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Canon MultiPass MP730 Multifunction
Features:- Individual ink tanks, intelligent ink management
- Legal and letter size copies, up to 22 cpm black, 14 cpm color
- Up to 4,800 dpi color printing with 2-picoliter droplets
- Scans up to 1,200 x 2,400 dpi optical resolution
- 33.6 Kbps super G3 color fax; 35-sheet auto document feeder
Customer Reviews
Rating:  - Working Great After 3+ Years!!
I'm not going to go into all the technical details about this product since there are plenty of reviews that already do that. I just wanted to give this Canon MP730 a great review since I've had it for over 3 years and its still working perfectly. I've never had a single issue and its still working great! I use it for faxing, printing, scanning, and copying. I have a dedicated fax line, so I'm not sure about the other fax features when its sharing the main phone line. Before I got my fax line, I do kind of remember having an issue with the fax picking up on my main phone line instead of the answering machine, but I think it was because I had the answering machine on its own phone jack since the Canon was in my office in the basement. I think if you have your answering machine hooked up through the Canon, it works properly. I'm not positive though.
I really like the auto document feeder, it comes in handy especially when scanning or printing multiple pages. It faxes very fast and prints fast too! It prints beautiful color photos fairly quickly. I use it to print all my own pictures at home. I compared it to the comparable HP model when I purchased it - I actually scanned and printed a color photo on each machine side by side and the canon was definitely better quality. I also like how all the ink tanks are separate so you only replace the one that has run out. It also warns you when the ink is running low (each tank) so you don't get stuck in the middle of something important and suddenly have no ink. I just use the Windows picture/fax viewer for scanning most of my documents and photos, it seems easier to me. I'm not real high tech. I would probably use Photoshop for my pictures or some other photo software program if I knew how to use them, but I don't. Well, I mainly wanted to review this item to let people know that along with all the great features, my MP730 is 3 and 1/2 years old and still works like a charm! I definitely recommend it. If it breaks down some day, I'll most likely get another Canon multi function printer.
Rating:  - A Positive Vote for the MP730...
You can read all of the details in others' reviews: My review will be short and sweet. I've owned this printer for a year, and am very happy with all aspects of the printer with the exception of Ink usage. All of the features work properly, they are easy enough to learn and the print quality and speed are fine. Uses Ink up too fast for my liking.
Rating:  - Decent Printer/Fax, Terrible Scanner
I've had this machine for more than a year and use it as a backup for my laser printer, as well as for occasional faxing and scanning. It's fine for printing and faxing, but the scanner is so poorly designed--it's amazing. I teach technology skills for a living, and I find the scan function absolutely baffling to use. So counterintuitive, I suspect that the engineers are somehow playing a joke on Canon and the company has not noticed yet.
Best example: You want to scan multiple pages into one document so you can email the document. Common use, right? With this machine, you need to make a bunch of adjustments to the default settings and then, if you need to use the sheet-feeder (instead of the platen glass, which only suppots letter-size), the function doesn't work at all. Highly irritating. I could have physically walked all of my documents across the city by the time I finished hand-feeding all my double-sided legal documents into the machine. Aargh.
Rating: - MP 730 OWN TWO AND NEITHER WORKS LESS THAN ONE YEAR
I purchased two MP 730 Canon All in One machines at Staples. One about 11 months ago and one 9 months ago. Right now I am sitting here with neither one working. My roommate uses one with her personal computer and i use mine with my computer. They are not at all heavily used and we are the only ones who use them. They are not even used daily sometimes. I liked the unit and so did my roommate. We had both owned Hewlett Packards always before. The Hewlett Packards were still going strong when we replaced them or sold them to buy the Canons. Now I have to take them 1 hour drive to a repair center and they will either fix it or give me someone else's broken one that they fixed if they have one. Canon customer service said they will offer me 10% off of their new model if instead i want to buy two new ones. Yeah right...less than one year ago we spent $650 plus on these machines and more for extended warranty and neither works...i am sure we are going to buy new ones for 10% off. By the way her machine and mine have two different things not working on them. Mine won't take paper and hers has the print head with no power to it.
Rating: - Excellent multifunction printer!
Having had a Canon printer before and loved it, I was anxious to try this one after a couple of years of using a donated HP (which I hated). The Canon is superior in every way to every printer I've ever used. Not only does it print nicely, it makes great copies. The fax and scan functions are relatively easy to use, and most of the functions on the machine are intuitive. Unlike my HP, it operates flawlessly with no vibrating, smearing, grinding noises, or any other problems. I love the fact that you can buy the ink colors separately, and they're very inexpensive. If you're used to shelling out $39 for an HP tri-color cartridge, you'll be happy to pay $7-$8 for each color and $12 for black. I used to hate buying a new tri-color cartridge just because I was out of one color. Canon puts so much more thought into how their products work than other makers seem to. The one thing I do not like about it is that when I am making color copies, if I dally too long between copies (and that's not very long--maybe a couple of minutes), it reverts to black and white without signaling me. I've ruined some expensive photo papers because of that, and I really wish they would correct that feature. I have to remember to check the "Color" button before every color copy (and I tend to forget). Other than that, I couldn't be happier with the Multipass MP730.
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