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| Brand | Canon |
| Item Weight | 9 Kg |
| Product Dimensions | 36.8 x 47 x 17.3 cm |
| Item model number | 4503B008AA |
| Screen Size | 3 inches |
| Wattage | 24 watts |
| ASIN | B00400OK2K |
| Best Sellers Rank |
8,369 in Computers & Accessories (See top 100)
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| Shipping Weight | 12 Kg |
| Date First Available | 19 Aug 2010 |
Product Description
Product Description
Premium All-In-One printer with Intelligent Touch System
The PIXMA MG6150 is a high performance All-In-One offering superb photolab-quality printing with the simplicity of the Intelligent Touch System. A separate gray ink producing superb greyscale and colour prints, combined with its stunning design and exceptional functionality make this a premium printer for all your home or office needs. It is ready to use straight out of the box and whether printing, copying or scanning, you’ll get the best possible results every time.
Intuitive operation with light-guided touch panel and stunning design
The PIXMA MG6150 features a brand new and unique Intelligent Touch System which makes operation as easy as possible. All controls are integrated into the lid of the printer, providing a larger operational panel and leaving your 7.5cm TFT display free for viewing.
The controls are operated by touch rather than press, providing a fast response to your inputs. The clever bit, however, is the intuitive light guided operation. For example, if you select the photo print function, only the controls relating to that function will be illuminated, all other buttons remaining virtually invisible in the glossy black lid. At each subsequent step, only the controls which will assist your photo printing will be illuminated, guiding you through the process to print quickly and easily.
Fast, photo-lab quality printing, with the 6 Single Ink System
Thanks to miniscule 1pl ink droplets from Canon’s FINE print engine which delivers a maximum print resolution of 9600 x 2400dpi, the PIXMA MG6150 produces smooth, grain free images. Canon’s High Performance 6 Single Ink System includes two blacks - one for printing crisp laser sharp text, the other for photos to give strong saturated blacks – and a unique grey, for superior monochrome printing.
Document print speeds are a useful 12.5 IPM* in black and white or 9.3 IPM* in colour. A high quality borderless 10x15cm photo-lab quality print is delivered in just 20 seconds. Two-way paper feeding means different types of paper can be loaded at the same time for convenient printing of documents or photos. You can even print directly onto a CD to help archive data or personalise your music collection for example. Plus, you can print your favourite moments without a computer, using the PictBridge connection to print straight from a device or USB flash memory for fast and convenient photos.
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Capture your favourite home movie moments with Full HD Movie Print
Get the best of both worlds, producing high quality individual photos from your favourite HD home movie moments. Printing a photo using Full HD Movie Print couldn’t be easier. Simply select a frame from your movie** using the intuitive Easy-PhotoPrint software and print. As you do this, frame enhancement technology will automatically analyse the frames either side, combining the best from each to ensure that lighting and resolution are as good as they can be in your final photo.
Print from anywhere in the home or connect to a network
The PIXMA MG6150 has a fast, 150 Mbps built in connection, so multiple people can print to it, wherever they are in the house whenever they want – even if it is stored out of sight. You can also print photos and documents directly from your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad simply by downloading the Canon Easy-Photo Print App from the AppStore which links straight to the printer by Wi-Fi. Alternatively, if you have a PlayStation 3, you can even view and print your photos from your widescreen TV. Android devices can also remotely print via the Wi-Fi connection.
An Ethernet connection means that the MG6150 can be easily connected to a home or office network for everyone to share in the PIXMA quality.
Efficient 6 Single Ink System and duplex printing for reduced waste
Thanks to six separate ink tanks, you only ever need to replace an ink cartridge when it runs out, reducing waste and optimising ink usage. Coupled with Duplex Printing which allows printing on both sides of paper, you can save money, reduce your paper consumption and help the environment in the process – all without compromising on print quality.
Simple and efficient scanning, whatever the document
High quality scanning is quick and easy using the 4800 x 4800dpi scanner with Auto Scan. It automatically recognises what is being scanned – a photo, business card or a document – before saving it using the most suitable settings. All you need to do is push the button.
Have fun with Creative Park Premium
Customers who purchase genuine Canon inks for their PIXMA MG6150 receive access to an exclusive area of the Creative Park website – Creative Park Premium. Here you can access premium artistic content such as professional photography and illustrations which would normally be right protected. This content can be used to create calendars, cards, booklets etc.
