Canon PIXMA MP560 Wireless Inkjet All-In-One Photo Printer (3747B002)

For the money, this printer is much more than I would have expected. It is a big plus to have separate ink cartridges. The setup was easy, the print quality is good and you can get 3rd party ink at a fraction of the price. In addition the printer has duplexing and wireless. What is not to like. The printer, scan and copy features all work well. Far exceeded my expectations.

A brief review as I barely have had a chance to use this machine but it was easy to set up - took just a little while extra to configure the wireless mode for my mac laptop but once set up the wireless worked great and the machine prints well. The only shortcoming so far and perhaps I havent found the feature but it does not seem to have control features for you to differentiate between high quality photo paper and regular paper and some other features I am used to for fine tuning a print-
other than that ( and perhaps I have not found the feature) I think it is a great printer and am pleased with Canon in general.

With two home offices, our printer always seemed to be in the wrong place or attached to a PC that was powered down. The network printer is a great solution for us. I've heard others say that they have had connection problems with network printers, but this one has worked fine for us.

The size is not tiny, but tolerable. One nice feature is that you can keep the output tray closed, and it will automatically open when it starts to print. This allows the unit to look smaller and less conspicuous if it is not in use.

It is a little slow in printing and scanning (it seems to take several seconds to "warm up" even if it had just printed or scanned something else), but it is adequate for our use. It also is noisier than our old HP printer, with several "clunk" noises in addition to the normal print head noise.

Standard print quality is good, and the scanning quality is also good (one hint: the default scan resolution is very high, so if you don't want very large picture files you need to change this parameter). We haven't tried printing photos yet.

I had a HP office jet printer before this and was very unhappy with it. I decided to try this printer. I dont know if my expectations were low (I dont think so). This printer has exceeded all my expectations so far. Photo prints are great. SW is easy and friendly to use. Have had no issues setting it up or using it. I can print from computer, scan to computer, scan to USB, scan from computer, all using wireless.

Have nothing but good things to say about this printer.

The printer is just what the better reviews had to say about it. I haven't printed any photos yet and can only attest to the quality of printing reports, spreadsheets, etc. The price was more competitive through Amazon than other on-line retailers.