Hands on: I tested the Canon Pixma TS8750 – see how this home printer compares
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This comment first appeared in issue 353 PC Pro.
although Canon’s largest printer The Pixma series is targeted at home and small offices, with no doubt focusing on creativity and home use. The Pixma TS8750 is near the top of the current lineup; offers a high-quality six-speed MFP Photo Print And detailed scanning. It lacks office capabilities and constitutes photo-friendly touches such as memory card slots and huge color touchscreen displays.
The TS8750 is a striking MFP made from a combination of textured, shiny and translucent black plastic. Its squat position makes it look as much as a printer. But while it looks like you can sit the TS8750 on the bookshelf, you may lose the risk of accessing its scanner and the back paper tray of 100 pages. Most of the MFP is located slightly in the base protruding out of the front. Here you will find a 100 carton and card slot.
If the place where the paper comes out is not obvious, everything will be clear when you start printing. The TS8750’s electric paper output tray appears – tilt the front panel upwards – immediately following your first page. This is a sleek party piece that partially reverses when you turn off the MFP; the panel itself is not maneuverable, so it stays slightly open.
With manufacturers Canon It’s almost weird to push refillable printers vigorously, and the six available cartridges for the TS8750’s. They are easy to plug in, and although you can physically put them in the wrong slot, the printer won’t initialize until you find everything is ship-shaped. The printer enhances the standard black, cyan, magenta and yellow settings with gray and a second black cartridge. All three colors, gray and smaller black cartridges contain dye-based inks, which are great for photo printing, while the main black tanks are thick black text on pure paper.
TS8750’s short and fat SD card The slot seems to be in cell phone A relic-like generation, but it makes sense when many high-end cameras still use full-size SD for storage. Insert the loaded card, the initial single-rod preview is not useful. You can lift a multi-frame view that can find specific shots from a series of choices, but it does not allow you to batch select the photos you want to print.
There are two other pure currencies for the TS8750. There is a handy lip to help you pull out the main tray, but once the output tray is expanded, it will cover it. The paper output tray has a flip stop that controls multiple pages on multiple pages after a longer print job, but it does not automatically expand when the tray itself appears.
We use the usual office combination to achieve TS8750 document and photos. It’s not particularly fast, reaching only 13.4ppm on 25 pages of text, while our demanding graphics tests hit only 3.9ppm. Photo printing is more picky, although the borderless A4 prints in five minutes, with 10 x 15 cm postcards arriving every 70 seconds or so.
It’s a pretty fast scanner, previewed in 12 seconds and takes 20 seconds to capture A4 documents on 150DPI. On the detailed 1200DPI, it takes 78 seconds to complete a 10 x 15 cm photo scan. The copy speed is in the middle, and a single page takes only 17 seconds to 23 black or color.
If we are upset about the speed of MFP, then once we look at the results, our estimates will rise sharply. The black text is as clear and bold as you get from inkjet, while the color graphics are strong and consistent with only the best string bands. The photocopy is very powerful, with both mono and color copies retaining the original details.
The best results are undoubtedly glossy photography paper and a scanner from the TS8750. The captured image shows a bright color and a wide dynamic range of focus, retaining details from the lightest and darkest parts of the original work. photo The prints are excellent, offering perfect complexion, bright colors and clear details. Not surprisingly, given the dedicated black and gray ink, the black and white prints are rich and have no colors.
First of all, it’s not a cheap versatile, costing over 10p per page, and it won’t be particularly economical in use. This is especially true if you print text frequently, each page will cause you to 3.5p. But if you want a smart home MFP that is as comfortable as scanning a work of art, the TS8750 is likely to be worth the premium.
