Canon PIXMA TS7720 – Wireless Home All-in-One Printer

This TS7720 is a great choice for home printing or home office use. Versatile in it's choices for printed media allowed by its front and rear input sources. Seems a little slow on the startup while it's 'getting ready' to print the first page, but once it's printing it seems to move along at a good pace. The printer is fair to good at printing smaller photos, and is just 'OK' with larger 8X10 size prints. The flat bed scanner has no auto-feed input tray so is typical for a 'single-page-at-a-time' scanner. Scan quality is good enough to scan-in Black and white or color documents and photos. The included software is adequate for home use for both printing and scanning. Just be aware this is not a professional quality photo printer/scanner/copier but is adequate for home use. Can't comment yet on the ink usage as I haven't had it long enough to observe its usage over time. Installation is not as simple as the Canon marketing hype would have you believe. It was not just plug-and-play, at least for my setup and installation, which is wireless with Windows 8.1 and Xfinity router. Unpacking is fairly straightforward, just remove it from the box and take off a couple pieces of orange shipping tape. Then the single page instruction sheet gets you started with setup, loading paper and print cartridges, and a link for downloading the setup software and drivers. I'd recommend downloading the TS7720 user manual first - in my case I needed it. I tried using the 'fully automated' Canon installation/setup but it couldn't find the TS7720. After reading the user manual, and learning how to use the TS7720s touch-screen control panel, I first followed the steps to connect the TS7720 to the router. Selecting my router out of the list of all my neighbors’ routers was easy but keying in my router's password was no easy task on the miniature touch screen control panel. Once I got the TS7720 connected to the router, I restarted the Canon setup software and it found the TS7720. After that, the installation went fairly easy - just follow the steps displayed on your computer screen. I also downloaded and did the setup on my wife’s computer so she has full printer/scanner functionality. The Canon installation/setup software easily ‘found’ the TS7720 since I had already connected the TS7720 to my router. One last observation... The TS7720 default setting is to timeout and shut down (power off) after 240 minutes (4 hours). With that configuration, it shuts down every time it has 4 hours of non-use and you have to manually turn it back on each time before you use it. Very aggravating, especially if the TS7720 is in a different room or different floor of the house. After reading the manual I found the solution. If you open the Printers page on your computer, right click on the TS7720 and chose Preferences. Then click on the Maintenance Tab. Then click on the Maintenances and Preferences button. Then click on the Auto Power button. This brings up the Auto Power Settings. 'Enable' Auto Power On. You can also change the Auto Power Off setting here too, if you want it to time out sooner that the default 4 hours, or not time out at all. Now, any time a computer tries to send something, the TS7720 will turn itself on. Once you make this choice it makes the changes in the TS7720 so from now on, it works for any computer that might be using the TS7720.

I love my Canon PIXMA TS7720 – Wireless Home All-in-One Printer! Little tricky at first setting up, as I couldn't download setup manual & I did search & found a video on YouTube that made my wifi connection & printing Fairly Easy! I owned many printers & lately ink tank & like ink tank printers. Too hard to setup & aligning printheads was impossible! This cannon printer almost takes care of it's self! Thanks Cannon! It has regular ink cartridges, easy scanning! Compatable with my Imac desktop Computer! Print quality is great! I haven't Printed Photos yet, I order good Quality Photo paper that should show great color! Thanks Again Cannon

UPDATE: About 1 month later. I've used the printer a little more, now, and the only downside I've found is it is a little on the slow side for printing. With how few pages I'm ever printing at a time, it's not a negative for me. But compared to my previous printer (Canon Pixma MP495), if I regularly needed quite a few pages at a time, or printed often, I'd say it would be frustrating. Original review: Purchased 2 months ago, and only used a few times, but I have been very happy with this Pixma TS7720, so far. It's the first printer I've used wirelessly, and first with an app. Both work beautifully. I just did my first photo print in years! I only needed a wallet size for a Christmas ornament. Used a 4x6 piece of photo paper, and it turned out beautifully, with excellent color and clarity, first try! Would buy again, and would recommend, at least for an occasional user, like I am.

It loads quickly and is very easy to use. The only issue is the cartridges, which are half the price of the printer...which took a star away from it...the cartridges were 95 dollars with taxes $101.32 - Also when peole are having issues when the paper gets stuck in the back meaning card paper, I found out by using the back it goes though just fine, it cannot turn around ....you just have to do it manually./...

Small size, perfect for desk top. Easy to set up and use. I had two paper jams right off the bat, but have used now for many pages and no more jamming. Haven't used the copy part, but it seems pretty straight-forward.