Features of Canon® PIXMA MP490

Canon PIXMA MP490 is compact, high-quality, stylish and versatile printer that would print great borderless photos, documents. The Canon PIXMA MP490 delivers 4800x1200 maximum color dpi1, 2pl and the PG-210 Black and CL-211 Color FINE Ink Cartridge System for superb overall print quality. Another key component of the Canon PIXMA MP490 is that its easy to use so you can conveniently get the photo lab quality you want.

In Canon PIXMA MP490 printer level of quality is achieved by 4800x1200 maximum color dpi1 thanks to Canon Full-photolithography Inkjet Nozzle Engineering with a patented print head firing ink droplets as small as 2pl. This printer delivers the superb quality and the detail in both your business documents and photos. These two genuine Canon ink cartridges contain the specially formulated inks for the great document and the photo quality. It has one is a Black cartridge for laser-quality text and one is a multi-color cartridge for pictures.

Canon PIXMA MP490 printer looks a lot nicer than most other printers, with a small footprint, and rounded edges. The 1.8-inch LCD monitor pops up from under a cover that houses the printers few buttons and the output tray folds in to keep the footprint tiny. This printer would hit the market in August 2009. The Canon PIXMA MP490 does not make the constant loud grinding noise when it is warming up. It has the quality of photo prints was truly excellent. A 4x6 photo printed at normal quality takes just under a minute to print, and comes out already dry with vivid and sharp colors.

• FIVE – High Performance Ink Cartridges

  These two genuine Canon ink cartridges contain specially formulated inks for the great document and the photo quality. Its one is a Black cartridge for laser-quality text and one is a multi-color cartridge for the pictures and both are easy to use and replace. This system combines enhanced FINE print head technology with select new Canon photo papers for beautiful borderless photos that would last up to three hundred years when stored in an archival-quality photo album.

• FOUR – Scanner Lid

  The scanner lid is held in place by plastic connectors that are not firmly attached and so it clatters when lifted. The hundred sheet vertical input tray has a plastic support pane. It also has a page-orientation label on the input tray.

• THREE – Photo quality

  Another key component the Canon PIXMA MP490 prides itself on is ease of use, so you can conveniently get the photo lab quality you want. The new Auto Photo Fix II software is built right into the machine and automatically corrects your images while the easy viewing and the editing could be done right on the 1.8 inch LCD. Also, its QuickStart feature gives you faster access to printer operations once the products are on.

• TWO – Auto Photo Fix II

  This built-in technology mechanically categorizes your images into one of five types are Portrait, Scenery, Night Scenery, Snapshot with Scenery and Snapshot with Night Scenery then applies optimal image and multi-zone exposure correction. So unexposed areas of the photo would be optimized area by area and faces that are backlit and under-exposed would automatically be brightened with the correct color cast to help ensure more accurate skin tones for gorgeous images.

• ONE –  Fast speed

  The Canon PIXMA MP490, three black and white pages took about 29 seconds to print, with the first page out in about 15 seconds. A large and a colorful PowerPoint presentation averaged about 20 seconds per page with the first page out in about 38 seconds. You can save some of that time off by switching to draft mode. The Canon PIXMA MP490 two ink tanks would be cheaper replacing two tanks when they are empty than the five or six tanks that other inkjet all-in-ones use.

The Canon PIXMA MP490 is the everyday solution to the convenient photo printing, copying and scanning at home. The Canon PIXMA MP490 allows you to print your photos directly from a variety of the memory cards.