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A world of advantages with Canon technology
Automatic correction to make every print perfect
Based on Canon’s market-leading intelligent camera technology, Auto Photo Fix II will automatically analyse and correct your photos at the printer, removing any red-eye and making adjustments to compensate for the photographer, camera or lighting limitations. It will automatically recognise the lighting conditions when the photo was taken and will, for example, brighten faces that are backlit and under-exposed to ensure more accurate skin tones or remove any colour cast to give clear, true colour photos. The result? Perfect prints every time without the need for a computer.
Automatic enhancement for clear and crisp scanned documents
Intelligent auto-correction doesn’t stop with your photos. Through Auto Document Fix technology, your printer enhances text, graphics and images in scanned documents making them clearer, more vivid and more impactful.
Printing made easy with FREE in-box software
Exclusive to Canon, Easy-PhotoPrint EX is the fast and easy way to re-touch your digital photos and print them in a choice of size and layouts either directly within the software or from Adobe® Photoshop® with the supplied Easy-PhotoPrint EX plug-in. The Correct and Enhance button adds advanced photo correction and enhancement using the same simple interface. The lab-quality re-touching features available include: red eye correction, smooth facial lines and skin tone, face brightener, face sharpener and blemish remover.
The intuitive on-screen display helps you choose to print your selection in whichever format you require from normal photos to calendars. The software also features a direct link to Flickr where you can search and download publicly available images to supplement your own. Through Easy-PhotoPrint you can access the Full HD Movie print function, enabling you to capture your favourite home movie moments on photo-lab quality stills.
Save paper with Easy-WebPrint software
FREE Easy-WebPrint EX software offers a range of options to help you organise the information you want to print from the internet and avoid wasting paper. These include:
- Auto Clipping: print only the area of a web page you want, not all the advertisements you don’t
- Clip from Multiple pages: collect, combine and edit content from multiple web pages before printing
You can collate this information to create easy to print multiple page booklets, or reduce the size of the whole web page to fit it onto a single piece of paper.
Advanced operations at the click of a button with Solutions Menu EX
Solutions Menu EX provides easy access to the advanced features of your printer. The functions in each category are presented in easy to recognize pictorial icons and you can tailor your Desktop in order to quickly access the functions you want, when you want.
Beautiful, long-lasting photos
You can keep your precious photos bright and vibrant with the Canon ChromaLife100+ system. This unique combination of enhanced FINE print head technology and genuine Canon Chromalife 100+ inks with selected Canon photo papers lets you create beautiful photos that will last up to 300 years when stored in an archival-quality photo album.
To achieve exceptional print resolution, Canon Full-photolithography Inkjet Nozzle Engineering (FINE) uses a patented print head with high precision nozzles, ejecting ink droplets as small as 1 picolitre in size (the smaller the ink drop the better quality the image).
Compact and tidy
Both the Power cable and USB port are recessed inside the compact, stylish printer body so you can push the machine right back against the wall – saving space and keeping everything neat and tidy.
*Printing speeds explained:
Canon measures its printing speeds in IPM (Images Per Minute). IPM is a new ISO speed testing standard, approved by the International Standards Organisation in March 2009.
PPM (Page Per Minute), used by some manufacturers, is not a standard for inkjet printers. Every printer manufacturer has their own ‘test pages’ that are used to test speed and give vastly different results. The new ISO standard sets standardised ‘test pages’ that are to be used by any manufacturer measuring their speed in IPM, allowing comparable results across inkjet brands.
**Only compatible with Canon Digital Still Compact and Digital SLR cameras.
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Customer Reviews
As you'd expect, it arrives in a large box containing the printer itself and a selection of bits that have to be connected to or inserted into it. I've done this sort of thing many times both at home and at work but I still found it necessary to consult the instructions as some of the assembly is far from intuative. Fitting the print head is probably the most demanding (but still quite easy) as you have to be very careful not to damage it as you put it into place. It's worth reading the instructions and studying the diagrams first. It took me about half an hour to get it all done bu the result was a good looking machine which appears to be well made with no flimsy bits that might break off as soon as you start using it.
Loading the software was easy on my PC and my wife's laptop. I wanted to use the printer wirelessly (it's got LAN & USB connection too) so I had to spend a few more minutes setting that up on the printer itself. You'll need to dig out your router's id and password to allow the printer to connect but it still only took a few minutes. The slowest part of this process is entering the password as there is no keyboard as such and you have to select the various letters and numbers using the up, down left and right buttons. It's a little time consuming but you only have to do it once.
The top of the printer has a pop-up screen built into it as well as about a dozen touch sensitive buttons to control it. These all work very well and I've found that you don't even have to actually touch them; just getting a finger very close will do.
Once you have worked through all the setup, printing is as easy as you could expect. Just press the PC's print button and the printer will automatically lower the output tray door ready to receive the printed paper. There are two input trays: a cassette under the printer which slides out at the front and another on top which can be used for envelopes or photo quality paper. The printer will select the appropriate paper if you select it from the print dialogue.
