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"One of the fastest and best-quality printers on show. The scanner isn't perfect and there aren't as many features as the best here, but the MP170 is hard to beat for value."
LABS VERDICT (rated out of 6 stars)
 Quality - 5 stars
Speed - 5 stars
Features and Design - 2 stars
Value for Money - 6 stars
Overall - 4 stars
"At [$159 RRP] the Canon PIXMA MP170 is easily affordable, but throughout testing it consistently held its own with the more expensive counterparts."
"Both Canons [PIXMA MP170 and PIXMA MP500] achieved fantastic results wherever text was involved: the MP170 produced 8ppm in Draft mode, but it was almost indistinguishable from the quality of Normal output. Both [modes] were crisp, clear and almost free of spidering, despite the Normal quality output taking twice as long to print. The scanning and copying of text was equally impressive, with copy rates of 3.8ppm and 9.7ppm for Normal and Draft quality making the MP170 a useful photocopier. It does have a major weakness, though: the two-line dot-matrix menu display is fiddly, confusing and time-consuming to use."
"The MP170 doesn't support the CL-52 photo cartridge, but that doesn't stop it producing high-quality photos. With the Black and tri-colour cartridge, it did a superb job with our A4 photomontage, delivering warm skin tones and vivid colours, and showing slight banding only up close up. Plus, it took just three minutes, 37 seconds to print; only it's bigger sibling, the MP500, churned it out faster. Our monochrome test picture and 6 x 4in photos were just as detailed, although perhasp slightly too light."
"A useful OCR utility is included along with a set of standard-capacity cartridges...The MP170 can't match the best for scanning quality and doesn't have loads of features, but nothing can beat it for value."
- PC Authority, July 2006
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