Canon PIXMA MG8250 Driver Download

Canon Pixma MG8250 Driver Download– The Canon PIXMA MG8250 is specially designed for photography enthusiasts. The PIXMA MG8250 sits right at the top of its line, so it has all the extras a company can offer. Said to be modeled on its EOS line of digital cameras, the matt display of this printer is a vast improvement over the high-gloss, fingerprint-prone models further down the range, and we can only hope the new display filters down. The top of the scanner looks pretty straightforward until you turn on the machine when not only does the 88mm LCD screen light up in the center of the lid, but the illuminated touch buttons pop out towards the front, and the indicators shine through the beautifully textured surroundings. It’s some magic.

Under the lid is a folding front panel, which becomes the output tray, and underneath is a 150-sheet paper cassette. There is a second 150-sheet paper tray that lifts from the back of the machine so that you can load plain paper and photo paper simultaneously. The third printing source is for CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs, which you get by pulling the guides down inside the printer and sliding them into the supplied disc tray.

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To the right of the front panel, a flip-open cover gives access to the three memory card slots, adding CompactFlash to SD and MemoryStick, which are regular additions. Below is a USB/PictBridge socket for instant printing from your camera. Another way to get an image onto this printer is to remove the white reflector under the scanner lid and use a transparency adapter to scan in slides or negatives at resolutions up to 4,800 x 9,600ppi.

The machine uses six inks with pigmented and dye-based black ink and extra gray ink to add to the CMY set, which is helpful when printing black-and-white photos. They are each clipped to a semi-permanent head, and the LED indicator shows when they are correctly positioned and flashes when the ink is running low.

Canon claims slightly higher speeds for the PIXMA MG8250 than other machines in the range, at 12.5ppm for black and 9.3ppm for color. We saw this slight improvement in, for example, the Canon PIXMA MG6250, although the speed still doesn’t live up to Canon’s claims.

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Our 5-page black text print hit 8.3ppm, and our 20-page document increased it to 9.9ppm, both good results. Our five-page black text and color graphic prints deliver 4.6 ppm, and even our 20-sided duplex documents manage 3.5 sides per minute, better than usual.

The one-page color copy takes a respectable 22s and 15 x 10cm photo, varying between 32s and 53s, which is perfectly adequate, depending on the quality setting. Even at standard-setting, print quality is good, with crisp, clean black text on plain paper and an advantageous draft print mode, which is faster and saves ink.

Colors in business graphics are bright and clear, and color copies only lose a bit of sharpness compared to the originals. The photos are excellent, with intricate levels of detail extending into the darker, shadowed areas of the image. Colors can be soft and pastel but bright and striking depending on your image needs. There is little that touches Canon’s photo print quality in the home printer market.

Decision

This is a beautiful all-in-one printer for anyone interested in general-purpose home use but with a particular interest in reproducing photos. It’s fun to use, produces excellent prints at a reasonable speed, but is relatively expensive to run. Extras such as a transparency adapter and CD/DVD printing and the facility to print remotely from multiple devices make it a very flexible scanning and printing tool.