Canon Office and Business MB2720 Wireless All-in-one Printer, Scanner, Copier and Fax with Mobile and Duplex Printing

So far, so good with this printer. Even though its WiFi setup seemed a bit overly complex, once I got it going its been working perfectly since. Canons instructions for physically setting up the printer were just about perfect. However, they seemed to wanted to jump through hoops to get WiFi connectivity working. Perhaps they were trying to make it easy for a networking neophyte, but after three attempts trying to connect it their way, I gave up and just dug into the menu, looked for networking, selected my network, entered its password, and I was good to go. If it wasnt for the bungled attempt at making it easier to setup WiFi, Id give the printer 5 stars. Once the printer was connected to the network, finding it on any of the Macs, iPhones or iPads in the house was quick and easy. This printer supports Apples AirPrint and it works perfectly. The printer itself works great. Quality of the printout, both black and white and color, is outstanding for a printer in this price range. Ive printed out some graphics for some technical memos I needed to write and using the "best" quality printout, the graphics looked spectacular. For regular text, the print speed is fast once the printer wakes up. The first sheet can take awhile. As long as the printer stays awake further print jobs are fast. Two-sided printing also works quite well. Ive also used the scanner a lot on my Mac with VueScan (the best scanning software out there, bar none!) and it too works perfectly. VueScan saw the scanner immediately and set itself up to work with it. All told, if you are looking for a 3-in-one system and you dont want to spend a lot of money, you cant go wrong with this model, or one of the similar models in the Maxify line.

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I am very happy with this printer, and at the price its a bargain. But—it makes me miss my dear departed MP560. I ordered a cheaper printer originally, figuring if these printers were only going to last a few years, whats the point of spending more money, but the cheaper one was TOO cheap: I hated it from the beginning, with its lack of features and inconvenient operating procedures, and then, the scanner began to scan crooked within the first week or so, forcing me to send it back. The scanner is at least as important to me as the printer. Lesson learned. This one, I was pleased to discover, has a sheet feeder scanner. Ive been satisfied with it in almost every way, except that it lacks one thing my old MP560 had: a single-sheet feeder. I havent tried to run card stock through this one yet from the paper trays, but in my not-inconsiderable experience, printers that have to roll the paper around do very poorly with card stock. Also, it cant handle paper sizes as small as a personal check, and I have been in the habit of printing my checks for some years now (writing them by hand looks bad and is a pain in the butt, since my accounting software will both print the check and record it in a single action). Well, I am down to writing a single check per month, now, so I can live with that. But that cost my review one star. I AM pleased with the extra-large ink cartridges: the old MP560 used to go through in its small cartridges like the wind. All in all, I feel this is a good printer, especially in its price range, and hope it lasts at least as long as the old MP560.

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Sometimes there are issues with getting the printer to acknowledge its connected to the laptop, but Ive noticed with the newer models this isnt as frequent an issue. I have three Canon Maxify printers at this point because I find them to be fairly easy to use, easy to set up, they print good quality, and the feeder works well for scanning something in. The main drawback/annoyance is that if you accidentally take out an ink cartridge that did not need to be replaced, you cannot just put that same cartridge back into the printer. The printer will completely quit working until you replace it with a new cartridge. It wont even scan.

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