Side by Side Comparison of: HP vs Canon

I bought this to print occasional paperwork and postage for my small business. It works great so far! I only use the black ink, so I can't speak for the quality of the other colors of ink. I can easily feed through thicker label paper. The only downside is that it does NOT come with a printer cable - I happened to have one on hand from an old printer - but it does have a power supply cable.

A great product. No longer have to take an ipod pic and send to who it may concern. Love the scanner!! Pics and docs are clear. In the old days I would have paid a lot more! Light weight and quick to set up. I stick it on the shelf when done so it doesn't clutter up my work space. Kudos to Canon!

A sweet little printer, and for the price, it's less expensive to buy the printer that comes with 2 stock cartridges than is is to get replacement cartridges. I needed a color printer because I've just started doing heat transfers on tote bags and tee shirts, and it performs this perfectly. I've had it for nearly 3 weeks, so the one I got doesn't seem to have the feed problems others have mentioned. Mine takes regular letter paper, heavy photo paper, heat transfer paper in letter size as well as 4x6 or 5x7 size, DVD label paper --- no problems, smooth feeding. It makes reassuring clicks when I ask it to do something, and I don't find the printing sound too loud at all. So, for peanuts I've got something which makes what I need. A plus which I've only used once so far is the scanner and copier feature --- I have a Canoscan 8800F scanner I use for my photo and negative needs, and I don't really need to do much copying, so these features are just 'nice to have' for me and not the main reason I got the printer.

Good printer for the price. It's does very well printing, copying, and scanning. However, it does have a tendency to pull two pieces of paper through it at times. Happy with this purchase.

I was a bit worried about ordering a printer online. But it arrived in tact and no damage. It prints super fast, and is a great printer. I haven't had any problems with it printing. It took less than 5 minutes to get the printer set-up and ready to download the software. I use a laptop without a disk drive with it and found the software online super fast. My only problem was that it took me close to 10 hours to download the software and get it up and printing, but that's more on my internet speed. It is really easy to use the scanner and copier part, too. I would recommend it to anyone.

Awesome Printer! Comes with ink, hooked up quickly and it works! It scans, copies and prints. i needed a color printer for my son's Eagle Scout workbook and this is just amazing. The cost of replacement ink is actually more than the cost of the whole printer with ink but the unit works great.

Does the job. Don't need anything more

Replacing my old one with another just like it. It does everything I need but the Cannon won't help if anything goes wrong. Disposable.

Our last all in one went out and we did not have money to buy anything "nice" so I was concerned. This printer Canon MG2520 Color Photo Printer is great at doing what it was meant to do. basic everyday stuff. Nothing to brag about but it prints pictures and doc's well, scans well and one button copies. To scan you have to go thru the computer and use the software but again, this is a $30 printer.Highly recommend this if you need a cheap printer.

So I've had this for a while now. It's pretty decent. It stopped working at one point and I couldn't find anything wrong with it at first. I wasn't about to send it in for repairs considering the price of it to begin with so I took it apart a little at the bottom which was awkward but possible. It doesn't come completely apart so don't try that but it was enough to locate a bracelet that had fallen inside. 2 kids and 3 cats, I wasn't surprised. Moral of that story is keep that top piece closed when it's not being used. The ink for it runs under $20 at Walmart but it runs out very quickly. There aren't a lot of knock off ink options like there are for some other printers. I have seen ink cartridge refill kits for $9 but I don't know anything about refilling ink. Honestly it's better than what I expected for the price. If you need a cheap printer now, get it. If you can afford a better printer, you will probably save on ink costs in the long run. I had a kodak for 6 years before it kicked the bucket (poor maintenance. my fault.) and I paid $20 for 4 ink cartridges.

Does its job. Sometimes I have to unplug and re-plug but I'm not a heavy user. I print maybe 15-20 pages a month. But I find it so silly that it's cheaper to buy a WHOLE NEW PRINTER than it is to buy the replacement ink.

My old "4 in 1" HP has been on it's last legs for some time now. The functions stopped working, one at a time. Until last week, when the last function left (the printing) died out too. I don't use my home Printer / Scanner much. But when I do need it, it's important I have it. I was just looking for a Printer, I didn't even realize this is a Scanner too. As for the USB thing, I just used the one I had from my "4 in 1". Yep, so far so good. It is pretty compact & simple to use. You pretty much use the online features to execute the functions, which is a nice change & far less complex from the old one I had.. The prints are great quality, for the price, especially!!

Again, I was just looking to get a decent, highly rated Printer delivered as quickly as possible for the lowest price. (I have Amazon Prime, so that helped). I just figured this one would do the job for now. And later if I want to replace it with a higher end product, I can always go do that. And then have this one as a backup.

The plastic on this device does look pretty cheap. And when you handle it, you'll see that it's NOT heavy duty or high end right away. However, as the other Reviewers have already pointed out - it works great!! It's compact. Simple & light weight!

I'm so proud of myself for this purchase!!

