This product looks stylish. More importantly, this printer performs as well as it looks. It prints beautiful, long-lasting photos, and copies that are truer to your originals; offers resolution as high as 4800 by 1200 color dots per inch (dpi) and 600 x 600 black dpi and copy speeds up to 22 pages per minute (ppm) in monochrome and 17 ppm in color. Even you do the printing through USB, it is still faster than other printer. It lets you print, copy and scan photos and documents within one machine.
This printer can be called user friendly. You can even print photos directly from a PictBridge compatible camera or DV camcorder -- no computer required! This printer can do U.S. #10 envelopes Reduction & Enlargement. The unique Z-Lid lets you produce clear, complete scans even of thick originals like personal notebooks. It can print 4 x 6 inch photos print in less than a minute. It allows you to control brightness, hue, and other elements to make sure that there are minimal differences between the original and the copy. This printer gives me the highest quality for photo printing among all ink-jet printers. The printer can actually differentiate text from an image, making black text and fine lines darker and sharp. Now when black text appears over an image, the text on the following generations of copies can be virtually as clear as the first. When it does the scanning, the colors of result image are very close to the original document. For copying, this printer can automatically optimizes copy quality based on the type of originals you are copying. Such function can only found in the formal copy machine like Xerox.
The MP160 comes with a one-year limited warranty. It is easy to setup. It takes me half hour to take it out of box and let it to be fully functional. So far, I did not experience any paper jam. But it has a bit high noise of its paper loading mechanism. For the basic functions such as printing, scanning, and copying, the ways to use these functions are straightforward. It takes one or more button, you done. The buttons involved for these operations are self explained, e.g, you know Scan button must have something to do with scan function. For all other function, you need to read the manual. Based on my experience, it takes no more than 15 minutes to fully understand a function. Their service is ok. It takes at least one day to reply your email. The print speed matches other ink-jet printer within this price range. I believe that this printer can satisfy most need of families and small businesses. It comes with some good software such as ArcSoft PhotoStudio, ScanSoft Omnipage SE, Easy-PhotoPrint version 3.5, and Easy-WebPrint (Windows only). Of course, you need to pay price for high quality of printing. It is tiny ink cartridges run out quickly and are very expensive for small capacity! The driver provides only 4 warning levels: 70%, 40%, and low. For ink replacement I recommend buying original Canon ink cartridges only, because generic ink may clog printing nozzles. This printer is not compact but neither is it particularly hulking. It is a very good choice if you are familiar on Canon MP series. Of course, it is a very good choice for families and small businesses.