Canon PIXMA MP990 Wireless Inkjet Photo All-In-One Printer (3749B002)

Fair disclosure: I've had this printer up and running for less than 48 hours. But the early results have been so incredibly good, I felt a review was in order. If you, like me, have been on an endless search for an AIO that actually worked as advertised and could hold its own with minimal compromise vs. more task specific printers, then I believe your search has ended with the 990.

Setup: A+. I have two Macs, one a PowerMac G5 running 10.5, the other a Macbook Pro running Snow Leopard, both on my Airport Extreme (simultaneous dual band) network, and setup was about as close to plug and play as you could get. Just BE SURE that if you're running 10.6, you download all the latest drivers from Canon's website. The software CD packed with the printer is not updated for Snow Leopard.

Wireless Performance: As noted above, connecting to my home network was a snap. I've had no dropped connections over two days. Now, I've never had a problem printing wirelessly in the...Read more

I am running an old G4 as well as an aluminum Powerbook, both on Mac OS 10.4.11. I have owned the MP990 for about a month and I thought it was time to start my review. I will follow up as I explore the different features. I spent more than 14 months researching printers, scanners and all-in-ones before I bought this unit. I will try to explain my rationale so that this review can be of help to someone who likes to know everything about a product that they can before they buy like me. I had a bad experience with my last Epson RX600 which just up and died on me one day. The Epson always seemed to get clogged again and again unless I used it very regularly. I have a laser printer that I print most of my text docs to so the Epson was too finicky for me. I was dissuaded from Canon printers and AIOs after reading many of the previous complaints about older models, the bad chip issue with the first generation ink cartridges, the dreaded U150 error that so many of their models displayed. The...Read more

Today I received my new Canon PIXMA MP990 Inkjet Photo All-In-One Printer from Amazon. There is only one word to describe this printer: Wow!

After unpacking the printer, installing the drivers and software from the included CD-ROM, I updated the drivers and software for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard from Canon's website. The Wi-Fi setup took about one minute and it has been working flawlessly all day.

Then I scanned a few documents and printed them out - the quality is just amazing.

There are six ink cartridges in total (in their installed order):

*Magenta (221)
*Black (221)
*Grey (221)
*Pigment Black (220)
*Cyan (221)
*Yellow (221)

There is a pigment-based black ink cartridge (220) that is only used for printing text. The rest of the dye-based ink cartridges (221) are used for printing photos. The text output is as clear or better than a laser printer, and the photo output is absolutely...Read more