Canon Pixma Mg5220 Review

Canon has revamped its multifunction device lineup and the Pixma MG5220 will be the first solution to show off the new look.

Gone is the black and silver scheme of the prior models, replaced by a shiny piano black finish that's develop into all the rage. It's an enticing appearance right out of the packaging but if Canon was attempting to get us to dust more, it succeeded.

Canon committed some energy to updating its user interface, the single bad spot of earlier models. But it ruled out a touch monitor for the MG5220. As an alternative, it has produced what it calls an Intelligent Touch System, which makes use of back-lit touch-sensitive buttons, for some MG models (but not the MG5220) and Light Guidance, during which some buttons light up only when they are authentic options. The menu system has additionally been reworked.

On the software side, Canon has incorporated a Movie frame printing ability to pick out an HD movie frame, optimize the image automatically and print it or save it as a JPEG. It only functions on Canon MOV data files and only on Intel processors, although.

There isn't a transparency adapter on this system, nor can U.S. models print CDs and the ChromaLife100 ink set has 4 colors, depending on microscopic droplet sizes as opposed to light magenta and light cyan inks for smoother highlights. In case you require negative/slide scanning, CD printing or high fidelity printing (with red and green inks), the MG5220 just isn't the unit for you.

Created to be both equally at home in the school dorm or home office, the WiFi MG5220 delivers a quick photo-quality printer (including a flexible card reader), a competent reflective scanner that can cope with originals nearly about an inch thick and common copier features with a good enlargement/reduction range.

The auto duplex printer features quick, high-resolution, four-color printing plus a pigment black used for text. Each color is inside a different cartridge in the MG line and that means you only have to exchange the color that runs out. To protect the print head, the printer does not function with an expired cartridge.

Piano black with dahlia reflections

The scanner can look after 2400-dpi reflective scans with gutter shadow correction for book scanning with 48-bit scans that are converted to 24-bit color images.

The copier functions include auto exposure, 25 to 400 percent resizing and photo print copying, among others.

The MG5220 also includes a card reader that can handle more formats than most of its competitors. It's uncommon to see a low-cost multifunction machine that can accept CompactFlash and xD-Picture Cards, but the MG5220 does.

Small duplexer in rear

Typical of Canon, the MG5220 features many conveniences, some concealed away in the bundled software. HD Movie Print, a new one, makes it effortless to print frames from your Canon HD movies. Auto Scan mode can set the scanner automatically for the sort of document you're scanning and Auto Document Fix can examine the image and optimize the scan. Auto duplex printing makes it uncomplicated to use both sides of the paper. And Easy-WebPrint EX lets you layout Web pages for more productive printing or PDF generation.

And those conveniences extend to the MG5220's connectivity with built-in wi-fi printing and scanning, smart phone printing from iPhone and Android devices with the free iEPP Photo Printing app, built-in PictBridge, Bluetooth printing with an optional USB Bluetooth adapter and that built-in memory card reader.v