Overview
Printer Features
Fax Features
Scanner Features
Copier Features
Included Software
Inputs and Outputs
Dimensions

Overview

Product Overview: The Canon MX850 is an all-in-one machine for your home office that allows you to quickly print beautiful photos and laser-quality text, copy important documents, scan photos, forms, or even thick notebooks. You can also send and receive faxes in color or black-and-white, and print directly from memory cards, and PictBridge-equipped digital cameras and camera phones.

Automatic Document Feeder: The MX850 has an automatic document feeder that holds up to 35 original 8-1/2" x 11" documents (or 30 legal-sized documents), making it easier to copy, scan, or fax large or multiple documents.

Dual Paper Sources: This unit has two paper sources: a rear tray and a cassette. The paper capacities of each source include:

Built-in Duplex Printing: You can print two-sided documents or photos without having to manually flip the pages by using either the auto sheet feeder or the paper cassette.

Operation Panel: The MX850 has a convenient operation panel on the top front of the printer. You can check the status of the unit on a unit's 2.5" LCD display. In addition to the copy, fax, scan, memory card, and print buttons, the panel includes a 12-button telephone keypad.

Ethernet Port: This unit includes an RJ-45 jack which allows you to connect to or establish a home or office network.

USB Interface: The USB 2.0 High Speed (female Type A connector) interface enables the fastest possible image transfers and scanning speeds.

Printer Features

Resolution: Canon's Full-photolithography Inkjet Nozzle Engineering (FINE) uses a 4,608 precision nozzle print head that ejects precise, consistent droplets as small as 1 picoliter. The print head hold 5 individual ink tanks, and comes with black pigment, black dye, cyan, magenta, and yellow ink cartridges. The MX850 produces an amazing resolution of up to 9600 x 2400 dpi for color and 600 x 600 dpi for black, for remarkable detail and clarity.

Print Speeds: The printer has the following print speeds:

• Black Text: up to 31 pages-per-minute (approximately 1.9 seconds per page)
• Color Text: up to 24 pages-per-minute (approximately 2.5 seconds per page)
• 4" x 6" Borderless Photo: approximately 21 seconds

PictBridge: You can connect this printer directly to any PictBridge compliant digital camera. PictBridge is a standard that allows you to connect a PictBridge-compliant digital camera directly to a PictBridge-compliant printer and make prints, regardless of brand.

Printing From Memory Cards: Two Memory Card slots, located on the front panel, allow you to print photos directly from the following memory cards:

• Memory Cards that can be directly inserted into the card slots:
  • Compact Flash (CF) Card: supports Type I and II, 3.3-volts
  • Microdrive
  • Memory Stick/Memory Stick PRO
  • SD (Secure Digital) Card
  • SDHC memory card
  • MultiMediaCard
• Memory Cards that can be inserted in the card slot using an adapter:
  • xD-Picture Card: requires compact flash card adapter for xD-Picture cards
  • Memory Stick Duo/Memory Stick PRO Duo: requires Memory Stick adapter
  • Mini SD Cards: requires SD card adapter
  • Micro SD Cards: requires SD card adapter
  • RS-MMC: requires MMC card adapter

Printing From Bluetooth-enabled Phone: You can print wirelessly from a Bluetooth 2.0-enabled camera phone up to a distance of approximately 33 feet (10 meters). The optional Canon BU-30 Bluetooth adapter unit is required.

Printable Image Data: The MX850 supports JPEG and TIFF images created by DCF ver.1.0/2.0 standard compliant digital cameras. Other image or movie types such as RAW images cannot be printed.

Auto Image Fix: The built-in Auto Image Fix feature helps you produce amazing results on all your photos. After categorizing your photo into one of five types (Portrait, Scenery, Night Scenery, Snapshot with Scenery, or Snapshot with Night Scenery), the unit applies optimal image correction accordingly. It will brighten faces that are backlit and underexposed, and correct color cast to help ensure more accurate skin tones.

Ink Level: If one or more of the ink tanks need to be replaced, a graphic indicator will appear on the display. You can also check the levels by looking at the lamps for the individual ink tanks. If a tank is low, the lamp will flash slowly (approximately every 3 seconds). If the tank is empty, the lamp will flash quickly.

