Side by Side Comparison of: Canon

This printer will do what you need it to. It prints black/color, scans multiple pages at a time, photocopies, and has wireless connectivity. Low price, great for personal use!Be sure and like this review if it was helpful, I am trying to be an Amazon Vine Reviewer!

Great printer so far! We had an HP and the ink kept drying out as we use it infrequently. This has not happened with his printer. The inks must be a bit less exposed to the air. We also had no issues connecting it to our computers or WiFi and were able to start using it right away. I love that I can print directly from my Iphone also! It has been a wonderful addition to our home office.

This is an update on my previous review. My printer started having paperfeed problems. As in paper would not feed. I called Amazon Customer Service, had a delightful chat w a youg lady there, she confirmed I was within warranty and gave me the number for Canon. I spoke to the technical department at Canon, and after exploring all the possible problems The technical department decided to send a replacement. Wow. I am so pleased by Canon's & Amazon's cusomer service.This is a fine printer for at home, where you might only print your kid's homework, the occasional downloaded pattern or a form you need to fill out and mail, or if your kid did some artwork in a computer program that they want to print out and keep, or you want to print out some photos to share or scrapbook or what have you. It doesn't hold a lot of paper, so if you want a printer to print out all of your wedding invitations on, no, this is not for you. If you're going to print out all your Christmas cards, it depends on how many people are on your Christmas card list. More than 50, I would say probably not. It does a fine job with everything I've given it to do, but I haven't asked for more than 5 pages at a time, and that is plenty right now. Our kid is off at college, and my husband does his printing at the office, so it is just recipe cards, the occasional photo, and a letter or two. I plan to do some scanning, because there's stuff to share with the family that is only on paper right now. It will be nice once everybody has a digital copy. I was really annoyed about getting a new printer, because the last one cost me $200 and we had barely used it and the ink was so $%&^* expensive all the time. It was nice to pay less than $100 but I did check around and see who charged what for ink this time because I did not want to have to take money out of the grocery budget to buy ink every time lol. I did not buy the cheapest printer because the cheap one was highway robbery on ink, you check it out. I have a mac. I did not have too much difficulty with setting up my computer once I got all my software updates for my OS done. You just go to the Canon website and you can download whatever you need. Just remember to spell Canon right. I kept typing in Cannon and getting the wrong website. So there you go, learn from my mistakes!

I have had quite a few printers and from many of the manufacturers. This one is much lighter and smaller. It works with all of my devices and the price was great. The cassette does not hold as much paper that I would like, but as I am not printing that much, it is not a problem.

Great multi function for a small home office. It does work with both 32 and 64 bit versions of windows, you just need to download the latest drivers. Would buy again.

This is a great, small printer for a home office. It's hard to find a white printer and one that takes up little space. I wouldn't recommend it for huge printing jobs, but it works really well for scanning, faxing and copying needs in your home office.

I needed an air print compatible printer for a photobooth. My Epson said it was, but would not work with the app I had purchased. I didn't really want a new printer because mine works fine except for apparently not having air print. This one does, and seems to work pretty well. It hasn't yet replaced my older printer only because the ink is more expensive to replace, and the set up/ settings aren't as easy to understand and I don't feel like learning to use it right now.

Well, for the price, I suppose you can't beat it. Print quality is just this side of excellent, and fairly quickly at that. Not exactly sleek - this unit is a bit on the tall side (we keep ours on the lower shelf of an end table obscured by a couch/chair, so height is a consideration - it's kind of tight under there). HORRIBLE HORRIBLE HORRIBLE set-up instructions, especially if you're setting-up a wireless connection. Seriously, this one takes the prize for the horriblest set-up instructions - even worse than those for that $11 watch I bought at Walmart. Obviously, you need to input the password for your wireless router - NOWHERE in the multi-lingual, two-step, two completely separate fold-out instructions (not even a book/pamphlet) does it tell you how to switch the keyboard input from lower-case to upper-case/numeric/symbol. For the record, you need to push the asterisk * button and look for the microscopic indicator symbol on the tiny/low-resolution/low-contrast status screen to change. I had to Google how to change the input on this model and there were HUNDREDS of top results...what does that tell you? (It wasn't just my bourbon-addled mind that couldn't figure it out!!). Also, when starting a print job, this thing is LOUD! It really puts out quite a momentary racket. Whenever I send a print job without warning my wife, she jumps two feet off the couch. Quite entertaining, but it really makes her mad. However, this is a PRINTER, and as far as that goes, it does produce very good output at a decent speed and price.

