Before you take the unit into operation, you should remove the protective materials. Who is surprised that you can adjust the paper feed mechanism is very difficult, should simply pull on the edge. The paper tray can be completely pull out partially and now set in earnest. The cartridges are easy to insert. In addition, the device has an LED display. In addition, the inks are color coded, so that nothing can go wrong. Anyone who thinks this is all unnecessary, would be surprised. I've had customers on the phone, who had complained about 3x a printer and were not able to connect a power cable. Canon has here really tried everything to make the device also for lay people to understand. The menu navigation on the display is excellent after commissioning. Even Wi-Fi could be installed directly without any problems. However, you should make sure that the device is not too far from the router. I have the device installed by a PIN code. You select WPS, the device generates a PIN number, this one is in the router's menu by selecting "Add". How this works individually, must itself, with reference to the instructions supplied with the router, discuss.
The printer drivers install automatically. Again, kudos to Canon. I have already installed the printer driver, who were completely overloaded or have adopted during installation. At times when the HP drivers were so unnecessarily overloaded that a netbook was no longer function. Canon driver rather limited to the essentials and that's a good thing.
From a technical point, the device is rather a step backwards. Canon has unfortunately taken austerity measures and savings in the nozzle rows, so that the printing speed for color, compared to its predecessor, has significantly reduced. I personally do not care, because I print mostly black / white. Here everything has remained the same, fortunately. Nevertheless, one must deduct a star here. It can not be that the successor slower than its predecessor's. The paper edition is by design, a bit more flexible than other manufacturers because it is dispensed with real paper cassette. Anyone familiar with cassette, must get used to the slightly rickety structure at Canon. Whether this is good or bad, everyone must decide for themselves. Each has its advantages and disadvantages.
Kindly, there are energy-saving features, this function only complete if the printer is connected to a PC via USB. After installation, I first performed a firmware update. This is selectable in the menu and goes fully automatically via Wi-Fi, just great.
The device has a permanent print head, which can be exchanged in case of damage, however. I personally Favorite cartridges whose printheads you every time with exchanges, but it must renounce entirely with printers in this price range. In the head 5 inks are used. I'm going to buy in the future directly the XL inks. On foreign manufacturers I renounce entirely because my last printer was schrottreif after use of foreign inks. The fun had cost me about 300 euros. For units with integrated print head should be better access directly to the original. But everyone must decide for themselves.
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The print quality Canon is impeccable. The printing costs are manageable. The 550XL cartridge has 22ml, 11ml each other. The printer is ready for use after about 20-23 seconds - an old HP Deskjet 6122 in only 6-7 seconds. That you have to mention even in 2013. There are quite printers rattle and clatter minutes to himself until something happens that one goes by the desire to print entirely and would throw the crate prefer out of the window. Earlier in an HP Deskjet 6122 has pushed the button on the PC side and the one held in the hands of a few seconds later. Here modern devices could still clearly put up a gear. I am quite glad that the Canon gets going almost directly. However, compared to my old Pixma he is much faster, but does not come close to my old HP. In defense of the Canon but it must be said that it is therefore not a Multifunction Center and similar to a page printer.
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Why the constant printhead alignment and right hinrattern not all devices will be switched off at the factory and that leaves the user even if the image quality is poor, or some other problem occurs, is incomprehensible to me! That's a bad habit, which now have almost all devices! After copying it remains a time at rest to get back briefly to rattle and apparently to clean the head. This is totally unnecessary and annoying total. It would be enough but if he only makes 1x a day and not every time. Please Canon, this stuff turns off via firmware update. Perhaps Canon should ask during the initial installation, how many pages are printed per month and then make these settings on the device. I printed every day, for me is a constant cleaning process completely unnecessary because the printer is always in operation. If someone prints only every few weeks a few pages, which looks quite different.
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The Canon device can be seen as a panacea. The device can be almost anything, and what it may, it does brilliantly. The device is not as rickety as many other printers in this price range and spoils the eye even with a beautiful paint. The software is plausible and manageable, what more could you want. Who wants to spend a little more, the Canon PIXMA MX925 All-in-One SingleInk Multifunction Device USB / WLAN / LAN / Apple AirPrint (printer, scanner, copier and fax) should be black grip because it still has an automatic document feeder.
Otherwise, you meet a good choice with the Canon PIXMA MG6450. And not "whimpers" the device at rest. I had home printer that gave such an annoying hum of himself that I had to return it.
What Canon should still make improvements, is the start, or Home menu. It is incomprehensible for me why I only have to press Home and then copy. Why can not you just press directly on Black to make a copy? These are unnecessary steps that could have been avoided. I guess that makes more than a copy of a scan.
Copying should come first!
Apparently, the engineers have not thought of here to the end, like a device makes sense to use of the priorities here.
Addendum:
Wen the constant chatter (Cleaning the print head and adjust whatever) interfere after printing, contact the Canon Customer easy times. Perhaps an update sometime nachgeschoben that resolves this nonsense. I wrote to the support, there you will find the not normal and has me out, I should take the unit 30 minutes from power. If the problem still occurs, I shall claim the device. The Support link I inserted under comments. In my experience, almost all modern multifunctional center with an integrated print head this problem, so I will not complain about the device, but you should write to the Service. Only if many customers complain, is done about it in the future!
