Canon PIXMA G3560

Bought as an upgrade from previous Canon printer to the print tanks in stead of cartridges ( expensive )Great piece of kit.

Had this printer for around a week and I've printed around 50 pages; a mixture of B&W and colour and it's been fine. It's pretty fast, quiet and so far I've had no problems. Was pretty easy to set up and certainly for me running Windows 10, I didn't need the setup disk or to download any software. By the time I'd finished pointing it at my WiFi network, my PC had spotted the printer and seemed to have installed all the necessary drivers on it's own and was ready to go. Now the bad points.It really is built to a minimum price point. I don't think this is going to be even a medium duty printer. The plastic is pretty flimsy and I think a good knock would break it. The most annoying thing for me is the teeny tiny LCD display. The characters are smaller than a digital watch, and the display isn't backlit so you can't read it unless you have a light shining directly on it and to be frank that's pretty poor these days. But, it was easy to fill with the supplied ink, it did come with an additional bottle of black ink, and from what I've seen ink is a fairly reasonable price. Also, you can purchase a maintenance cartridge for it (that catches all the waste ink) which is also quite reasonable if you shop around. I think it was around £8 on the Canon website. Some printers don't have this option and you actually have to bin the printer when the sponge get's full. So I think for fairly light duty it should be fine... time will tell. The scanner seems to work fine and you just need to press one button to make a photocopy; you select B&W or colour. I've tried both and they are pretty good. I've only used standard printer/photocopy paper in it and it will be interesting to see what pictures printed on photo paper will look like. I'm giving it 4 stars because of the terrible display and the cheap feel of it... but right now other than that I've no complaints.Update.I've had the printer now for several weeks and printed around 400 pages; around 80% were black ink only, and it's been fine. But what is amazing is the ink usage. You hear horror stories of ink cartridges only printing a few pages, well this thing seems to use hardly any ink at all. You can clearly see the ink tank levels though the front of the printer and it hardly seems to move. I'm also pleasantly surprised at it's speed. Sure, it's no laser printer, but it's pretty quick. My only anxiety is I'm worried that the aircon will dry out the print head/ink so I've been making sure that I print at least one page a week. Probably overkill but I bet it's a messy job to change/clean the print head. I really wish they had back-lit the LCD display though. With a ceiling light, the LCD is in shadow when you bend over to read it and it's a pain to see. I've had to leave a small torch next to the printer.

comes in a huge box well wrapped lovely printer prints borderless set up much to be desired, doesn't tally with set up on your computer screen had to go to youtube easy set up from there. .Thats it's only downfall

Things to consider before buying, which I didn't of course until I got it:Because it is rear paper feed the unit has to stand at least 3" further out from a wall than a printer that has the paper feeder at the front like my old HP did, I've got mine on a shelf...Printing envelopes looks a bit fiddly, something I do a lot, and you need to be able to stand directly over the printer to see the display and change the settings, we shall see how this goes...It's quite clunky and noisy so I wouldn't really want it in the room I'm working in, perhaps no worse than some others, but shocked me a bit when setting up for the first time.As commented by others: generally the display, user interface and wireless setup is fairly rubbish.Forget trying to configure it on Windows 7 by following the getting started guide, but once you have joined it with your wireless network using a Windows 10 machine, then you can then install as a printer using the supplied CD.If you are lucky enought to still have a CD drive, the downloadable installer exe's don't seem as reliable.To be fair the CD might have worked straight off, but once you have followed the getting started sheet it's too late and you've wasted quite a lot of time.Even after that the printer diagnostics complains that the wifi signal is too weak only 10m away from the router in the adjacent room.It may also be easy to configure the printer the first time using the USB interface but I didn't try that because I don't have a long enough cable and don't intend to use USB.Nowhere in the install guide does it tell you the web interface admin password is the printer serial number, which you will need if you want to use it.To be fair I don't understand the comments that say the ink levels are hard to see, they are good for me and if you want to see them really clearly shine a torch on the tanks at the front.I like the tank concept over the traditional inkjet cartridges.I think the addition of an RJ45 socket to connect directly into a router would make life a lot easier! There are other models that have of course...Anyway it is working OK now after almost a day of messing.The scanner works well and is easy to use.I feel like I've been a bit rough on this printer, but let's face it, no occasional home user wants to spend more than this costs.if it lasts at least 5 years I'll be happy.

