Canon Pixma MegaTank G7065
VerifiedMPN: G706513 reviews
I have always used Canon printers however this would have to have been the worst printer I have ever had. The print quality is so poor and while I am a regular of cleaning and maintenance, the continual lines that keep running through the page is a disaster. It always wants to feed from the back, but the printer is set up against a wall and… Read more
accessing the rear is not always appropriate except for envelopes. It will still insist, while paper is in the front loader, that it wants paper in the back loader. This printer was not cheap but it is obvious expensive does not mean a better product. So disappointed and friends have suggested I use it as an anchor, because that is all it is good for.
This is, without a doubt, THE worst printer we have ever had! It can't connect to wifi, can't print from your phone, its lost connection to the scanner function through the computer. The app is old and tired and belongs in the 1980's, it takes an absolute to age to warm up and finally print anything. Print quality is OK but you will have had your breakfast, and been to work and back before it's printed it. Show details
Pretty good – I kind of love this printer. It's so cool to not need to do a cost benefit analysis every time i want to print something. We've had this printer for a couple of years and only just bought some replacement colour ink for it, we still have a spare bottle of black ink that came with the printer. Print -wise, the quality is pretty good you don't… Read more
see lots of lines in the output. It doesn't jam up a lot, but it is pretty stupid about the rear tray. Instead of just printing things properly, when you have paper in the cassette, it insists on printing from the rear tray, which is a huge hassle, because there's flaps and hinges and no great way to stand the paper up at the back. There's two good work arounds 1. Make sure you update the settings on your computer so it always uses the cassette, instead of letting the printer decide, 2. Go into the settings on the printer's tiny screen and make sure the main cassette is set to the correct size, and the rear tray is set to something obscure. Yeah, the screen on the printer is ridiculously small, it's not a touch screen because they don't make torch screens that small, it's like a screen from a petrol station digital watch, but without any light. It's pretty absurd to spend so much on a printer and have functions that you can only perform on the printer itself, and can't access from your computer, and be expected to do that with such a teeny tiny horrible screen, with only left, right, up and down controls. Anyway, once you've set it up and convinced it not to use the rear tray, it's great, it prints consistently high quality, for both text and pictures, and doesn't constantly pester you for ink. I've spent a lot of time on the two big negatives of this bad boy, but you can just spend months printing whatever you want whenever you feel like it without thinking about how annoying printers are
Canon was my go-to, but not anymore thanks to G7065 printer – This printer turned me away from Canon. I used to use nothing else but Canon, until I bought this printer. As many others did, I had air bubbles in ink lines which required ink flush. To get rid of one air bubble in just one colour, each time I had to lose more than a quarter of all colour inks (over 2,000 pages worth of colour ink was just one… Read more
ink flush worth). The next flush might fill up the service space (non-replaceable pad), and the printer will stop working. So, unless Canon acknowledges that they really messed up big time with this printer and offers a way to compensate users who shelled a better part of a grand on one, I will be going with another brand the next time I have to run the flush.
Canon G7065 - poor quality print – Have owned this for over 18 months now and whilst the ink lasts a long time, the print quality is terrible, mainly driven by individual inks having clogged print heads. Deep cleaning up to a half a dozen times still leaves the quality so bad that you cant tell what you are printing. Given this is a $600+ AUD printer originally - totally… Read more
disappointed. I've had two previous Pixma canon printers and whilst they were ink hogs with their small cartridges, the quality was OK. Also the interface is not backlit on the printer and the utility interface uses an unsecure local connection via a browser - rubbish if trying to use from an iPhone or iPad for example. Whilst the idea of a megatank is commendable, I would not recommend this product.