Printer works well. It was a little confusing in setting up when I set it up using on line install. Found using the disc that comes with it better to use. I have installed 5 printers before and they were more plug and play than this one. But I like the printer and recommend it highly for its print quality at a low price.

For those of you who have complained this printer is really loud, it jams all the paper, and it doesn't work--I figured it out. At least for me, it was the ridge just behind the ink heads. See attached image. For me, they were slightly raised (I'm guessing due to rough transportation). Just push it down firmly with your fingers, on both sides of the ink, and you should hear a click. After that, it works like a champ.I will agree with everyone else though, software isn't great, nor is the installation workflow. I'd recommend to the developers that you just have the user connect to the wireless AP the printer gives off in the very beginning, and have them redirected to a webpage where you can select the wireless AP you want the printer to connect to and a more intuitive wizard on getting it set up/configured/tested/cleaned, etc. It took me a bit to figure out how to bypass WPS and manually set it up--and I've got a number of special characters and upper/lower case letters... it took me a bit to figure out you had to hit * to change the keyboard between Upper/Lower/Number. Having a webpage for me to use my keyboard/smartphone would have alleviated this.Last minor thing that contributed to taking a star off was that in certain errors, there is no way to clear them but a power off/on, which was frustrating when I was troubleshooting the above issue.Other than all that, 4 solid stars from me. It's cheap and get's the job done.

Good Little Basic Printer. 4 stars because it's really noisy and there's no way to enter # of copies from your devices, only from the printer itself.

Had to use the manual connection setup menu to connect to my Uverse router, but the whole process took less than 5 minutes. Two laptops, one notebook and three phones successfully connected and printing. The print quality is great and the replacement ink is affordable.

It's not the best, and it's not the worst. The print quality is not great for small type, but it is efficient and overall does the job for a basic printer. Setup is more unnecessarily complicated than any other printer I've purchased though!

The printer over all is great does most jobs well, the wireless set up was a bit of a headache

Works perfectly for that occasional print needed. Not sure how long this is going to last as it has a very flimsy build to it. Connects to the iphones which makes those users in my house happy!

Would not hook up to my wi-fi wirelessly, had to hook to my computer via a usb cable that was not provided. Luckily I had a usb cable from a previous printer or I'm not sure how I would have been able to connect. When I tried to enter the password for the wi-fi on the printer it would only allow me to enter letters, not numbers. Maybe I was doing something incorrectly but I couldn't find any info online or in the papers provided with the printer that went into any detail about it. After an hour I finally got everything connected and print heads aligned, and everything seems to work. It's small and fits my desk space. The screen isn't easy to read but for the price I can't complain.

Ugh. What can I say about this? The wifi on it seems to never work. Half of the time it makes me wait 15 minutes until it sees it. Once it does print, it prints pretty fast. But not really worth the wait time.