Fax Features

Phone Line Connections: The MX850 can be connected for faxing in several ways:

• Telephone line only (analog)
• With external telephone and/or answering machine
• With external telephone and/or answering machine via computer
• xDSL line
• ISDN line

Transmit Terminal ID (TTI): You can register your TTI in this unit so the recipient of your fax will know who sent it and when it was sent. The TTI includes the date/time, your fax/telephone number, your name, name of destination when sending from coded speed dialing, and the page number. This information is printed on the top line of every page you fax out.

Speed Dialing: Speed dialing allows you to dial fax/telephone numbers by simply pressing a few buttons. You can store up to 60 digits for each phone number and up to 16 characters for each name associated with the phone numbers. You can speed dial by the following methods:

• One-Touch Speed Dialing: You can assign telephone numbers to one of the 8 One-Touch Speed Dial keys (01 to 08) on the front control panel.
• Coded Speed Dialing: Coded speed dialing allows you to dial fax/telephone numbers by simply pressing a few buttons. You can store up to 100 fax/phone numbers, and can dial them by entering the two-digit code (00-99) assigned to that number.
• Group Dialing:  You can group together numbers that have already been registered as a One-Touch or Coded Speed Dialing number, so that you can dial every member of the group at one time. The groups can be registered to either an unoccupied One-Touch Speed Dial Key or an unoccupied Coded Speed Dialing code.

Scan Contrast/Fax Resolution: You can set the scan contrast from light to medium to dark to increase or decrease the difference between the bright and dark areas of the document. The fax resolution can be set to one of three selections (standard, fine, or photo), depending upon the type of document you are sending.

Sequential Broadcasting: You can send the same document to a maximum of 109 recipients in one operation. You can dial the recipients' numbers using any or all of the dialing methods: One-touch speed dial (up to 8), Coded Speed dial (up to 100), or regular dial (one destination). You can enter the destinations in any order.

Redialing: There are two methods of redialing: automatic or manual. When set to automatic redialing, you can customize the settings: whether or not to redial automatically, the number of times the machine redials (1-10 times), and the time interval between redials (1-99 minutes). To manually redial the last number called, you can simply press the Redial button.

Faxing From Computer (Windows Only): If the unit is connected to a computer, you can send faxes using the fax driver from any application software that has a printing function.

Receiving Faxes: You can choose from the following Receive Modes:

• Fax Only Mode: if you have a dedicated telephone line for fax use only.
• Tel Priority Mode: if you receive mainly voice calls and sometimes faxes.
• Fax Priority Mode: if you receive mainly faxes and sometimes voice calls.
• DRPD: if you subscribe to a Distinctive Ring Pattern Detection service with your telephone company
• Network Switch: if you want the machine to automatically switch between fax and voice calls by the call ring patterns

Memory Receiving: If the unit receives a fax and is unable to print the received fax due to a problem (low ink, no paper, etc.), the fax will be stored in memory. When the problem is resolved, the fax stored in memory is printed automatically. Up to 250 pages of faxes can be stored in memory.

Reports and Lists: You can print the following reports and lists from the unit: Activity Report, One-touch speed dial numbers, Coded speed dial numbers, Group dial list, User's data list, Memory list, TX (transmission) report, RX (reception) report, and Multi TX report (after sequential broadcast).

Fax Specifications:

• Modem Speed: 33.6 kbps (Super G3 color fax)
• Transmission Speed:
  • Black: approximately 3 sec/page
  • Color: approximately 1 min/page

Scanner Features

Overview: The MX850 allows you to produce impressive 4800 x 9600 dpi scans with vibrant 48-bit color depth of photographs and documents to a computer. The images can be saved as JPEG, TIFF, bitmap, or PDF files. Scanned data on your computer can be processed using image processing software. You can copy/scan thick originals without a problem. You can also use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software to convert scanned paper documents to text data. The maximum size paper that can be scanned is 8.5" x 11.7" on the flatbed and 8.5" x 14 (legal size) using the Automatic Document Feeder.

Optical Resolution: 4800 x 9600 dpi (19,200 x 19,200 dpi interpolated)

Copier Features

Overview: The MX850 is also a copy machine, allowing you to make color or black and white copies. You can make up to 99 copies of an original.

Copy Settings: You can change the copy settings such as the reduction/enlargement, intensity, page size, and image quality.

