Monday, July 4, 2011

Canon Pixma MG5120 All-In-One Photo Printer



The Canon Pixma MG5120 All-in-One Photo Printer is an attractive multifunction printer (MFP) for its budget price. It provides good photo quality, a solid feature set, and enough paper capacity that it can do double duty in home and residence office, provided that you don't need to share the printer—it's limited to direct connectivity with a PC over a USB cable.

The MG5120 can be able to print, copy, and scan. It uses 5 ink tanks, including a pigment black. One of the MG5120's strengths is that it can print directly from a variety of media sources, using its tilt-up 2.4-inch LCD screen to preview images. It has a port for a USB thumb drive or PictBridge-enabled camera, and its card reader supports a number of memory-card formats. You can connect it to a Bluetooth device with an optional Bluetooth adapter.

It also has a relatively new Canon feature, Full HD Movie Print, which enables users of compatible Canon EOS and Powers hot digital cameras to print out frames from HD (either 720p or 1080p) videos shot with these cameras. From Full HD Movie Print, a user can select a video, play through it forward or backwards, capture frames, and print them out.

The glossy black MG5120 measures 6.3 by 17.9 by 14.5 inches and weighs 17 pounds. It has a 150-sheet paper tray, enough for light-duty home-office work, and a built-in automatic duplexer. As the MG5120 is limited to USB connectivity, we tested it connected to a PC running Windows Vista.

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