About the cannon mx 850

Author's Rating:

Pros: most of the printer

Cons: ink

The Bottom Line: 
if you do lite printing or pictures this would be a good choice please be carful of the ink

Author's Review
I found this printer at a yard sale, and let me tell you it is a very good product. It did not have any cables, with it though. However what i found out worked out very well. If you have a playstation two and looking for an ac cord for this printer you have it. Here is what you do take the cord cord that goes into the wall and take it out of the playstation ac and plug it into the printer.

Also If you have something like the light eon external dvd rewrite drive, take the cord you would use to run your dvd player and use that cord into the printer.

Now go to the mfr website and download and install the software and the manuals and you are good to go. Note I believe there are at least 1 download that is around fifty  or so megs. so for that you should be on broadband, or near equivelent like an non secure wifi if you do not have wifi in your home and it available where you are trying to download it at. Also be careful about the ink. Around most stores that I have found the ink they are not selling the ink in seperate packages any more. The cheapest place i found the ink so far is at target and the four color pack goes for around 60.00 usd. Which is a major bummer, considering if you could just by one at a time you are only looking at 15.00 usd plus tax. Also as with any printer, I know you do not want to hear this, although it should be said, do not use those ink refills stations or kits at all.did you know if you do the ink can bubble inside the tank and when you go to use it could possiably ruin your printer. And that would not be any good, so for safety sake whatever you do please do not use ink refill kits and just replace the ink cartridge.