Canon IP8720 Wireless Printer, AirPrint and Cloud Compatible, Black

I'm a professional graphic designer and specialize in print work. I've been using this printer in my design studio since 2018 and have printed 5,000+ sheets on it now, and I am still exceptionally happy with it. The print quality is excellent, as good as any of the lower Canon and Epson Pro models I've used. I print photos, posters, invitations, business cards, flyers, greeting cards, vinyl stickers, postcards, envelopes, and more with this for myself, clients, and retail products. I've used up to 140lb watercolor paper and printed branded tissue paper (on a carrier sheet of course) with no issue. I've maybe had 5 paper jams total throughout the life of this printer. I use Canon papers, HP papers, Red River papers (my favorite), and all sorts of off-brand paper, scrapbook paper, cardstock, and printable vinyl. Matte, satin, and glossy. This thing prints like a champ and takes whatever I've thrown at it. Keep in mind that higher-quality papers will always give you higher-quality results, no matter the printer. If you have a color-calibrated monitor and use Canon inks with the proper settings, the color accuracy is excellent. Far better than vista print in color accuracy and quality, in my experience. As with any photo printer, using off-brand inks can and often damages the print heads, in addition to causing color accuracy issues. I get amazingly vibrant, high-color artwork prints out of this machine, the ink quality is amazing. My cost with Canon XL carts for a one-sided, full-color 13x19 glossy highest-quality photo print (which uses the most ink) is roughly $0.009 per square inch or $2.21 per page. OfficeDepo has a great rewards program that includes giving you credit/points for recycling cartridges. I buy most of my tanks from Amazon unless OfficeDepo has a sale, but for every 10 cartridges you recycle, you can get a free XL tank. This isn't a plug-and-play consumer printer though. It takes a few minutes to set up and you have to understand how to use a higher-quality inkjet printer. You have to use the print utility and use the settings appropriately. Almost every bad review I've seen on here is because someone didn't take the time to learn how to use it correctly. If you are tech-illiterate, this isn't the printer for you, and the same will be true for nearly any higher-quality photo printer. Be sure you go to the Canon website and download the drivers offered there, the 8700 driver is great and has a ton of options. Make sure you are using the correct settings for the material you are printing on for the best results. If you think it's too loud, turn on the quiet mode found in the printer utility. You can also adjust the print speed through the utility as well. If you're printing documents, fast printing is fine. If you're printing photos, posters, printable vinyl, or anything ink-heavy (ESPECIALLY on glossy mediums), turn your speed down to the slowest speed for the best results. You CAN set it up without wifi, I set mine up wired at first without issue on my old MacBook Pro. When I replaced my hardware with an iMac, I set it up via the wifi without issue. I've used it over several versions of Mac OS and iOS without issue. I've set it up on two different models of HP laptops as well over wifi without issue. I've used it over several versions of Windows now as well without issue. As with any printer, when you upgrade your operating system to a new version, you may have to redownload the drivers or uninstall and reinstall them, but again that should be understood as that's true of any higher-quality printer. If you have an obstructed wifi signal you may have issues, but that's a given. If your router doesn't have the bandwidth for all the devices using it, you'll have issues, but that's also a given. If you have issues with the wifi, you absolutely can use this printer hardwired as well, and it will print faster. If you have a large print file, you may want to consider hardwiring for that job. When I print multiple copies or multiple pages of 13x19 prints I do this. Be sure to do proper maintenance, which means periodically running cleaning functions, running the print head alignment check, and realigning the print heads with the utility when required (the utility has an automatic function for this you just have to click run and evaluate the test result when complete). These things are true of ANY photo or art printer though. These things will greatly extend the life and quality of your equipment. I have been happier with this printer than I ever expected, especially for this price point!

