This printer is nearly perfect. Photos look amazing, replacement ink cartridges are relatively inexpensive and I honestly don't think they could be more easily installed. I also like how they have lights on them that light up telling you they are properly installed. Much better than the old days of installing cartridges and having to use a little ink printing a test page just to verify they were in correctly.Now I'm going to tell you all about the glitch it has which is pretty common with Canon printers. The printer can be horrible at printing text documents. If you load regular paper into it and tell the computer you are using plain paper the printer will leave white lines all over it. There is an easy workaround though. All you have to do is when you are previewing the page you change the setting from plain paper to glossy photo paper. You have to make that change for it to work. I tried cleaning the printer and checking the alignment and it didn't work. Honestly if it wasn't for that glitch I would give this 5 stars. But even though it's an easy workaround, the fact that most people will not know this and have to do their own research to figure out the problem is why I'm deducting one star. That still doesn't change the fact the printer is otherwise perfect.

Easy set up. All functions work perfectly

First, I want to say I don't use paper in my regular job or life. I just bought this thing to deal with the random silly people who send me forms I need to print to fill out then scan to send back. Like employer verifying my dependents or re-certifying me for stuff using paper instead of online forms. I just needed something to print and scan a couple dozen pages randomly throughout the year and I surely wasn't paying one or several hundred dollars. This Canon device for 65 dollars and its little batch of 'setup' ink cartridges was nice. I've also bought a good set of generic cartridges for about 19 dollars and 1500 pages of Georgia Pacific paper for about 15 dollars (one ream of anything else was 10 dollars, so I went for it).*Unexpected pleasant surprise is that the lcd display is mostly black background with light color text which is far easier for me to read than the usual gray/white backgrounds with gray/black text. This color scheme allowed me to set it up without aid from my kid (I have a vision impairment and he does not). Some of the setup picture/animations were the gray/white background, but all of the text I've had to read was very easy with the black background. Touch screen is also nice - I have to jab it a little hard with my thumb sometimes, but the presence of a touchscreen anything on a 65 dollar all-in-one that works is a nice little bonus.Second, I did research and dodged a couple of bullets from HP and Epson that Canon manufacturers didn't jerk us around with as near as I can tell. In 2016 HP introduced firmware to sabotage generic print cartridges and force people back to theirs. Generics are working out ways to get around HP's sabotage effort, but I imagine HP will keep sabotaging whatever new thing the Generics come up with. (A law firm is organizing a law suit against HP now, citing anti-trust and consumer protection laws. That whole story 86'd my trust in HP as a brand though, so I'm steering clear now.) I also read some bad things about Epson printers not letting you print if the printer thinks the ink is too low, even if your cartridge is half full or you just need to squeeze out one more page. (Thank god for Amazon reviewers. Even if 90% are awesome, it's worth reading a few 1-star reviews to be sure the 5-star people are idiots caught up in the hype of something. Though 1-star reviewers who complain about the mailman instead of the product are tedious too. :)) So I was down to Canon and Xerox. I scrutinized this guy a bit and saw the only bad reviews seem to be people whose needs were more serious than what this device was intended for, or the mailman kicked it up the stairs to their door. Everyone else seemed happy, and I googled and couldn't find evidence of Canon being @#%s like HP and Epson, so I went for it.The device arrived tonight and was pretty easy to setup as long as you were careful to follow instructions. I followed another reviewer's advice and used the disc that came with it for the final part of the setup, instead of going to the web page, and it worked like a charm. I've done the test print, and scanned a few important documents to my computer's desktop and the pdfs looked fine to me. I uploaded the documents to my employer's dependent verification website and satisfied them now I hope. My son got a certificate from his class and I'm going to scan that in now too for fun. I should print something and review that, but I trust Canon on print quality from experience with two of their digital cameras and a photo printer I had. And I saw nobody else complaining about them as they did with HP and Epson. I'll come back and flame Canon if anything screwy turns up, but so far so good. Forget HP or Epson, go Canon (or possibly Xerox if someone else wants to vouch for them. I stopped at my 65 dollar machine and research fatigue. :))

I am a college student, and our printers on campus are a hassle to use. I had an HP Photosmart at home that I brought with me about halfway into my fall semester of my freshman year, but it had a lot of issues. This past fall, it was "running out" of ink after 2 weeks, "printing" blank pages, or not working altogether and shutting down when I sent it documents. I did some research, and decided on this Canon Pixma MG6820 as the replacement.I love it so much! I use the direct connection because connecting the printer to our schools network is a hassle, and the direct connection was very easy to set up. The printer also works with the Canon Print app on my phone. It prints quickly and rarely has any issues. It mainly gets used for printing articles I have to read and papers for my classes and other mainly black documents, but I am a graphic design student and it works well for printing my graphics as well. I have not tried printing photos yet, but given how the graphics turn out I would assume they would be fine as well. It scans and copies great too. It is almost the end of the semester and I am only just now having to replace the ink cartridges.I would definitely recommend this printer for use by a college student or in a home office!