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The print quality of this printer is great and its quite fast when printing both colour and black pages. There are a couple of things that let it down. The first is that it uses lots of ink and to replace is quite expensive. Secondly, the fax is very hard to set up and doesn't work very effectively. Overall it is a good printer but is let down by its hunger for ink and unusable fax machine. I would recommend that you shop around and try to find another printer that is better than this one.

This multifunction device does everything I want, and really is incredible value. I've not used it for long enough to know how well inks will last, but the printing and scanning quality are both very good, and faxing is quick and easy. Copies both on flatbed and through feeder also work fine. Supplied software is straightforward and easy to use. Recommend it.

I bought this as my old HP Laserjet was beginning to look like an antique and I also needed a fax. Despite the paperwork suggesting this was ISDN / DSL friendly, it's not - the small print explains it's only friendly to certain kinds of DSL lines. I had to spend a considerable amount of extra money buying a converter in order to make it work, and setting it up was a total nightmare. Meanwhile the ink cartridges run out swiftly, making this incredibly expensive to run. Complaints to Canon took so long to be answered that, ultimately, by the time I had been able to conclude that they would take no responsibility for its shortcomings I had missed the opportunity to return it to Amazon. I'm lumbered with a useless piece of technology that's useful only for scanning and photocopying (assuming you have enough ink). I have gone back to printing with the trusty, albeit slow, Laserjet.

Oh, and if you're looking to reuse paper by printing on the other side: forget it. Paper constantly gets jammed. In fact: forget it totally. A complete waste of space and money. And yes: I'm bitter.

Great price for a home office printer. Reasonably fast, reasonable quality, does all the things you want it to. The only thing is that while it's cheap, the cartridges are not very big and cost a lot. If you're intending to print a lot, consider a colour laser, it'll be cheaper in the long run.

Maybe it was just us, but we found installation a nightmare. It actually took us 2 full evenings before we could get the thing up and running and occasionally a message still pops onto the screen grumbling that it is unhappy with something or other! It's not the only one... We've only had need to use the printer so far, which has been great quality if a little noisy, but I'm dreading needing to send faxes next week! I feel that the USB port is very loose and that is where many of our connection problems have arisen. This machine will tide us over until finances can stretch to a superior model but it convinces me that you only get what you pay for and that "value" products do not give quality to the customer. Sorry, I had soooo wanted to be impressed but I'm not.