Canon PIXMA MP730 Reviewer's Comments

This was the second choice. It is well built. The software has lots of features and is easy to setup. It also includes the ability to scan multiple pages into a single PDF File. The ink cartridges are separate for each color which makes refilling easy but you can also purchase generic cartridges for very low prices. Using individual ink cartridges also means you do not have to refill a tri-color cartridge just because one color runs out. The single color individual cartridges last much longer than tri-color types too.

I really liked this unit other than the ADF(auto document feeder).

Documents jam in the document feeder, it will only scan 8.5" wide so no international documents can be scanned, it eats expensive original page and tears them up. When it does adf scan, it scans crooked so I have to fix every scan by hand. This defeats the purpose of an AUTOMATIC document feeder.

The unit I tested also has been giving 'SCANNER ERROR' messages since the day I plugged it in. Even though I cannot find anything wrong with the scanner, it would give these messages and refuse to scan. I can turn the unit off and back on, which I had to do every time, and it would scan fine. Then after it sat for several hours, suddenly this error would come up. The scanner dependent features became useless. I had to restart it every time I wanted to scan or fax.

The rating is 3.5 out of 4 boxes because it performed well in all other areas. My Scanner Error may have been a problem with this specific unit but it was still quite annoying and made the entire experience unnecessarily difficult.