The Canon Pixma MP810 is a photo-centric all-in-one inkjet printer is designed for home users and amateur photo hobbyists. The Pixma cheap MP810 is a behemoth of a printer. It stands more than 18 inches wide, 16.5 inches deep and 9 inches tall.
The panel of the MP810 ink jet printer is embedded in the scanner lid, under a cover that flips up. The control panel aside, the Pixma MP810 offers a lot of the same features offered by the Pixma MP800: two input sources (cassette and auto sheet feeder); built-in memory card slots; a PictBridge port; and an IrDA port. It’s not network ready, but you can easily network it using a router with a built-in print server or a stand-alone print server. The features offered are standard for a photo-centric all-in-one in this price category. The Canon Pixma cheap MP810 employs a five-ink system, with separate tanks for each ink. In addition to the cyan, magenta, and yellow tanks are a dye-based black and a pigment-based black.
The Canon Pixma cheap MP810 offers impressive print speeds but slow scan speeds, compared to those of its predecessor. It printed text at a rate of 8.43 pages per minute, far ahead of either the HP Photosmart C7180 or the HP Officejet 6310. Texts printed from this cheap printer are dark, sharp, and clean–nearly as good as laser text quality to the naked eye. The color graphics prints are impressive, too: smooth gradients, nicely saturated color blocks, excellent detail, and well-rendered photo elements.