User talk:Ekit0011

I have gone through several printers over the past few years because they usually just completely die on us. I do a lot of graphic design and photo printing so we use our printer a lot in our home. I've purchased all in one printers in the past and haven't had much success with them so I've just been purchasing the equipment that I need individually such as the scanner and fax. We needed another printer in our home to go along with the one we currently have so I decided to once again give the all in one printer another chance and I'm so glad that I did! This Canon printer is absolutely amazing. The setup is fairly easy if you're good at following directions. It took me about an hour to get everything setup and working properly.

I've tested just about every feature except the use of a SD card. I haven't installed a SD card yet but will soon. The printer's scanner feature works really well. I scanned some photos and an ID card and each item scanned with perfection and clarity. I tested the printer's copy feature and let me tell you that the quality of the copies were outstanding. The copies looked exactly like the originals. The copies were so detailed that a staple was copied on the paper and it looked like the actual staple was still in the paper! I was amazed at the quality of the scanned photos even the color prints came out with HD quality. The printer is hooked up to my phone line so that I'm able to fax so I haven't had any issues with the fax feature.

I love the color LCD screen especially all of the user-friendly menus. I was able to get the Wi-Fi setup fairly easily. I have two Wi-Fi connections in my home. One of my connections is through a Verizon hotspot that we've purchased and the other is coming through our wireless router and I was able to add both access points to Black Friday Photo Printersand toggle between the both of them. I like the fact that the printer makes it easy for you to connect to either one. The only thing that I've noticed so far is that the prints may come out a little slow sometimes but that may depend on whether on not you're printing by USB or Wi-Fi. I print only over Wi-Fi so I guess it all depends on how fast my network is going at the moment. This is an excellent printer for any home office and I highly recommend it. I will be purchasing Canon printers for now on in the future. I'm so done with Lexmark and HP printers! I purchased this printer to replace a 12-year-old HP DeskJet 930 (I'm pretty easy on my stuff, so it tends to last a long time). I did quite a bit of research before buying, and am very happy so far with the printer. It prints well, scanning is a snap, and it's very handy now having a fax at home, since I have a number of document recipients who prefer fax to email.

I really like being able to fax without actually printing a document out -- the fax function shows up as an available printer, so to send a document, whether pdf or Word or Excel or PowerPoint, all you have to do is click the print button and select the Canon fax as the destination Black Friday printers. A window pops up asking for the phone number. Enter the phone number from the computer keyboard, hit "enter" and ZIP -- the printer dials and faxes the document directly from the computer file with no intervening paper copy. Paperless faxing is VERY handy!

The automatic duplex is also handy but very slow -- it prints one side, then sucks the page back in to print the other side.

It appears to be a bit more frugal with ink than the old DeskJet it replaced; I've not yet put in new cartridges but the ink indicator says I've used about a quarter of the pigment black and negligible amounts of the dye tanks. With the older printer, I'd have used about half the black and a quarter of the color tank after the same amount of time -- and with this printer, I can change out individual color tanks instead of the entire cartridge when I run out of one color. Ink cartridge costs, both for the black and for the color set, are comparable to OEM for the HP and a little lower for non-OEM. As a rough estimate, it looks like my per-page costs will be about 75% or so of what they were with the DesdJet.

I'd read several comments about the footprint, but although the printer is much more massive and bulkier than the DeskJet, the two-dimensional footprint on the desk is virtually the same. The DeskJet had a large base with a fairly small upper body, while the Canon is much more cubic. It therefore seems much bigger and more in the way. Though it doesn't take many more square inches of the desk surface, it consumes many more cubic inches of volume and is easier to bump into.

All in all, I'm very happy with the print quality, ease of use, and functionality. I can't address photo printing since I've not done any yet. I don't know if it will last 12 years or even 12 months, but no regrets on the purchase as yet.