Canon's Pixma MP980 Printer is an upgraded version of MP 970. The MP 970 had the distinction of printing great-looking photos while being far less expensive than any of its competition. The MP980 shares some of the same features and carries on in that tradition. It can print, scan, copy, and e-mail—by opening a message on your PC and adding a scanned document as an attachment. It can both scan and print directly from 35mm slides and strips of film, and print directly from PictBridge cameras and memory cards. It lets your display the preview photos on the 3.5 inch LCD display. Both the models lack features like ADF or fax support. Despite all the similarities the two models differ in many ways but most notably in the number of cartridge used. The MP 970 used seven ink cyan, yellow, magenta, light cyan, light magenta, pigment-based black for text, and dye-based black for  [...]