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

A nice upgrade from my old HP. I appreciate the ability to feed documents for printing and faxing. Much better than having to lift the cover and risk the glass getting dirty and I love that I can scan docs to PDF. The print quality for documents and photos (on plain paper) is good. My one problem is that I can't get it to cooperate with my digital phone network. When the printer is turned on, it won't allow calls to go to voice mail.

AMEN!...Finally a printer that lives up to its name. Great everything. I haven't encountered any problems with my Canon Pixma MX850. Have it now for about 2 months and am very, very happy with it. Wouldn't trade it for anything (except a million bucks, but would still buy me another one with that million...ha,ha). Definitely would recommend this printer, especially at the price I got it at Amazon!...THANK YOU AMAZON!

I can't believe Canon put out this product. I previously owned an MP780 and printed probably close to 30K pages over 4 years before it wore out. It sure didn't owe me anything. Hence I bought the follow-on MX850. How could I go wrong? A little more speed, maybe an extra improvement here and there. Well, how wrong I was. For starters, they made a major "upgrade" to the user interface, way over-complicating it. Simple custom settings in the scanning in particular are very difficult to use, and to sequence through a basic scan now takes probably 3 - 4x the "clicks", screens, and time. If there is anywhere I can reconfigure the default settings to avoid this, I can't find it in the screens in their poor documentation.
The real kicker was the fax setup. I have a dual number line, with double ring on one of the numbers which is the fax line. The MP780 would switch on the fax machine on one ring, and over 4 years, never once missed an incoming fax. The MX850 setting minimum is two rings (WHY is one ring no longer available?), and it NEVER answers on two rings. It usually takes four. That means that I have to set the forwarding to my cell phone delay (which acts on both lines, can't get around that) to about 25 seconds, and sometimes faxes still forward to my cell because this machine ignores them. Plus it is unacceptable for my clients/prospective clients to sit there while the phone rings for 30 seconds while it forwards to my cell. I'll bet I lose business due to this. When I got Canon tech support on the line, we went round and round, with them blaming the voltage on my phone line as being the problem. When I asked them, "OK then how come YOUR previous MP780 product never missed receiving a fax on one ring over four years?" They couldn't answer that. The MX850 is a poor product with poor tech support. I am shocked that a product like this comes from Canon. I certainly DON'T recommend it. The MP780 was a great product, they should know "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." They fixed it alright, and not for the better.

It is good' clear copies and scans. I have not tried pic scan yet. It is one of the top line in Canon. It has 3 cons though; it is a little noisy when you make copies, big in size and the manual seems complicated but I could wrong. The price decended drastically from $220 to $160. Thank you Amazon.

I had an 830 and it broke down within 10 months. It looks fancy, makes good prints and has all the options. For a while...

I bought an HP instead. Canon is Chinese junk for skyhigh prices.