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Don't buy it. What a rip off. Canon's business ethics when it comes to ink on this machine are astonishing.
That's the catch on why it's cheap. The colored inks goes low even you print only in black. It will give a message something like "not compatible color cartridge". It is "a must" to replace it.
Printing, scanning is great. Canon should work on this area. I remember that I had a canon before (12 years ago) and I had the same problem - the ink. Copying is slow - for the unit is not really meant for it - for emergency copying only).
Using all black cartridges does not do the trick. Ink problem. But the main problem is the ink. If one cartridge goes out of ink, the machine is useless.
It does color photo prints the best I have seen. I am glad I bought this one again.If you need to fax, print, copy, and scan this one is a very good buy. When you copy something you can't tell which one is the original. I bought this same all n one printer Canon MP830 a few years ago and I like it so much when it broke down I found it was cheaper to replace it with this refurbished Canon MP830. It works just like new.
I wish I knew a better all-in-one to recommend, but I switched to this Canon after a very poor experience with an HP. In retrospect, that was stupid -- I could have had a new machine just like this one for $250 and saved myself two hours of driving and a week without a printer. I drove 30 minutes each way to have mine repaired, at a cost of $125 -- $35 for a new purge tank, and $90 labor.
Cumbersome startup and scanning software. Then I found that Canon's user manual and website were practically worthless (nothing about the error code I got, which it turns out is pretty common when you Google it). Works OK when it works.
They haven't got many authorized repair shops. So all I can say is this one is nothing great. Seems to use a lot of ink.
But I was OK with that until it broke less than two years after I bought it.
Ink expensive so don't shut off the unit unless you are not going to use it in a day or two. This is my second unit as I had an accident with my first one when cleaning and it fell. Fast FAXING.
ADF works perfect. Would cost more to repair than replace.None of the new units that I have found come close to features that this unit has. You can print photos directly from the camera or card reader.
Excellent scans. Unit will go to sleep without problems. Newer units have a much smaller ink cartridges, It only lacks wireless networking.Love it.
Photographs are outstanding. Goes through clean cycle upon each power startup.
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