Canon Pixma MG5420 Driver Download. The Canon Pixma MG5420 is the 3-in-1 Wi-Fi model, mid-range of the 3 new Pixma releases recently launched by Canon. The multifunction printer replaces the MG5350 printer. As this latest versatile model, it will be suitable for home use and is for those who want to print office documents but also and especially photos. From an ergonomic point of view, it appears more advanced compared to the MG5120 and MG5220 printers, both also positioned in the mid-range. Exit the buttons, the MG5420 switches to control via the touch control panel and gains comfort with its additional 1.5 cm to reach 7.5 cm in the end. But why on earth do not convert this big screen directly into a full-fledged touchscreen, rather than navigating through a keypad with backlit keys and / or by selecting the arrows? Canon is moving slowly but surely towards the "all touch" but it is necessary to go upmarket. The Canon Pixma MG6320 is Canon's first truly touch screen printer.
Features side, this Canon Pixma MG5420 printer copies and scans in Wi-Fi and double-sided. Inside there are 5 separate cartridges, always in one format: standard, 2 black as well as cyan, magenta and yellow. Convenient to replace only the exhausted cartridge. Its paper tray contains 150 sheets, quite enough for use at home. Photo positioning requires, the ability to print on CD, DVD or BD is offered via a direct access function. There is also a card reader for directly inserting the camera's memory card into the printer so that the pictures are displayed on the screen to trigger printing. Printing speeds in all respects in line with those of the Canon Pixma MG6220. Even astonishment: "Keep the ISO speeds announced at 12 ppm for color and 9 for black are below the speeds measured with our chronometers!". Same thing also: Although these times are honorable they seem doubly strange to us because if we rely on our results, the printer is slower than the previous model: the Pixma MG6150 (10 ppm in color and 13 ppm in black and white).
The other hand, the announced speeds correspond: Canon promises 20 seconds for a 10 x 15 cm, we find 23. Less than a minute for an A4, it is fast. Overall the Canon Pixma MG5420 print quality is above average, ahead of HP, Lexmark, and Brother. Nevertheless, for the photo, it remains on the screen below Epson. The reproduction of our test chart (below) particularly complex is more convincing than the Pixma MG5120, the drops are much less visible. For the rest, the same observation: the gradient is well transcribed, the colors are faithful, the characters are clear. The graphic in its black and white version is doing a little less well, especially at the flat level.
The drops are visible but do not alter the good reading of the document as a whole. In photo, the outputs are good, in color as in black and white. With the nuance that, as usual, Canon opts for "vibrant colors" that purists find too red and not faithful enough. In 7 seconds to scan a document in 300 dpi, it's fast. The rendering of the scanner is good and the colorimetric drift relatively low with 6%. Fast, copy prints are also fast with 11 seconds for a black-and-white copy and 13 seconds for color. The quality of the prints is, as often, fairly average. However, the possibilities offered in copy mode are multiple: define the enlargement, intensity, format and type of paper, as well as the ability to copy double-sided or ask for a preview of the copy on the 'screen.