New Technologies - Canon PIXMA MP500 Service Manual

1. NEW TECHNOLOGIES

(1) New ink tank system (PGI-5, CLI-8)
An LED is installed in each ink tank.
By the LED indication, wrong installation of the ink tanks will be prevented, and the remaining ink level can be
visually recognized with the ink tanks seated in the carriage.
The combination of the new pigment-based black ink with higher resistance against bleeding or marker pens and
the new dye-based inks with higher photo quality and weather resistance makes the new ink system strong in both
photo and text printing.
(2) Super-photo quality printing
By the FINE technologies, 1 pl of ultra-fine ink droplet is adopted. The MP500 provides excellent super-
photo print quality without graininess at the maximum resolution of 9,600 dpi x 2,400 dpi
that of a 6-color machine.
*1: Printing at the minimum distance of 1/9600 inch between the dots.
(3) Print / copy speed
- Print speed:
Approx. 51 sec. in 4 x 6 borderless printing (standard mode, Photo Paper Plus Glossy, full page, SCID No.2)
For reference, 29 ppm in monochrome printing and 19 ppm in color printing
- Copy speed:
29 cpm in monochrome copy and 19 cpm in color copy
(4) New functionality in Direct Printing
- Plain paper is now usable in Camera Direct Printing from a digital camera or digital video camera, if both support
PictBridge.
- File numbers can be printed on the images.
- Optimization of photos taken by a mobile phone:
Minimizes jaggies in printing a low-resolution photo taken by a mobile phone.
- Writing to a memory card:
From the Maintenance/settings menu, the memory card can be set to the Read-only or Read/write mode.
- Slide show:
To the Single-photo print menu, the slide show function has been added to display photos from the memory
card one by one automatically.
(5) Compact and stylish design
Stylish design offering the unification of the compact body and the operation panel has been adopted (a thin
scanner, CIS, is adopted).
The paper output tray consists of 4 slides (contributing to increase of the paper ejection speed).
(6) USB 2.0 Hi-Speed supported
The machine supports USB 2.0 Hi-Speed, enabling high speed data transfer in use with the computer, OS, and USB
hub.
(7) High-definition 2.5 color STN LCD
The 2.5 color STN LCD offers higher visibility than the conventional models to improve usability (176 x 132
pixels, approx. 65,000 colors).
(8) 1,200 x 2,400 dpi high-resolution CIS scanner
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*1
, which is equal to