Side by Side Comparison of: Canon vs HP

This printer is amazing. I did notice a lot of people saying it printed very bland colors but like a lot of reviews stated: there are 2 sides to the printing paper.If you use basic office printer paper, youre going to get boring icky bleeding and muted colors. I recommend you pick up actual inkjet paper. It makes a world of difference. I picked up a pack of 400 sheets for like $6.If you print of actual photo paper, it is absolutely GORGEOUS. Like...i was blown away by the amount of detail and quality.

This is a great Canon photo printer, definitely prints presentation quality photos and photos excellent enough for framing. Love that it will print up to 13x19, this is super sized!. For a business or photographer who wants to print there own awesome photos, this is the printer for you!

I LOVE this printer. I use it to print my artwork and family photos for my home. The quality of the prints is wonderful. I've experimented with both the Canon Luster paper and the Canon Photo Plus Glossy II paper. The combination of the art prints on the Luster paper has been really great. Now this printer is incredibly heavy and when you receive it warns that you need two people to carry it. I wasn't able to carry it, but my husband can manage it by himself. Before purchasing this printer I researched into other options and it seemed to be the best option I could find for professional quality large format prints for a really reasonable price. In my opinion, the only negative (apart from the weight) is that the ink is expensive at about $100-120 full set of ink.

First of all I want to dispel some myths and answer some questions about the printer. It has two (2) paper feed sections, one that is sort of on top, you can put about ¼ of a ream of paper in there and one that folds open from the back of the printer that is single sheet feeding for products that are thicker and don’t bend well. Next it works fine with Windows 10 and the software runs just fine. It takes it a while to warm up, that is typical of all top end printers, don’t shut it off ever and you will be in good shape and it will save you some ink. Also for those that are unsuspecting this printer is massive, you should expect that with so many ink tanks and 13” wide feeding, but it is huge if you have never seen it in person.Ok, now down to the nitty gritty. Setup time from box opened to my first print was about 45 min including installing software and so forth. The profiles for canon papers are not that bad depending on the paper, I tried Luster and Platinum Pro from there line. Luster was not that great, Platinum Pro was better. I also tried some Red River papers last night, I like them better than canon paper and there profiles are better. It feeds my 250gsm Aurora Art paper from the back feed with no problems. Print quality its self was better than my local Walgreens print center so long as you set it to fine, about on par if you set it to normal. Colors where great, purples and blues popped nicely when I was printing some MLP stuff for my daughter, reds and organ look nice too. Black and white is much better than a standard inkjet, but yes the Pro-10 and Pro-1 make better black and white prints (had a friend make me a couple from his studio to compare). Print time was not bad for a high end, on fine setting I hit print and go make a cup of tea, by the time I’m back the page is done. Considering I have some friends with printers that take 5 min a page, I’m pleased with the speed.The good and bad of what is in the box. Well the power cord is a good length and the documentation is not bad. The USB cord they give you is a joke, it is short, very short, only slightly longer than the printer is wide. I have not tried the tray for printing on a CD. The packaging was good and secure.Ok let’s talk value. When I ordered I was arguing between a good price point and the all-out performance of a Pro-1. I don’t print that much, some photos for my cube at my day job, some of my semi-pro photos that I sell on line and a little here and there for family. As such I did not feel that I could justify the price of a Pro-1 and figured I would try the Pro-100 and see if it met my needs. My needs are more than met. For the price point the Pro-100 cannot be beat. I am more than pleased with the purchase and with the rebate it is even better.Word on the rebate. You need to send a full copy of the receipt (showing order number and that you paid), yes Amazon is an authorized retailer, it is a good idea to pre-register the rebate and send the whole set of bar code and SN on the outside of the box and it runs fairly smooth. DO NOT send the upc on the inner flap, DO NOT peel the label off the cardboard, send the cut out cardboard.Hope that was helpful.

Bought this for my dad for Christmas. The printer is big and heavy, as expected but it prints awesome photos.He is still getting the hang of it but so far the quality of photos and and speed is great.It comes with adapters to print directly on CD's or DVD's with I think is a nice addition.Set up can be a little tedious to align the nozzles so expect to spend a half hour on it if you do manual calibration, which I did just to make sure it is calibrated good.More updates to come as time goes on.

Excellent printer! Setup was a snap ... if you use the CD installation disk. Just follow the instructions on the screen. It's set up as a network printer, but the instructions at one point tells you to hookd up the USB cable ... it's just getting information from the printer; then you disconnect the USB cable. I set it up on my wifes laptop, Windows 8 and my dual boot computer with Win XP and Win 7 x64. The software recognized my home network very quickly. The only thing that was confusing was the designation of the paper loading trays. The one on top of the printer is called the "back" tray and the one on the very back of the printer is the "manual feed" tray. Like I said, confusing at first, Setup of the ink cartridges is simple and easy. The printer is BIG and fairly heavy! I had to buy a dedicated table just to set this on, I would recommend this printer to anyone who wants professional quality printing at home.

