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Canon Pixma MP 970 Photo All-in-One (3-in-1) with colour TFT screen and Easy Scroll Wheel. Packed with Direct photo printing for digital and analogue camera users (FAU, PictBridge, Memory Card, Mobile phone), advanced media handling and wired network connectivity. | 
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| Brand: Canon
Category: CE
Buy New: £164.50
New (22) from £164.50
Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 2828
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 26.2
Dimensions (in): 21.9 x 20.7 x 12.1
Legal Disclaimer: Layer One UK does not offer any warranty other than the one imposed by the manufacturer. Consequently, the warranty conditions proposed by Layer One UK will be an exact copy of the manufacturers.
MPN: MP970
Model: MP970
EAN: 4960999454887
ASIN: B000UX3U9U
Release Date: September 14, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | • Printer, Scanner and Copier• Up to 30ppm mono (9 ppm standard) and up to 22ppm colour print speed• Up to 9600 x 2400 dpi print resolution• 250 sheet paper capacity• Memory Card Slot• 10 secs first out print time |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
 very good, but ... October 18, 2008
p47 (UK)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought the printer mainly to scan negatives and to print them.
I use both Windows and Mac with a USB connection to the printer.
Even if not entirely satisfied I would buy this product again.
PROS:
- very good scanning quality (of negatives and slides, good speed, rendering of colours, shadows, etc.);
- the print quality is comparable to the one of Boots;
- silent and relatively fast;
- broad range of print/scanning options (I did not try the OCR, yet).
CONS:
- the USB cable is not included;
- on Windows the software requires 800MB and on Mac 480MB. The scan a colour negative at the maximum resolution produces a file of about 20MB. My windows machine has 512MB of RAM and they are not enough for such scan (I use a Mac with more memory);
- not all programs included with the printer and installed in Windows are also installed in Mac. That is, in Windows there are programs that are not installed in Mac;
- the Canon support is rather bad!!! To my understanding they have an automatic answering system dealing with the first time a question is asked. If the user is not satisfied and s/he asks the same question again, then a human answers. This means that a tricky question is answered in about a week. Overall, this means that you should hope not to have a serious problem;
- As all the inkjet printers also this one needs to be used at least once a week in order to avoid the heads to get stuck with dried ink (of course, there are cleaning procedures);
- the biggest problem I have with this printer is that I did not succeed to print a picture on A4 under Windows. Anyhow it works under Mac.
Great printer but issues with network printing September 7, 2008
John T (Kent, England)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have had the printer for a week running via a Netgear wireless router (Mac Mini via cabled ethernet and MacBook via wireless, both on OSX Leopard)and whilst the quality of the printer output is fine the instructions and software leave something to be desired. After a successful setup the printer decided to stop printing via ethernet connection. Jobs would go to the queue, the printer would make encouraging whirring noises but then the print job would change from processing to stopped. It would print via USB (when I put it back to check) and would copy from the scanner so the hardware was fine. Eventually I downloaded the CUPS OSX Leopard driver and that has (so far!) seemed to do the trick. Next step is to try and get the old Dell laptop running Windows XP to talk to it.
Come on Canon, please get a human to write your guides.
Good all-in-one August 16, 2008
D. Thwaites (England)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Have owned an MP970 for several weeks. Installation on an XP PC was easy even though the CD suggested it was for Vista only. Printing black & white text and colour photos from the PC produces excellent results. Copying is fairly easy, though I still find the control panel a little unintuitive and the wife couldn't handle it at all (more than one button so too complicated for her). Scanning 35mm film negs was a little disappointing compared with my dedicated FS2710 scanner. This was odd because the MP970 should give better resolution (4800 dpi versus 2700) - images look slightly out of focus. Also, colours look rather "washed out" compared with the dedicated scanner. Comparisons done with the same piece of film, of course. Maybe I was expecting too much.
Still a good buy though and would do it again.
 MP 970 is a BIG yes August 3, 2008
R. Aston (Northamptonshire United Kingdom)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Certainly not a 'compact printer' with its (approx) 47x40x21 footprint so make sure you have the space - BUT it is an excellent product and does what it says on the box very well indeed. Setting up was relatively easy after reading the instructions a couple of times. Networking the printer proved to be so simple, taking it slowly to ensure I did everything correctly the whole process took under the hour, from opening the box to printing a couple of test sheets from each PC.
Must congratulate Amazon given the first delivery did not turn up, albeit the carrier said they had left it outside of my house, they sent a FOC replacement the next day - first class service.
Ideal June 24, 2008
Scuba John
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I spent a lot of time reseaching before deciding on this printer.As an artist I need to send very good quality colour prints of my work to potential clients.I wanted control of this myself with out going to a printers.The printer is a good price for the excellent quality.The speed of production is good and reliable when producing say 40 or so A4 prints.The ink use is reasonable not to thirsty and over the 6 months I have had it no technical problems and I use it almost everyday.
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