or so to accommodate thicker materials.Ĭanon’s My Image Garden is the main software application used for scanning, editing, printing to optical discs, and keeping track of images, But the company also provides utilities for viewing images on the desktop and launching various features of the printer (scan, copy, edit, etc.) They’re especially handy if you’re dedicating an office PC for printer chores, limiting the amount of time you must spend hunting through the applications for the feature you need. The Pixma MG7120 comes with the usual array of remote printing features (email, Wi-Fi, though no NFC), and Canon has apps for both Android and iOS.