Changing Size of Copy: You can reduce or enlarge the copies using four different methods:

• Same Magnification: copies in the same size as the original
• Preset Copy Ratios: you can select one of the preset ratios
• Custom Copy Ratios (Zoom): you can specify the copy ratio as a percentage to reduce or enlarge copies (1% increments from 25 to 400%)
• Automatic Ratios (Fit-to-Page): the machine automatically reduces or enlarges the image to fit the size of paper

Exposure (Intensity): This feature is the degree of difference between light and dark. Increasing the exposure setting further blackens dark area and brightens white areas. Conversely, decreasing the exposure setting reduces the difference between bright and dark areas. You can adjust the exposure between nine gradations, or Auto Intensity. Note: Auto Intensity is not available when documents are fed via the ADF.

Image Quality: You can adjust the image quality according to the document to be copied. you can choose from three options:

• Standard: suitable for text-only documents
• High: suitable for photographs
• Fast: suitable for high speed copying at a lower image quality

Special Copy: You can copy various layouts:

• Reduced/Enlarged Copy: Allows you to reduce or enlarge the size of the image
• Two-sided Copy: You can copy onto to both sides of the paper without having to manually flip the pages.
• 2-on-1 Copy: This feature enables you to copy two documents onto one single sheet by reducing the size of both documents.
• 4-on-1 Copy: This feature enables you to copy four documents onto one side of a sheet of paper by reducing the size of all 4 documents. You have 4 arrangement patterns to choose from.
• Borderless Copy: Allows you to copy color images so that they fill the entire page without borders.
• Image Repeat: Enables you to copy an image multiple times onto a single page. you can set the machine to automatically select the number of times it repeats the image, or you can specify the number. You can also specify vertical or horizontal copying
• Collated Copy: You can make multiple copies of a multi-page document
• Frame Erase: When copying thick originals, such as books, you can make a copy without the black margins around the image. This also helps reduce unnecessary ink consumption.
• Sticker Copy: You can make 16 stickers from 4" x 6" photos or graphics using Canon sticker paper.
• Fade-Restored Copy: You can obtain color-corrected printouts when copying documents that have faded over time.

Copying Speed: The printer has the following copy speeds

• Black: 31 copies per minute (as fast as 1.9 seconds per page)

• Color: 24 copies per minute (as fast as 2.5 seconds per page)

Included Software

Easy-PhotoPrint EX (Windows/Macintosh): You can quickly and easily print borderless photos just by choosing the picture and paper type. This program also offers red eye correction, will smooth facial skin tones and is compatible with ExifPrint (to transfer recording data from the camera). Note: The Windows version is included on the CD-ROM. A Macintosh version is downloadable from the Canon website.

ScanSoft OmniPage SE (Windows/Macintosh): ScanSoft OmniPage SE allows you to convert the text images imported from a scanner or digital camera into editable characters. Note: When using with Windows 2000 Professional, SP4 is required.

MP Navigator EX (Windows/Macintosh): MP Navigator enables you to easily scan in photographs, documents, image data, etc. You can save scanned image data on your computer and attach it to an e-mail. You can also print photographs and edit images using the accompanying applications. Note: When using with Macintosh, QuickTime v6.4 required.

Presto! PageManager (Windows): Presto! PageManager makes it easy to scan, share, and organize your photos and documents. It can help you convert piles of papers to organized, digitized files, as well as view, edit, send, and backup files in many formats.

Minimum System Requirements:

Inputs and Outputs

Front Panel:

• Direct Print Port: USB Type A that connects the printer to a compatible digital camera or camcorder
• 2 Card Slots (behind panel door): one slot for Compact Flash or Microdrive, one slot for SD Card, Memory Stick or MultiMediaCard

Back Panel of Printer:

• Power: 2-pin jack for use with supplied AC power cord
• USB: USB Type B that connects the printer to your computer
• Telephone: 2 RJ-11 jacks: one for connecting the unit to the telephone line, the other to connect an external telephone or answering machine
• Ethernet: RJ-45 jack lets you establish or connect to a home or office network

Dimensions

Dimensions:

• Document Cover Closed/Trays Not Extended: Width=20", Height=10.25", Depth=19"
• Document Cover Open/Trays Extended: Width=20", Height=20.8", Depth=19.8"
• Weight: 30.7 pounds (with print head and ink tanks installed)