Canon PIXMA MX492, Wireless All-in-One Small Printer with Mobile or Tablet Printing, AirPrint and Google Cloud Print Compatible, White

A breeze to set up with our home Wi-Fi. We print from a variety of computers and devices -- computers, tablets, phones -- Mac, iOS, and some other oddball operating systems. Small and attractive. Have had it a couple of months and so far, so good. Ran out of ink in about 3 seconds, of course, so we did a bit of digging on the touch screen console (way more than should be necessary, Canon!), and we think we've figured out how to reduce the ink output and save money (it SHOULD have a "draft" mode, but of course then we wouldn't have to buy ink, right?). We'll see if the setting actually helps. Overall, highly recommend. Really nice little printer that prints, scans, copies with ease, all without any wires. Just plug it in. Has finally stopped my kids from printing all their school stuff on my office printer.

I print right from my phone or laptop in next room -Such a great little printer for cheap money! We waited too long to buy a new printer and now i feel dumb !! Seriously though, this little guy is sleek, easy to set up and prints nicely! I printed pictures, labels and made a black and white copy in the first hour we had it out of the box.

[Updated 6.11.19]I purchased this on May 6, 2018. It is now one year and a month later.It jams all the time. I'd say I get one out of 10 print jobs done without jamming.Jammed paper issues prove very hard to fix on this device.And I am officially hating the little screen. Even in daylight, or bright office light it is nearly impossible to read.I consider this a waste of money .I am an IT professional and have managed large numbers of printers, including ink jet and laser printers. This is a waste of money.The PROS:Very fast set up (Basic)Very fast and easy Wifi Setup (but only because I know what a MAC address is and how to find it. More later)Quick, nice looking printoutsQuiet modeThe CONS:The deal breaker for me: I CAN BARELY READ THE SCREEN. Even in a room with full overhead lights on, I can barely read it. One previous reviewer said she needed a flashlight to see it. Well, me too (I had not read that review when researching this model previously). It is at once a tiny thing and yet totally significant in its impact.Horrible and inaccurate instructions, e.g. Poor English language usage and images that do not correlate to the model I am setting up.Flimsy: the various drawers, cartridges, lids, and doors all feel like very thin plastic attached to very insecure joints.We'll see how this little fellow does over time, but I doubt I'll get over the screen.(MAC address: During wifi setup, the MX492 asked me for the MAC address of my router. It had found two MAC addresses in the area and needed me to tell it which one to connect to. In my case, the MAC address was on the bottom of my router/modem. Your MAC address will look something like this: E1:E9:FF:66:05:82 -- basically 6 sets of alphanumerical pairs).Hope this helps!

It kills me when people say "it feels cheap". Come on, it's $49 bucks (about the price of a pair of replacement cartridges). Actually, it doesn't look or feel cheap at all, it seems pretty solid. The printing is not amazing, but it's very good. It's not like you are going to be printing photos on it to send to National Geographic. I had a prior lower end Canon that worked well for seven years, let's see that comes to uh...$7 per year. That one didn't feel cheap either, but obviously if you are printing a ton of stuff you would invest more in a printer. The scan and copy functions are fine too, and for home use this not only works well, but looks sharp and not at all cheap. The main issue for me was setting it up. The instructions are a bit challenging, and the little display screen is too small, hard to read and rather confusing. But everything worked and more or less made sense after about 90 minutes. The online Canon manual I found had an unfathomable 776 pages of material that had my head spinning, but I'll probably only go to it if I can't remember how to pull out the ink cartridges without breaking them. There is plenty of software included that I'm unlikely to take advantage of either. But the basics, including the scanning software seem fine. Once I had the printer synced to my router, printing from my iPhone, desktop computer, and Macbook was easy, no further setup for any other devices is needed. It was impossible for me to print anything from my Kindle Fire HD 8, but I think that is the result of the useless plugin you need to download from Amazon, as opposed to any valid criticism of the printer itself. OK, blame Canon, it's their app. It was irritating, but it's not like I'm going to be printing much from the Fire anyway, it's more for reading the news and watching videos on the plane. Overall, I'm happy with this printer and would be surprised if I don't get another seven years of reliable service out of this one. I've never owned, or even seen, a shoddy Canon product.

I've been using this for a couple months now wireless works perfectly and print quality is good. I have two complaints with it: 1) The text on the screen is so light and the screen is so dark, that I sometimes have to use the flashlight on my phone to read it (in the first picture, the printer is on, so you can see how dark the screen is) 2) I have to leave the side panel open to print anything, and it sticks out pretty far. I have to put it on a different table where there's room to keep it open.

Great buy, compact, it does everything you need for general printing and has software so my lazy butt does not have to get up more than once to scan documents. Has the built-in document feeder (a must), a fax feature, and it's wireless. My only complaint is that the keypad and display are on the top. This assumes that it will be placed on a low desk or table, which is not where I have mine. I have a 3 tier corner desk, and this is on the 2nd highest tier. I am very short so using the keypad is a little tricky for me. Fortunately, there's that nifty software that makes actually having to use the keypad mostly optional. And I'm very happy it is available in something other than black. Overall I would buy this again.

THIS 492, though not advertised, is an upgrade Though not advertsed that demand READING THE FULL INSTRUCTIONSbefo and during installation