Steer well clear of this printer – My printer stops printing various colours and sometimes black like it's running out of ink but the tanks are over 1/2 full. The only way to fix this is to run a "Ink Flush" which uses about 10% of the capacity of the "Big" tanks, but it gets worse as the waste ink goes into a non replaceable pad in the bottom of the printer which will eventually… Read more
become saturated. Apart from that the display has no back light, the software is archaic, and it does not like to scan documents over about 10 pages. Like everyone else the printer initially only wanted to print from the rear single page feeder but after a couple of hours of frustration that was fixed. As it was out of warranty (2 and bit yo) Canon had no interest in rectifying it so it's a $700 doorstop.
The most terrible oprinter I've ever had – This printer makes the most simple actions the most complicated. It is complete failure. After about 10 times printing showing mne the error - and I need the service already..are you joking??? Such a costly mess that does not cost these money. 2 hours to switch it on, 2 hours to swith it off, 2 hours to connect, 2 hours to start printing. Extremly… Read more
slow thinking machine - that makes all the actions with that printer very annoying. Do not recommend to buy - full of problems and time wasting and money ofcourse. EVERYTHING FOR YOUR DISCOMFORT!
The worst printer I’ve ever owned – This printer has been nothing but trouble from the moment I purchased it. It is slow to print. Always wants to print from rear tray. The print quality is terrible; I’ve performed multiple checks and they all check out fine but the printer continues to print crap quality pages. It is unreliable, you simply don’t know if it is going to work. Right… Read more
now I’m currently sitting here watching it attempt to print a second page 5 minutes later it still hasn’t managed to. Don’t waste your money or time!! Get yourself a decent better brand printer!!
Never.. ever again!! The crappiest most overpriced printer I’ve ever purchased!!
Very Disappointing! – I bought this unit because it had all the features that I needed but it was not cheap at $698. Wi fi connection worked well and I could print from my iPhone, ipad or computer easily. Scanning was a problem though, with anything more than a single page the connection would drop out or the paper would jam. Very frustrating with multiple page… Read more
documents! After about 9 months the printer jammed and after multiple attempts cleaning heads, aligning rollers etc, I got an error message advising me to call service. I called Canon who were most helpful and they advised the printer was faulty. As it was still under warranty they offered me a replacement or full refund. I took the full refund as I really don’t think that Canon has made a reliable machine. Very disappointing!
Terrible – Just purchased and set it up. Prints ok from the rear tray on glossy photo paper. Terrible quality on plain paper from the main tray though. Very disappointed and fail to see how this printer was priced at $600. Taking it back to Officeworks on they day I bought it. Show details
Absolute rubbish – Keeps trying to print from the rear tray, keeps losing connection and losing network settings, keeps going 'offline', won't wake from sleep - has to be manually switched back on, takes a long time to print when it does ... I wish I had known this prior to buying it ... Show details
Frustrating – I researched printers extensively before purchasing this one, and I guess there must not have been reviews about it when I purchased it as it's a horribly frustrating printer and I would advise NOT buying it. Opening the paper cassette tray to add or replace paper means that the next thing you try to print will result in an error message saying… Read more
that there is no paper in the rear tray. I have not found any way to get around this. It *always* results in having to cancel the print job and send it again. This is the bane of my existence!!
It also seems to regularly go into a power saving mode where it will switch itself off, so if I'm in another room on a laptop and send something to print, I have to walk to the printer to wake it up and then wait for it to print, rather than just going to the printer when it has finished. Not as much of a pain as the rear tray issue, but still a big source of needless frustration.
Aside from this, it prints well - it's fairly fast and rarely jams. But it constantly wanting to print from the rear tray is such an issue that how well it does function is unimportant.
Can't stand it – The Canon G7065 for me is horrible, for two reasons. 1. It always wants to print from the rear tray. it has a front tray, which is full of paper. It's in a location where use of the rear tray is not convenient. I've used its setup to tell it to print from the front tray, but no matter, it keeps on saying "load paper into rear feed". 2. I'd like… Read more
to print from my phone. I just can't it to do this. The instructions are vague: "select printer in application, start printing". I can't stand this printer. I don't recommend it.
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