How do you rate Canon printers?
Every printer Which? tests spends around six weeks being put through its paces in our printer lab tests, but longer-term use can highlight some quirks that aren’t discovered in the early days of a printer’s useful life. This is where customer views come in.
Which? customer views prove a valuable resource – completing the picture of what it’s like to own and work with a printer at home in the long term.
Are you a Canon printer owner?
If you are, we want to hear from you. At Which? we have test results for more than 20 Canon printers including all-in-one, laser and wi-fi printers.
If you own a Canon printer you can help others who are considering one to find the best model for them, by adding your views to our printer reviews.
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Maybe you’ve had problems with one of the printers, or it’s proving great for printing particular types of document or on different thicknesses of paper or card. Or perhaps you’ve been using ink from another manufacturer in your Canon printer and it’s producing great results.
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Cressex is having problems with the scanner on the Canon MG8150:
I bought my Canon Pixma MG8150 about ten months ago and it has proved to be an excellent printer, copier and scanner, when the scanner works that is. The problem with the scanner is that on scanning multi-page documents it will intermittently stop operating for example it might stop on page 5 of a 10 page document… The document then has to be re-scanned and the chances are that it will fail again. The retailer, Amazon, was most helpful though and they are going to give me a replacement printer free of charge and then take the old one back, their service was excellent so far.
Rating: 4 out of 5
The Wanderer is pleased with the Canon MG5250:
I have had this printer for about 6 months and cannot fault it. Much quieter than previous printers I have had but produces very good quality print, and also scans and copies very well. Nice looking machine and remarkably cheap for the quality.
Rating: 4 out of 5
However, another user is less impressed with the build quality:
I bought this product to replace another Canon and have been quite disappointed with it. It was easy to set up and use but the whole thing is flimsy especially the paper tray. I often want to copy only a part of a page and on my old machine I could edit out the unwanted parts but this function has been sacrificed to print CD labels.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Another Canon owner has generally been happy with the Canon MG6150:
My experience so far has been very positive. The set up was quite straight forward and the quality of prints is excellent. It deals with a variety of media. The only real problem I had was a break in wi-fi transmission during a high quality piece of printing. This happened twice and was very annoying… Has been OK since then. Would recommend this printer and an excellent all rounder.
Rating: 4 out of 5
But Eddie hasn’t been as impressed with the running costs of the printer:
Wish I had read these reviews before buying this printer as I am also experiencing huge ink usage! My last set of cartridges lasted less than three months and I was able to print a measly 69 pages of mostly black copies. What they don’t tell you is that this machine has an automatic nozzle cleaning function that uses a little of all the inks every time you switch on!
Rating: 1 out of 5
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They're good, I'd recommend them to a friend (74%, 319 Votes)
They're okay, but they have their problems (20%, 86 Votes)
They're dreadful, I'd not recommend buying one (6%, 27 Votes)
Total Voters: 431
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kim
I have a Canon MP260, which I am sure has now been superceded.
It has never let me down and produces a good result, sometimes the initial copy is a bit faint and I think the manufacturers replacement cartridges, which I always use, are a bit pricey.
Geoff
I note that one of your comments regards the using up of the colour ink cartridges even though they have mainly been printing black and white text. It’s worth noting that by default Word uses all colours to print black. It is possible to convert text to just black which will save on the use of colour, but it’s an annoying feature that, as far as I can see, can’t be switched off by default.
FredK
My Canon BJC250 is still working after 15 years. My IP4600 lasted less than 2 years.
I contacted Canon official repairer and received the following reply
“the average life of a Canon printer is 3 years.
It appears that modern Canon printers are designed to fail.
A dreadful waste of the earths resources.
Peter Kerr
I have had an MG8150 for six months. It is a class leader. Text is crisp and photographs are brilliant. I am finding the duplex function very useful. I have had no trouble with the scanner and the OCR facility is the best I have experienced in a combined printer/scanner.
ps Which has been let down by a rogue apostrophe between ‘printer’ and ‘s’ in one of the paragraphs.
Katie Waller
Oh, the shame! Peter, thank you – I’ve removed the offending apostrophe.
Pete Mansell
I have had an MP620 for some time. The printing results are good, but it takes ages to print the first sheet as the printer takes minutes apparently doing a head clean. If the printer is only used intermittently, the ink consumption is appalling as it uses lots of ink going through the head cleaning sequence before each use. For intermittent printing this printer is not fit for purpose in my experience..
Mal
I have had a Pixma iP2000 for several years and it’s been fine.
I use Tonik/choices replacment cartridges and never had a problem.
Month or so back got the ‘ink reserviour’ full problem (light blinking/no print) but found a work round code to stop it and it’s still working fine, perhaps a tad slower but no problem to me.
So will keep till finaly gives up.
Alan S
Not sure that your survey method captures the views of long-term Canon owners. I’ve got two Canon portable printers of different types purchased in the last 5 years, neither of which appears in your long list of current Canon printers. To get owners’ impressions of Canon the brand rather than a particular new printer, you might want to create a review topic for “members’ other Canon printers”. FWIW, the print quality has been very good and the portability has been a great asset, however the ink has been hard to get, has been getting more expensive, and there’s a widely-known problem with an error where the “waste ink collector” fills up after about 3 years, and can’t be emptied. Canon only list two companies in the entire UK who will service these printers, one of them wants £40-£80 to repair the one with the “waste ink collector” problem, which seems to relate to a small piece of foam rubber buried inside the printer. I’m sure a bit of Europe-wide consumer criticism might make Canon modify their approach, at least for future models of printer.
patmiddlengland
I’ve had a Canon Pixma ip3300 for 5 years and has been totally reliable. It sits on ou wireless network and is used by 3 other people, prints fine clear copies (double-sided if necessary, very good everyday photographs and it is easy to set up and change cartridges. It cost very little and was a ‘Which’ best buy at the time. My son has a slightly different Canon model which has been equally reliable.
Dr Pamela Wace
My iP4200 is 6 years old and still producing superb documents and photos. It’s the best printer I’ve had to date. It was bought originally as a space-saver, as its 2 outlets mean it can be used on a narrow shelf. Ink usage is a bit pricey but that was stated in the original Which? review, so no surprise there!
kermit
I’ve owned an iP6600D for about 5 years and it was secondhand when I bought it. It’s served me well since then and is still producing excellent results. I only use compatible cartridges, which give me perfectly good prints and are cheap. The printer requires chipped cartridges and when I first started buying compatibles I had to transfer the chip from the original Canon cartridges, but they’re now manufacturing chipped compatibles so the outcome is not only cheap, but easy as well.
I would recommend Canon printers unreservedly.
Mr B McGowan-Dochert
I have had an IP5300 for at least 5 years and it has worked perfectly all the time. It gives me excellent text with duplex printing, when required – to save paper. Colour prints have been very good as well – when using good paper. Ink consumption has been no worse than HP printers, plus their has been no problem in buying original cartridges at sensible prices. I have no hesitation in buying another Canon printer.
Ned
We had a WHICH-recommended Canon pixma 600 for 5 yrs or so with no problems except that the default “squander ink” printer settings have to be changed every time before printing. But it works fine on cheapo 3rd-party ink cartridges, and DOESN’T clog up when not used for a long time. Unlike the previous EPSON stylus 150(?)(shamefully WHICH-recommended) whose head clogged up with dried ink whenever you didn’t use it for a couple of days: we hardly got a single good print out of it and had to throw it away.
For greytone only our Samsung laserprinter is cheaper and better at printing.