Canon PIXMA MG5200 Reviews
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“Overall good”
Written on: 06/04/2013 by WilliamMouritsen (3 reviews written)
I got the Canon PIXMA because I needed both a new printer and a scanner for school. The printer takes a few seconds to warm up when you begin using it and shakes my desk as it warms up and prints. It's a fairly quick printer, so the few seconds of desk-quake are bearable. Lines print crisply and the color comes out almost exactly as it should every time. I did my senior year of high school online and had to print out tests every week to mail in, but only had to replace my ink cartridges once... (read more)
“CONSTANTLY sucking away ink with needless printing cycles!”
Written on: 21/02/2013 by wiskey_lunch (3 reviews written)
I've really had it with this printer! It runs a cleaning cycle after EVERY print job if you wait more than 1:30 minutes. This is outrageous! I have an MG5200 series... Canon made the ink cartridges SMALLER and they intentionally programmed in constant cleaning cycles!! (read more)
“Total piece. Not worth a shiny dime”
Written on: 02/02/2013 by Barnicus (1 review written)
I'll start that to its credit It prints good photos, colors are nice and bright, not blurred. But after only several uses it became cumbersomly slow, then it plain out broke. The rollers that load the paper went out, now it's useless. Plus it takes a Martian day to prep itself for the work it can't do ( lots internal noises and such). Wouldn't recommend it to my worst enemy, unless he had to print something defamatory about me; because it wouldn't get printed. (read more)
“Canon Pixma MG5200 is a great printer”
Written on: 14/12/2012 by itpro
I've had this printer for a year. It works great, does really nice photos. I have been buying complete sets of ink cartridges (5) for $7 on ebay. I think it's great that you only have to replace the ink that is empty, that and the low cost of ink is why I bought this printer. It was a snap to set up wireless. I have it in my upstairs office but print to it from all over the house. Good maintenance functions for cleaning the print heads and feed rollers. I have 3 HP printers which all... (read more)
“MG5250 AVOID !!!!”
Written on: 26/11/2012 by frenchie16
This was an upgrade on my previous Canon printer. I have had it for just one day and I am so disappointed. I liked the overall look and features, particularly the wireless capability and the fact it had the 2 paper feeds. Easy enough to set up, but when it came to actually printing it was a nightmare. It takes a long tome for the printer to process a document sent wirelessly, the the actual printing itself is really slow, to the point it only partially prints the page then ejects the paper... (read more)
“Broken in 6months”
Written on: 23/08/2012
The printer looks nice externally and the interface is useful when setting up wireless printing, but both paper feeds (bottom and top) stopped working within six months of receiving the printer. For the last six months I have been hand feeding every piece of paper through the printer because I unfortunately sold my previous printer and don't have money to buy a new one. Lastly, the printer leaves random blank spots as if the ink jet is partially clogged. When I tried to return the... (read more)
“Uses a LOT of ink, & SLOW!!!”
Written on: 03/08/2012
I would NOT recommend this printer to anyone! everytime I turn it on it has to clean the ink cartage heads ( a total waste of ink!)sometimes taking 5 minutes to print a sheet!( I timed it!),..because of this cleaning it does ALL the time! I have had 2 HP Printers before this THING!,..And I'm going back to HP Printer,..It's faster,..and uses a LOT LESS INK!!! The Canon REFUSED (all the Time,..what place to feed the paper from (Tray or Rear) I tryied to uninstall sofeware & reload,...that... (read more)
“Good for the price - wireless slightly buggy on occasion”
Written on: 12/12/2011
We bought this for home use a few months ago. We've done quite a lot of colour printing on this, including a set of party invites & 20+ A4 sheets of photos, and only the one colour (cyan) we happened to use most has run out, so I think this is pretty reasonable. I'm surprised at other reviews saying that this printer is slow to print, once it starts printing it takes about 2 secs to print a page, which I think is pretty fast. The printer has a cassette for feeding plain A4 paper, so you do... (read more)
“Like others all the features looked great, exactly...”
Written on: 09/03/2011
Like others all the features looked great, exactly what we wanted, big separate black ink and smaller colour inks for those few times we want colour. Printing a single pages takes ages, even though we have not selected to print in colour the colour inks are all but empty. Even after ensuring the defaulting settings was in grey scale, still the colours are being used. the wireless printing is good, the use of the colour inks indiscriminately and the ridiculous amount of time to print a single... (read more)
“My family and I bought this printer, because our...”
Written on: 09/03/2011
My family and I bought this printer, because our previous one was getting too expensive to replace all the cartridges. The Canon MG2500 had cheaper ink, and it was also wireless, which was great because we have a laptop and a monitor. It worked alright I suppose at first, but now the printing quality is terrible. It prints horizontal stripes though all of our photos, the ink colours don't show up the same as on the computer, and sometimes it just won't print things. The wireless connection... (read more)
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“We have two Macs and a LAN through an Airport...”
Written on: 20/01/2011
We have two Macs and a LAN through an Airport Extreme.Although we're not "techies" we have always been able to do things fairly easily with this system. But It is now two and a half hours since we started to set up the MG 5200. The printer shows it is on the LAN, and one computer can print to it. The other doesn't find it (although it is still connected fine to the airport). We have been through every suggestion in the manual. It's incredibly unintuitive to set this thing up (by Mac... (read more)
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Written on: 14/07/2011
you have to load the operating software on each pc and its ok
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“The make, presentation and description seemed to make...”
Written on: 28/12/2010 by tinyred (1 review written)
The make, presentation and description seemed to make this an ideal printer. However, upon usage within a few weeks, I noticed two big negatives. First of all, the length of time it takes to print a single document is ridiculous. I have never waited so long for a piece of paper to come out from the printer. A few times the document I printed had bad quality, even though on other printers and the previews it printed perfectly - for example on a table, the lines were not straight and they were... (read more)
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Written on: 13/06/2011
Exactly how I feel.