Canon PIXMA MG6820

First, I want to say I don't use paper in my regular job or life. I just bought this thing to deal with the random silly people who send me forms I need to print to fill out then scan to send back. Like employer verifying my dependents or re-certifying me for stuff using paper instead of online forms. I just needed something to print and scan a couple dozen pages randomly throughout the year and I surely wasn't paying one or several hundred dollars. This Canon device for 65 dollars and its little batch of 'setup' ink cartridges was nice. I've also bought a good set of generic cartridges for about 19 dollars and 1500 pages of Georgia Pacific paper for about 15 dollars (one ream of anything else was 10 dollars, so I went for it).*Unexpected pleasant surprise is that the lcd display is mostly black background with light color text which is far easier for me to read than the usual gray/white backgrounds with gray/black text. This color scheme allowed me to set it up without aid from my kid (I have a vision impairment and he does not). Some of the setup picture/animations were the gray/white background, but all of the text I've had to read was very easy with the black background. Touch screen is also nice - I have to jab it a little hard with my thumb sometimes, but the presence of a touchscreen anything on a 65 dollar all-in-one that works is a nice little bonus.Second, I did research and dodged a couple of bullets from HP and Epson that Canon manufacturers didn't jerk us around with as near as I can tell. In 2016 HP introduced firmware to sabotage generic print cartridges and force people back to theirs. Generics are working out ways to get around HP's sabotage effort, but I imagine HP will keep sabotaging whatever new thing the Generics come up with. (A law firm is organizing a law suit against HP now, citing anti-trust and consumer protection laws. That whole story 86'd my trust in HP as a brand though, so I'm steering clear now.) I also read some bad things about Epson printers not letting you print if the printer thinks the ink is too low, even if your cartridge is half full or you just need to squeeze out one more page. (Thank god for Amazon reviewers. Even if 90% are awesome, it's worth reading a few 1-star reviews to be sure the 5-star people are idiots caught up in the hype of something. Though 1-star reviewers who complain about the mailman instead of the product are tedious too. :)) So I was down to Canon and Xerox. I scrutinized this guy a bit and saw the only bad reviews seem to be people whose needs were more serious than what this device was intended for, or the mailman kicked it up the stairs to their door. Everyone else seemed happy, and I googled and couldn't find evidence of Canon being @#%s like HP and Epson, so I went for it.The device arrived tonight and was pretty easy to setup as long as you were careful to follow instructions. I followed another reviewer's advice and used the disc that came with it for the final part of the setup, instead of going to the web page, and it worked like a charm. I've done the test print, and scanned a few important documents to my computer's desktop and the pdfs looked fine to me. I uploaded the documents to my employer's dependent verification website and satisfied them now I hope. My son got a certificate from his class and I'm going to scan that in now too for fun. I should print something and review that, but I trust Canon on print quality from experience with two of their digital cameras and a photo printer I had. And I saw nobody else complaining about them as they did with HP and Epson. I'll come back and flame Canon if anything screwy turns up, but so far so good. Forget HP or Epson, go Canon (or possibly Xerox if someone else wants to vouch for them. I stopped at my 65 dollar machine and research fatigue. :))

Update: Alright I've had it with this thing. Pasting my original review below, this is my update 2 months later: It just won't read that there is paper in the tray now. I follow the instructions carefully to line up the tray so that it's secure, make sure the paper is as flush as possible for the sensor to pick it up, nothing, the printer just beeps at me that there is no paper. I'm done. At best this thing is a serviceable, albeit very slow, scanner. Save yourself A LOT OF TIME and headache and don't count on this to print your stuff. I wish I could post a video of it. What a rip off.Original Review:The printing quality is good, and the printer is not broken, it does its job, so I've given it 3 stars. Where it loses the other two stars: 90% of the time I go to print something it first tells me there is no paper (when there is). The paper is placed in the tray such that there is no where to adjust its positioning or move it to make the printer sense it. So every time I just hit the "OK" button on the printer and suddenly the printer changes its mind it sees that there is paper after all and then begins printing. It also stops part way through printing jobs to tell me it used the last sheet of paper (when in fact there is still paper in the tray), and I have to follow the same process of hitting "OK" and then the printer becomes convinced again that there is still paper. This gets really tedious when you're trying to print a long document; you have to stand over the printer during the whole job and constantly hit OK to its belief that there is no paper, waiting for it to reprocess every time that happens. The sensor for reading whether or not there is paper in the tray is just simply broken. My only other grief is that it loads commands and prints quite slowly.

This printer is nearly perfect. Photos look amazing, replacement ink cartridges are relatively inexpensive and I honestly don't think they could be more easily installed. I also like how they have lights on them that light up telling you they are properly installed. Much better than the old days of installing cartridges and having to use a little ink printing a test page just to verify they were in correctly.Now I'm going to tell you all about the glitch it has which is pretty common with Canon printers. The printer can be horrible at printing text documents. If you load regular paper into it and tell the computer you are using plain paper the printer will leave white lines all over it. There is an easy workaround though. All you have to do is when you are previewing the page you change the setting from plain paper to glossy photo paper. You have to make that change for it to work. I tried cleaning the printer and checking the alignment and it didn't work. Honestly if it wasn't for that glitch I would give this 5 stars. But even though it's an easy workaround, the fact that most people will not know this and have to do their own research to figure out the problem is why I'm deducting one star. That still doesn't change the fact the printer is otherwise perfect.

Easy set up. All functions work perfectly