Had this printer two days for use with my Mac and, so far, I love it. Seems very much the successor of my old Canon iP9900, which we bought not too long after it was first manufactured in 2004. Except, this one is smaller, uses fewer ink cartridges (although still very expensive ones) and is heavily oriented toward wi-fi printing. So far, I have just produced a few 11 X 14's and 4X6's but they are really nice looking. I have experimented with printing through PS Elements 13, with Preview, and with the simplistic Canon Easy Photo-Print application. The latter, as promised, is easy as can be, but slow as Christmas. I don't know of any other modern apps that are as slow as this one. But I think Canon has just not improved it in several years. They don't really want you to use it. They would rather you use one of their web applications and they have a bunch of them which you can download with the driver or not. At first, I did not, then later I did, to try them out, then I deleted them all. Now I just have the driver and Easy Photo Print. And I expect most or all of my future printing will be out of PS Elements or Preview. It's kind of a dance figuring out how to configure your color management and print sizes and qualities and all that with multiple print dialogues that come up, from both your printing app and the Canon Driver. This can and should be made a lot simpler and more intuitive. There is a Canon manual, which you can download. So far, I have only skimmed it. I found an article from Red River Paper that was published right after the iP8720 was first sold that is very helpful. It's at: http://www.redrivercatalog.com/infocenter/articles/canon-pixma-ip8720-review-introduction-first-look-getting-started.html . And the Canon Support and Drivers page for this copier is a handy think to keep bookmarked: http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/support/consumer/printers_multifunction/pixma_ip_series/pixma_ip8720#DriversAndSoftware . Oh, and I first tried to set up my printer via wi-fi to the Mac and Airport Extreme sitting right beside it but it would not install. I blew that off and used a USB connection (you have to use your own USB cord -- it's USB 3 capable, btw). But my wife, in another room, hooked up to wireless on her Mac very quickly, once I had established the connection with USB. I like USB connections to printers anyway, when they are practical. So, anyway, there are grouses, as there always are with computer stuff but, bottom line, the pictures come out quick and they are beautiful! Not only that, the printer itself, while it takes up quite a bit of desk space, is really pretty. Well, if you like black monoliths. The ink cartridges -- very easy to install, btw -- are just "set-up" cartridges to get you addicted so you go out and buy the ridiculously expensive Canon full or extra size ones when you run out. But I see some very good reviews for knock-off printer ink for this copier, such as from Blake Printing Supply. I am inclined to give those a try. Right before we bought this printer, we bought an Epson ET-4500, a new printer that comes with a ton of ink and was supposed to produce excellent photos. But it was an all-in-one. Hence, ugly -- and most of the money spent making it was for stuff I didn't buy it for. Maybe people in offices, knocking out a few pictures here and there, would find it adequate but I found the photos terrible -- and sent the Epson back. This Canon was it's replacement. And based on two days of use, I think I made a very good choice.

The print quality is above average and works well for documents and even promotional-level material. However, getting it to consistently connect and be available is just not happening most of the time. It will routinely lose the connection to the network or devices, and then just refuse to connect for what seems like hours. Then, all of a sudden, it will connect (*maybe*) and will allow you to print what you want. I lost count of the number of times I've rebooted the printer, deleted/added as a new printer, or tried to use the nearly useless Canon "official" connection app. Even when the printer is available, there are constant issue with printing that make this unit a nightmare. It will routinely spit out blank pages and then just refuse to print another set. This has nothing to do with ink levels or paper jams. Since there's no interface on the unit, and the printer utility never connects, and the utility says "see printer for error" - there's literally no way to know what's going on and you're left guessing, rebooting, and retrying print jobs until the cows come home. Ink life is kind of low, although at least you can replace single colors at a time. After market cartridges and OEM last about the same length of time and have similar quality. Ultimately this printer is not worth the price or hassle.

Agradable sorpresa encontrarla a este precio y que subiera al otro día y con una bonificación en mi tarjeta de c , tal como leí aún no pude conectar el wifi, es un poco complicado , con cable por ahora , viniendo de una canon de 6 años g1100 ya descontinuada el upgrade fue genial , tengo más opciones para imprimir y la calidad de impresión , casi de galería , casi , recuerda que es una impresora de entrada a las ligas mayores , la pro 200 sería la ideal , pero al final si vas a vender tu arte fotos I lo que hagas , les darás a tus clientes el factor WOw! Tenlo por seguro ! LA TUVE QUE REGRSEAR 😞PUESTO QUE NO HAY CARTUCHOS EN MEXICO Y EXPORTARLOS ELEVA DEMASIADO EL COSTO no quiero arriesgar con cartuchos genéricos

Perfect and fast for everyday printing or high quality photo printing. As for the vendor, I even received it before the expected date. Thank you!

First, this is not a wireless printer. WAP etc does not work on this, second of all don't even think of making large prints because you will see roller marks. Junk!

Compre esta impresora para empezar a imprimir mis fotos y la calidad es muy muy buena, el único pero podría ser lo caro de la tinta pero la impresora vale cada centavo

Not easy to install. Not user friendly. Only has the 2 buttons on the printer itself. Although the picture printing quality is great, it takes forever for the printer to actually recognize the size of paper you are trying to print! It’s ridiculous! The amount of ink we wasted for it to finally print the correct size is awful. Don’t understand why this is an issue. It was a pain in the butt to set up, to use, and then when we asked to return it shortly after the 90 days were up, they said no. Why won’t they stand by their product? Would not recommend.