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Warm-up time (7.10)
The MX850 had a fairly fast warm-up time at seven-and-a-half seconds. It beat out Canon’s previous model MP600, which took 25 seconds and the extremely slow HP Photosmart C5180 which took a yawn-inducing 43 seconds to warm up.
Power usage (6.22)
The MX850 did a lot better than the Kodak EasyShare 5300 in regards to power usage. While printing, we measured the maximum power usage at a energy-bills aving 18 Watts, which is significantly less than the Kodak’s printing score of 24 watts. However it couldn’t quite beat Canon MP600’s score in some categories. While the MP600’s idle value was one, Canon’s MX850 burned through 6 Watts.
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Power Usage (watts)
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Off
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Idle
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Ready
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Printing
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Self-Cleaning
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Canon Pixma MX850
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1 |
6 |
7.5 |
18 |
12.5 |
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Canon Pixma MP600
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0
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1
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5
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16
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14.5
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Kodak EasyShare 5300
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6
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6
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13
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24
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30.5
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Speed/timing (ppm) (6.18)
The MX850 proved to be a speedy printer in our tests with a black text only document and a newsletter with graphics document. The text document took around 5.64 seconds per page, while graphic pages printed at approximately 18 seconds a page. Both of these are good scores for an inkjet. Although you should look at a laser printer if you're looking for really quick printing, the MX850 did a very dence tjob of cranking out the pages at a good rate.
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Pages per Minute
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Black Text
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Color Text
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Canon Pixma MX850
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10.64 |
3.32 |
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Canon Pixma MP600
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2.81
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1.35
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Kodak EasyShare 5300 ES
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1.59
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1.33
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We also noticed that many of our test prints had distinct banding, and this did not go away after extensive cleaning and realignment.
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