Canon PIXMA G6020 All-in-One Supertank Wireless (Megatank) Printer, Copier and Scan with Mobile Printing, Black, Works with AlexaEPEAT

UPDATE TWO YEARS LATER:Continues to work flawlessly. I still have not had to add ink after two years of frequent usage!One small problem was that the black ink quit printing three days ago. After doing two deep cleanings using the maintenance option, selecting the black ink only option, it finally printed perfectly in black again.I have only had it a day, so here are my immediate impressions:THE BAD STUFF#1-The manual they give you with this is so ridiculous you can just throw it away and go on Youtube. The teensy weensy pictographs are so impossible to see any details. I had to go on Youtube to see how those C&B printer heads snapped into place. Those universal wordless manuals are such a pain. Why not make them in printed English? And make the pictograph instructions bigger and more detailed for clarity for heaven's sake!#2- It's nowhere near as luxurious as my ten-year-old plus Canon Pixma MG5300 with the indispensable auto-flip-out print tray to catch my printouts when they are finished. The G6000 has a cheap manual pull-out tray not much wider than a horse's tongue. Because of the manually extended paper catcher, the printer takes up a lot of space, so I cannot leave it sticking out for fear of someone brushing against it as they pass by and breaking it. Since the printer sits across the room, I have to run to the printer to pull out the paper catcher, wait for it to finish, then close the paper catcher so it won't get bumped. With my (very old) MG5300, which still works perfectly by the way, all I had to do was close the front door which is the paper catcher, after retrieving the printout.#3- Tiny LCD screen that is not backlighted and very difficult to see.THE GOOD STUFF#1- It was easy connecting it wirelessly. I did it from the printer's control panel in less than 45 seconds.#2- The ink is so darn cheap in comparison. I just spent $95.00 for the color (CMY) and black ink cartridges for my MG5300, and that's every 5 months, and I don't do much printing.#3- It prints very nicely.For the price, it is well worth it. If it lasts as long as my old Canon MG5300 I bought in 2012 I will be happy. Eleven years of flawless work and still going in another office! Canon builds them strong.

I needed to replace an old Canon PIXMA printer that had failed with a cryptic error. My criteria for a new printer were:"mega" tanks -- even though my ink cost wasn't terrible high, but the individual price of cartridges was irritatingBoth a front cassette and a rear feed for paper. It is a mistake to assume that a printer has both. Suggestions that envelopes and photo paper would be put in the cassette seemed ridiculous for my needs.A flatbed scanner. I own a separate autofeed scanner.WIFI connections, and compatability with Apple AirPrint, and Chromebook printing.The Canon G6020 had all of those items plus:Two sided printing, auto "off" with network wake up, a 250 sheet cassette, and USB and LAN cable connectors. It also seems to have sensors for everything; for example, when either the cassette is inserted, or paper is added to the rear feed, the printer prompts for paper size verification. (Fortunately, the prompt for paper size and type can be turned off.) The printer also comes with what must be an almost a lifetime's supply of black ink. Photo printing is very good, though slow on "best" photo mode. The printer has can present a net "home page" for many setup and status functions; the default password is its serial number.Cons:The LCD screen is tiny and dark. At the very least, it should have a back light. I found the LCD Menus are confusing.Setup can be a little confusing. I ended up using the manual mode for configuring the WIFI connection. (Thank goodness for WPS, entering a password on the LCD would have been problematic)There is a cautionary notice warning to transport the printer upright lest some ink were to spill. The tanks seem well capped, and probably wouldn't leak, but I am not about to test it.Summary,Once setup and connect, the printer is great. It is definitely fast enough for home use and all of the printing that I have done has been sharp and unbanded. The black ink is pigment based and seems to be waterproof; the color, dye based, and will bleed slightly when water is applied. A major consumer magazine down-rated this model compared to others costing significantly more, and oft times having fewer features; most of the magazine's quibbles seem simply wrong in this case. Replacement ink from Canon on Amazon seems extremely reasonably priced ($17 for 170ml / 5.75oz of black ink, $11 for the 70ml of color ink.)Added Note:Others had complained, and I encountered...I had an issues with the printer's wifi connection, which I believe that I have resolved. My router was set to use a "smart" choice between 2.4 & 5Ghz (both using the same SSID) for device communication. I suspect that this was causing problems with the printer's 2.4Ghz only network chip. The problem seemed to clear up when I disabled the "smart" feature on the router; nonetheless, I decided to run a cable from the router to the printer and change the printer's LAN setting to use that. I have had no problems since. Though I am not using a mesh router, I could see this being a problem with some of those too.