Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Awesome as long as you know what this is for I used to hate printers. I've had numerous HP printers in the past, but the ink was always so expensive, I could never print out everything I wanted to, which defeats the whole point of having a printer. I used to buy #62 HP cartridges and for the most part, they give you maybe 30 pages of color then they go dry? And they're $40 dollars! Total ripoff. Helloooooooo Canon PIXMA G4210. First of all, I want to get the main complaints about this printer out of the way. - Yeah okay, it doesn't do Duplex printing - Yes, it's not the fastest printer in the world My response to both of those complaints would be ...so what. Canon advertises this as a home or small office bulk printer and at that job it excels. So far, I've printed out around 200 color pages and the ink level has barely moved. Let me write that again; around 200 pages. If I still had my HP printer that would have been about 6 + ink cartridges I would have went through. Six HP cartridges x $40 a cartridge = OH what do you know? About the price of this printer. The savings from using this printer is outstanding. It's not just this particular canon that I think is great. It's this type of printer. These mega tank printers are awesome. Epson makes an EcoTank Supertank printer and that's awesome too and I'm pretty sure some of them have duplex printing, which I don't care about. The G4210 can hook up to your wireless network so you can print wirelessly from your computer, laptop, tablet, phone, toaster, or whatever else you want to print from. I've read some complaints about printing from mobile phones not working properly. What I've discovered is if you are printing from your phone there are two apps that you have to download to make it work properly. One is the "Canon Print Service" app and the other is the "PRINT" app. It's not explained all that well when you're setting it up, but that's not a biggie in my book. Another problem I've noticed is people trying to print when they're behind a VPN. To make things simple, just shut off your VPN when you want to print something. There is a way to setup secure printing, but do you really want to get into that right now? Trust me you don't. There are other features about this printer that you can read from the box. It scans, it faxes, it copies. One thing that does kinda suck, is that when you scan, you can't scan to a jump drive or a usb drive. You can save to your computer, but that's not a biggie either. That's just a little inconvenience thing. The manual is 500+ pages and that's kinda scary, but for the most part, no one reads it until they need to. The quality of the print is awesome too. You can read about the print quality if you want, but it's more then I'll ever need. I mostly use this to print out PDF's, manuals I want hard copies for, calendars, the kids' homework, blah stuff like that. So I love this printer. The main selling point for me is the money you save with the ink. You get a massive amount of ink when you buy the printer and it lasts a long time. I will never buy another HP again. And if you think HP's Instant Ink program that they have to "save" you money is good, you should read up on it. I don't have anything against HP, I just think their products aren't worth what they charge...at all. And when I think of all the money I've spent on HP ink cartridges, it makes me wish this printer was around a long time ago. If you're somebody that wants to print out a lot of material and you don't want to shell out hundreds of dollars every month on ink, this is your baby. 5 stars, I love it.