Product Review: Canon Pixma MP250 all-in-one printer/copier
Canon MP-250 all-in-one.
(This is an Amazon ad because Canon’s own page for this hunk of junk is down just now.)
The price is right on this machine, but that is the only thing that is right about it. The installation CD is excruciatingly slow to load. When finally installed, the proprietary software is the slowest to open and load that I have encountered in recent years. I have a new computer with 4 GBs of Ram so any decently written program should open pretty quickly on it.
The scan cycle works and produces decent images, but takes an inordinate amount of time to scan a complete page (60 seconds is not unusual).
This seems to be policy or tradition or perhaps bad mojo at Canon, since their website is chronically buggy and hard to use as well.
The worst problem, and the one that makes this an absolute waste of money, is that the paper feed stopped working after fewer than 50 copies. It is very flimsy and does not have a feed button, so you are just out of luck when it decides not to feed.
Even when it was working, it would feed only if I put new paper in it each and every time I wanted to print. I didn’t load any more sheets than I absolutely needed, because I would just have to pull them out and throw them away, or take them to my office where we have a decent printer, when I tried to print again.
After a while, even that stopped and I got only an “out of paper” indication every time I tried to print.
Canon’s warranty had expired and is more trouble that it is worth anyway. The piece of junk has gone into the dumpster. I figure this thing cost about $1 a copy while I was able to use it. That makes it very much a false economy.