Canon E560 All-in-One Inkjet Colour Printer with PG89 & CL99 Ink Cartridge

Some person here said, this printer can't print with a single sheet in the Paper loading tray. That's the 1st thing I checked after buying this Printer.It turns out, you can Print even with a single sheet of paper.Usually when you are loading a bundle of Sheets, due to the thickness of the sheets, the paper loading rolling feeder is naturally pushed with ease. But with a single sheet, you need to slide it inside the roller for it to grip it and pull it for printing. If you do not want Paper Abrasions/Tear inside the machine, do not use any less than 75 GSM Paper.Good Stuff:1) Good Quality Printer & Crisp Prints.2) Wi-Fi Printing at this price is really impressive. ( My Advice : Pl Leave DHCP ON & Don't assign a Static IP address to the Printer unless you know what you're doing. )3) Best part is Auto Duplex Printing at reasonable price. (Be warned: Printing area may be reduced during Auto Duplex Printing, however, my prints were okay.)4) Quiet Mode which can be scheduled. My quiet mode starts automatically at 11 PM and ends at 5:30 AM.5) Power Saving Feature: Auto Power Off/On6) Simple Uncluttered Menu & Regular Firmware Updates.7) Regarding how long Ink would last, I Just Printed more than 1300 Pages ( Print Quality: Standard & all text ) of Black only but, both Color Cartridge and Black Cartridge is Empty. :|Now let’s remember: I PRINTED EVERYTHING IN BLACK, YET COLOR IS completely EMPTY.(Draft Mode uses the least amount of Ink, Standard Mode Balanced, Best Mode depletes Ink Quickly)Also, I printed 1250 Pages within 2 weeks of purchasing this printer. Don't expect the same output after 4-6 months from the date of cartridge installation.But yes, it lives up to Canon's Claim of 800 pages Black & 300 pages Color in accordance with ISO/IEC 24712.8) Supports Google Cloud Print. You can be at the office and Print a document at home.Bad Stuff:NO SCAN BUTTON ON PRINTER ! You have to load the document on the Flat-bed Scanner & hit the Scan button on your Computer! ANNOYING !1) Uses color ink even when you select Gray-scale Print Option. It is bad that it needs color cartridge to print even in Gray Scale. Pl read the side notes carefully: Canon says “Color ink may be consumed even when printing a black-and-white document or when black-and-white printing is specified.”My Solution to this Problem:*) Click Windows Start Button*) Open Devices and Printers*) Right click on Canon E560 Series Printer*) Open Printing Preferences*) Click Maintenance Tab*) Select Ink Cartridge Settings*) you’ll notice that by Default both Black and Color Cartridges are selected. Change that to Black only.This might put a check on color cartridge consumption.2) Needs a color cartridge in place all the time. Doesn't matter even if its empty, but it ought to be there.Canon says “If a cartridge runs out of ink, you can print with either color or black cartridge, in whichever ink remains, only for a while. However the print quality may be reduced compared to when printing with both cartridges. We recommend to use a new cartridge in order to obtain optimum qualities. Even when printing with one ink only, print with leaving the empty cartridge installed. If either of the color cartridge or black cartridge is not installed, an error occurs and the machine cannot print. "3) My iPad 2 didn't recognize the Printer coz, it isn't included in Air Print Model list. But still could print & scan very well from iPad with Canon PIXMA/MAXIFY App.4) Ink Cartridges are imported from Japan and it still needs to be on an economical side. (A cost cut required)Black Cartridge Canon Ink Tank PG-89 MRP: INR 790.00Flipkart.com Price: Rs.628Color Cartridge Canon Ink Tank CL-99 MRP: INR 990.005) More than 35 hours of usage & only on 2 occasions, Printer stopped responding & on 3 Occasion paper jam. But not a deal breaker. Paper Jams are easy to remove.Do not Refill Cartridge for at least Two Years since there is a 2 years onsite warranty and refilling a cartridge would void it.

I bought this printer in Sep 2015. Typically, I always review electronic products after using them for few months and here is my quick review:Brief history: I owned a Canon Pixma for 10 years before it's print head started to give problems. 10 years for a printer is amazing, if you are ask me. And that itself had proved Canon's reliability. So choosing another Canon was a no-brainer. But, I followed the crowd and chose the HP 3545E instead because of its popularity. The HP 3545E is a good printer but had an issue where it will not print double-sided PDFs properly over WiFi. Please see my review for that printer on it's product page. Unfortunately, that printer did not work for me and I had to return it back. Finally, I decided to go with Canon and bought the E560.The Canon E560 is actually a very good printer for home use. It is perfect for my requirements & is ideal for a small home office setup. For me, the top 5 requirements were:- WiFi Printer- Duplex printing- Quick startup and fast printing- Ideal for kids projects- AffordableThe WiFi setup was straightforward if you are familiar with setting things up. Installing and replacing cartridges seems to be easy too. I have been using this printer moderately (few prints every 1-2 weeks) since Sep 2015 and still haven't replaced the original cartridges. I haven't printed any color photographs (not a big fan of printing photos at home as you can get them printed and shipped for cheap). The color cartridge is now close to empty but I have a feeling that I can get few more weeks out of it. I do plan to keep track of how many pages I can get after replacing the cartridges. Will update my review accordingly.If I really have to pick the negatives then I tend to compare it with my 10 year old Canon Pixma. Some of them are:- No dust free protection for the paper stack, so if you do not print regularly, you may want to remove the top blank paper from the input tray as it gathers lot of dust. My old Canon Pixma had a dust free cover on the paper input tray. Alternatively, you can make a small cover using cardboard (good project for the kids).- The output tray extender to stop prints from falling down, is a bit confusing & is actually part of the input tray. You have to pull it out and extend it. Care needs to be taken as it may easily break if not handled carefully.- No 'Scan to computer' button. Might be a bit time consuming to scan multiple pages using the dialog.Overall, a good printer & definitely worth a buy for home use. Now, I just have to see whether it can beat my Canon Pixma MP500's 10 year record.

Bought this model and installed the printer last Monday. Very next day after printing 2 pages, paper got struck and printer was not working. Called Canon to address the issue. Technician came and rectified the printer asking us to return back the printer immediately to the seller as it’s defective model with this problem as the same will keep repeating very frequently. Called up Amazon to address this issue today and repeatedly Amazon call Center advising us to go to the brand for replacement. Amazon washed away its responsibilities citing the return policy without solving the issue.Bad quality product and don’t buy any canon product as well as from Amazon online if they want the customer to go to brand for solving the issue.Also repeatedly Amazon customer call centre was diverting the issue asking me “ whether service Center technician refused to do rectify he problem”Amazon Customer call centre was not able to address the return nor able to solve the problem instead asking me to go to brand service centre. Poor quality of training with the staff unable to register a complaint to take it forward citing there is no option for the same..Do not have any other choice with this poor support from amazon and bad experience I have to rethink about online purchase from Amazon any more..Don’t buy this product from Canon and beware of buying online with the risk associated with it.