features :
- Built-in automatic 2-sided printing helps the environment and can cut your paper usage by up to 50%
- AirPrint enabled! Print wirelessly from your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch directly to your MG3220, no drivers needed!
- My Image Garden software makes organizing and printing your photos fun and easy with great facial recognition, Fun Filters, Calendar Organization, Automatic Layout Suggestions and so much more!
- FastFront feature makes is easy to change both ink and paper right from the front of the printer
Customer Reviews
| 138 of 141 people found the following review helpful  Nice Printer, Beware Ink Costs, By This review is from: Canon PIXMA MG3220 Wireless Color Photo Printer with Scanner and Copier (Office Product) .Lots to like about this printer. Well designed, loads of features. Keeping it fed is the problem. If it starts to feel like an expensive drug habit, see "8 ways to lower your ink costs" below. Or consider the Brother MFCJ425W which cooperates with value-priced 3rd party inks. - - - Ink Cost: It Adds Up - - - This little printer may cost you 00+ over a 5 year period. With easy installments, Canon hopes you won't do the supply-gouge math. To get the party started ASAP, Canon ships the printer with cartridges that are 30% and 45% full. (Or 70% and 55% empty if you prefer. See Note 1 for Canon ink details.) The ink refills (240 and 241 series) include a chip and the actual print heads. This discourages knock-offs. (It also means any print head problem is e asily solved with a new cartridge.) You can refill the cartridges with 3rd party refill kits, but apparently you also need a chip reset if you want the refilled cartridge to report ink levels correctly. - - - PROs and CONs - - - PROs: - Lots of handy features - Print quality seems good - WiFi connect (requires wireless router) - Print directly from iPhone, iPad, iPod - Clean, attractive design - Ease to use: buttons are easy to read, and make sense OKs: - 1 year warranty - Setup: Reasonably easy, with some confusing moments - Owner manual: On CD. No printed manual. Good navigation, reasonably clear and complete - Footprint is 16" x 17.6" (12" x 17.6" when paper tray not in use.) - Black exterior - shows dust - Standby power: 1.65 watts with (WiFi on). Zero or unmeasurable wattage when switched off. CONs: * Expensive ink (like most ink jet printers. See Note 3) * High-tech cartridges make 3rd party ink much more difficult - Combined 3-color cartridge - 10% to 30% of color ink may be wasted - No hard-wired networking option - Auto shut-off: Nice energy-saving idea, but doesn't work in most situations (see Note 2). - - - Alternatives - - - - Brother MFCJ425W (cooperates with 3rd party inks that have low cost & good reviews) - Epson Artisan 730 (cartridge chips thwart 3rd party ink suppliers) - - - Eight ways to lower your ink costs - - - 1. Buy a printer that uses more affordable inks. Step 1: Discover a planet where printer companies charge their ink customers less than 800% of manufacturing cost. If that's too much trouble, get the Brother MFCJ425W and use 3rd party cartridges. 2. Own a laser printer and use it most of the time. The Brother MFC7860DW, Brother HL-2270DW, and their siblings have the lowest supply cost around. About 1-2 cents per page vs 12-25 cents per (non-photo) page for most inkjets. 3. Inconvenience is your friend. On the off chance that your kids, spouse, or office staff don't know or care about what things cost, put your color printer off the beaten path. Upstairs...powered off...barbed wire...you get the idea. It's a silent reminder that the color printer is no t for random everyday use. 4. Buy the XL and XXL cartridges. The cheaper PG-240 and CL-241 are twice as expensive per milliliter of ink. 5. Preview each print job and reduce the page range when possible. Especially when printing Web pages. 6. Shrink your printing...2 pages-to 1, 4-to-1 etc. when it make sense. Make sure everybody knows how easy this is to do. 7. Holiday letters: 20% to 50% of your loved ones would be happier with an emailed holiday letter. Print your letter to a pdf file with the free and easy-to-use CutePDF software. 8. Ink Refill Kits: ND Brand Refill ink kit for Canon PG-240, CL-241, ND 1000ml refill ink ki t for Canon PG-240 CL-241, etc. They... Read more 76 of 79 people found the following review helpful  Small footprint - Canon MG3220, By AEinstein (NW Missouri) - See all my reviews Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: Canon PIXMA MG3220 Wireless Color Photo Printer with Scanner and Copier (Office Product) SETUP:Pretty much basic for a printer. Although Windows 7 didn't have drivers for the printer, the CD included did. Connection to the PC was uneventful. There is a USB cable provided but you can connect via WiFI. PROS: SMALL FOOTPRINT/size for a printer + scanner: This is a good choice if you don't want a huge printer taking up a lot of desk space. It is about the same size as my previous printer BUT it includes a scanner. DUPLEX PRINTING: -(aka double sided) printing. - for things such as archived TAX RETURNS. PRINT QUALITY: It has very good photo and document print quality. Don't forget to ALIGN the print heads! INK CARTRIDGES: When you replace the cartridge, you also replace the -heads- so the print quality doesn't deteriorate from extended use or time. There are only two (1-black and 1-color)cartridges so you aren't having to replace a a single cartridge as often. SIMPLE CONTROL PANEL: Easy t o use control panel without multiple menus to complicate what should be a simple job. CONS: INK CARTRIDGES: (YES-PRO & CON) When you replace the cartridge, you also replace the -heads-. So you will pay MORE for ink cartridges. You may have to replace a color cartridge before all the colors are out. SOFTWARE: The software that is included is pretty much useless. What I like to do when printing pictures is print four pictures on a standard 8 1/2" x 11" sheet. (for obvious reasons - printing on separate 4" x 6" will cost you much more) The software provided, My Image Garden) does not allow this. However, other Canon software does. The product is EASYPHOTOPRINT and it works with this printer. OVERALL: If you want a small footprint printer/scanner this might fit your needs. This has an easy to use control panel for offline use but if you want a color LCD screen this is not the printer for you. INK USAGE: I am very disappointed by the ink use. Having used the printer for a while I can report that after printing exactly -10- 81/2x11 sheets of photos, the color ink ran out! I don't know how much more ink is in the XL cartridges or how much longer they last but the cost per page is very expensive at that rate. UPDATE: After installing a NEW ink cartridge I found that the one shipped with the printer was lacking in ink quantity. AND - there are now re-ink kits available should you choose to use them. 24 of 24 people found the following review helpful overall review, By This review is from: Canon PIXMA MG3220 Wireless Color Photo Printer with Scanner and Copier (Office Product) Customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program (What's this?) Printing speed: Black: mediocre. Color: slow, very slow.Scanning: slow Scan quality: good tent to be more blue than original picture cost of replacement ink: each, : kit It is a heavy unit. The setup is not as straight forward. The included installation CD requires you to download a few hundred MB of additional software. Took a while to complete. Setting up wifi wasn't easy. The USB cable is required for initial set up. The most important: Airprint for iPad!!! I got this specifically for the airprint function. It took a while for this to register on the network for the iPad to detect. There's no separate setup on the IOS to change the settings for the printer. Only on specific apps on iPad can you use airprint. The airprint prints like a screen shot, not full page to the letter size. The printer is a good price all purpose scan/print/airprint printer. The replacement cartridges are reasonablely priced. I have yet to count how many copies it can print with each cartridge. The colors are nice and vibrant. The speed needs much improvement. |
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