Worth every single penny. It's the perfect printer for running a small home business and also for homeschool families. So many great features... You can even set up a printer email address so that you can send emails to it on the go and it will print for you at home. Similarly, you can "scan to email" to send a document or photo to yourself or even to a friend for quick file sharing. (Instead of scanning to computer and emailing. It just cuts down on steps and time spent). It also has automatic double-sided printing without having to reinsert the paper manually. I was also able to get 7 months of instant ink for free with a friend's referral link and an offer HP was running which made the ink situation a no brainer!

This printer is awesome! The first one that I received was defective. After a 30 minute call to HP customer service, a new one was on the way. The new one works perfectly and we have not had any issues in a month since we received it.Things I really like about this printer are: It is very quiet and fast. Printer range is great and we can print from anywhere in our house and even from the garage. It uses very little ink - in a month we are still using the initial ink cartridges that came with the printer. It has a small footprint and the only wired connection is for power. 2 sided printing is great and totally automatic. You can use heavyweight card stock in the printer. HP customer service was fast, efficient and complete - about a week after receiving the new printer, they gave me a follow up call to ensure it was working properly. Ink jet nozzles don't clog up immediately like all of our past Epson printers. Touchscreen makes a great user interface.For a low priced printer, I cannot think of any cons.Very glad we chose this printer and we feel its a great value.

I've had the HP1510 All in One since 2001, and it still works perfectly. However, I needed to upgrade to a wireless printer since I use my smartphone for just about everything. I lurked until the price was, well amazing, and finally pulled the trigger.The Envy 7640 is plug and play. I did some research, thanks to all the reviewers before me, and had my apps loaded, which made everything go that much smoother on my phone. For Android I needed the All in One Remote and HP Eprint. I simply followed any instructions for both printer and apps setup and I was printing with ease.The footprint is similar to my old model, it sits a little higher with autofeed, which I didn't have before. It's amazing how much faster everything prints compared to my 1510, and the clarity is incredible. This is the first printer I've seen where I'd consider wasting ink to print photos.I purchased an extra Black cartridge based on reviews, but I've printed approx 30 pages on the smaller? included cartridge, and still have 75% remaining. It's great that I can use a touch screen to quickly check ink usage, link my google drive acct, can print recipes and all sorts of things I haven't explored.For someone who prints around 300 copies a month, and needs wifi capability, this is a great printer. HP generously gave me my 1510 when I worked for their biz partner, the largest chip mfr, which made me brand loyal. I feel like they have continuously earned my trust over the years with other purchases, including my new Envy 7640. I did get the Square Trade warranty because it's crazy for me no to, but would be surprised if I needed it. My cats think the printer is great fun, and come running when it cranks on. As long as they're happy,,,,

I tend to purchase HP printers. When I was still working this was the brand that we always used and had good luck in the work place. When I needed a new one this time I started looking and came across the 7640 Envy. This actually was more printer than I needed but it had a large paper tray, it will accept 8.5" x 14". It does a good job with the copy function and is very fast. It does have a Automatic Document feeder but does say not to scan pictures using the feeder. The printer can also be set up to have it's own email address so you can print from anywhere with your tablet or smart phone. This feature does have security and you can set it up so on certain people have access. In my humble opinion this is a great printer for the money. Amazon has the best price that I have seen. I am not sure about the software that comes with the unit as I run Linux. The printer does not say that it will function with Linux but I had no problem setting it up. HPLIP setup was easy.

I have been using this printer some time it has extremely user friendly, from Faxing to Double sided printing or Scanning or copying documents individually one at a time or using the automatic sheet feeder... one thing that I found very useful was the software that gives this printer the ability to generate PDF Files, another feature that I like is to go inactive and after 2 hours to power itself down... When this printer first powered up it is ready to use almost instantaneously.... The instruction screen is large and the pictures show what are the available functions and leads you step by step and provides the options of the function that are to be performed... One of biggest problems with most printers is clearing paper jams with this printer it is EXTREMELY EASY AND USER FRIENDLY it is done from the top no need to move the printer to get behind it to open the paper jam door another great printer feature is the lead through to change ink cartridges

So far, so good!!!I purchased this printer to finally replace a Kodak (5000 something model). My Kodak printer was not broken, however even though I only use black ink, it kept running out of color ink and the printer cannot be used at all (even for just black ink printing) if it is out of color ink. So, it hurt to purchase a new printer without my old one being broken. This has been a great purchase. The set up was very simple, it is very compact, and best of all it can be used for black ink only printing even if the color ink is out!!!! My kids love it too, because now I will let them use the color ink (since I don't) to do their arts and crafts whereas before the use of color ink was BANNED from use in the household...

World's heaviest ink jet printer. in the box it is 60 lbs.!Out of the box and on a desk in is 43 lbs. No vibration from this baby. Works well. Simple to setup, if cryptic. Why use careful words and detailed pictures when you could use vaguer simplified icons like Japanese comic strips (no manga, please, you don't want anything entangle in this 43 lb. unit).Anyway, i hope it does not die in 3 years like the HP equivalents. Maybe it is "lift once",

Awesome prints. Just as good as if I paid Costco to print them.They only drawback is a problem that I always have with Canon products - there software is junk! None of it works worth a darn on my Windows 10 computer. This creates an issue when wanting to print to printable discs, which is you will have to make your own template in your favorite image editor (Photoshop?) to get the image to print correctly on the disc.

