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Printed on the company's high-resolution inkjet paper at default settings, the text quality of the Canon Pixma MP130 photo all-in-one was excellent; letters were dark but not too bold and perfectly legible in all sizes. Printed on the same paper, the MP130's color graphics output was good, with bold colors, though photographic images came out too dark and overdosed on red.
The MP130 did a good job with photos on Canon's Photo Paper Pro; colors were bold but not too dark, and flesh tones appeared accurate. However, a close inspection of CNET Labs' test photos betrayed graininess throughout and horizontal banding along the bottom edge; you can avoid this flaw if you print with a 0.75-inch border along each page.
CNET's tests of the MP130's color-scanning capabilities found disappointing results. The grayscale sample was fair, with good details despite low contrast. But our color test scan looked poor and overexposed with inaccurate colors, uneven dithering in solid color areas, and bits of color creeping into grayscale areas. We easily corrected the paleness by increasing the contrast in an image-editing program, but the remaining errors were not so easily corrected.
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The MP130 comes with a year-long warranty, covered by Canon's generous Instant Exchange policy. If your MP130 is a lemon, Canon will replace it during the warranty. You get toll-free tech support during that period, from Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. ET and on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., except on holidays. As with any home all-in-one machines, we'd like to see tech support cover the entire weekend.
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