Expert’s Rating
Our Verdict
The CanonPixma MG5320Wireless Inkjet Photo All - In - One Printer costs a sensible $ 150 , hitting the pricing fresh spot at the consumer - oriented end of the color inkjet multifunction family . It also manages to swipe itself above the crowd a bit by adding CD / DVD impression potentiality , plus some other improvements .
The power to print on specially coated CD or DVDs is still fairly uncommon . The Pixma MG5320 make out with a caddy that insert into a expansion slot above the output country ; also included is an transcriber for 3.15 - inch discs . Canon offers no on - machine computer storage for the tea caddy , which is inconvenient . And the saucer - printing process affect a specific sequence of footstep that is bewilderingly covered in two blank space : under the loading / unloading media discussion in the Printing part of the documentation , and under the layout and impress account in the documentation for the bundled Easy - PhotoPrint EX package . The printer also takes a few minutes to prepare itself to publish on a disc .
Paper manipulation is generous for an MFP in this price range . The MG5320 has a bottom draftsman for holding up to 150 plane of letter - size plain paper ; a rearward , 150 - sheet vertical tray takes everything else . duplex apartment ( two - sided ) printing is automatic . The 50 - tack output tray is adequately sized , and it opens mechanically when you send a print problem . Other characteristic let in both USB and wireless connectivity , a USB / PictBridge port , and slot for MultiMedia Card , Memory Stick , and SD Card .
The digital scanner lid incorporate the control panel , which includes a 3 - in , tiltable color LCD . Navigation is a little more complicated than usual : A scrollwheel moves through menus , and an OK button chooses an item . Canon also adds three function buttons for choose items that show at the bottom of the exhibit . The overall setup feel like a few too many buttons — but as with many things , once you get used to the organisation , it ’s viable .
In our tests , we saw imposingly degraded photo - printing speeds from the Canon Pixma MG5320 , rating it good or very good . Snapshot - size photos printed on letter - sizing newspaper fly out at a charge per unit of 3.3 pages per minute . Text speed was well above norm at 7.7 ppm . black and white copy speed was honest .
Output caliber was mostly good . At the default configurations we apply for testing , text appear fairly crisp and black . Test photos that seemed orangey and too bright on unembellished composition mellowed to realistic tones on Canon ’s own photo paper . Scans of colour picture tended to look disconsolate , but monochrome scans and copies were penetrating .
The ink monetary value are reasonable . The disjoined ink admit a $ 16 , 339 - Sir Frederick Handley Page ignominious cartridge ( which works out to 4.7 cents per page ) and $ 14 cyan , magenta , and yellow pickup lasting between 486 and 530 pages ( 2.6 to 2.9 cents per page ) . A four - color Sir Frederick Handley Page would be about 13 cents . The consecrated photo inkiness , also $ 14 , lasts for about 555 picture mental image ( or adds a modest amount to a distinctive written document ) .
Macworld’s buying advice
The Canon Pixma MG5320 spice up the middle of the inkjet multifunction pack with some nice feature of speech on top of a competent overall package . For a similar mannequin with an automatic document bird feeder , check out the Canon Pixma MX360 .
[ Melissa Riofrio is a PCWorld older editor program . ]