Excellent overall printer, printing from Lightroom processed photos requires a very hard to find plug in for LR in order to avoid skin tones being a "peachy-pink" color. Canon's customer service was excellent in helping correct issue, but after a year, it should be a much simpler fix I would think.That said, the print quality, especially for boarderless pictures, is amazing for the price, printing up to 13" x 19" prints.

Wonderful printer, but it was difficult getting set up. Love the photo quality, and doesn't seem to use too much ink. Have printed at least 30 8.5x11" photos, and 10 13x19" photos, with about half of my ink levels left.

This is great, but the wireless I couldn't get to work with my imac. Tried several times, but still no connection. No biggy just ran a cord and extention across my room. Brilliant colors, amazing resolution in B&W.. Not looking forward to replacing the ink, but I've sold prints from this, which have paid for the ink several times over, so there's that.

I've owned this printer for over six months now. I have mixed feelings about it.Pros:Excellent print qualityReasonable ink usageRelatively inexpensive inkCanon came through on the rebate making the end cost very attractiveCons:Huge!Wireless functionality is near uselessPaper handling is terrible <---- See Edit Below****Edited 11/20/2014It turns out that the paper handling issues I had were apparently a defect in my printer.After putting up with it's paper feed problems for over a year, I finally bought a new one. The print quality and price (after rebate) were so good I was willing to try again. The new one has no paper handling issues. I can't say if the wireless works on this one. Now that I've run the USB cable I don't really care about wireless any more. I guess Huge! is still a Con since it's size made the original one cost prohibitive to return for repair/replacement.I really like this printer. I purchased it again even after being so frustrated with the first one's problems, so that tells you how much. I added a star to my review.Original Review Starts Here....Print quality is great. I use the printer for AutoCAD line drawings and it is much clearer and better defined than the old Epson it replaced. I can't speak as much for the photo quality, but it looks great to me. It doesn't seem to be too thirsty on the ink. So far I've replaced black and red more than the others - which is true to the type of line drawings I create, so that seems legit. I like that it uses separate tanks for each color, keeping the cost down. But it does have a lot of tanks for those who print more multi-color stuff than I do, so it could get expensive there, I guess.I use this printer with Windows 7 on a home network. The printer wouldn't stay on the network. Six feet away is a Canon MX860 that never misses a beat, so it isn't signal strength. At first, it seemed it was just "sleeping" after periods of non-use and not waking up. But sometimes it would lose connectivity during a print. I have since given up on wireless and attached a USB cable. Solves the problem, but unfortunate that it won't serve the purpose for which it was designed.And the paper-handling is horrendous! I print almost entirely on regular thickness 12" x 18" paper - very rarely on something as thick as photo paper. I can't find any paper thickness adjustment on the printer, and I've set the paper type setting in the printer properties accordingly. Still, it feeds multiple sheets through at a time, sometimes grabbing additional sheet halfway through a print. I can fill the paper tray and be out of paper printing a five page document! If it manages to complete at all, as the extra paper sometimes clogs the feed and requires a manual reset.So what you're left with is a printer that is VERY large and supposed to be able to be put anywhere and accessed by wireless network, but won't work reliably. So you have to have a large space to put it close enough at hand for a USB cable. But you'll want it close by because you'll have to babysit it, watching every printout to add paper or correct it's paper jams.I've found a space near my desk that works for me. And the print quality is so good that I put up with it's Diva personality. Just make sure you are able and willing to be as accommodating before you buy one!

The HP all in one is perfect for the home/small business user. I love that we can print from our apple and android devices. You can setup to send from anywhere. I can scan and send to any PC on my network. Prints great photos. The small cartridges are cheap and print plenty of papers and photos.

This is a pretty decent printer for the price. I think it prints nice photos and prints quick enough. It's just a little loud, and slow when scanning/copying. However, it's quite the step up from my old printer which was almost 10 years old and on its last leg. I like all the wireless functions this has and the ability to print on a Chromebook and from my phone. I also like that I can scan something and email it directly to the person instead of scanning it into the computer, saving the file, then sending an email. All very convenient functions.

Quality and speed is great. I had a previous HP version where if you placed papers in the autofeed the HP scanning software would automatically open on the computer desktop. This version does not allow that option. So you have to save scans to one folder then move them or manually open the HP software, go to scanning click a few more times and select a scan to location. Either way is a pain. Ink seems more expensive then it should be. I tried using refilled ink but the printer will not recognize it.

My favorite HP all in one to date. The only problem I have is sometimes it won't recognize my laptop and will have to print from my phone... Which is a bit annoying. But it's still a great machine!