You'll find that the first print of the day (or after an hour or so's break) will take quite some time while printer goes tharogh all the processes it considers necessary. I find this frustrating but I haven't found a way to prevent it happening so frequently. The print quality is excellent. Black and white documents are crisp and colour illustrations come out pretty much as you'll see them on screen. Colour photos also come very well, albeit a little slowly. The colours are crisp with no noticeable bleeding into areas whre they don't belong. The printer is capable of producing borderless prints which are of excellent quality right up to the very edge.
Apart from printing documents are photos from the PC, the MG6150 has three main functions all selectable by using the just one of the buttons: scan, copy and photo.
Copying is simple; just lift the very top of the printer to insert the document to be copied, lower it again and press the Copy button. You can select up to 99 copies, magnify from between 25% and 400%, lighten or darken the output and choose colour or greyscale output as well as which paper to use.
Scanning is just as easy and gives a choice of output file type (JPEG, TIFF or PDF), the size to be scanned (A4, Letter, 15 x 100mm or auto)and the scan resolution as well as several other options. Scanning an A4 document to TIFF at 600 dpi took a total of about 30 seconds to arrive on the PC.
The Photo function allows you to print JPEG files directly from a memory card. The Photo function is selected automatically when you insert the card and by using the buttons and the on-screen display you can select which images to print as well as cropping them, choosing output size, format etc.
Ink consumption seems to be quite high but that goes for almost all inkjet printers. A complete replacement set of six genuine Canon inks will cost you about £50. I don't use compatable inks as their quality is very variable and I've even damaged a printer by using them in the past. It's worth the extra cost to get the genuine article.
Pros: Excellent print quality, easy to set up even if the assembly is a bit fiddly. Apart from the first print of the day it's fast enough for most users. Lots of different functions all of which are easy to use. Wi-fi connectivity makes using it from a laptop so much easier. User interface takes a little getting used to but becomes very easy, very quickly. Prints on both sides of paper without having to turn it over. Prints on CDs. It's quiet enough for me to use late at night at home without fear of waking my wife!
Cons: Very slow to get going when it's first swiched on. Only reads JPEGs from memory card. Wastes ink by cleaning itself so often.
ON paper, the MG6150 ticked all the right boxes, separate ink tanks for economical replacement, all-in-one functionality, built in WiFi. And at a reasonable price too.
It arrived exceptionally well packaged and with clear setup instructions. It was up and running on 2 PCs at home within 30 minutes, with configuration being simplicity itself. The light-guided setup with a really clear screen on the device made configuring the wireless and every other aspect extremely straightofrward, The INstallation CD (one for PC and a separate one for Macs) auto-ran when I put it in and selecting the default installation options had everything working in very short order.
The quality of photo output is outstanding, easily the best I've seen. It also seems pretty economical with the inks considering the quality of printing. It's extremely quite in operation and doesn't make the table wobble either. With it's piano-black finish it looks the part and the build quality is very good as well.
Paper storage is neat too, regular paper gets tucked away in a drawer under the printer body so takes up minimal additional desk space. Photo paper is fed in from a loader at the rear. You can even print direct to CDs using the caddy supplied. The real bonus is that it does double-sided printing - a feature often missing from home printers... it saves on effort and it also saves on paper and it works really well.
All the main memory card formats are supported, COmpact Flash, Memory Stick, and SD, ith the slot being discretely located behind a panel on the front.
The scanner is also quick and quiet in use, and the copy function is a treat to use compared to my old HP device.
It's a fantastic printer for the money and, while ink cartridges are around £8 each, so nearly £50 for a full set, the fact that you only replace the ones that need replacing means that it won't usually be an "all at once" cost. I'm extremely glad that I bought it and wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to anyone else.
I have been a Epson fan for many years my last being the PX700W which gave what I thought was excellent results until the scanner unit twisted giving me distorted pictures. A lot of searching & comparison tests led me to the Canon 6150. Having used it & comparing it my previous Epson pictures the results are outstanding. Colours & detail are deep & vibrant. Yes there are a few niggles, why do you have to wade through a 30 page manual when it could easily have been condensed into a 2 page "quick start" sheet & intial start up to first print takes a good minute while it seems to have to go through a test & clean process.
Amazon was best price & now the machine has been out a few months original replacement inks can be sourced at a fair price.
Buy, you won't be dissappointed.
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1). Setting the printer for printing onto CD's. Read more
Start up seems slow at times.
Prints darker than my Pixma 4500 and the manual was not much help on this.
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