Digital Home Thoughts: New Canon PIXMA Printers Are Touchable

"Designed with ease-of-use in mind, the new Intelligent Touch System is a game changer for overall printer usability. Consumers will find it easier and quicker than ever to navigate through menus and perform everyday tasks with back-lit touch sensitive buttons and a new light guidance system eliminating buttons not in use thus reducing opportunities for mistakes."

You can tell that it is approaching Back-to-School time when you start seeing companies announcing more new products than the number of broken-promises a politican makes during an election year. Canon's latest line of PIXMA printers include some of the newer features like Full HD Movie printing, but new to the line is an adaptive touch sensitive control panel. Touch controls are hardly new, but the Intelligent Touch System, as Canon has labelled it, actually changes depending on what options are available. Instead of all buttons being visible, and guessing which ones are appropriate, the active buttons light up to let you know they can be used. A neat system which will certainly help those who are less tech savvy.