I purchased this printer to replace an HP Photosmart printer for which it was becoming difficult to find ink cartridges (planned obsolescence is industry wide and, seemingly, impossible to avoid). Since the old Photosmart had no platen I had to have a second printer for scanning and copying (Epson Workforce). The Envy 7640 enabled me to replace both printers, freeing up space in my work area. I am not a heavy user (nope, not commenting on my body type) so I didn't enroll for the ink program (I'm not sure that I would, regardless, since I don't like to be committed to anything [except my wife, dear] that I can't control, depending on circumstance).The 7640 has performed entirely as presented. Set up was very easy and it integrated seamlessly into my home network so that both I and my wife can have it set as default printer and print on command. Photo printing is just as good as the Photosmart (which I liked) and scanning to the computer over the network is faultless.One caution that is not limited to this particular printer: If you want to use it to automatically detect incoming faxes, it cannot be connected to a line that has provider voice mail. I am using a second line for a charity that I run and it has a Verizon Fios voice mail box. Since I don't do much (if any) faxing any more, it is not an issue for me.So, bottom line, the printer works well and does what it says it will do. I give it only four stars because I haven't had it long enough to settle into a love affair....initial infatuation is the best you get from me.

Purchased the 7640 a couple of weeks ago for use with my Apple iMac desktop. Installation took a little while, but less than an hour. I had no hitches. It easily connected wirelessly to my iMac through my Comcast modem/wireless router. The document feeder for scanning has worked fine so far. No jams like the printer/scanner i replaced. Speed is acceptable for a home office. Only issue i have had is with the manual scanner. Scanning through the feeder works fine and communicates well with the iMac. But scanning manually on the glass results in freezing the transfer of the image to the iMac. It doesn't make since why there would be a performance difference, but will need to trouble shoot when i get some free time.

It's an ok printer. I've had it now few months, didn't use it much at all, still same inks in. But when I print on Hahnemuhle papers the black ink gets stuck on corners of almost every sheet of paper. Sometimes it goes on top so it's a total waste of an expensive paper. Wouldn't invest again.

The print quality is enough for my purposes, but the instruction manual is dreadful. Why do they never have clear instructions for these things? Also prints very slowly. Hate having to manually push the paper feed button on the machine instead of remotely from the computer.

My first purchased unit ended up getting paper jams-with no paper being stuck-and "no paper and feed her" error messages, when there were plenty of pieces of paper in the feeder. I did some research on the web, called canon tech-support, and ended up with a new unit being shipped to me. I'm kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop with this new unit. Wish me luck?

Nice printer that really does produce excellent results. Ink is pricey but what you'd expect from a printer of this class and price - if you go for much more expensive printers you can use tanks which hold more ink.So why only three stars? Canon's support for their printers is dismal. The printer comes with a disk for installation but you'd better not lose it because finding manuals and instructions is difficult and it doesn't help that printing on a Mac requires that you go through their Print Studio software instead of using standard dialogs. It works well but it's one more not-so-obvious thing that you have to do. And the software itself - well, let's say that the user interface wasn't designed by a Mac user

Not as adept at printing black and white photos as i had hoped. Color printing seems okay. The blacks in the color prints do fine.Printing the sRGB gamut images is what it does best. Have yet to get adobe RGB to print with consistancy. Speed is great. Ink levels do ok for 8.5 x 11. Printing 13 x 19 with high quality selected can drain them pretty fast as expected, with such low capacity inks. Overall pleased, just disappointed with the lack of deep blacks.

First, some background: I am a digital artist. I judge a printer on two main criteria: how well does the printer match the picture on my monitor and the color gamut of the printer.I have spent a lot of effort to figure out how to match screen to print. For a monitor, I use an NEC PA271W calibrated using NEC's X-Rite based sensor. I calibrate the monitor to a color balance of 4000K. I view the print next to the monitor under a 4000K Solux lamp (50W low voltage halogen). Using my old printer, a Canon iP6700D, I can get excellent screen to print match using Canon glossy papers (Photo Paper Plus Glossy) and standard Canon printer profiles for those papers. I use 4000K color temperature because I have found (using the X-Rite sensor) that my house is around 4000K on the interior during the day and is in the 3200-3300K range at night (artificial light). I find the 4000K screen color balance makes the screen look like the prints when hung on the wall. This all has taken me years to figure out. I also demand a high level of quality and I am very sensitive to color shifts.Now for the Canon PRO-100 printer. I first printed on stock Canon papers using standard Canon profiles: Platinum Pro, Semi-Gloss, Luster, and Photo Paper Plus Glossy. I was somewhat disappointed with the results--they were OK. I found the screen match wasn't as good as with my older Canon iP6700D printer. So, I started to print grey scales (neutral, warm, cool, 21 points each). I found that for all the papers, the results were similar: highlights were significantly too dark, midtones were light and dark tones were light. I found that overall prints felt dark. I speculate this is because of the compressed contrast and especially missing highlights. I now was thinking I would need to make custom profiles for these papers---I assumed that the issue was with the stock Canon profiles, but couldn't be sure it wasn't a general printer issue. (I found these problems surprising given my past experience with Canon papers and profiles).So, I tried some 3rd party papers. I tried 11 Hahnemuehle and Canson Infinity papers. What a difference! I got outstanding screen matches and color gamuts with the following papers: Hahnemuehle: Fine Art Pearl (my personal favourite), Photo Rag Satin, Photo Rag Pearl, Fine Art Baryta. Canson Infinity: BFK Rives, Platine Fibre Rag (very nice), Photo Satin Premium PC, PhotoArt HD Canvas. In each case I use the stock paper profiles for the PRO-100 supplied by Hahnemuehle and Canson Infinity. The PRO-100 definitely produced lovely prints with better screen matching and color gamut than my old Canon iP6700D. The general color tone was a significant improvement also.So, in summary, the PRO-100 is an excellent printer when used with high quality profiles. For Canon paper, the stock Canon profiles are subpar and I would not recommend them.