Printing is superb, large ink tanks brilliant. So far I have found no niggles.

easy to install and to operate

Printer is slow. Quite noisy. No automatic feed. Not easy to stop a print job.Have had so many faults so it has been at Canon for repair more than I have had the printer functioning.Quite large and high so needs a lot of space.Canon technical support has been good.

I bought this to replace my previous Canon Pixma printer which had finally given up. This was a bit pricey for what it offers. I operate the printer wirelessly. It prints and copies well. However it won't scan in the office as it says my wifi router is too far away. In my office the download speed is over 100mbps and the print function seems happy with wifi signal. But the sacnner only works if I relocate the printer to my lounge! I contacted Canon who said the the printers wifi adaptor might not be good enough to get the wifi signal. Happily I use the scanner rarely

Works so much better than my last printer. Easy to operate. I prefer ink to cartridges. Way less expensive.

Meinem 15 Jahre alten Farb-Laser-Drucker ging der Toner aus. Nun ergab sich die Fragestellung: nochmal €400,- in Toner investieren - inclusive der Müllberge, die man damit produziert? Oder lieber nach etwas 'modernerem' Ausschau halten?Die Entscheidung kam recht schnell - es sollte ein Multifunktions-Tintenstrahler mit Tintentanks werden.Auch aus ökologischer Sicht. Ein nachhaltiges Gerät also.Da ich zu 99% unter Linux unterwegs bin, sollte der Drucker natürlich auch problemlos mit diversen Distributionen zusammenarbeiten können. Und ein für mich entscheidendes Qualitätsmerkmal sind gute - wirklich gute - Ergebnisse des Scanners.Bei dieser Aufgabenstellung kommen allerdings nur 3 Hersteller in Betracht: Brother, HP und Canon.Brother ist Linuxfreundlich - Punkt.Man braucht aber zwingend die Treiber von Brother, und die Installation ist nicht ohne - wenn es erstmal läuft, ist es gut - nur kann der Weg schon etwas länger werden - Punktabzug.Die Scanergebnisse entsprechen nicht meinen Erwartungen - Punktabzug.Zwischenergebnis: Brother -1HP ist durch die HPLIP-Unterstützung extrem Linuxfreundlich - Doppelpunkt.Störend finde ich nur die zwingende Installation über eine App auf dem Handy incl. Erstellung eines Benutzerkontos - Punktabzug.Und auch die Qualität der HP-Scanergebnisse überzeugen mich nicht - Punktabzug.Zwischenergebnis: Brother -1 -- HP 0Nun zum Canon.Ganz einfache simple Aussage/Erfahrung: Willkommen im 21sten Jahrhundert.Keine Treiberinstallation nötig, anstecken und losdrucken. So soll es sein - Punkt.An allen meiner 4 Systeme wurde der Drucker einwandfrei erkannt und eingebunden - sogar die Tintenstandanzeige und Zustand des Resttintenbehälters werden angezeigt - Punkt.Die Scanergebnisse entsprechen genau meinen Erwartungen - Punkt.Zwischenergebnis: Brother -1 -- HP 0 -- Canon +3Die Ersteinrichtung fand per USB-Kabel unter Ubuntu statt.Einstecken, Drucker wurde automatisch erkannt und eingebunden, losdrucken!Den Scannerteil mit XSANE finden lassen, und - losscannen!Am Drucker die Wirelessfunktion aktiviert - ins vorhandene Netzwerk eingebunden und alle Geräte haben Zugriff auf den Drucker - völlig problemlos. Selbst das Aufwecken über WLAN funktioniert einwandfrei.Was mich am meisten erstaunt hat: Ich habe aus masochistischen Gründen noch einen Rechner mit Win10 - selbst an diesem Gerät war keine Treiberinstallation nötig - der Drucker wurde vom System über WLAN als Netzwerkdrucker erkannt und eingebunden.Meine Systeme:Ubuntu 22.02 (LM21)Debian 11.2 (LMDE5)Fedora 36Win10Über die Erfahrungen der Langzeitnutzung, Tintenhaltbarkeit, Druckerstabilität werde ich bei Gelegenheit entsprechende Nachträge liefern.

Frühere Produkte von Canon zeichneten sich durch intuitive Bedienung und wertige Ausführung aus. Erster Eindruck billig aus Plaste. Infodisplay schlecht lesbar. Die Installation gelingt, wenn man sehr viel Geduld hat und herumprobiert. Aus nicht nachvollziehbaren Gründen wird der Drucker, nachdem schon mal alles funktioniert hat, irgendwann nicht mehr erkannt und das Installationsspiel beginnt von vorn. Finger weg !!!