PIXMA MG8150 All-In-One Colour Photo Printer Features. Is a very powerful and very expensive multifunctional for demanding users. Who are hungry for performance and quality. To facilitate settings as well as working with or without a PC. A large adjustable color screen is effectively supported by a touch keyboard. Whose particularity is to display only the function keys. That is useful and available depending on the context. Thus the operations are simplified and errors are avoided. The whole is completed by a very intuitive browser. Allowing access to the configuration menus and to all the functions of the device.
The Pixma MG8150 is a high-end, 3-in-1 inkjet multifunction device. Aimed primarily at experienced photographers. With a sober and rather elegant look. With rounded corners and a shiny cover. Watch out for fingerprints. This printer is controlled from an adjustable screen with keys below. At least that’s what the manufacturer claims. In practice, the screen has absolutely nothing tactile. Thus, the information is read on the screen. But the selection goes through a so-called “touch” keyboard. Still fortunate to have a keyboard. On which only the keys concerned by the requested action light up.
PIXMA MG8150 Almost Exemplary Connectivity
As for the Pixma MG6150, we appreciated the connectivity and the functional richness of the driver and software of the Pixma MG8150. Optional: a Bluetooth module allows us to connect with our mobile phone and print the photos taken with it. While a triple memory card reader and a PictBridge USB port. Give us the option of printing directly from a flash card or digital camera. On the program, scanning, copying, and double-sided printing. On the connectivity side, there is an Ethernet and Wi-Fi network port. A triple memory card reader and a USB port allow you to print photos directly without going through a computer. It is also possible to print these photos in different ways: in passport photo format, with or without a border, by 2, by 6, or by 8.
The Canon PIXMA MG8150 is a multifunctional printer that offers almost exemplary connectivity options. It supports both wired and wireless connectivity, allowing users to print from a range of devices. Wired connectivity options include USB and Ethernet, allowing the printer to be connected directly to a computer or network. This makes it easy to print from a single device or share the printer with multiple users. Wireless connectivity options include Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, which allow users to print from a range of devices, including smartphones, tablets, and laptops. The printer also supports printing from cloud services such as Google Cloud Print and Apple AirPrint, making it easy to print from anywhere with an internet connection.
Exceptional Print Quality
Whether it’s classic black and white and color documents, or photographs. The result is of almost flawless quality. This is not surprising given the printing technology used. Head with 1 picoliter droplet and six separate cartridges of dye and pigment inks. Like any self-respecting photo printer. A 24 x 36 film adapter (negatives or slides) is housed under the cover and allows you to scan films.
If the responsiveness of the PIXMA MG8150. At the first-page output, continuous speeds are slower: 9 pages per minute (ppm) to print office documents in color, and 7 ppm for black and white. It is not a thunderbolt of war. For two-sided printing, divide these times by 3 (3 ppm). We can therefore imagine that owners of the MG8150 will have occasional office printing needs and do not expect extraordinary speeds. Let’s go instead to see the side of the photo. Office quality is a notch below photo rendering. The graphic below comes out clean with beautiful gradients, yet the size of the drops is clearly visible in the solid colors.
Graphics Mode Print Speed
The print speed is rather disappointing. Although printing a 20-page black-and-white text document takes just 1 min 39 sec in draft mode. With a speed of around 12.1 ppm and a mere 1 min 59 sec in standard mode (10.1 ppm). Printing a document mixing text and color graphics made us wait about 7 min 13 seconds. Which is much less appealing because the speed is now only 2.7 ppm. Reason for this snail’s slowness: the printer pauses for several seconds. Between each printed page so that the ink dries a little. It is clear that in graphics mode. This Pixma makes no compromise between quality and speed.
Printing photos is another story as we printed many borderless 10 x 15 cm photos. In an average of 33 seconds from the PC and only 21 seconds for an SD card to insert into the printer. Printing is faster because the settings are less advanced than with the PC. The quality of color copies in particular is not really there. The readability remains quite laborious. Black and white are better, more legible, and sharper. Count 11 seconds for black and white output and 13 seconds for the color, it’s fast.
