Canon PIXMA TS6220 Wireless All In One Photo Printer with Copier, Scanner and Mobile Printing, Black, Works with Alexa

I found out the hard way with my last inkjet printer that it is the combo of the printer and the type of ink cartridge it uses that leads to the $ you spend on ink. I gave away a perfectly good printer because I could buy this model at the time for the price of 1/10 what I had spent in a year on ink cartridges for the old one! Also, at the time, in that section underneath the product pic, they advertised E-Z ink - I read up on it & it has rave reviews so I ordered the 5-pack to be ready when the "starter" cartridges ran out. 3 months later and none of them have run out. Now mind you I don't change ink cartridges when the warning comes up - only when the print is compromised and it's not yet! I like the fact that there are 2 black cartridges, one being a pigment ink that is less likely to run than the color cartridges. This is my first Canon, so I had a little bit of a learning curve, but not much. And, although I'm not a heavy printer, I do use my fair share of paper. I print (sorry, trees!) to keep records of things, do print screens of every order to keep for my credit card stmt, etc., and I also do artwork (like greeting cards). What can I say - I'm just a happy camper who feels like the woman in the Old Testament whose oil kept coming (the ink, ha!). I never load from the back because I have it tucked in a cubbyhole in my computer desk, so that may be part of it, but I've never had a jam and had no problem setting it up - used the USB and power cable which were right there from the old one! (Also, I don't use wi-fi, so no input there.)Update: 4-6-19 It just gets better and better. My "starter" cartridges just had to be replaced (4 of the 5) which is only $35 with the E-Z Ink that I bought at the same time as the printer. That's 5 months of use out of the "starter" cartridges. Well, the E-Z ones I bought are XXL and supposed to give 3 X print of regular ones, so I don't expect to worry about it for a while. The expiration date on the package I purchased already is 2 years, so even if they last a really, really long time, I purchased another set to have one hand.

1/8/2020: An addendum to my original review: This machine is You Get What You Pay For. No problems at all with scanning. But when you want to print, you'll tear your hair out sometimes. It starts giving you crap with what tray to use (the back tray or the front tray loading tray) and you have to eventually either remove the front tray to print from the back slider. I buy the affordable non-famous-color ink so I don't have to pay the exorbitant amounts Canon charges. Those work great. I wouldn't recommend this unless you constantly have to refer to the manual online for this model to help you print.This is my original review: So far so good. If anything changes I'll update. I have a Macbook Air and iPhone and it was super easy to to download the software to both devices and print immediately. The price is right; I just wanted something for home use/school projects. And the bonus: it does accept other ink cartridges! I say, get this for the simplest projects at home. Not sure how it would work for large printing jobs, but for us, 5 pages here and there, love it.

I long for the days of the HP LaserJet III. Remove from box, Plug in - and print!I purchased this Canon printer because my old PIXMA MG6220 printer died with a "Print Head Not Correct - U150" message - which kind of set me off by itself. That particular model is now discontinued, and I went on an odyssey to see if I could at least find a printer that would use the same print cartridges. No-can-do. To those of you searching for a decent home all-in-one printer - you have my sympathy. Hundreds of models to choose from - each with seemingly different print cartridges, features and price points. I tried to navigate this minefield the best I could, and decided on this TS6220. Probably could have done better - certainly could have done worse.Taking the printer out of the box was kind of an experience all of it's own. This printer is Cheap - with a capital C. I hope it ends up lasting more than a year. I guess for $89 (or, whatever the going rate is these days) what can I expect? But, everything unpacked and there is a nice little "Getting Started" booklet.Now, let me describe how I THOUGHT the install process would go:1) Unpack the printer2) Turn it on and be guided through a print alignment / test sequence3) Be guided through a sequence to connect to my home network4) Go to the Control Panel in Windows 10, find the printer, and install it.Steps 1 & 2 kind of went as expected - although there is a lot of stuff the "Getting Started" manual just assumes you know - like there really isn't an "OK" button. If you need to press OK, it comes up on the touch screen when needed.Step 3 is super confusing, so let me see if I can help some poor soul out there who gets totally lost - like I did.The manual instructs you to go to a web-site to set up the printer. Once you are at the site, you key in the Model number, and then it searches the network to find it. But wait....how can it expect to find it if the printer hasn't been added to the network? Hmm.....well - it can't. After it can't find it, it instructs you to go to the Printer control panel and configure the Wi-Fi.Unfortunately, there are NO INSTRUCTIONS on how to do this (that I could find). I guess there is some magical way the printer could have connected to my computer without Wi-Fi, but I'm probably just too stupid to figure it out.So, I pressed the Setup icon on the control panel, and sure enough - there is a Wi-Fi button. I pressed it, and several options came up. The first was "Easy Connect", and the second one was "Manual Connect". Silly me - I thought the correct choice is "Easy Connect". Somehow "Easy Connect" depends on the same magical connection that my computer was trying to originally find, and basically told me I was SOL. Still don't know what "Easy Connect" really means.So, I went back and tried "Manual Connect". Eureka! That's the place that will find your wireless network, and allow you to enter your security key. Which I did. The printer then told me I had successfully connected to the network. At last.I went back to my computer and started the install sequence over again. This time it found the printer, and finished the install. There are times that the install appears to "hang" - specifically on the message "Downloading 11/13". I was about ready to call Canon support, but after about 4 minutes the install continued on. A proper and correct Progress Bar would have been greatly appreciated.I can't say for sure, but it appears as if EVERY COMPUTER you want to connect to the printer must go through this same Byzantine web install process. Whatever happened to the good old days of "Plug-N-Play?"The printer does appear to work, and the quality of the printing is excellent. Be prepared to find a solid place to sit the printer because it really "bumps and grinds" as it attempts to get a page through. Again, I'll be pleasantly surprised if it makes it past one year.And, I'm resigned to the fact that when it does break, I'll have to discard all of my unused ink cartridges and buy new ones.Am I the only one out there who is just thoroughly disgusted at the whole ink cartridge scene?

The media could not be loaded. This is a fantastic buy for a very affordable price, not to mention how it comes with 5 free ink cartridges. It was surprisingly easy to install and it can not only print, copy, and scan, but it also prints very high quality photos. It took no time at all to download the software on my computer and to install it on my phone. My family will be using this for all our school projects, work documents, and the occasional photo albums. :) The photos attached are the test images my daughter picked from her phone, which are incredibly high in quality, and there is also a video where I demonstrate how easy it is to install the ink. There are a lot of bad reviews but I took the risk and tried it anyways, and it was 100% worth it.