Review on Discontinued Canon MG7520 Wireless Color Cloud Printer: Scanner, Copier - White by Brad Davis

After much thought, reading consumer reports and online reviews (such as PCMag, Tom's http://www.tomsguide.com/us/canon-pixma-mg7520-printer,review-2501.html etc .d .) and reading Revain reviews (until I could remember which review was for which printer). I settled on my pick - Canon Pixma MG 7520. A little background: I used to have a direct-connect USB printer (no Wi-Fi) from HP - all in an HP1610. Everything was fine when printing, but the inks were expensive and often the cartridges dried out on the print head, causing problems etc. When it came time to buy new cartridges, I really considered a new printer for two reasons. I could buy a slightly more expensive new printer and get cheaper ink in the future, and more importantly, I got tired of bringing my laptop into the room where the printer was and sitting there plugging it in and walking towards it waiting for the printer to run slowly Finish printing a job. . before I can turn off the laptop and get on with what I've just been doing. My environment and needs so you understand why I made my choice: Apple Macbook Pro, Apple MacMini, a Lenovo Windoze laptop (because my wife won't give up), several iPhones, iPads, WI-FI ROUTERS Apple Airport ( tall square model). The printer is on a small table next to the room where the router is located (in the closet). I don't print much. A few pages per month may be printed primarily in black and white and occasionally in color. more like printing tickets or pages for my son or documents to sign etc. I consider myself a light user. I rarely print photos. I don't have a "computer desk" that we work at. We just sit everywhere with our laptops or iPhone/iPad. My search was neither exhaustive nor scientific. but I used a few simple criteria to narrow my choices. I looked at the October 10, 2014 issue of Consumer Reports, which briefly mentioned the most popular printers. These included printers from Canon, Brother, Epson, HP etc. I then explored some of the latest models from these manufacturers online (Revain, PCMag, Toms etc.) and briefly at BestBuy. I excluded the top rated HP printers. mostly because they're monsters (what the hell was the HP product manager thinking?!). and while they have good ratings for speed and ink cost, the quality of their graphics wasn't great. I ruled out Brother mainly because I've seen constant reports of "lower" text and graphics quality compared to other printers. I even printed a test page from BestBuy and it looked bad. I ruled out Epson in a consumer report review due to the high cost of ink. Although consumer reports said the Canon mx922/472 were the recommended models, I found them to print quite slowly. I also looked at the Revain reviews of one of the printer brands above, which had an overall rating of 4+, while all printers had many good reviews and so bad you're worried about getting a lemon. I chose a percentage. I searched for printers with 100 ratings. and a very low percentage of 1 and 2 star ratings. If any of them had 10% or more 1 star ratings, I ranked them low on my list or even excluded them. The MX922 was close but looked BIG and I didn't need a fax machine (what the heck?! who uses it? I don't even have a landline phone). More importantly, many of the reviews and ratings in Tom's journal say this printer was SLOW. On the other hand, the MG7520 had only 8% 1-star ratings and 6% 2-star ratings, and a total of 80% 4- and 5-star ratings. Tom also gave good ratings for speed and quality. Ink costs were decent - not the lowest. Finally, it was a really cool burnt orange color. I'm a fan of beautiful designs (I like Apple). As I said, this is not a scientifically controlled process, but clicking BUY on Revain was enough for me! I opened the box. What follows is a quick start guide that unfolds step by step. It was pretty easy. Soon my printer was powered on with the ink cartridges (there are 6 of them!) that came with the printer installed. I decided to set up WiFi using the hotspot method (not the WPS button? What's that anyway?) and selected my WiFi SSID from the list, entered my passphrase and voila, it said SUCCESS! Then I also printed a test page and it looked very good (almost like a laser printer). It was impressive - quick printer and wifi setup - no hassles. The color screen is really good and the hints are very good. When he said "wait a while" he actually told you "about 6 minutes" so don't wonder how long to wait! (good design practice). Then I started setting up my laptop. It said go to canon.com/ijsetup in a browser. which I did according to the instructions and voila! Within minutes he added a printer to my laptop. I did the same setup on my iPhone and installed the suggested Canon app from the appstore, but later found I didn't need to. However. The moment of truth. I selected some PDF documents and clicked on "Print". Currently. You should be aware that if it has fallen asleep since the last print, it will take around 30 seconds of buzzing, clicking, and other buzzing noises before it's ready to print. but once it starts, it does so fairly quickly. I printed a 3-page (two-sided) document with back side and white. It took 30 seconds to get started and then another 30 seconds to print the document in standard quality, which is enough for me! I've also created some mixed graphics and color documents with the same high performance - the draft is even faster. I love quality! To be honest I think they look like a laser! I love the ability to print over WiFi without special software, cloud or anything else. Just open the document, print it out and go to the printer to collect it! Same with iPhone/iPad - I've printed PDFs from iBooks, emails from Mail and even web pages from Safari - all wirelessly from the iPhone and it's been fantastic! The only thing I haven't tried is the photos. Someday I'll get to it! I love this printer. Now I'm excited to see what I'll print :)