Canon Pixma MX850 Office All-In-One Printer (2436B002)

I love this printer/fax/copier/scanner. Everything functions wonderfully and easily... when it functions! You MUST keep a few extra ink cartridges on hand, because NOTHING will work when one cartridge is empty. Crazy because it requires 2 black ink cartridges - and if one runs out, better have another on hand if you want it to keep printing.

Oh - and when I say nothing works, I mean NOTHING. You can't even SCAN a picture to your PC/Laptop. WHO designed that? So the first time I ran out of ink, I learned the hard way when I went to scan in an old pic.

Like I said, I do love it when it is functioning, just make sure you keep plenty of extra ink on hand!

the printer has worked very well thus far. It was rec'd as promised and in perfect condition.

I have two PIXMA printers and they are consistently reliable and produce good results - no malfunction yet after three years.

I like the fact that the ink cartridges are sold by color and that the ink print head is separate from the ink tanks. I've had too many HP cartridges go bad before running out of ink to buy another HP ink-jet.

Print speed is very good and the duplex unit is really useful (though duplex printing does slow the printer down significantly). The fax works well and the scan quality is very good. The instruction manual isn't the most intuitive or well written, but so far that's the only negative I can think of. I'd happily buy another Canon PIXMA printer.

The book which comes with the product stinks. (This is in part because I am dumb when it comes to this type of product.) The serial # which is required when you register the product is "hidden" deep within the "guts" of the product. I purchased this becauese of the Consumer Reports write up on it. I hope I will progress in my knowledge to use it and all of its functions.

I am very happy with the printer/fax/copier. Easy to use and easy to set up.