Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Overall this is an excellent printer. Just a couple things that kept me from giving it five stars. We use this as a home office printer. Our inket just couldn't keep up. This printer prints very fast and can handle large print jobs. The 733 model can scan both sides of a page at the same time, so in one pass you can get two sided copies. The 731 model does not have a two sided scanner. I like that this printer seems to be built better. Most printers nowadays seem flimsy and likely to break every time you pull out the paper tray. Here is what I don't like so much: I had to call Canon to get the driver installed on my mac. I did everything right, but apparently in not the right order, so it didn't work. I'm surprised at this, since with a mac I almost never have problems like this. The touch screen isn't the best quality, and doesn't always register touches. A big negative for me was when I printed 900 pages of text documents - apparently the document pdf was encoded as color, and the print job completely depleted all my starter toners. Yikes! That was about $150-$200 of toner! I literally set the printer up, printed 10 color pages, and then the 900 and all my toners were down to 20%. The printer apparently layered all the colors (and black) to make the "black" text (it also slowed way down as it was processing). Never had this problem before. I found a way to default the color option in the driver to B&W every time. I'm ok with manually selecting color when needed. A word on the cost of toner: I've seen many reviews of people complaining of the cost. Yes, the toners for this printer are very expensive. However, they are larger capacity than most. I did a cost-per-page comparison to some comparable HP printers, and this one actually was cheaper per page. Yes, you may spend more than the cost of the printer on toners, but they last a very long time. It's really the bottom line cost per page that matters. I am getting the high capacity cartridges since they have a lower cost per page. Also, I was tired of constantly replacing inkjet cartridges.