Canon TR8520 All-In-One Printer For Home Office |Wireless | Mobile Printing | Photo and Document Printing, AirPrint(R) and Google Cloud printing, Black

I gave this top stars even though it is an ink hog. BUT before you stop reading, when pro to g photos on “ best” as I often do, very few printers are not! For a home office this is spectacular. It’s very compact, it comes with an automatic document feeder, which is very RARE in this price range. Faxes ( YES, some still use faxing), scans, copies. Got good Consumer Report scores.I have seen negative reviews. Mostly on flimsy construction, cost of ink and slowness of printer. Ok I disagree. Why? Yes, the plastic made in this Pixma is not a thick as printers of years past but that said, it doesn’t make one bit of difference! Unless you are particularly rough it will NOT affect ANY functions. I LOVE that this has TWO paper holders. I love that unlike my last non Cannon printer, this DOES co it is to print when other cartridges are out of ink. That’s a big deal for me!!! Again hard to find anymore in this price range AND I paid $ $70 more in December 2020 than its being sold at many internet stores now 4-20). On the cost of ink. I used the Cannon ink XL packs twice and was dismayed at putting out $120 every 46-60 days ( again I do print lots of photos). I researched non Cannon ink. In the past, I had trouble with smearing for DAYS later, color distortion, etc. I decided to try one more time and found an internet company called Comp and Save. I took a chance. The cartridges were an immediate given that this firm produced quality Non OEM ( original equipment mfg) products. The price for all 5 XL cartridges was slightly 50% less than Cannon. The real test came in my print test. I printed 4 different photo types ( landscape, portrait etc) with Cannon ink. Then printed the same photos with the Non OEM ink. IF you were looking closely, you could find a tad difference. ( Blue suit in Cannon print, came out more brown. What’s hilarious is that we NEVER noticed that the actual suit is not BLUE but brown mixed with blue weaves. Our faces were a very TINY bit lighter. I thought it made us look better to be truthful. The point is that the differences would be speculative at best, and too small to pay the full Cannon ink costs. Beautiful fall landscape? No difference! ALSO, using non manufacturer ink does NOT void any mfg warranty. Also make sure you buy from a QUALITY ink company as cheap ink does clog up printers often! BUT since these printers really don’t last like they used to, I strongly recommend you always buy the extra warranty if available. I bought my last printer at Best Buy with a 3 year extra warranty for $34.99. Thank heavens as the printer broke after 2 years. They refunded my purchase price and I bought a different printer. Bought another 3 year warranty and this printer went after 15 months. Unfortunately the Assurion Warranty I bought from Amazon does not refund your money but only gives you an Amazon gift card. None the less, still worth buying with electronics and are really inexpensive these days.

I’m moving from a canon mx870 which I mostly loved. But it had a few glitches that, when it finally died, I’m hoping will be resolved in this newer printer.I just set up the printer. First impressions:• this feels much flimsier than my old canon. The fact that you have to have this control panel pulled out in order for it to operator feels like it’s an accident waiting to happen. The paper tray feels even more breakable than the one in the mx870. But the ink cartridges installed just as I’m used to, and so far, so good. And no, nothing broke.• I told it to find my wireless lan and voila - it connected. This was far easier than with my old printer.• Thanks to comments I found here, as soon as I got the printer connected on our wifi, I updated the firmware. Easy to do and I haven’t had any problems at all.• The setup instructions say to go to a URL that no longer exists. I can’t use the CD because my laptop doesn’t have a CD drive. So I searched google on ‘Canon TR8520 install” , found the page to install it on windows 10, and voila – all went well.Using via AirPrint. Yippee. This is my first AirPrint printer. One note - if I print a photo directly from my pictures library, only a blank page is printed. I have to use the Canon app to print a photo. But that worked fine too.Scanning: works great, but I miss scanning and saving the file onto a USB flash drive. Still, I can use an SD card ok. I just have to put it in VERY firmly to get it to register. I’ve scanned from the printer to put the file onto an sd card, and scanned directly to my pc using the included software. It has options to scan several resolutions (expected) and to do normal and ‘high’ compression of PDF files (unexpected and welcome).Using ADF: Great. Works flawlessly. Just remember to put the paper in face up. I scanned a paper stack of mixed full pages and half pages with no hesitation.Havent yet tried to see if this printer drops from our wifi system when unused for a few hours to a day (*sigh*). That was a pain with my MX870.The one thing I dislike: I leave the printer all shut up rather than leave various trays and panels sticking out. When I printed to my old printer, the paper tray automatically opened and all was well. With this one I get an error message saying to ‘open the operation panel and pull out the output tray. Oh well, it’s simple enough.