Canon Pixma G7050 Review

 The Canon Pixma G7050 is a colour multifunctional printer with all the features you could conjure of. It delivers the usual triad of printing, scanning and copying but can also shoot and admit faxes (remember those?). 

 

 Stylish of all, it’s one of Canon’s MegaTank printers, which offersuper-low running costs thanks to huge essay tanks. These can be refilled from bottles, barring the need for precious charges, which dramatically reduces gratuitous waste. 

With so numerous features, options and those substantial tanks to make space for, the Canon Pixma G7050 is a whopper of a printer. It measures 403 x 369 x 234 mm (WDH) and weighs9.6 kg. 

 

 The top of the printer has a 35- distance automatic document confluent but it’s fairly compact, folding down when not in use. Indeed when it’s open, however, it adds little to the overall height of the unit. Below is the flatbed scanner. 

The front of the device is dominated by a large control panel. This uses a simple two- line TV display and a whole bank of buttons, including a number pad so you can enter fax figures. 

 

 A chunky plain paper charger in the base lets you load 250 wastes of A4 paper, and you can publish onto thing media using the printer’s hinder confluent, which can handle 100 wastes at a time. 

As befits a printer that has it each, there are also plenitude of connection options. There’s a USB harborage on the reverse for direct connections to a PC and the necessary RJ-11 phone anchorages to connect the fax to a phone line and pass through to a wired phone handset. You can also publish from further computers and mobile bias using its Wi-Fi network, or hook it up to a wired network using Ethernet. 

 Filling the printer with essay is nicely straightforward. It comes with three bottles of black essay (one for now and two spare) and one each of cyan, magenta and unheroic. Lift the lid off the printer and you can pierce the essay tanks, which are all easily labelled but you need to give the bottles a squeeze to clear them. It’s fairly straightforward but not reliable, with no system in place to stop you putting essay in the wrong tanks, other than that clear signage. 

 

 Filling the printer with essay is nicely straightforward. It comes with three bottles of black essay (one for now and two spare) and one each of cyan, magenta and unheroic. Lift the lid off the printer and you can pierce the essay tanks, which are all easily labelled but you need to give the bottles a squeeze to clear them. It’s fairly straightforward but not reliable, with no system in place to stop you putting essay in the wrong tanks, other than that clear signage. 

 Once you ’ve filled with essay, still, it’s plain sailing to get the printer set up on your PC and other bias. I like the way Canon handles PC installation. It guides you to its setup website and walks you through every step, from ripping off the blue quilting vid to installing the rearmost motorists. Vids and plenitude of detail is available if you need it but competent druggies can get through the process snappily and easily. 

 

 When it’s set up, every standalone function on the printer is controlled using its two- line TV screen and four buttons ( back, left, right and OK), which sounds sorrowfully shy but actually works nicely well. It’s a laddie clumsy and a touchscreen would clearly make life easier than scrolling through one textbook option at a time but it’s easy enough to get used to. The whole panel tilts up, so you can operate it from a seated or standing position. 

 Canon Pixma G7050 review What’s the print quality like? 

 In terms of print quality, the Cannon Pixma G7050 is harmonious with other Canon MegaTank printers we ’ve reviewed. Publish quality, which can be over to x dpi, is good but it’s not as high quality across the board as the stylish cartridge printers, similar as the Canon Pixma TS8350. It’s good at printing in mono, with clear, sharp textbook. Still, prints do n’t come out as well as the TS8350’s, with blacks publishing with a bit of a red shade to them, and colours not appearing as strong and bold. 

Scanning, on the other hand, is excellent. Some printers loaded with office-suchlike features limit the scanning quality to be just good enough to copy a document, but the G7050 has a decent outside resolution of x dpi and it produced a good- quality checkup of our test print, landing plenitude of detail and good colour.