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Canon MP600R Single Ink All-in-One Photo Printer with 6.3cm Colour LCD Screen | 
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| Manufacturer: Canon
Category: CE
Buy New: £143.00
New (21) Used (1) from £120.00
Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 2304
Media: Electronics
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 22.7
Dimensions (in): 212.6 x 204.7 x 110.2
Model: 1452B008AA
EAN: 4960999358963
ASIN: B000I503CW
Release Date: October 1, 2006
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews: Read 17 more reviews...
 Canon product contact October 6, 2008
Jon John (East Yorkshire)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I note in the reviews the difficulty some buyers have when contacting Canon. I agree the website for Canon for product support can be mystifying to say the least. I have several Canon products myself, ranging from the brilliant Pixma iP4200, to camcorders and scanners, so am well tested in the Canon 'contact' arena - I have always found the Canon Helpdesk (Freephone 00800 22666767) at PO Box 614 Borehamwood WD6 9AA to be very helpful.
I hope this helps Amazon viewers/readers.
 A monster but a great device October 1, 2008
M. R. Greenhead (London)
I bought this to put on a wireless network with a Mac and PC, so this is as complex as it can get.
Size: The reviews say the MP600R is huge, but until you get it it's hard to visualise. I recommend you mock up the printer with cardboard to make sure you have somewhere to put it.
Setup: I recommend you put aside an hour (for a printer? Yes, really!) so you don't get distracted and miss steps. Unpacking the printer was ok, as was setting up the print head and ink. Loading the software on the PC was slightly problematic. Use the custom setting to aviod loading some of the stuff (eg Arcsoft). My problem was the web page print software didn't load, once I had unticked this it was fine, although it takes about 25 minutes, and you need to be there to click through some options and OK boxes.
Wireless: I first set up the PC by linking it to the printer by USB, then methodically followed the instructions. It worked first time once I took out the USB lead (I disabled the firewall as recommended), taking about 20 minutes in all. I then loaded the software on the Mac and connected wirelessly. The Mac was far simpler (less to do) and again worked first time in a room about 15 metres away. Very impressed, but given the complexity of the instructions (which you have to expect given what you are doing) I can see how things could go wrong (the book is very wasteful, about 500 pages just for the setup, with only 60 in English). Over a day or so I had issues with connectivity, but this seemed to be when Norton flashed a warning about other programs and there was then a knock on effect on the MP600R which cleared after a few minutes.
Print quality is fantastic, with standard photo paper it is as good as I get from Jessops, with well matched colour and superb resolution. Speed is slower than I thought it would be, even with B&W A4 prints.
Overall, very pleased with the printer, especially when you get the bonus of a scanner and double sided copier (which I haven't tried yet). Expect an hour of head scratching and you'll be pleased with the result.
 Multi-Functionless Desk Ornament August 29, 2008
Mr. S. Kelly (England)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Received my MP600R just over 2 weeks ago from Amazon & for 2 weeks it has worked great. Wirelessly connected to my PC with no problems & I've printed a few CD labels, a photo and scanned a couple of pictures. Three days ago I turned on the printer and got a message saying that the Print Head was not the correct one to install and I should install the correct print head. You can't do anything else while this mesage is on screen. The print head is the original Canon one that arrived with the printer. The printer is now useless and I can't even print a return label from amazon!
Canon's website advises that you remove and re-sit the print head but after 20 or 30 fruitless re-sittings, I've stopped wasting my time. Canon's other advise is to buy a new print head. They're expensive & a printer should last more than 2 weeks.
If you are thinking of buying this printer then stay clear and go for something else. I gambled & lost.
Network connection takes forever to figure out, but works well thereafter August 18, 2008
WebSanity (Huntingdon, UK)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Connecting the printer directly to a single machine is easy; albeit a long process that leaves your machine overburdened with applications and icons (as do printers from most manufacturers these days!).
However, if you try to connect it directly AND to a wireless network (direct wired USB connection for a desktop plus wireless for your laptop via a wireless hub) then you can expect hours of frustration.
So, BEWARE, if you are connecting this to anything other than the most trivial of networks, as it is a non-trivial process. For us the technique seemed to be to ignore that you are connecting to the network and install it as a USB connected device (for which you'll need to bring your machine to the device and connect it with a USB lead). Then after installation re-run the installation (but uncheck all the apps) but this time go for network - leave the usb lead connected during this process.
In operation the printer is quiet (and there is even a quieter night mode!?!), duplex operation works very effectively, print quality is great (better than our former HP despite its plethora of ink cartridges - excellent colour matching, you can print photos with no worry of strange colour casts appearing), and astonishingly (given their claimed figures, but again this seems to be true of all modern ink jet printers) SLOW. Turn the printer on, wait whilst it makes a load of noises inside, print a document, wait while it makes a load of noises inside, wait for each page to dry, wait while it makes a load of noise half way through the document - I'm sure inkjets are getting slower these days, not faster!
Installation.....Easy Peasy July 24, 2008
DJJJE (Wokingham, Berks)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is essentially a 5* review of the installation only. I will post another review in a few weeks once I have had chance to play with the printer a bit more.
My new MP600R arrived today. I have spent the previous 2 weeks doing my homework about which printer to get. The main criteria was individual inks but was I really going to need. I decided that I'd take the plunge and spend the extra on wireless. In the end the choice came down to this one or the HP PSC C7280 for the cost/performance trade-off. I decided on the Canon as the resolution was so much better and remarks about the Canon user interface seemed very positive.
It was with some trepidation that I embarked on the network setup as some people seem to have had difficulty. I am not an IT expert although I do know my way around computers more than the average layperson. I started by carefully reading the Setup Guide book as recommended by another reviewer - good advice. In the space of 2 hours I have set up one desktop and 3 laptops installing the software application on all machines without any hassle. It seems the main tip is in order to set up the wired or wireless LAN you need to make sure that the PC can "see" the printer. This is done by making sure the USB is connected the first time you're trying to set the printer into the network (repeat for wired and wireless which may be from the same PC even though ultimately the PC you're using to set up the printer will only be used in one of the modes). Once this has been done by one of the PC's all of the others can "see" the printer without [necessarily] having to also connect the USB. To make sure that there was no chance of difficulties I made sure I also used the USB connection to each PC I was installing the SW onto (just in case). At one point I did also turn off the firewall on the PC to make sure that there was no chance that the printer couldn't be seen on the network.
I now have a desktop connect via USB, a laptop connected via 10/100 Ethernet wired network and 2 laptops connected via wireless (with SSID and 128bit WEP encryption). All this with no hiccups.
Out of the box other peoples' niggles about a French plug were unfounded. There was a UK and a continental plug lead. The little lights on the ink-cartridges - nice :-) is it a gimmic or is it useful? Not sure but at least it looks pretty!
After the first couple of test prints I have to say I love what I have seen so far. The paper cassette tray keeps everything neat but the auto doc feeder means that double sided photocopying is do-able (unless you're trying to do masses). I love the built in duplex unit for normal printing and I've set it up as a default option so the kids dont waste so much paper any more.
I'll let you know the results of photo printing at a later date.
So far so .... brilliant.
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