Canon MG2900 IJ Scan Utility
Canon MG2900 IJ Scan Utility– The MG2900 offers all the basics including wireless connection for mobile print straight from the listener and domestic markets, the printer is available in black or white and has a neat, modern look.
Design and Features
The front is deeply undercuts, reducing the overall footprint when the machine is open for printing. Unusually for a Canon printer, it eats paper from a tray at the back, which can hold up to 60 sheets, and eats out to a telescopic output tray on the front. There is no bezel on the machine.
Having this straight paper path makes it easier to print on card, as it doesn’t have to do the 180 degree turn that media in a front-loading printer has to.
Cartridges and connections
The two cartridges, one black and the other Tri-Color, vent from the front, once you have flipped off the panel behind the output tray. They are not so easy to get to and you need to press the cartridge up to click in place, which is a bit fidget.
Cartridges are available in two capacities, but even the maximum number of XL variants is the 400-page black-300 color.
Connection is via USB or wireless link and the Wi-Fi connection is easy to set up, with just a couple of button squeezes, one on the printer and the other on your router. Software is the usual bundle of quality canon apps, including my image yard and easy-WebPrint.
Print speed
Canon rates the MG2900 at 8ppm Black and 4ppm colour and in our test we got quite close. Our five-page mono text was completed in 47 seconds, giving 6.4 ppm print speed, but it rose 6.7 ppm for 20-page printing. There is no duplex option on the machine unless you manually turn the paper on.
The five-sided mono text and colour graphics test returned only 1.6 ppm, less than half the specified speed. At 15 x 10cm, delimited photo took 2:08 of the highest quality, printed on a PC and 48s standard quality on an Android smartphone.
While these velocities are not breathtaking, they are not at all bad for the printer at this price. However, the machine is very noisy for a relatively slow device and peaked at 76dBA at 0.5 m, when feeding paper.
Print quality and costs
The quality of the prints of the machine is not what we’ve come to expect from canon. Black text is upset, some ink spread, and bad registration is one head-to-pass to the next. Color fills are fine in your business artwork, but the reverse text shows a break-through of the black background. Photographs are well reproduced in natural colours and with smooth transitions.
Using the XL versions of the cartridges, the price of the site is 3.8 p, mono printing and 8.2 p for the colours, including 0.7 p paper. These are quite high, but not in comparison with other printers at the same price.
Canon’s PIXMA MG2900 waterfall is surprisingly short on plain paper print quality and is very noisy when printing, but is quite quick and offers wireless connection, which few if any other all-in-ones can match at the price.
Canon MG2900 IJ Scan Utility
- Linux
- MacOS X
- Windows
Canon Pixma MG2900 Drivers for Windows
Download << — Full Drivers and Software
Download << — XPS Drivers
Download << — MP Drivers
Canon Pixma MG2900 Software for Windows
Download << — Canon Pixma MG2900 series Software Package
Download << — Easy PhotoPrint Editor
Download << — IJ Scan Utility Lite
Download << — IJ Network Device Setup Utility
Download << — Canon Pixma MG2900 series My Image Garden
Download << — Quick Menu
Support:
- Windows XP
- Windows Vista
- Windows 7
- Windows 8
- Windows 8.1
- Windows 10
Canon Pixma MG2900 Drivers for MacOS X
Download << — Full Drivers and Software
Download << — CUPS Drivers
Download << — ICA Drivers
Canon Pixma MG2900 Software for MacOS
Download << — Canon Pixma MG2900 series Software Package
Download << — Easy PhotoPrint Editor
Download << — IJ Scan Utility Lite
Download << — IJ Network Device Setup Utility
Download << — Canon Pixma MG2900 series My Image Garden
Download << — Quick Menu
Support:
- macOS Sierra
- OS X El Capitan
- OS X Snow Leopard
- OS X Yosemite
- OS X Mountain Lion
- OS X Mavericks
- OS X Lion
Canon Pixma MG2900 Drivers for Linux
Download << — ScanGear MP (rpm Packagearchive)
Download << — ScanGear MP (debian Packagearchive)
Download << — ScanGear MP (Source file)
Download << — IJ Printer Drivers (rpm Packagearchive)
Download << — IJ Printer Drivers (debian Packagearchive)
Download << — IJ Printer Drivers (Source file)
Support:
- Debian
- Ubuntu
Android, Mobile, Tablets
Download << — IJ Start Canon Pixma MG2900 Setup Android- Mobile- Tablets Drivers
Support:
- Android
- Mobile
- Tablets
Canon Pixma MG2900 Manuals Download
Download << — User Manual Download for Windows
Download << — Guide for My Image Garden Download for Windows
Download << — Guide for EasyPhotoPrint Editor Download for Windows
Download << — Guide for Quick Menu Download for Windows
Download << — User Manual Download for Macintosh
Download << — Guide for My Image Garden Download for Macintosh
Download << — Guide for EasyPhotoPrint Editor Download for Macintosh
Download << — Guide for Quick Menu Download for Macintosh
Download << — ScanGear MP Operation guide Download for Linux
Download << — IJ Printer Driver Operation guide Download for Linux
Support:
- Windows
- Mac
- Linux