Canon TS9120 Wireless All-In-One Printer with Scanner and Copier: Mobile and Tablet Printing, with Airprint(TM) and Google Cloud Print compatible, Red

This new model TS9120 replaces the dedicated Gray ink tank in the TS9020 with a Photo Blue ink tank. The gray ink tank in the older model is to “stabilize colors so your color prints look true to life” while this newer model uses the blue ink tank “to reduce graininess that can be found in bright colored prints from blues to whites.” I have both the TS9120 and the TS9020 so I compared the prints side-by-side. Here are a couple photos from both models, with two different kinds of subjects; landscape and a toddler. The sky in the landscape photo is more true to the original with this TS9120 model. It captures the deep blue and the fine details of the cloud. The sky printed with the TS9020 is a little bit more pale and without as many cloud details. But the biggest noticeable difference between the two printers is with people portraits. The older model TS9020 has beautiful, true, warm skin tones. This new TS9120 gives the skin tones a slightly bluish tint, for example blue veins in the forehead are more noticeable. I much prefer the older TS9020 with the gray ink tank for pictures of people. For the overall print quality, I recommend this TS9120 if you take mostly landscape photos, and the TS9020 would be better if you take mostly people photos. You can also calibrate and adjust the color profile in the photo application and in the print settings, but these are the ideal uses for each model based on the default settings. As far as other features, I wish it had a larger bottom paper tray to hold more sheets. Canon could design the printer to be slightly taller and dramatically increase the paper capacity. Also the flip out screen feels flimsy and bounces/bends like a lever with the slightest touch (whereas the similar kind of rotating display mechanism on my Epson XP-960 feels solid). But I love the compact width and length, and it looks great on the desk!

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I purchased this machine for its photo printing, duplex and scanning capabilities. Setup and connection through my wireless network was a snap. No problems printing from either my iMac or IOS devices. My wife printed off a recipe from her iPad and my niece, an email from her MS Surface. Does duplex print operations smoothly, scans and copies quickly. Feels strange printing photos using the rear tray but the 4x6 and 5x7 photos I printed, came out vibrant and rich in tone. In fact, they pretty much look like the images displayed on my iMacs screen. Overall, Id state that the printers functions seem much faster than my MG7520 and even a bit quieter. The wife and I will use this printer for document printing but nothing heavy-duty, a few pages here and there. Im an amateur photographer so will primarily use the printer to print images and portraits, mainly 4x6 and 5x7 photos. So, with all that good stuff stated...the lack of ink cartridge (cli-281) availability + the current cost of refill ink for this machine, I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND THIS PRINTER FOR HOME BUSINESS PURPOSES. The long term cost will be in the ink so Ill try to come back and update this review after the holidays. Should have a pretty good estimate on ink usage by then. Although the ink costs will eventually come down, for now, I give four stars based on my research for ink replacement/availability and price. Update: Ink usage about the same as my previous Canon, continues to work as normal and documentes/images look fantastic. A few issues however. The printer does completely shut itself off after a period of non-use (not sure how long). It irritates the the wife that she has to walk to the study and turn it on before she can print to it from her iPad, so far not a big deal to me. I have to admit that the control panel seems very flimsy to me, especially when using the power button and as a previous reviewer stated, I now also feel the need to place my thumb under it to keep it from wanting to bend down. Touch controls on the panel are not a problem however, light for the touch and responsive. Lastly, if you dont lift the control panel high enough, it will not print as the panel is too close to the feeder tray so the paper cannot feed out normally. I had to lift the control panel almost to its full upright position for the paper to feed. Fortunately Canon anticipated this issue as the notification on the LED screen displays the issue and tells you to lift the control panel higher. Once this is done, it automatically prints the document. Well thats about all I have to state regarding this purchase. This printer has some minor issues but no show-stoppers thus far and the photographic prints are just amazing. Knowing what I know now, I would still purchase this printer. Hopefully this review helps you future buyers out.

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Bought it a month or so ago. Arrived inside a much larger box with literally a single sheet of packing paper lying on top. I complained to Amazon, but never heard back. I needed it so set it up. The wireless set up was a bit quirky, but worked great once I got it going..until it stopped two days ago and I can’t get it back. USB still works fine. Maybe it rattled around during shipment and ruined the network ‘card’? Prints, scans and copies really fast and quality is great. However, I have been doing a project and just blew through an entire 500-sheet ream of paper in the past couple of days. This is the original ream that I opened when I set up the printer, so this data is accurate. These pages have almost all been in ‘Draft’ quality; some entirely grayscale. Maybe 20 or 30 in ‘Standard’ quality. They contain mostly black text with photos copied from Google and snippets of genealogies from Ancestry. Ayone who uses Ancestry will know that they use blue for males and pink for females, so about every third or fourth page contained these. I am now on my second tanks of C, Y, M, and PGBK (280 tank). The black (281) is about half gone. The Photo Blue seems pretty full, as it should. Doing some quick and generous (to Canon) math, it has cost me, say, $100 in ink to do 500 pages in mostly Draft. That’s about 5 cents a page in black and 10-15 cents for color per page for 300 pages with black and about 200 pages of CYM. It’s early on a snowy Saturday, so that math may not be fully accurate. Lol But obviously Canon has seen the beauty of greed and profit in HP’s “razors and razor blades” model – give ya the printer and sell you ink after ink after ink tank. Sad to see Canon go this way. Maybe Epson is still playing it fair? My old Canon MP600, that finally died after 10 years, forcing me to buy this/a new one, printed just as well and far more pages at $12 per tank vs. these $25 tanks. When the tanks run out, the printer simple goes off line and won’t even print in grayscale, so have back up tanks handy. If you are doing Standard or above printing with rich colors, have several!!!

