The Epson produced better photos, worse draft and, in a short time, the inkjets or something clogged beyond cleaning. I bought it to replace a similar low end Epson TX550 printer. Read more fiddling it is possible to print with an empty colour cartridge but there's a persistent nag - another button to push! I was very surprised to then run out of coloured ink.
I chose, via the menus, to use only black ink. I didn't like the orange tint and blur on the first few photographs so I turned it into a grey/B&W printer. Discard empty FINE Cartridges according to the local laws and regulations regarding disposal of consumables. Important: Handle FINE Cartridges carefully to avoid staining of clothing or the surrounding area. However this printer uses a lot of expensive ink (a bit less if you never turn it off).ĭraft print documents are good quality with very rare paper jams. Pinch the tabs and open the Ink Cartridge Locking Cover. The document feeder is brilliant for multi-page scans. Wireless feature is useless, my old fax machine leaves this one for dead in speed and quality, runs out of ink realy quickly, lucky to get 100 pages at normal resolution and cartridges are not cheap, noisy when printing, support from Canon was poor if they even bothered to respondĮasy to set up including WiFi and changing ink cartridges. Scanning quality is good but like the fax cumbersome to use. Printing is very nice, clear and crisp both black documents and colour photo's though there is a fair bit of difference in colour tone with your screen, it handles margins very well also. 24 Saving vs the Original Option (£11.00 cheaper) Lifetime Printer Guarantee. Before I do this I just wanted to let everyone know that just because it says it is wireless doesn't mean it is. Own Brand Canon PG-512 / CL-513 Black & Colour High Capacity Ink Cartridge 2 Pack. Fortunately it was not very expensive so I can just ditch it without to much pain. Yes there have been bug fix updates but none of which fixed this particular problem. Contacting Canon is just as hard and all they do when they eventually decide to respond is quote the manual. This has been a constant problem without let up. This is Ok if I am working with my desktop but with my laptop this is a whole other dimension, no IP is no print regardless. Typically I just use a USB cable to get me out of trouble. This takes about 20 minutes if all goes well.
To fix, I now have to clean the slate, like literally uninstall it all including going into the PC registry because the uninstall program leave stuff behind that will cause issues while re-installing, and then go through the entire set up again. Read more ses to communicate with any of my device set up with it. My main disapointment though is the wireless, it is hopeless. When it does work, it takes ages to initialise and boy is it noisy. It is very user unfriendly in all it's aspects but when you eventually get it going it does things well, no complaints there, it's getting it to work that is the problem. The primary reason I bought it was because it featured fax and wireless apart from scanner and printing of course. I have been using the Canon Pixma MX410 for nearly a year now and it continues to disapoint me.