Good price good size,, fast shipping and pretty easy to set up - this the first time we have tried to use the wireless feature of a printer tho we have had 2 others of a different brand. Wireless feature is turning out to be quite handy this time. HP has a handy set-up system that worked well with our older iMac computer. The printer is working well over all.Criticisms: 1 - maybe its our older software but this printer insists on printing both sides of a page and its a major hassle to get it to print single sided - which we both like when doing much of our work. Single side printing option should not be a hassled. We have not had this printer working very long and cartridges seem a little short lived but print quality is good. Cartridges are easy to install. WE can't speak to durability - hope it lasts a few years and cartridges remain available - I'm getting tired of all this throw-away equipment - like our 2 previous Other Brand printers. They should last longer than 2 yrs with the light use we do. Shipping packaging was more than adequate - excess?- the double factory box was very sturdy then it was places in a rather oversized Amazon box to king of rattle around in during shipping.

Dead out of the box -- crashed within 30sec of power up (tried it dozens of times). Same using wired Ethernet, Wi-Fi or no connection. The firmware as delivered has a fatal bug that causes a blue-screen-of-death crash but the printer won't stay alive long enough to update the firmware. Founds LOTS of other people complaining of the same problem on HP's website. Finally able to update the firmware with the printer plugged directly into the computer using USB. Now it works fine. I bought this model ONLY because Consumer Reports recommended it. Love the features it promises (e.g., two-sided printing) but it is absolutely unacceptable for a piece of electronics to crash over and over until the consumer can figure out the right incantation to make it work. Highly disappointing, HP. I was a loyal customer... Perhaps if you cut your printer product portfolio from 10,000 products to something more manageable you could test each one properly. My 3 star rating is the average of 1 star for the required gyrations to make it work and 5 stars for once it finally works.

I can't get the Scan to work right. It says not connected to All-in-One Photo Printer, but it is!!! We got it to scan one time..Every thing else works good. It prints real nice pictures and everything else work good.Can't return because box got thrown away. If you would send one that works I can return this one to be repaired...

The printer is a bit bulky but I like it. I love the fact that I can print from my phone or tablet. It does seem to run out of ink quickly and I tend to get a lot of error messages that my document is unable to print. I would have to manually go into the settings and force the document to print. It also does take a long time most of the time for the document to print. Other than that, the printer works great.

DO NOT BUY THIS PRINTER IF YOU DO MULTIPAGE SCANNING. The copier works fine as does scanning a page at a time but the scanner feeder is lousy. It takes numerous attempts and is very frustrating. I can usually get it to work eventually but I regret not buying a better one since I need a multipage scanner a few times a week.

Mediocre at best. Setup went fairly well although there are some unique aspects with Windows 10, for example using the Windows scan software. HP has a Print and Scan Doctor Utility that was a great help when installation didn't go so smoothly. Built in software lags the competition. Print quality is mediocre at best, not what I expected after reading all the terrific reviews here. Would not have purchased if I had seen the print quality in person first. Sturdy, packaged well, and good price and should last a few years, but I probably will replace before that just due to print quality.

Photography is a hobby and when my HP printer gave out I thought I would pay a little more for a really good printer. I have been disappointed. I purchased this printer 2 years ago and I haven't been able to get the colors to match the screen. I purchased fresh ink hoping it would fix it, I tried different papers and profiles. I downloaded additional profiles from Cannon. I tried contacting Canon and they sent me a picture to print. I printed the picture and told them what colors were off. No response or help. After much research I found out I would have to pay for more equipment and create a profile that would work. I've spent well over $700 on the printer, paper, and ink and it still has the same crappy blue so any pictures with a blue ski are not worth printing.To be fair I have to admit the clarity and detail of the pictures are very good. I do not recommend purchasing this printer unless you are a graphic designer or have knowledge and equipment to create your own profiles. I also don't recommend Canon Support.

The printer is advertised as being able to print on paper as small as 3.5" x 5". However, there is no driver support for "non standard sizes" as the Cannon representative I just got off the phone with informed me. Don't expect to be able to print on small or "non standard" sized paper.

Too slow. The settings are confusing. I'm sure the print quality would come out great if you test print for a few hours in order to get the settings right. But I needed a more intuitive 11x17 printer that was fast so I got an Epson Workforce 7600 series and I couldn't have made a better choice.

