Canon Pixma MX850 Office All-In-One Printer should be in every office .
We are upgrading to this multi-function from a LexMark, which served us quite well for 4 years. The Canon PIXMA MX850 is much heavier than the LexMark. If you’ve back problems, it might be worth asking the delivery guy to put it near to where you want it. The MX850 supports dual sided scanning over the network. The Automatic Document Feeder(ADF) is supposed to hold 30-35 sheets. The scan quality is good though not exceptional. Again dual sided scanning is much slower than single sided scanning, but with ADF you can move on to other tasks, while the MX850 goes about scanning. For multiple photo’s on the flatbed, it will create separate jpeg files. However, if you scan two set of documents with a time lag in between, they will be scanned to the same pdf. But their print software does allow you to delete individual pages from the pdf, which is useful if not all pages in your original document set are two-sided. You can also re-arrange the pages if they are not in the order you want them to be in, using the Canon software.
On the whole, The Canon Pixma MX850 Printer All in One has good features and their software is feature rich too. A stable printer stand/table would be much recommended. Since the printer seems to be from the same family as MP830, I also expect it to be going easy in consuming ink. All said and done, I would recommend this printer to anyone who is not a heavy user of print functionality. It will get small jobs done to more than your satisfaction.