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hey I'm Justin you associate editor for cnet.com today I'm taking a first look at the canon pixma NX 372 home office printer it takes the same general shape as I've come to see from the Canon Pixma line you could see the control panel embedded on the front here there's also an auto document feeder on top that's for scanning documents tax but unlike most all-in-one printers the cartridge Bay actually sits below the scanner this one is actually the first to put it behind the paper output tray Canon calls this new method of loading ink cartridges fast front and it lets you simply pull down a door to expose the inks this particular model is pretty cheap at just $80 retail so you'll only get one cartridge for black ink another that houses the tricolor ink set based on this limitation I would not recommend this printer if you want to print out a lot of photos first of all because the quality won't be as great as competing printers with five separate ink tanks and the other reason is because the more photos you print they're more ink that'll get drawn from the single tricolor cartridge what does that mean well you'll end up spending a lot more money on consumables in the long run that said this is definitely a good printer if you're an individual using it for a home office you get all the day-to-day print scanning and fax functionality but you can also use canons really generous software suite that also includes a new feature called HD movie print this is pretty cool so if you happen to be using this with a Canon HD video camera you can actually use that software to pull HD quality snapshot photos out of the film you can also edit video images with the software to prepare a clip for capture and canons easy print photo e.x software also lets you print calendars custom templates and stickers again though try to limit the amount of full-color creations you're printing since the dual ink tanks will quickly run out so just to recap the MX 372 will definitely work for users that value cost and features over output quality but amateur photographers and offices should keep shopping for a more capable machine maybe one that uses five separate ink tanks to bring up photos and presentations to that professional level you can read all the details about this printer and more on cnet.com but that's gonna do it for me I'm Justin you you just took a first look at the canon pixma MX 372 all-in-one thanks for watching