Quality of prints: very good. Other reviewers will obviously attest.Quality of printer: absolute crap. I've had this for about a year and a half now, and anytime I want to print any picture, I have to negotiate with this POS for at least 10 minutes (though sometimes I have to give up and come back later). If there is anything touching the printer, or any pressure (like a pair of sunglasses on top of it), it won't print. "Paper jam". If I do 4"x6" prints, even without the pressure issue, I generally have to reinsert the paper 3-10 times before it will print.So, I still use it for the occasional big print. But if you're shopping around, avoid this printer!!! (If I didn't get it free with a camera, I would have returned it long ago).

I'm having major feeding problems with my 4" x 6" photo paper. I keep getting an error light flashing which means I have to remove a photo paper that only fed 1/2 way and stopped. A real pain. It does feed most of the time but this error occurs far too often on a new machine. Also, unless I edit and brighten the pictures prior to printing they come out of the printer too dark. I am considering returning it for a different mfg.

I was in the market for a professional grade photo printer for use with my Photoshop CS and Lightroom applications when I saw that some compelling rebates were offered for this printer. I already own a desktop Canon printer and a Canon digital camera, so I was confident in the quality of the brand, and ordered the printer. Amazon delivered the printer promptly, on a Friday afternoon, and as soon as I received it I began the setup process with high expectations.First impressions of this printer are that it is solid but very heavy, with a fairly large footprint. It is supplied with an easy to read instruction sheet and I encountered no issues unpacking the printer and installing the ink cartridges (eight cartridges in different colors are supplied with the printer). So far so good.Once the printer has been unpacked and the cartridges installed, Canon instructs you to complete the setup process using a supplied CD. This installs the printer drivers, some software supplied with the unit and establishes a connection to the printer using a USB cable or on a network. In my case, I installed the printer on a countertop about eight feet from my desk and therefore needed to use a network connection. I have both Ethernet and wireless connections in my home office and so initially attempted to connect via wireless. After repeated attempts I was finally able to establish a network connection and run a few test prints. Printing from Photoshop was a joy and the output was excellent. I was really happy with the printer at this point in time. I shut down the computer and left for a few hours, then came back with the intention of printing some additional photographs. However, despite repeated attempts I was not able to reestablish the wireless connection, so I ran the CD again, changing the network connection to a wired Ethernet. As before, I was only able to establish a network connection after several reinstallation attempts. Once I was able to establish a successful network connection, the printer worked brilliantly, producing excellent prints. But as before, once I shut off the computer, the network connection was not automatically reestablished.To make a long story short, I spent [wasted] the better part of the weekend installing and reinstalling the Canon-supplied software to try to get the printer to connect my network reliably. I was never able to do so and concluded there was a possibility that the printer had a defective network card, so I decided to call Canon's tech support for assistance. They are not open on the weekend so I had to wait until Monday morning to make the call. My call was answered promptly and I explained my situation to the tech support person. He then asked me to remove the printer using Windows control panel and reinstall the software using the CD supplied by Canon. I did so but noted that I had already gone through this exact procedure at least a dozen times over the course of the past weekend. I was instructed to do it again anyway. Of course, this did not fix the problem. When I stated that I have multiple other devices on my home network, he declared that the problem was probably with my network, asserting I have too many devices hooked up to it. When I noted that every device on my network (including another Canon printer) works perfectly, he seemed at a loss for any additional suggestions. Realizing that Canon's customer service was not going to be able to assist me in getting the printer to operate reliably, I gave up and returned the printer to Amazon. After hours spent following their instructions to the "t" and a session with Canon's tech support service, the device would not work reliably on my network. I believe it had a defective network card, but Canon's tech support was of no assistance in my case. Amazon provided their typical level of excellent customer support by arranging for a next-day UPS pickup for the return, which I sincerely appreciate.Because I had to deliver a set of about 100 prints later in the week, that same day I bought a competitive unit, an Epson Stylus Photo R2000. First impressions with the Epson are that it is considerably lighter than the Canon and requires a somewhat smaller footprint in terms of countertop space. As with the Canon, it comes with a nice, easy to read set of instructions. The biggest difference between the Canon and the Epson was installing the printer drivers and establishing a network connection. In contrast to the Canon, the Epson immediately established a network connection, and it maintains that connection each and every time I shut off and then turn on my computer. So much for the theory that the problem with the Canon was my network.In terms of print quality, the two printers appear very comparable. I was able to compare identical prints that I made with both printers using high-quality Hahnemuhle paper (the best!) and to my eyes the Epson produced a discernibly better result.In sum, I think the Canon Pro-100 is a fine printer and a terrific value with the rebates currently being offered so long as (a) you use a USB cable to connect to the printer, or (b) you are able to establish a reliable network connection. For me, the Epson is a better choice not only because it works on my network (where the Canon would not) but also because, for me, it produces a somewhat better print. And in my observation the contrast in customer service between Canon and Amazon was quite striking.The bottom line is that it's remarkable home users can obtain brilliant, professional-quality prints of the type that either of these printers is able to deliver.

