Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This seems to be a really great printer - the first inkjet I've owned in years. Printing speed is fast, and color images on plain paper are almost unbelievably good. The scanner is fast and picks up fine detail, and it's recognized by other applications - like Photoshop. The shortcomings are not sufficient, on balance, to give this less than five stars. Shortcoming #1: Setup of the printer is - supposedly - via WiFi. But if your WiFi is password protected this method won't work for initial installation. The manual does not acknowledge this and sends you through a setup process that works only for the second and later attached computers. You ultimately have to use a USB connection - and they don't supply the type B USB cable you will need. Shortcoming #2: There are several processes during installation that take time - but the program does not provide any status updates. After five minutes you might be tempted to think the installation has hung. And in at least one case, it had. Shortcoming #3: There is one very good online manual - and one superficial one. The former is hunfreds of page and has a genuine table of contents. The other does not. It took some looking to find the better one. Shortcoming #4: The LCD is tiny. That would be OK if it were backlit. It is not. I can't imagine why they thought savbing a few pennies was worth the bad user experience. You have to view the LCD in just the right light to see what it says. If you have limited vision this might be deal breaker. Shortcoming #5: Printing from Canon's Android app. Ugh. I have yet to master this and for some reason my attempts to print a small color photo end up oversaturating my plain paper with muddied color. Such a use is not terribly imporant to me, and I may get better at it after a few more tries. But for now...