Canon PIXMA MX492, Wireless All-in-One Small Printer with Canon PG-245 Black Cartridge

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Firstly, I would like to say that this printer has gotten a lot of poor ratings based upon the installation process alone. Having just installed it myself (on a laptop and phone), I can assure you that installation is fairly simple, so long as you READ the instructions and pay attention to the little arrows that help guide you to the pertinent steps based upon how you will be using the device. The first process is to physically set-up the printer, plug it in, turn it on and install the ink. The second step involves setting the printer up for either wireless or wired connectivity. When you reach the end of this step, the printer will be recognized by your computer, but will be unable to print because the drivers and software have not yet been installed on your device - the setup instructions at this point refer you to another instruction booklet which is found in the plastic bag of paperwork that came with your printer. This 2nd installation guide then takes you through the steps involved in installing the required software into your chosen devices. For a computer, this requires either going online and downloading the software or using the provided CD. For a phone, it requires downloading the app. Both downloads will then guide you through the remaining installation. Again, all you have to do is to take you time and read (and don’t get flustered by all the options you are given, just follow the arrows and read/follow the instructions YOU need to, based upon what device you are going to print from). I followed all the instructions and had the phone working in a couple minutes. The computer took a bit longer due to the lengthy download. Software and device seem fine. I have been using Canon printers for quite some time and have never had problems. This one seems to be a nice little printer for those who will not be doing a large amount of printing (If you plan to, buy a model that has separate color cartridges as you will save a bundle on ink in the long haul and will usually get better print quality). This was purchased as a replacement for a stand alone scanner that gave up the ghost and will not see much printing action (I use a laser printer for most of that). As with all reviews, feel free to take this one with a ‘grain of salt’; I have been messing with this kind of thing personally and professionally for some time and have installed a lot of printers. This was not hard to do and, I think, can be done by anyone who can both read and comprehend at the same time. I do not expect any problems with this printer, but will certainly update this review if some should arise. If this review is not updated, take that to mean that all is going well!

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This little printer works great! I looked at it at Best Buy and found it on Amazon for much less. This printer connects quickly to any computer, tablet, or smartphone or can be connected via a cable directly to any USB capable printer. Prints: Color or Black/White Photocopy/Scans: Multiple pages at once using the top feed tray or one page at a time using the glass scan screen Fax: Faxes using any established phone line. I would recommend this for an at home printer for moderate use. We print about 20-40 sheets a week and it holds up great! I would not recommend it for heavy printing or faxing. Hope this review was helpful, let me know if you have any questions!

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For those of you who have complained this printer is really loud, it jams all the paper, and it doesnt 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 (Im 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 isnt great, nor is the installation workflow. Id 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 Ive 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. Its cheap and gets the job done.

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By far the worst printer Ive ever owned. Havent even had it a year and already wishing I could just throw it out. From day 1, all black and white text was printed out smaller proportionally to the page than it appeared on the computer or tablet. All black text was fuzzy, regardless of size or style. Always looked like someone forgot their glasses trying to read it. Despite spending countless hours trying to realign, clean heads, etc (tried every single maintenance option, searched online, tried every fix...) it would never print clearly. Always has trouble connecting to my phone or computer, takes at least 5 or 6 tries for print job. Paper jams ALL THE TIME. Ink is very expensive and does not last very long at all (only lasts as long as it did because I never use this printer, because its always such a time consuming hassle) It takes FOREVER to print a single black and white page of text. Made me late to class on multiple occasions for taking 10 to 15 minutes AT LEAST to print 5 or 6 pages for class.... Just absolute crap. Only 6 months after purchasing this piece of junk, it now wont load paper, so virtually useless at this point. Also very confusing set up for ink and all the other awkward, flimsy compartments on it. Do not purchase this crap. Theres a reason its on sale for half off all year round... Because it sucks.

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Just the perfect printer Ive ever used. Unfortunately, Ive always had HP printers in the past and for years Ive struggled to do simple basic printing, they all needed jumping through hoops. This experience continues from the $150 HPs to the $30 ones. This printer though is terrific. It doesnt come with a printer to USB cable but guess what I didnt need it, the set up is not fancy but totally works. The printer got up and running with my WiFi router and before I knew it I could start printing from my laptop or phone and the prints came churning out of the printer sitting on the other side of the room ! I might be too excited with this but admittedly Ive never had such a smooth printing experience. I always assumed the seamless printers cost an arm and a leg. This one is a steal at $50 for what it offers. The scanner is a flat bed and works perfectly, that too over wifi ! Ive not used the fax feature (duh) but its good to know it has it. The one thing thats missing is double sided printing. Overall this printer gets a 6 out of 5 stars from me.

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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 Canons & Amazons cusomer service. This is a fine printer for at home, where you might only print your kids 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 doesnt 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 youre 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 Ive given it to do, but I havent 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 theres 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!

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I wish I could give this printer a zero. Ive had it for about two years and, I implore you, buy anything but this wretched piece of garbage. It is worthless and infuriating and is only good for testing your patience. So unless youre in the market for a large-ish piece of black plastic to sit on your desk, you might as well go take your $44 and spend it on fireworks. Youll get much more bang for your buck. Literally. As I type this, I am just yanking my eighth or ninth piece of "jammed" paper out of this piece of junk. Im trying to print one sheet of paper. One sheet! This should take me seconds. Instead, EVERY TIME I use this thing I end up spending fifteen minutes figuring out how exactly to hold my mouth right to get the thing to work. I wish I was the type of person who cussed because I could cuss this sucker a loooong blue streak. Seriously, save your money.

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Normally I dont bother to write reviews until Ive used the product for a few months, but in this case Im making an exception. Ive 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 isnt going to happen. The software will not recognize that the printer is connected to the network. Ive tried both the manual and WPS method and Canons software will not recognize that the printer exists. Ive 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 Canons 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 network Plug in the USB cable and its 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 its 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 Ill learn what I need and dont 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 dont see that happening. Ive done all the test printing and it works fine so far. Will update if/when anything changes. 10/21/2017 Update It would appear that the printer did not like my old (ancient for an electronic device) router. Purchased a new router and the wireless side of things linked up and is working flawlessly. Added a star for that. But also learned that its a bit picky about the paper you feed it. It doesnt really like heavier stock paper.

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This is a horrible printer. It paper jams continuously and I have had more frustrations with it than I did with my old reliable Cannon.This is just impossible and the view area for info is dark and what you can see is no help what so ever. OK it was cheaper than others but some of the reviews were great that is why I purchased, such a big mistake! Please do not waste your money on this.

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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.

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