I've had this printer for about a year and it works. Major downsides: the printer program does not allow you to print with black ink only. You can not change to black only, or gray scale printing. If your color cartridge is empty, it will not print anything, even if it's just black text. The access for replacing the cartridges is awkward, vexing and difficult. The low price isn't worth the frustration.

there is no aftermarket ink cartridge for this printer. The Canon cartridge costs 17 dollars and prints very little. The printer costs you more than a hundred dollar model. Before buying a printer always check the ink availability

It prints quite well, and fast. My only complaint is that the printer software will *only* let you select 4 x 6 photo paper. I'm not sure why that would be, full size photo paper confuses it. I set it to "high quality" instead of "photo", and it prints well... I'd just like the photo-quality option for real paper.

Cheap printer that requires expensive ink.
Design for reaching the ink cartridges is a bit cumbersome. Have to reach down under the main unit and tilt the cartridges into place.
Seems to be working just fine. Easy to get going. Software package is good.

The price that you pay for the printer is great, it's even lower now than when I bought it. It does have some issues though, for whatever reason if I want to print pages chronologically, it will do the opposite. Sometimes if the paper isn't placed correctly into the feed, it won't go through at all and would just spit ink on itself. I have also had problems with printing multiple pages and some pieces of paper would be stuck together and not separated. I definitely have no competence in internal printer architecture but it's probably something to do with the roller part where paper enters into the printer. The ink goes fast on this machine too, more so than other printers I've had in the past. If you aren't printing on a daily basis or even weekly, then this printer is for you.

Prints fine, but always gives me an error message (long after printing) saying it wasn't shut down properly (maybe it wants to be manually shut off after each use?) and the "auto on" feature has never worked. I always have to manually power on in order to print. It's really just annoying, but it prints like a regular inkjet. The most annoying thing ever is that I bought the printer and the ink and got it delivered on time on the day I really needed it, only to realize that. .. duh... they don't include the cord to attach it to the computer (seriously, which genius decided to start selling printers minus the cord you NEED in order for it to work? Might as well sell the power cord separate too... ridiculous! )

I bought this poster specifically to print small posters in color for my classroom and it cuts off the bottom of the image, which in this case happens to be text, which makes the printout useless. I have tried adjusting the settings many times, with no success. I may have to return this if I can't figure it out. What a waste of time.

While it worked for some months, it pulls multiple pages when printing, causing jamming, and broke down completely less than 1.5 years after purchase. Uses a lot of ink. One does get what one pays for with this printer.

I don't know why, but I thought it was , "wireless capable"
I wanted a cheap wireless printer, so I guess I can blame myself. I thought I ready it was wireless. I searched for , "wireless" printers, and this came up.
Otherwise, it works well. It prints.
If you want a WIRELESS printer, really make sure it is.

Not a fan. Prints ok, but VERY LOUD and I have it on the quiet setting. Not smooth and seamless either. Makes jerky movements while printing. Ink is expensive too. I'm currently searching for a new printer. My previous printer was a Canon and I loved it. I had it for 2 years. This one has been in my life 1 very long month. I homeschool and I print often. I can't deal with this printer anymore.

WOW.....WHAT A INK HOG....Cost me 40 bucks to print 100 2-sided business cards !! Not to mention the avery labels.

Initially fine, therefore 2 stars. Broke after 6 month. It claims to have a paper jam but there no paper at all in it. I even opened and reassembled it. Briefly it worked going through the normal start up routine. On the first test printout it did not transport the paper and went straight back to paper jam failure. Too late for a return .-(((

Horrible machine only lasted a few uses . Bought it for my son at his dorm since they are not allowed to have a Wifi printer; not too many options available now a days. Started in August with printing about once a month; lasted till February!! Only printed an average of seven 5 page papers! Piece of junk!

Well I only bought one and it was defective out of the box. I kind of want my money back. Warranty doesn't get time and effort back. Headline sums it up nicely. Unless it was the supplier, Photo Savings (https://www.amazon.com/sp?_encoding=UTF8&marketplaceID=ATVPDKIKX0DER&seller=AVK2FQXQF9PPN). Just thought you should know.

This printer is absolute GARBAGE. I used it one time and it developed a mysterious paper jam that was impossible to clear, because there simply wasn't anything in the printer. I tried for 2 weeks to solve the issues with this printer, and to my dismay nothing worked. No tutorials, whether video or actual support on their webpage worked. Save your money and by an HP, this printer is nothing but a waste of your money.

broke within one week. through it in the trash

The printer requires doing a color test of the inks after you load them and before you can start printing your own items. I have not gotten the test page to print properly (it's printing black, blue, pink but not yellow). This doesn't make sense to me since the colored inks that came with the printer are all one unit... why is one not working?!?!?

The irony : I bought the printer to return a few other items from Amazon and haven't been able to print up return labels to send back the printer or the other items. Very frustrating.

Ideally I'd love to keep the printer if I could just get it to print. Tips?!?!

Worst printer I've ever came across in my 30 years of life on earth. Extremely loud, poor print and photo scan quality. Not compact whatsoever and returned this the next day. I think this is best for printing documents and other things, not for photos, although it is supposed to.