Normally I don't bother to write reviews until I've used the product for a few months, but in this case I'm making an exception.I've actually had this printer kicking around for a week now, but took (what I thought would be) a few moments to set it up. I wanted a wireless printer so that I could print from both my desktop and laptop. Sadly, that isn't going to happen. The software will not recognize that the printer is connected to the network.I've tried both the manual and WPS method and Canon's software will not recognize that the printer exists. I've restarted the PC after adding it to my wireless network and Windows recognizes the wireless printer, but requires the rest of the drivers to be installed. But Canon's software will not recognize that the printer exists, despite that fact that I have the Network Connections screen open and I can see that the printer actually is connected to the wi-fi networkPlug in the USB cable and it's instantly recognized. So for all that hassle, it loses 2 stars right from the beginning.Pros:- Small foot print. This is ideal for me because the the printer will eventually get relocated and the new space is smaller than it's current location. Yet it will fit nicely without any important bits and pieces hanging out and getting bumped into.- Inexpensive. Definitely a throw away printer. Especially and the current advertised price. It would be cheaper to replace the printer than to replace in the ink cartridges.Cons- Useless Software. See above about the wireless issues. Also comes packaged with the usual and often pointless bloatware. I installed the "full package" initially while trying to get things figured out. Later I'll learn what I need and don't need and reinstall only the absolute bare requirements.- Noisy when printing. Much noisier than the MX330 that it replaced.- LCD screen hard to read. It really could use some back lighting. But at this price point, I don't see that happening.I've done all the test printing and it works fine so far. Will update if/when anything changes.

I had the previous model of this printer and loved it, and I expected this one to be the same, but the wireless feature is horrible. It takes 20 minutes to print from wifi, and even then, it stops printing the job halfway through. I really don't like this printer.

Was working all right and then can't really get the signal for WPS (WIFI) and got painful to use

Took over three hours to set up. An hour and a half just to download drivers. I set up an HP a few weeks ago- five minutes. "User Manual" is not user friendly. When t take you to the troubleshoot an error code, it tells you to do things that you don't know how to do, and there is no search bar or link to move forward. The printer still says the heads aren't aligned. That's what took a bunch of time and ink. The scanner is super slow, I'll still be using my Canon LiDE flatbed scanner. I'm so irritated with these things that I haven't tried out other features yet.* Printing from phone is a little buggy, but I'm mostly impressed.

I have used a lot of different printers and this is on the bottom of my list. It's difficult to set up, the directions are insufficient, it's clunky, the ink smears sometimes. It was inexpensive, but I've purchased comparable ones that function much better. I expect more from Canon.

This WAS a great printer. Inexpensive and lots of function. That is until it just quit turning on. A Google returned evidence that these printers all die after a short life (a year or just over). BUMMER! Now what do I do with the ink I already bought but can't return...

Just got this printer and first impressions are not too great.The Good:- Prints pretty fast (after the click-whirr-click-whirr-click-whirr startup that lasts quite a while)CANON MG7520 Wireless Color Cloud Printer with Scanner and Copier: Mobile, Smart Phone, Tablet Printer, and AirPrint(TM) Compatible,Black- Photo prints are surprisingly good- Network printing works well from networked Macs and iPhones (including scanning from a wifi mac)- It is fairly compact. Unlike many printers like this there is not a big bubble but sticking out the back. They tend to be quite misleading in their product photos but this one is pretty true to what is shown in the picture (though the paper feeder sticks out the front when you actually use it - see The Bad).The Bad:- It feels very cheaply made. The scanner cover is very lightweight and somewhat flimsy. Also it sounds like it might damage itself while it is clicking and whirring and printing.- The paper feed tray pulls out in the front (the front panel that says "Canon" in the picture lays flat down on the desk) and it sticks out a bit. Not too terrible since the output tray has to go there too but it is pretty misleading when you see that picture. Kind of seems like there is a tray internally and the paper comes out on the top but that is not the case. I searched a bit for a picture of this thing opened up and could not find one.- I have already had 3 paper jams and only printed like 10 things. Not a good sign. Moreover the only way to clear the jam is to power cycle which is kind of a pain. It jammed with regular letter paper and 4x6 photo paper.- There is no backlight on the LCD display and it has a fairly dark background. It was tucked under a a desk hutch and I had to get put a lamp close to it in order to read it.That's it for now. I'll try to post an update in the future regarding how reliable it is. Though if the paper keeps jamming then I may very well be sending it back soon.*** Update April 3rd, 2015 ***Still having jamming issues but discovered that there is a rear access door that can be opened to remove the jammed paper. This helps but doesn't excuse the fact that the paper jams WAY to often. I had an older MP530 for nearly 10 years that never jammed even once in all that time. I will probably be returning this one ...*** Update 2, April 4th, 2015 ***I have returned this printer and updated my review to two stars. This thing really is junk. I spent a bit more and got a different Canon: Pixma MG7520 (CANON MG7520 Wireless Color Cloud Printer with Scanner and Copier: Mobile, Smart Phone, Tablet Printer, and AirPrint(TM) Compatible,Black) and have been very happy with the new one. Canon needs to just remove the MX492 from their lineup. I understand people want inexpensive printers but this one is just terrible.