I had to return this unit because it kept dropping off the network. Perhaps I got a bad one, but I could not recommend this printer for that reason. Also, it does not scan to PDF, which I consider essential. Brother printers do it very simply. It seems you *can* scan to PDF with a special installation of software. It wasted over an hour of my time trying to set this thing up and figure out this issue, going to their website, downloading things, etc. If you have a Mac, you are out of luck. Again, Brother printers took me all of 10 minutes to set up, and they work with Mac and iPhone very easily. For the 2 stars, it gets credit for very nice color prints and a nice design. When they get their software act together, they might again be competitive.

This printer says it is a photo printer. After having this printer for less than 1 month, the color prints with white lines through it -- it is useless for photos!I primarily bought this printer to use for my small business, and I present documents to my clients that have color on them. It is embarrassing to have the low-quality effect (white lines) in all the color images. It is not professional. Why does finding a good printer seem to be impossible? ... maybe the answer is to spend a lot more $?I am very disappointed in this printer.

This is no match for my old HP color printer (don't remember the model no) had it for about 8 yrs easy on ink. The HP Envy 7640 I have now is NOISY as can be, sometimes sounds like it will stop printing and gets very slow. I can stand the noise but this printer just sucks ink I mean sucks it had just replaced the tricolor cartridge last week and print very little in color and its empty again, wouldn't be so bad but cartridges cost $16.00 and up so will use this for a while and get another printer from an other company next time, cant believe it could be much worse (what happened to you HP ???

I had great difficulty setting up the wireless connectivity. The printer would not accept my WPS passcode. After one hour of repeated attempts I used the auto discover function on my wireless router and got it to connection briefly, but it was lost after power cycling. The photo image quality is a huge disappointment. I used this to replace a six-year-old HP all-in-one which had separate cartridges for color (not the ludicrously tiny integrated three color cartridge that this uses) and it printed excellent photos. This printer produces dull, muddy, low contrast prints even on premier photo paper on max DPI. I tried adjusting the print setting but to no avail. Packed it up and sent it back for a refund.

I bought an HP because everyone of them I have owned in the past has used large ink cartridges and each color had its own cartridge. My bad, I assumed this one did also. Big NOT. These ink cartridges are so small I ran out of black ink within 20 days and the color cartridge is an all in one so even thought I have lots of red and blue I am out of yellow and therefore need a new cartridge for it to print any color. Never had this happen before with an HP. I would not recommend this printer for anything but those who rarely need a printer.

Not perfect. Believe it or not you have to lie to this puppy so that it will write the correct time (in some cases date) on files it saves (PDF, JPG, TIF). It doesn't comprehend places that don't do Daylight Savings time, and their tech support wasn't to versed in that either. The other thing that's stupid (especially if you do a lot of scans) is that there are some things you should have been able to set as Default (like "copy both sides", or that I want PDF, or JPG, etc.). So, between scans I have to keep telling it what I want all over again, and that's just dumb. In fact, when I've just done a PDF, and a PDF is the resting place for where it sets, I still have to touch the PDF all over again. How about it asking on a face on the glass scan if I have the other side to do, it doesn't handle that either, you have to scan the other side separately and then combine the two files. Next, and this is real irritating, the HP this replaced would OCR the PDFs by default if I wanted, this unit can't do it without supplied outside software and you have to be involved each time to make that happen. Finally, and this is also irritating, it can't pick up (on a face down manual feed) the top edge of your documents (HP scanners get that area in their scans). If your document has margin notes or something you want in the scan, you have to the pull the document back from the edge otherwise it won’t appear.

I hardly use it and almost every time I go to print, it says another tank is empty. RIDICULOUS. I had a Canon i9900 that I LOVED. This printer cant hold a candle to it. It plain stinks.

The biggest waist of money. VERY slow and uses tons of ink making it expensive. Stay away from this printer

It stopped working!!! Aughhh!! Very expensive and now I dont know what to do with it. Doest even pair with my pc anymore

I'm having a lot of trouble with this printer. Most of my work is printing portraits of children. I've found that the Canon Pixma Pro-100 has problems with highlights that are even the slightest bit over exposed. The printer can't handle the smooth transition from flesh color to white. Instead, I get a magenta halo around the white zone. My very old Canon i9900 never had this problem. The Pixma also seems to give pink flesh tones an unattractive jaundiced hue.I also had problems with the on-screen manual. There was an error that caused the printer to flash an orange warning light 10 times. When I tried looking up what this meant the manual jumped from 9 to 11 flashes without mentioned what 10 flashes meant. Also, when I try to do a manual print head alignment and follow the manual's instructions, nothing happens. No adjustment options are provided.Finally, the images seem to print out soft. This is the opposite of the i9900, which printed images sharper than what was on screen.I'm seriously considering returning it.UPDATE: After printing fifty 8 x 10 prints I've found the following:1. Image sharpness is still a little soft. I have to over sharpen then deal with sharpening halos.2. Printing is very quiet, but the printer is almost constantly grinding away between, before and after printing. It sounds like the printer is locked into constant cleaning cycles. It stops for a couple of minutes from time to time then starts up again. I'm concerned all this cleaning, if that's what it is, is going to eat up a lot of ink.3. After fifty 8 x 10 portraits of caucasian faces against a dark blue background, the first ink to run out was gray. The next lowest ink was photomagenta. The rest are only half empty so it doesn't seen to use too much ink.4. Prints come out darker, redder and yellower than what appears on my monitor. I found resetting the defaults to be very difficult, but then I'm not a printer expert. In the end I found that in Photoshop +20 brightness, -20 red and -20 yellow produces a picture that looks like the monitor image before these changes are applied.5. I printed two copies of the same image, one right after the other and the second one came out noticeably darker.6. In spite of all these problems I've decided to keep the printer. I'm getting acceptable results and the fact is that every printer is going to have its issues. I could pay a lot more and still have problems. Modern printers are not plug-and-play devices if you want to get good results. Unfortunately to do so you have to be willing to put in many hours of study and work.After a year with this printer I have come to the conclusion I hate it.I hate that Canon sacrificed the red and green inks in the old I9900 printer in favor of light and medium gray. Because of this I have yet to get a good red out of this machine. It always comes out orange.I hate that it runs so many cleaning cycles.I hate that instead of running a cleaning cycle when I turn it on, it waits until I request a print, forcing me to wait two minutes while it grinds away.I can't return it because too much time has gone by, but I'm looking for a new printer to replace it.

