Canon MX366 Multi-function Color Inkjet Printer (Borderless Printing)  (Ink Cartridge)

The Canon Pixma MX366 is a professional inkjet multifunction printer that packs features to fulfill all printing, scanning, faxing or copying needs of offices and home users. It structures an easy-to-use interface and offers some office-friendly features such as standalone fax and automatic document feeder. The moderate initial outlay and on-going costs make this Canon inkjet multifunction printer an attractive and an ideal-solution to increase the quality, efficiency and productivity of your business.

Body

This Canon Pixma - MX366 is compactly built with rounded edges which measures 458 x 415 x 198 mm and weighs 8.5 kg, which does not take much of the space when placed on any work desk in your office or at your home. The convenient Automatic Document Feeder takes several pages and feeds the paper one page at a time into scanner or copier allowing the user to scan and thereby copy, print and fax multiple-page documents without having to manually replace each page. There is a Flatbed scanner under the ADF to manually copy and scan documents.

The control panel of this Pixma MX366 inkjet colour printer is arranged on the slanted front edge of the top panel section along with a Full DOT LCD display. There is a soft power button with a backlit LED to the left of the display, while there is a fax section to the right. There are buttons to choose the Copy, Fax or Scan functionality too. Dedicated buttons to copy Colour and Black allow you to make copies of your documents.

The input tray situated at the rear holds paper for your printing needs. The input tray is retractable and can be folded to conserve space when not in use. The output tray is situated at the front and opens automatically when a print or copy job is assigned. Print your artistic clicks, snaps and documents without any border on all the sides of a paper using the Borderless printing option in this MX366 Canon Pixma printer. This printer can handle all the usual paper media and envelopes and prints on different media sizes which include A4, A5, B5 and DL.

Performance

This Canon printer has a print speed of up to 8.4 ipm (images per minute) for monochrome drafts and for colour draft this Canon MX366 printer has a maximum output speed of 4.8 ipm. This printer has a print speed of 43 seconds for photo (10 x 15) draft. With 2pl ink droplets, this Pixma - MX366 multifunction printer can print colour photos with a maximum print resolution of 4800 x 1200 dpi. You can make full use of this printer and print A4 size documents with a monthly duty cycle of up to 3000 pages.

Scan and Copy

The flatbed Contact Image Sensor (CIS) scanner housed in this All-in-One MX366 printer is capable of scanning colour documents with a scan speed of up to 19 seconds. With input and output bit depth of 48/24 bits for colour drafts and 16/8 bits for monochrome drafts, you can scan all your documents with an optical scanning resolution of 1200 x 2400 dpi. Scan up to 30 documents at once, just load them into the ADF and hit the scan button. At the touch of a button, the Auto Scan Mode automatically detects the type of document being scanned  like Photo, Post Card, Business Card, Magazine, Newspaper, Document and automatically crops and saves files based on image type.

The copy function operates at about 3.4 images per minute (ipm) for colour documents when you use the ADF and First Copy Out Time (FCOT) for colour documents is about 31 seconds. After you have photocopied a document, you can customize this Canon multifunction printer to copy a maximum of 99 copies.

Connectivity and Other Features

This Canon Pixma MX366 can transmit fax at a speed of 33.6 Kbps, with a maximum memory capacity for 50 pages. Dialling is also made easy with automatic dialling, speed dialling and Group dialling features. Speed dial memory can ensure that you rapidly send faxes to 20 numbers. This multifunction inkjet colour printer can send Black text fax messages with a maximum resolution of 300 x 300 dpi, and also sends colour fax messages with a maximum resolution of 200 x 200 dpi.

This fax printer also allows you to Auto Dial or send faxes after a pre-set time delay, in other words you can schedule the time to get your fax delivered. Send your faxes to 19 different groups of numbers with the group dial feature for greater convenience. The USB 2.0 port makes it easy to connect this Canon printer to your PC. Connect this Canon Pixma MX366 printer to PCs loaded with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Mac OS X 10.4.11 - 10.6 operating systems for maximum efficiency.