The new PIXMA machines, to be released in October, feature the OEM’s new Pixma Printing Solutions app.
Pocket-Lint reported on the new devices in the PIXMA inkjet range from canon, which include the MG5550, MG6450 and MG7150, which all feature the cloud platform application called Pixma Printing Solutions (PPS).
The application allows the devices to become “social printers”, with connections through cloud platforming allowing users to print from iOS and Android mobile apps remotely from “anywhere in the world”, with programmes supported including Picasa, Flickr, Dropbox, Evernote, Facebook and Twitter, and the option to “change print settings, paper size” and ink status remotely.
The application also allows for multiple devices to be paired, with Pocket-Lint giving the example of being paired “to your parent’s printer and instantly print photos of your holiday to them”, and there is also the option to use the printers’ screens, which utilise the Pixma Cloud Link to let users navigate the cloud “to access all your photos and documents” so they can be printed “without ever turning on your computer or picking up your phone”.
The devices are due to be launched in the UK and Ireland in October 2013, with the MG5550 available for £110 ($171.86/€128.60), the MG6450 for £140 ($218.73/€163.68) and the MG7150 for £180 ($281.22/€210.45).