The PIXMA MP960 is one of Canon’s more recent PIXMA updates and also one of their more expensive ones. It was released back in September as a replacement for the PIXMA MP950, which means that it has mostly all the same features. But with a starting retail price of $400, it is a couple hundred dollars more than the average PIXMA.

Canon rates the all-in-one MP960 at 30 ppm in black and 22 ppm in color. It has seven individual ink tanks and a resolution up to 9600 x 2400, which is basically as high as standard inkjets get these days. Canon says that you can print borderless 4 x 6″ photo lab quality” prints in about 35 seconds, which is about twice as fast as its predecessor (although the text speed is roughly the same). The scanning speed of the MP960 is also roughly the same as the MP950. One of the big features of the this printer is the fact that it has two paper trays and built-in duplexing, otherwise known as two-sided printing. This is an important feature if you plan on using your all-in-one for business purposes and it seems like more and more printers these days include this feature. In addition to that, the MP960 has all the usual connectivity options, including PictBridge. Canon touts their Easy-Scroll Wheel, which you use to scroll through the menu on the 3.5″ LCD.

CNET recently review the MP960 and they gave it a 7.7, which translates to “very good” for them. They liked the speed and quality of the MP960’s prints , the image editing options and the two-sided printing. They didn’t like the scan quality (seems like they are always unhappy with that) and the high price of the printer. They may have a point on the high price, since this model is so much higher than other PIXMAs yet it doesn’t do a whole lot more. So far it doesn’t appear as though a lot of people have purchased this model, probably due to the price, so customer feedback on it is limited.

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