Canon PIXMA TR8620a - All-in-One Printer Home Office|Copier|Scanner|Fax|Auto Document Feeder | Photo, Document | Airprint (R), Android, Black, Works with Alexa

What I don't understand is all the negative reviews.... I actually read these reviews, using them in helping me to make a decision. On a personal recommendation from a neighbor, who does super high quality photo printing, he advised me to take a serious look at Canon Inkjet Printers. So I bought the TR8620a... couldn't be happier. After taking the printer out of the box, I followed the instructions setting up the printer.... everything worked perfectly. Then I accessed the Canon web site to initiate the printer with my wifi and 3 apple computers (one old desktop and two 2 year old laptops). My one surprise, although I was prepared, is that I didn't need to use the wifi password to have it access my network... amazing. What I did need to do, after each printer was added to each computer was manually go into System Settings, Printer, and 1-delete my former printer, and 2-click on the new printer and make it the Default Printer. So I got myself all worried and extra vigilant for nothing. Print quality is excellent and the larger display screen on the printer makes it easy to use the touch commands. I would absolutely recommend this printer.

this is the fourth in the series that I have had, which I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad. Easy to set up in manual mode. It is easy to use and understand. My last one died when it got stuck printing from my phone, which has been an ongoing problem. I don't recommend unplugging it as a way to restart it, although I couldn't find another way to do it. I do find the size of the paper tray, kind of annoying, more appropriate to personal than business use. It rarely has a paper jam, I don't sure that it's had any since I started using the jam proof paper by HP. I like the size, it fits nicely on a bookshelf with some other stuff. The court is a reasonable length to reach the floor, but not a whole lot longer.

When our eight year old Canon MX492 printer died in the process of printing a single page (and I couldn’t get it to work after two hours), I decided it was time to replace it. I queried Google and was offered the suggestion of a Canon Pixma TR8620a. Looking at the description it seemed to be an ideal candidate. It was described as an ‘all in one’ printer. It also listed as a special feature, “Five individual ink tank system, Wireless printing, 20-sheet ADF for scanning and copying, Borderless printing up to 8.5 x 11" and square format printing, Built-in auto duplex printing”. Sounded great. I had decided some time ago that I would try to purchase a printer that used tanks instead of cartridges when I needed to replace the MX492. It looked like this was the time.When I installed the ‘tanks’, I noted that the instructions cautioned to not cover the “Y” shaped hole when installing them - I figured that the Y shaped hole might serve as a fill port. After I removed the orange cover on the ‘tank’, I saw what appeared to be a print head – odd that it would be on the ‘tank’. That’s because the ‘tank’ really a cartridge. What a bummer.Because that I was that far along, I went ahead and installed the software on two computers and managed to AirPrint from two different IOS devices. I figured that the five ‘tank’ (actually cartridge) system would be an improvement over the MX492 that used two cartridges – color and black. When any of the three colors was gone in the MX492 color cartridge, there was no way I could envision to get the use of the ink in the remaining two colors. The five cartridge system MUST be better. Perhaps it is, but while I haven’t spent copious amounts of time looking for single cartridges I haven’t yet found anything but a four pack or five pack for replacements. This is a disappointment.The setup instructions were brief and well written (as long as there was no need to connect the device to anything else (i.e., ready use it as a standalone copier or fax). When it was time to connect to WiFi, I tried the Easy Wireless Connect but it apparently couldn’t find the router (I waited more than two minutes before clicking on Alternative Methods). I ended up entering the WiFi password at the screen on the printer. Connection to the network was reported as successful, but the first time I tried to connect to it from the computer it didn’t work; second attempt worked.The printer seems to work OK. So far (two days later) the only things I’ve needed to print were black and they did fine; most on regular weight paper; one on card stock. The scanner seems to work OK from the operator panel (scanning to a computer on the same network; haven’t yet tried scanning from the computer). All in all, it seems to be a decent printer for the money but it is not a printer that has refillable tanks.