So this printer arrived today and I was really excited about it. I spent the day at work imagining the pictures I would print out and how great they would look. I was very excited because I have never had a printer that was better than a low end bargin, simply because I could always buy prints online.I decided I wanted to take my photography to the next level and ordered this unit.I rushed home after work and set it up. I kind of felt like a little kid on Christmas.I got it hooked up, set up the wireless with very little effort.Time to print. The first print looked like and old film negative I tried a few more same results after about 30 minutes it's on the phone.Come to find out the print head is only firing on one side so all the colors are not being used.Canon is sending me a refurbished unit to replace my brand new unit I have had less than 12 hours. I basically get another junker someone sent back. Thanks a lot canon. Maybe this one will at least work upon arrival.

I really wanted to like this printer. The inks aren't cheap but it prints outstandingly well.Unfortunately it failed after four months and that kind of takes the edge off the positive feelings. I've seen other reviewers report the same thing - Paper feed error / Paper jam and a blink code. My wife was using it when it happened - it printed a page just fine, ejected it cleanly, and reported a paper jam. There was no paper damage on the sheet that it had just printed. All the paper is accounted for.If you look carefully you can see where the paper sensor / micro-switch mechanisms are and they are quite clear. Manually feeding a sheet through will cause an audible "click" as the paper reaches it and another other click when it clears.Repairs and warranty.. What a nightmare. It still is in limbo. The service center tech confirmed that there is no paper jam, but we're still waiting.

The 7640 is a piece of junk. Used it twice and it began jamming. Watched the HP video on how to clear jam, spoke to rep on phone who insisted I clean the rollers with Q-tip (it's only 3 months old) and now I have to wait a week to get a refurbished printer. I have never had a printer problem with a new printer like this before. Would recommend another brand as HP is outsourcing to cut costs and apparently no longer makes a good product. By the way, we returned a different model HP printer to the store having major issues with it just a few weeks ago. Dont' buy HP!!!!!!!!!!! They used to make a good product but no more.

Printer did not work. Pressed the power button and nothing happened. Don't know if it is an HP problem or it was damaged in shipping. No external damage to boxes, so I assume it an HP lemon. Would like to return it but not sure how. I bought it in Dec and I just got everything settled at home and tried to install it. Very disappointed.

It's way too slow and started failing so often, its counterpart that covers the guarantee didn't work whatsoever. So I wanna return it!

This is the worst printer I have ever had. It won't stay connect wirelessly so I connected it with usb. Still won't stay connected. It prints when and if it feels like it.

This printer has never worked properly since I got it. Says paper tray empty and cannot communicate with printer however it has paper in the tray and is connected to the wireless network. I have tried to use HP Forums online (no actual phone number to speak with a human being) and still to no avail. I have reset the printer, uninstalled and reinstalled 100+ times (without exaggeration) and still, nothing works. The printer doesn't even make the sound like it's trying to feed the paper into the rollers to print. I work from home and this has prevented me from being able to complete projects thus losing both time and money dealing with these issues constantly. The return window on the printer was only 2 weeks after the purchase date so now I'm left with a printer that doesn't work and no way to fix it and no way to contact seller (AMAZON) about repairing the printer.Now experiencing even more issues where the printer drops off of the wireless network, doesn't work via AirPrint or any of its other wireless printing options and has to be force rebooted multiple times daily.Bummed as I used to have an HP all in one (7410) from many years back that worked well for me for 7+ years and now this...quality has declined sharply. I just want....actually NEED...a printer that prints when I ask it to and for some type of customer service support. That's all I'm asking.

The printer doesn't have a 5 gHz capability, so it would not connect to my home network. I had to get a second frequency just for the printer! Then, about 45 days after I bought the printer, the scanning and copying function broke--the glass separated from the plastic frame, preventing the scanner bulb from traveling under the item to be scanned.Now I see that Amazon is not giving me full credit for the return--I am #38.61 short of what I paid for the printer and ink.TERRIBLE CUSTOMER SERVICE!