First of all, this is not a small printer. It's actually unusually large for a personal printer. Rather than be something I can keep in a drawer until the rare moment I have to print something out for a physical copy (print out an IRS form or some homework or whatever), I had to get an end table, since it didn't fit on my current desk. I had printers in the 90s that were smaller than this. They were more reliable, too. I get at least one error every time I try to print something.Operating it's controls are a nightmare, too. Buttons aren't properly labelled for what they do and the same buttons do different things in different parts of the menu. The menu is also too complex for the kind of display it has. Operating it involves going through menus and sub-menus.And it's slow. Not the printing speed, every time I have to plug it in it takes several minutes to boot up. Maybe that's just me telling kids to get off my lawn, but in my day you didn't have to make a cup of coffee to boot up your headphones or smart-toilet or what-have-you. The software was simple enough it worked out of the box. Now not only do I have to wait, but sometimes you have to unplug it and plug it back in when you suspect it's stuck. A printer only needs one function: a single input and a single output. PDF in, printed document out. Such a printer wouldn't have a poorly designed UI, because all you would need is a on/off switch.Sadly, it's 2017 and Canon still hasn't figured out how to manufacture a working printer. And I'm not sure if they're ever going to figure it out. They'll be obsolete before we ever uncover the arcane secrets of how to print a document without ripping your hair out on the fourth error / paper jam / reboot of the 3 pages you want in physical form.

We just wanted a simple all in one printer for home - we are in outside sales and needed to be able to print, scan, copy documents on a small scale - most important: something easy to use, and quick for busy people. That is not this printer. It seems wholly outdated- the screen is hard to read and it's not user friendly to work any of the settings on the printer itself and I could not find any way to navigate the printer from a browser on a device. The pieces seem cheap and flimsy, not like it would last a few years at all. The manual online is 500 pages - no chance I could troubleshoot with it. The printer only worked for us occasionally after setup and I would get all kind of error messages and was super frustrated trying to figure anything out. Returning this and buying an HP that's only $10 more. Also an FYI - we only managed to print a few pages on this printer and the ink cartridge showed a significant drop in ink level from maybe 3-5 pages of printed pages.

Probably the worst printer you can buy!It is slow... so slow...ink runs out really fastit prints only on the type of page that you have configures so if you try to print letter size on A4 it doesn't let youPlastic is cheapwifi connection is often lost and needs to be redoneWifi link via WPS takes ages and most of the time does not succeed.what else?

This is a particularly awful piece of equipment. Virtually unusable, both via wifi and USB just days after the warranty expired. Would recommend avoiding such a cheap entry level printer, and likely avoid Canon all together. My main regret is I bought extra ink that I won't be able to use with my next printer -- it won't be a Canon!

I've had nothing but trouble with this printer. Could not get it to connect to wifi, despite going though the very long and convoluted instructions that required me to input the password with their antiquated numerical keypad numerous times. I've had three phone calls to customer support before they finally decided to send me another one. Same issues with the new one, still couldn't get it on my wifi and had to move the printer so I could hardwire it to my PC, and the paper rollers keep slipping so paper won't feed.This is definitely a case of you get what you pay for. Do NOT recommend.

Super cheap and very flimsy. I plan to give it away, but I won't be buying another one like this. I've bought inexpensive printers by other manufacturers because I don't need a high-end printer, but this one is the worst by far. Getting it set up was infuriating, and now it will not stay connected to me wifi. Every time I want to print I have to connect it to the wifi again.