Canon PIXMA TR7820 – Wireless Home All-in-One Printer

I think it's pretty good for the price. It was not connect to my router using my internet sign in credentials. So I tried other options such as the WAP follow the instructions and it connected with no problem but it just wouldn't connect with my username and password they give you other options to connect I use the WAP which is the button on top of your router just follow the instructions. So I'm all up and running. I didn't care whether the Wi-Fi worked or not because I actually have it hooked up to my computer using USB only thing I do wireless is recipes from my phone and maybe photo. It does print on both sides something that I really like. Lot of times when you purchase an item go to YouTube and there are a lot of videos that will give you instructions on how to hook something up because nowadays instructions included hardly tell you anything why I don't know.

I had a HP Officejet printer that I've used since 2011-2012. Nice little all in one printer but I got a printhead not found issue. The issue might have been ink cartridge related and new ink ($110) might have fixed it, but rather than take the risk I figured I would buy a new printer because it wouldn't cost much more than that.Enter the Cannon PIXMA TR7820. $130 delivered and it came with ink. Set up very quickly. Print and copy quality is solid. The auto feeder for scanning is much better than my HP (keeps the pages straight). My only concern buying this was would it integrates with Google Drive, which is where I like to scan my documents to? Sure enough it handles this quite well.You can spend more and get a nicer printer that can scan/copy/print faster and in higher quality, but if you don't need that then why pay for it?As a bonus replacement ink is reasonable. $45 for regular black and color cartridges or $75 for the XL versions.

The media could not be loaded. Greatly debated between this lower cost inkjet and the similarly rated Canon MF656Cdw which was nearly 4x the price but a color laserjet.I bought the TR7020a inkjet because it was the highest rated printer with a document feeder for less than $100. Generic ink cartridges are fairly affordable and my wife got tired of our black & white laser printer (which had really cheap toner) which was getting flaky on print quality (she never liked giving up color).Pluses:+ two paper feed systems so you can set up for different printing types (letter, photo paper, envelopes, etc).+ good print quality- even small text is crisp and clear.+ only two ink cartridges (black and multicolor).+ duplex printing works well.+ does have an auto document feeder, scanning was acceptable quality but had some issues (see below).+ Canon U-scan utility has a pdf editor (only works with Canon scanner generated .pdf's but it does make it easy to compile multipage .pdf's without Adobe pro).+ fairly compact, although the output tray sticks out a lot.+ has USB port and wifi network which both work ok.+ bright light sweeps across the front of the printer to let you know it's doing something (would be annoying if the printer was right next to your face).Negatives:- pretty slow printing, probably the slowest printer I've owned in a long time - if you only print small amounts like us you may be able to live with this. If you need to print regularly fast, this is probably not the printer for you.- really slow scanning (see video which is scanning one page at 200dpi resolution directly through a USB cable and the Canon software).- scanner jams/skips pages regularly. I had two distorted pages, 5 missed pages, and 3 jams while trying to scan an 18 page document (which required multiple tries - the included Canon Uscan PDF editor software made it fairly simple to construct a complete document from partial scan successes.).- cheap feed and output trays despite a hefty 18lb printer.- front paper tray only holds 100 sheets.- screen is tiny, and navigating is slow - good luck entering a wifi password with just a few buttons (worked eventually) and no useful touchscreen.- ink cartridges are 'starter' standard capacity (200 sheets?), printer says to order more ink immediately.- XL ink cartridges are claimed ~400sheets, will see how that goes.- includes a really short USB cord, will probably need a longer USB to USB-A cord if the back of your computer is not right next to the printer.- no network port connection (can only network via direct wifi, connect to a wifi router, or USB port).We only use a printer intermittently and have had trouble in the past with inkjets clogging (don't think the much cheaper-per-page ink tank printers would work for us) - I'm hoping inkjets have improved in the last few years and we print more regularly with this one. If I had to use the document feeder regularly I would probably return it, but I only scan multi-page documents a few times a year and they are usually pretty short.Based upon the above, I'm rating this printer 4 stars. It would be a 3 star printer if not for the really cheap price (decent features to price ratio). If it holds up and doesn't chew through ink too fast I will be happy with this purchase. If it doesn't hold up, I will probably give up on inkjets for awhile and try the color laserjet.

This is my fifth printer, and my third Canon, so I do have some experience with Canon printers. But that doesn't help much. Our other two Canons were much better, and just wore out, although the last one eventually leaked and didn't last very long. I am still trying to figure out how to make this new one work better.The set up on this one was a nightmare, and the instructions are less than adequate. I bought it because of my familiarity with Canon printers, and mostly for the scanner auto feed feature, which it turns out, is a nightmare to figure out and to use.The photo print operation is too difficult, and picture quality is inferior to my prior Canons, and to our Epson printer, which I will now have to use for photos if I want decent pictures. I suspect the photo quality issue on this unit has to do with the two ink cartridge system vs the 6 ink cartridge system on my last Canon printer.I am obviously disappointed, but it would probably be too difficult at this point to justify a return to Amazon and I really don't want to start all over with something else., since it does seem to print text OK. But I would certainly not buy it again, nor will I be buying any more Canon printers.Added comments, updated on 07/09/2024It only gets worse. This printer is consistently dirt slow, especially at start up. I had to reset it to NEVER turn off to avoid waiting forever for it to initiate. Even then, its very slow to print. The tiny display and settings are very difficult to navigate. The shift from text to photo and back is problematic, and I still have not figured out how to improve that or the photo quality. The scanner auto feeder feature only seems to work if I put a shortcut on my PC and set it up from there. The on line user guide is lengthy but mostly useless. The black ink is already "LOW" with only modest printing volume. So I assume the ink usage and costs will be bad in the future, if this thing manages to last very long. I may actually trash this one rather than waste a lot of money on ink. To reiterate, no more Canons for me.