An appealing low-cost alternative to an A3 colour laser printer for office use, but HP's Officejet 7000 is faster and better value.

The Canon Pixma iX7000 Inkjet Business Printer ($399.99 direct) is the third inkjet printer I've seen in the past several months that can print on tabloid (11- by 17-inch) or larger-size paper and is aimed tightly at small offices-particularly micro and home offices.

Can't load both letter- and tabloid-size at once to switch between them easily

Most inkjet printers designed to handle paper up to A3+ are aimed primarily at the photo enthusiast or graphics professional. However, Canon's Pixma iX7000 is directed at the small office market, where plain paper prints are more prevalent and larger page sizes are needed more for posters,...

Easy to configure the driver and software on our print server; Works well for my Design department to use as their AutoCAD plotter; Thanks Newegg for another sweet deal

The printer is rather bulky; and does take up a good amount of desktop real estate

THIS IS AN EXCELLENT PRINTER BUT COSTLY TO USE. THE REASON BEING THE CLEAR INK CARTRIDGE RUNS OUT AT THE SAME TIME AS THE BLACK CARTRIDGE MAKING THE COST OF REPLACING A BLACK CARTRIDGE DOUBLE.

Canon's PIXMA iX7000 is the company's second business-focussed A3 inkjet printer, and it's one of the most expensive on the market. It is big, slow and noisy but offers automatic duplex and network connectivity, and it produces great quality A4 and A3 output.

Produces great A4 photos; automatic duplexer can print double-sided A3 documents; draft documents are usable

Print quality issues with matte media and A3 photos; frustrating paper input options; extremely big