Canon PIXMA TS7720 – Wireless Home All-in-One Printer

The good:- copying, pretty fast printing, duplex (double-sided) printing (great!), back feed paper (cardstock - see note), front feed paper (my preferred),- USB connectivity (*), wifi connectivity (haven't used yet),- some nice settings like auto-on and auto-off, "quiet mode"- I like that the display panel can be angled upward.- I like how everything can fold in to be compact.- I like the remaining ink estimator available from the menu.Things to note:- Cardstock - When you select "cardstock" in the printer options on the computer before you print a document, the printer will require you to use the back paper feeder. I don't like that, due to space limitations, so I simply tell it to use regular paper but load the front tray with ~90lb cardstock. That cardstock feels pretty thick but the printer handles it just fine from the front paper tray!- USB - cable NOT included, but it's a standard USB A to B cable I believe - looks like a D shape, pretty standard for the printers I'm used to- auto on/off - I have both enabled, auto-off set to 15min - it's fast to start up from the "off" state- Quiet mode - seems to slow it down by 30-50% perhaps, depending on duplex vs single-sided. It is a decent bit quieter but I am fine with regular mode for faster printing.- Duplex printing is cool to watch, this is the first printer I've had which does it. After it prints the page, it pulls it back in to print the other side, a bit slower than the first side.- make sure the landing tray is pulled out before printing or it could jam the printer! Some of my paper jams were a bit hard to clear but it's nothing to worry about, just gotta open it up and slowly but firmly pull out the paper.- The starter ink packs have lasted me a decent while, maybe I've printed 100 pages of mostly black/white? The gauge says about 50% black and maybe 70% color remaining. I guess they are lasting longer than I originally expected, but I went ahead and ordered another pack of ink cartridges, this time the XL versions.What I wish it would have:- direct ethernet connectivity would be nice; I try to have everything hard-wired so for now it's only set up with USB to my main computer. But for the price and the features included, I can't complain.Conclusion:I don't plan on printing a ton, but I've wanted to get a printer so I can print when I want/need to. I think this printer will be the last printer I buy for a long while. Great for the average Joe!

This TS7720 is a great choice for home printing or home office use. Versatile in it's choices for printed media allowed by its front and rear input sources. Seems a little slow on the startup while it's 'getting ready' to print the first page, but once it's printing it seems to move along at a good pace. The printer is fair to good at printing smaller photos, and is just 'OK' with larger 8X10 size prints. The flat bed scanner has no auto-feed input tray so is typical for a 'single-page-at-a-time' scanner. Scan quality is good enough to scan-in Black and white or color documents and photos. The included software is adequate for home use for both printing and scanning. Just be aware this is not a professional quality photo printer/scanner/copier but is adequate for home use. Can't comment yet on the ink usage as I haven't had it long enough to observe its usage over time.Installation is not as simple as the Canon marketing hype would have you believe. It was not just plug-and-play, at least for my setup and installation, which is wireless with Windows 8.1 and Xfinity router. Unpacking is fairly straightforward, just remove it from the box and take off a couple pieces of orange shipping tape. Then the single page instruction sheet gets you started with setup, loading paper and print cartridges, and a link for downloading the setup software and drivers. I'd recommend downloading the TS7720 user manual first - in my case I needed it. I tried using the 'fully automated' Canon installation/setup but it couldn't find the TS7720. After reading the user manual, and learning how to use the TS7720s touch-screen control panel, I first followed the steps to connect the TS7720 to the router. Selecting my router out of the list of all my neighbors’ routers was easy but keying in my router's password was no easy task on the miniature touch screen control panel. Once I got the TS7720 connected to the router, I restarted the Canon setup software and it found the TS7720. After that, the installation went fairly easy - just follow the steps displayed on your computer screen. I also downloaded and did the setup on my wife’s computer so she has full printer/scanner functionality. The Canon installation/setup software easily ‘found’ the TS7720 since I had already connected the TS7720 to my router.One last observation... The TS7720 default setting is to timeout and shut down (power off) after 240 minutes (4 hours). With that configuration, it shuts down every time it has 4 hours of non-use and you have to manually turn it back on each time before you use it. Very aggravating, especially if the TS7720 is in a different room or different floor of the house. After reading the manual I found the solution.If you open the Printers page on your computer, right click on the TS7720 and chose Preferences. Then click on the Maintenance Tab. Then click on the Maintenances and Preferences button. Then click on the Auto Power button. This brings up the Auto Power Settings. 'Enable' Auto Power On. You can also change the Auto Power Off setting here too, if you want it to time out sooner that the default 4 hours, or not time out at all. Now, any time a computer tries to send something, the TS7720 will turn itself on. Once you make this choice it makes the changes in the TS7720 so from now on, it works for any computer that might be using the TS7720.