The Canon Pixma MX420 Wireless Inkjet Office All-in-One ($149.99 direct) is the core model of the three new Canon business multifunction printers (MFPs) I've recently tested. It lacks the speed and output quality, and some of the frills, of the Editors' Choice Canon Pixma MX882 Inkjet Office All-in-One ($199.99 direct, 4.5 stars), but packs in more features than the Canon Pixma MX360 Inkjet Office All-In-One ($79.99 direct, 3.5 stars). It offers a good range of features at a reasonable price for a home-business proprietor, and can pull double-duty as a household MFP as well.
The MX420 prints, copies, scans, and also faxes. It can scan to e-mail, and fax either from your PC or your computer. A 30-sheet automatic document feeder (ADF) lets you scan, copy, or fax multi-page documents.
At 7.8 by 18.1 by 16.4 inches (HWD) and 19.3 pounds, it's lesser than the MX882, yet is similarly styled, shiny black with rounded corners.
Towards the top, the sides viewpoint upward to meet the ADF and input tray. This gives the front panel—which holds a 2.5-inch color LCD screen, alphanumeric fax keypad, and various function buttons—an upward tilt.
Below the panel and to the right of the output tray is a port for a USB key or PictBridge-enabled camera. Next to it is a door that protects three slots that fit a variety of memory-cards formats, including Compact Flash.
Speed and Output Quality:
we clocked the MX420 on the latest version of our business applications suite (as timed with QualityLogic's hardware and software), which combines graphics pages, text pages, and pages with mixed content, at 1.8 effective pages per minute (ppm). This matched the Pixma MX360's speed, and lagged the Canon Pixma MX882's 2.9 ppm. The Epson Stylus NX625 ($149 direct, 4 stars), also an Editors' Choice, zipped through the same tests at 4 ppm.
The MX420's text quality is typical of an inkjet MFP. The text is fine for general business use, though not good enough to use in documents like resumes with which you're trying to convey a professional appearance.
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