By Evan Ackerman Printers are a pain in the butt. I’ve used printers for one reason and one reason only in the last few years, and that has been to print out airline boarding passes. I would LOVE to be able to use a printer to make photo prints, but that’s always more high-priced pain […]

By Evan Ackerman

Printers are a pain in the butt. I’ve used printers for one reason and one reason only in the last few years, and that has been to print out airline boarding passes. I would LOVE to be able to use a printer to make photo prints, but that’s always more costly pain in the butt-ness, since you blow through ink and have to use fancy paper to get decent results. The Canon PIXMA MX7600 solves half of that problem, since it’s designed with “the capability to produce crisp graphics and text on plain paper with the incorporation of the new Pigment Reaction (PgR) technology.” I’ve no idea how PgR technology works, but the result is that “curling, ink bleeding and printing through the paper sometimes associated with color inkjet printing on plain paper is dramatically reduced.” Cool, now explain to me why it costs MORE money to replace an ink cartridge than it does to purchase a new printer, and I might begin paying attention. The MX7600 can spit out a 1200 dpi 4

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