A Worthy Successor to a Long Line of Canon Printers
I have been a Canon inkjet printer fan for at least 2 decades now and this one is a worthy successor to my last one, a Pixma MG5522.
It is quite compact, much more so than the MG and MX lines were, and significantly quieter than prior generations both during printing and scanning.
The TS line preserves the custom of individual ink tanks. Over the years I have always selected models that have individual ink tanks because the cost savings by having these is very significant. Every printer I've ever used that requires a tri-color cartridge runs out of one of the three colors much earlier than the others (which color depends on what you've been printing and it's usually cyan or magenta). This system allows you to replace only the color that has actually run out. An additional advantage, for those who want to go with refillable tanks, is that these are already on the market for the TS series printers.
This is the first of the Canon wireless printers I've owned that actually supports the auto power off/on feature when connected wirelessly. This is a great energy saving feature that puts the printer into a sleep state after it has not been printing for a time period of your choosing and will wake it up when you next send something to be printed. My only complaint about this is that the initial wake up time when that's needed is much slower when being triggered wirelessly than the same feature was (and, perhaps, is) when there is a wired connection to the printer.
In order to save paper I generally use duplex printing and the auto-duplex feature makes that easy. The rear paper tray is a big bonus when you are doing photo printing because you can load the photo paper easily for single-sided printing without having to pull out the lower tray and the way it feeds paper minimizes flexing of the sheet.
One potentially annoying feature is that every time you pull the paper tray to refill it, when it is reinserted you are asked to register the size of the paper that is in the tray. If you have frequent occasion to be changing out paper sizes this feature is great, but if you don't it's less so. You can have a persistent size registered if you generally use, say, only letter size sheets in the paper tray, so there is a way around this. If you use that, though, and do place another paper size in the tray you need to remember to register that size manually. I personally prefer doing the paper size specification via the print dialog as it's always been done before, but that's just my preference. No default settings on any device are going to suit everyone's preferences.
The scanner works very well and is simple to trigger with the Canon IJ Scan Utility and the automatic document type sensor feature works very well. The automatic OCR function when you tell it that what you're scanning is a document works almost perfectly, even on less than perfect originals (e.g, 10th generation photocopies, water-stained books, etc.)
This is a great all-purpose printer and scanner that takes up little space, prints clean and crisp documents and pictures, and takes very clear scans.
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