Canon PIXMA Wireless All in One Photo Printer with Mobile Printing, White (2986C022) with CLI-281 Black, Cyan, Magenta & Yellow 4 Ink Pack

This is an all-in-one printer/scanner device for home use/light duty. The printer has a footprint of 14.5”x12”, and stands 6” high; scanning glass is 9”x12”. Controls are with a 3” touch screen. Inks come in 5 individual ink tanks, all available in XL and XXL. It has both front and rear paper feed, each of which has a capacity of 100 sheets of regular paper or 20 sheets of photo paper. It can print on 3.5x3.5” 4x4”, 4x6”, 5x5”, 5x7”, 8 x 10”, 8.5x11”, 8.5x14” paper and US No 10 (4.1x 9.5”) envelopes. It will print on cards, glossy photo paper, high resolution paper, iron-on transfers, luster paper, matte photo paper, plain paper, and semi-gloss photo paper. It is completely wireless, and will print with Apple AirPrint, Canon Print, Google Cloud Print, Mopria Print Service, and Wireless PictBridge. It will work with Windows (Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 7 SP1), Mac: (Mac OS X v10.10.5 - macOS v10.13, iOS, Android, Windows 10 Mobile, and Amazon Fire, but not Windows XP. It is rated for 15 pages per minute black and white, 10 color, and 26 seconds per image for photos. It has a resolution of 1200 x 2400 dpi with 8 bit color. It ships with a set of 5 ink tanks, a sample pack of 3 sheets of glossy photo paper, a CD with drivers and My Image Garden software, a power cord, and a paper quickstart manual with 8 pages of instructions in English and Spanish. I was impressed with how easy this printer was to set up. From my Windows 7 desktop computer, I just inserted the included CD ROM, and the setup utility came on and guided the process from there. On the other computers in my house, I was able to download the drivers from the Canon website. I was also able to connect my Android phone and print using the Canon Print Inkjet/SELPHY app. Unlike many printers that I have installed, the setup process was simple and straightforward, and after setup I could actually print from all devices. Like the other PIXMA printers that I have used, this printer makes excellent photo prints. What I really like about this one is that it also does square prints natively. Before, in order to make square prints, I had to cut the paper after the prints, which wasted paper and didn’t always come out looking professional. The ink costs are about average for similar inkjet printers, about 12.7 cents per color print. Compared to the costs of sending photo prints out, that’s pretty good, considering that you get the prints immediately and don’t have to pay for shipping. I’ve tried this printer with both 8x10” glossy photo paper and T-shirt transfers, and I have been very pleased with the print quality. The printer also performs well as a black-and-white printer or photocopier. Ink costs for black-and-white printing are about 4.1 cents/page, which is quite a bit more than the costs on my laser printer. So I mostly use this printer for photo prints, which it excels at. Still, the instant copy button on this printer is extremely handy for making quick photocopies, color or black and white, even when there is no computer around. Just lay your original on the glass, press copy, and bingo—there’s your copy. You can choose to enlarge or reduce the prints using the touchscreen commands. Built-in copy functions include auto exposure, borderless copy, frame erase copy, ID Card, and fit to page. One feature that this printer lacks is SD card reading, so you can’t print or scan direct to/from SD cards—too bad since I use that feature a lot on my laser printer. All in all, this is a quick printer that prints great photos at a very reasonable price.

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Does what it is supposed to do. Easy setup. At a price I like. Perfect for my home media needs.

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I have had several prints, ones that say they print photos and this is by far the best for photos!!

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I recently purchased this printer to replace the one I bought several years ago. It is the updated version of the Canon PIXMA TS6120. Its not too big and its wireless which is perfect. I can print from my iPhone, my iPad, and my printer. The print is clear and the colors are vivid. It comes with print cartridges to get you started. You just add paper and youre in business!

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I found out the hard way with my last inkjet printer that it is the combo of the printer and the type of ink cartridge it uses that leads to the $ you spend on ink. I gave away a perfectly good printer because I could buy this model at the time for the price of 1/10 what I had spent in a year on ink cartridges for the old one! Also, at the time, in that section underneath the product pic, they advertised E-Z ink - I read up on it & it has rave reviews so I ordered the 5-pack to be ready when the "starter" cartridges ran out. 3 months later and none of them have run out. Now mind you I dont change ink cartridges when the warning comes up - only when the print is compromised and its not yet! I like the fact that there are 2 black cartridges, one being a pigment ink that is less likely to run than the color cartridges. This is my first Canon, so I had a little bit of a learning curve, but not much. And, although Im not a heavy printer, I do use my fair share of paper. I print (sorry, trees!) to keep records of things, do print screens of every order to keep for my credit card stmt, etc., and I also do artwork (like greeting cards). What can I say - Im just a happy camper who feels like the woman in the Old Testament whose oil kept coming (the ink, ha!). I never load from the back because I have it tucked in a cubbyhole in my computer desk, so that may be part of it, but Ive never had a jam and had no problem setting it up - used the USB and power cable which were right there from the old one! (Also, I dont use wi-fi, so no input there.) Update: 4-6-19 It just gets better and better. My "starter" cartridges just had to be replaced (4 of the 5) which is only $35 with the E-Z Ink that I bought at the same time as the printer. Thats 5 months of use out of the "starter" cartridges. Well, the E-Z ones I bought are XXL and supposed to give 3 X print of regular ones, so I dont expect to worry about it for a while. The expiration date on the package I purchased already is 2 years, so even if they last a really, really long time, I purchased another set to have one hand.

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This Canon is a superb printer. It takes less space, it doesn have a useless fax feeder (I mean, how many people really need a fax?), two slots for photo and regular paper, easy to set up scheme for wireless, a good read out screen, two tanks for flack (one extra large)--and is remarkable quiet. What more can you ask for? After going through Epsons that break down in a year, I finally decided to give up the Epson, and in addition with the Canon, got an extended warranty. Hey, when a printer lifespan is only a couple of years, it makes sense to get a low cost warranty. Hopefully though, I wont need this one in an alloted time. And definitely a pleasant deal.

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