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The Canon Pixma TS9120 is a premium printer that, once set-up, seems to operate reliably and with just a little care and feeding. However, there are some issues people may want to consider in purchasing this printer, which also forced at least a one star reduction from five. Unpacking was simple, and everything was clearly marked. Quick start instructions were the first things out of the box, and relatively clear to follow. The printer itself is solidly built with typical plastic that should be handled appropriately. Lots of protective tape and plastic covering needs to be removed prior to plugging the printer in, as trays may want to extend, etc. As for initial pre-setup, ink and printer head calibration were pain free. Powered up and following instructions, from directly downloaded software (a disc is also provided), there were issues with the network connection under Windows 10. It would not install automatically, and Windows could not find the printer. Windows settings could not find the printer. After a bit of searching in the printer menu itself I found another way to connect that is not clear in the instructions provided online or in the unending loop of waiting for a printer to be found on the install software. On the printer menu, there is a section to connect directly to a wireless router. Once I entered the local password, everything proceeded properly. The install software found the printer and it was added to the list of printers and scanners in Windows 10 settings. I do not know if this is a Windows or Canon issue, but certainly more instructions need to be provided either in the install software or on the printer settings to guide you to alternative methods of diagnosing a connection problem. Once running on the local network, all seemed easy, and following the instructions online and on the printer itself were great until it came time to actually selecting the rear tray for paper feed. Putting paper into the rear tray and “registering” it as plain paper did not make that same tray the default for printing. There are no settings that provide for that default. Printer properties during printing do not have a front or rear tray selection, only a paper type selection. Windows settings did have a tray selector setting but it was default to “automatic” which provided no selection. For my normal uses, I print using regular paper and onto plain paper mailing labels. My current HP printer has a front feed so I can just put a label in on top of the normal plain paper and it feeds the top sheet for the occasional label. It is not quite that easy for the Pixma TS9120. Apparently, after some searching, if you select plain paper in both the bottom and rear tray, the automatic default is the bottom tray—there is no way to make the printer use the upper tray (for plain paper) when the bottom tray has paper in it. The default tray will be the rear tray ONLY if the bottom tray is empty. You can force the rear tray to be detected by selecting a different paper type when “registering” the paper (or in my case mailing label, for which there is no option, but I selected “envelope”) on insertion and then specifying that same paper type during printing. Strangely, in the help file I read online, there should be a setting on the menu to allow you to make the rear tray the default for plain paper. On the TS9120, there is a place to specify paper type for each tray, but no setting to force the routine use of the upper tray for plain paper. A firmware update did not change this lack of functionality. This is not convenient and may be confusing to most users. If I have just loaded a paper into the rear tray, I want to use it and it should be the automatic default. Alternatively, the printer properties, should allow tray selection during printing and allow the setting of a default in same. After those operational issues were resolved, I installed the Canon print app on my apple ipad air 2. The install was trouble free and seemed easy to use for quick wireless printing from your pad or phone. As to quality of printing, plain paper documents are just fine and speed is acceptable. A couple of photos printed using Kodak premium photo paper showed good color rendition and no issues, although they did take a bit more time than straight documents. A scan and copy of those same color pictures onto plain paper also produced acceptable results. In each of these tasks, the menu system was intuitive and easy to navigate. I cannot speak to ink usage or replacement cost. The multiple cartridge ink system promises (and delivers) clear and color accurate photos. It appears from what I can gather on Amazon that this printer will allow third party ink use, of which there are some inexpensive selections. The biggest advantage wireless printers have is that they can print from variety of sources while allowing you to place the printer anywhere that is convenient. As I found out, guest computers, signed into your wireless network can also use this printer easily. This Canon Pixma TS9120 provides that wireless convenience and capability (after set-up considerations) and produces great print quality. The lack of being able to exactly specify a default tray (with plain paper) is a minor gripe, but one that keeps me from giving a full 5 stars for this printer.

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Fantastic photo quality. Downside is that it has 6 ink cartridges and replacing them all costs more than the gross national product of a small third world country. Setup was difficult. Had to hire a Geek squad for setup. I am 67 years old and have had no formal training in computers so I dont fault Canon. When I received the computer the Magenta ink cartridge was almost empty. Hopefully it will last a while if I dont let my family members wear Magenta clothes when I take family photos.

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