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This is the second, and last PIXMA i will buy. It was great at the beginning, but after less than a year it kept jamming. "Paper Jam" warnings over and over again...
The scanner is good, but the printer, not so much.

(7 of 7 people found this review useful)

My experience of the PIXMA is 100% negative. I've had two different PIXMA printers become useless in as little as three years. That's a terrible environmental record.

The ink is expensive for small cartridges, and my version needs both tanks (B/W and color) to print at all. The machine is rather cheap, but the ink costs a small fortune.

Even more dishonestly, the PIXMA mixes color ink with black so that it runs down the color cartridge even if you don't print in color at all. When this happens you WON'T be able to print without buying an over $30 cartridge (that on top of the $20 black ink). This caught me out twice in really important parts of the school year.

The PIXMA has no draft quality options, etc to save ink--another environmental gouge.

In short, this is not a good investment unless you print very, very little--really only a few pages a month. I don't think it's a particularly good choice for a student AT ALL. Certainly not one who is advanced in their studies. And it will need replacing in too little time.

I just switched away from the brand in sheer FRUSTRATION because it was a disaster. After 16 months or so (running on a fairly new MacBook) I had to plug and unplug the printer every few pages to get it to work.

Canon is also pulling the rising-price scam on its ink cartridges. They'll go up as much as 20% in the months after you buy this priner. Perhaps more.

SO STAY AWAY! Or get guarantees that Canon no longer pulls the color + b/w ink tank scam. I doubt they've changed it, but ask.

(38 of 41 people found this review useful)

This printer is terrible. It does only last about a month and then it jams, it runs out of cartridge ink and it is expensive to buy. It is worth the money to get a new printer than to waste any more time on trying to get this printer to work. It is huge, bulky, and noisy. It processes more than it actually works.

(6 of 8 people found this review useful)

works great for a month but then starts jamming. i just tried to fix it by running through a paper but the printer ate it...seriously. i can't see the paper & can't feel the paper. i have no idea where the paper went...

(17 of 21 people found this review useful)

I am a really broke college student who got this for free as well, I loved it at first it was amazing and so handy through USB, however after a few months it started eating/jamming only on the left side. Now after reading these reviews I know getting another is useless =/. If you have the money I wouldn't waste the time, if it's free you'll have a nice printer for a month at least . . .

(20 of 22 people found this review useful)

I am not someone who has a lot of problems with hardware. However, I used my rebate to get this printer, and got one at work as well (MP530). Both are under 1 year old. I now have paper loading or jamming problems. The 530 can no longer load paper from the slider tray. This one jammed frequently, and now there is currently no paper jammed but it keeps telling me there is a jam and won't print (I'm not the only one who this has happened to). On top of all that, cartridges are expensive. I'm now looking for a non-Canon printer

(19 of 21 people found this review useful)

I bought this printer with my laptop and it is overall very nice. Here are the pros and cons:

Pros: Fast printing speed, beautiful design, vivid colors, easy to use, memory card support is really fast an easy

Cons: Slow processing speed, need to refill often, a little hard to setup on my laptop

Overall, I would suggest this printer to anybody who wants to print all around papers or things that do not require amazing color and quality.

(18 of 20 people found this review useful)

I bought this printer and after 2 months the paper started to jam. I called to complain and I was sent a new MP 480. It's been 2 months and the paper has started to jam again.

DON'T get this printer!

I looked at other reviews and many people have experienced similar problems.

(29 of 34 people found this review useful)