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Customer review from the Amazon Vine Program What a great machine for the price! It has a color flatbed scanner/OCR document reader and prints color pages plus photos. Tons of features in one small piece of office equipment.
It installed very easily and went wireless quickly once it went through set-up using the USB cable (provided). To keep it wireless, you can remove the USB cable since it is only temporary for set-up. Printing pictures was very easy and they are beautiful rich colors, very crisp images.
Scanning is easy too and offers images to be jpegs, PDFs or OCR (taking a typed document and changing it to editable text).
The only issue I had is that in searching for replacement cartridges there are two, black and color, they are not only a little difficult to find but expensive at that. Canon direct only had the XL versions available for $49.99 (double pack one of each). Currently, Staples, Office Max, and Costco do not carry the cartridges. Amazon carries them from a reseller (plus shipping). The regular cartridges run between $21 and $26 each and the XXL versions are even more. I'm not sure how much more the XXL versions last in comparison so documentation on that would be great.
*****UPDATE February 1, 2012 Amazon is currently stocking the replacement ink but although it is a little easier to order, the price for one color and one black cartridge in a double pack is still $50. *****
I know that this is nothing new to the printer industry. My previous HP Photosmart would run out of ink after a few photos (it seemed) and they were not cheap either (and there were 5 cartridges in that one compared to the two in the Canon PIXMA).
So, overall, I love the machine. I love the quality, features, and ease of use but the cartridge price and availability is a drawback.
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