Canon PIXMA TR4520 Wireless All in One Photo Printer with Mobile Printing, Black

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So I bought this printer because I was looking for an affordable printer that I can still use for my craft business. And when googling good printers for crafts that were also compatible with a cricut this one had decent recommendations. I’ll list my pros and cons! Cons first, cause people usually wanna know all the bad stuff that is t advertised on Amazon lol.

CONS:

I’ve had this printer for 5 days but have used it a decent amount so I can tell you a lot about it.

First of all if you want to use this printer for art or photos I definitely wouldn’t recommend this printer.
1. For normal paper, matte sticker paper, and gloss sticker paper whether regular or vinyl, it does definitely jam every 2nd-3rd attempt on average. If you’re a crafter like me you know how expensive quality sticker paper is for a 10 sheet pack! Along with how frequent you need to use a printer. Lol and it completely ruins the sheet that gets jammed. I have to constantly readjust the tray to make sure it’s straight and sometimes hold the papers in a certain Angle so it doesn’t jam.

2. It streaks pretty bad, in 5 days I’ve run the ink heads through a cleaning cycle twice with no luck. Bought 4 different brands of sticker paper, and read reviews on the recommended ink I bought. No luck, with different material so I’m assuming it’s just the quality of the printer.

3. the colors are not vibrant. I use an art software to make my products and have found I need to turn the saturation setting all the way up after the design is finished in order to get a NORMAL (non faded) looking sticker. And even then the colors aren’t as vibrant. (I purchased the recommended ink and didn’t go the cheap route) this is a CON if you are looking for something to print photos as well.

4. 5 days in, and my printer says it’s low on ink. I understand since I have a craft business I use the printer a lot more than the average person, however I expected this ink to last at a minimum of 2-3 weeks. And I even bought the XL cartridge. Some printers cleaning cycle wastes ink and due to the quality of the prints being streaky I’ve had to try to run a cleaning cycle. The ink is definitely not cheap at all either. If the printer wasn’t jamming and wasting ink on a Jammed sheet, or not streaking and messing up products that have to be reprinted, the ink may last longer however I’m not sure.

These are rather large issues when running a business.

PROS:
1.This printer comes with a lot of cool features
2. This printer is easy to set up
3. This printer connects automatically to wifi and my cricut and have rarely had a delay on it printing when I click print(being cricut compatible)
4. For the very affordable price this is a great office printer. For someone who needs to scan, be reliable on wifi, easy set up, low maintenance, and print normal documents, this may be the right printer for you.
5. Prints fast without delays or having issues finding the printer on my phone. My bfs printer takes me 5-6 attempts for my phone to be able to even find the printer on the print option. Maybe poor connection.

I regret all the wasted money I have put into buying a cheaper printer to save money cause in the long run with ink and paper I’ve had to replace has been close to another $200 lol. I’ve purchased a better $500 photo quality printer that has good reviews and am waiting for it to be delivered, but have decided to keep this one anyway as a back up in case the other ink is out of stock on Amazon, or just for shipping labels, to not waste ink on my craft printer.

I am leaving this review with out any bias or anger, only because reading previous reviews no one really mentioned any of these issues I’ve come across (or at least no one posted a review on it when I was deciding to buy it) so I wanted to help anyone who would find this info more helpful when doing their research and can make a better decision.

I got this printer to print recipes or copies of documents. Casual stuff. Color prints are not good at all. Color prints only print in one color. I’ll work on set-up to see if I can improve the color print copy. I wouldn’t have purchased this particular printer if I had known how the color prints came out. Overall it fits my needs if only printing in black