After reading the reviews, I was hesitant to buy this printer. But, it looked like exactly what I needed. I had been an HP guy for the past 12 years, that one finally died. I wanted an inexpensive printer, color, that can scan. I didn't want an ink membership (although Canon does offer one), I will buy ink when I need it.This fit the bill. I read that Canon is a bit less expensive on ink. I has a color cartridge and a black one. Old printer had 4, black plus each of 3 colors. Great if you use an even mix of colors, but I have a bunch of pink ones left over after a few years of use. When one color runs dry in this one, it will be fine to replace the whole thing. I also read that Canon has a few other positive things, like better photo printing. These are things I will not do that often, but nice to have. It is also supposed to be a tiny bit faster at printing, and scanning. Honestly if it is 10 pages a minute or 12 pages a minute, does not matter that much to me. Probably less expensive ink and ability to print photos is more important. And I had such a headache with the HP over the past year, I think I was looking for a different brand.The most common complaint I have seen is that it is hard to set up. I am a 52 year old guy who does not work in tech. I am fairly comfortable doing things on a computer, have a smart phone I use, but I am not an expert by any stretch. I typed the URL from the big card into my laptop sitting next to the printer and followed the directions, had an instruction then about 15 pictures of how to do it. Took a little while, kept telling me on its little screen to "wait momentarily." I did. Finally it told me that it was all set up, so I opened up a document and hit print. There was the printer, told it to print to that and it worked fine.Two little things, which did result in the removal of one star. My old printer was in our basement, tucked away in a corner. Any time, day or night, you could just hit print, and when you went down it was sitting on the printer. It somehow was told to turn on, and then went back into some kind of sleep mode after a while. When I tried to do that with this one (print something after I had not used it for a few hours) it did not turn on by itself. Told me it was off line. Once I hit the power button, it connected and printed it. But guess using it, if we leave it where the old one was, will require going down to turn it on before we use it. And the scanning is a bit different in that the controls are on the computer, not on a little screen. Works fine, but guess if you have 10 pages to scan you will want to bring your computer near the printer so you can tell it what to do. I think you can put the controls on your phone also, but I don't want to have to use my phone to run the printer. I think the ideal location for this printer would be on a desk with the computer you will usually be printing from (or scanning to). When scanned, it did put it right into a little folder on my desktop I created for it, that was nice.I will be connecting it to another computer, or two, soon, and we will see how that goes. But so far, one computer, besides shutting down and needing to use the computer to tell it to scan, I am very happy with it. Despite what others have said, for me, setting up with one computer was simple.

I can't speak for the wireless capability, but I don't want to print from a mobile device or a smart watch. I needed to replace a large home office Epson that I have used for 8 years that was great while I was still in business. The manual is a 9 MB PDF that is 300+ pages. To scan you need to open IJ Scan Utility but nowhere did I see WHERE it could be opened. I did a system search for SCAN and there it was. In the search field I was able to make a working shortcut. I printed our Christmas letter 50 times with the ink supplied and it is pretty fast. Print quality was good. Much smaller than my home office all in one. My Brother recommended Canon, we always used HP but the price of ink was like buying the printer over and over. He uses generic ink with no problems but I bought OEM ink at least for now. I don't do much printing anymore. Christmas and tax time mostly. When you load paper do it with the printer on, so it can see the paper level. If you do it when the printer is off it will ask you to push OK when you power back on. I connect by usb cable and had no issues.

I'm literally throwing this thing out after only a few uses. Extremely difficult to get the paper tray positioned correctly, should be the easiest thing. So bad. One day I was using it, next day, literally, couldn't print one page. Kept jamming, making horrible noise. I've had this piece of cr*p for 6 months. I used it maybe 6 times. Thought it was great at first, I almost never print, and it broke. Impossible paper load, and I'm computer savvy, easier time unjamming and fixing a full corporate copier. Doesn't even have an ADF! I misread it.... How do you not have a doc feeder. This thing is really poorly made, don't blow a gasket like I did. Hp all-in-one 6978 I bought my mother, 1000x better, same price, with ADF, extremely easy to set up, mobile printing, paper feed, etc. Soooo great! I moved it into my office and am buying another HP.

I like this printer. It was very easy to set up. I've read reviews to the contrary, but I didn't encounter any problems connecting it to my Wi-Fi. The print quality is good. I can't speak on ink usage yet, but I've printed several full page, color images and the starter ink is still going strong. I purchased a higher-priced HP model earlier and I was very disappointed. (Additionally a piece of the paper drawer broke off making it impossible to keep the drawer shut, so it's a pain to print.) This printer is heavier than it looks but still lighter than the HP, prints in more vibrant colors, is quieter, was easier to set up, and is otherwise a better product. A bonus is that it doesn't annoy me (like the HP) with extra apps and reminders about joining an automatic ink ordering program.