Canon Pixma MX410 / MX420

Not user friendly, slow – Difficult to use, slow to print, instructions on the Canon website are not user friendly.. had to resort to YouTube to figure out how to set up the wireless function. Like the others say, it uses up ink very quickly. Overall size is also very very big and takes up a lot of space. But very good quality build and easy to copy a few pages at once thanks to the document feeder.

Not so wireless – I have been using the Canon Pixma MX410 for nearly a year now and it continues to disapoint me. The primary reason I bought it was because it featured fax and wireless apart from scanner and printing of course. It is very user unfriendly in all it's aspects but when you eventually get it going it does things well, no complaints there, it's getting it to work that is the problem. When it does work, it takes ages to initialise and boy is it noisy. My main disapointment though is the wireless, it is hopeless. I keep losing my IP address so it refuses to communicate with any of my device set up with it. To fix, I now have to clean the slate, like literally uninstall it all including going into the PC registry because the uninstall program leave stuff behind that will cause issues while re-installing, and then go through the entire set up again. This takes about 20 minutes if all goes well. Typically I just use a USB cable to get me out of trouble. This is Ok if I am working with my desktop but with my laptop this is a whole other dimension, no IP is no print regardless. This has been a constant problem without let up. Contacting Canon is just as hard and all they do when they eventually decide to respond is quote the manual. Yes there have been bug fix updates but none of which fixed this particular problem. Fortunately it was not very expensive so I can just ditch it without to much pain. Before I do this I just wanted to let everyone know that just because it says it is wireless doesn't mean it is. Printing is very nice, clear and crisp both black documents and colour photo's though there is a fair bit of difference in colour tone with your screen, it handles margins very well also. Scanning quality is good but like the fax cumbersome to use. Wireless feature is useless, my old fax machine leaves this one for dead in speed and quality, runs out of ink realy quickly, lucky to get 100 pages at normal resolution and cartridges are not cheap, noisy when printing, support from Canon was poor if they even bothered to respond

Good printer for the price; very thirsty – Easy to set up including WiFi and changing ink cartridges. The document feeder is brilliant for multi-page scans. However this printer uses a lot of expensive ink (a bit less if you never turn it off). Draft print documents are good quality with very rare paper jams. A lot of features for the price. Scans are OK. I didn't like the orange tint and blur on the first few photographs so I turned it into a grey/B&W printer. I chose, via the menus, to use only black ink . I was very surprised to then run out of coloured ink. With a bit of fiddling it is possible to print with an empty colour cartridge but there's a persistent nag - another button to push!

I bought it to replace a similar low end Epson TX550 printer. The Epson produced better photos, worse draft and, in a short time, the inkjets or something clogged beyond cleaning.

In this price range it seems that you have choose the features that are most important to you. Low price, reliable, clean, good draft, wireless and document feeder Uses too much costly ink, photos were slightly tinted and a bit blurry

Great printer, thirsty for ink – The Canon is a great printer. It is fast, good quality and looks great. The downside is it uses heaps of ink. I have never seen a printer go through so many cartridges. We print about 10 A4 spreadsheets in black a week and we are replacing the black cartridge every 3 weeks. When the ink gets low, the faxes go to memory, with out any warning, except for the blue light. We constantly watch out for the blue light now to see if we got a faxed order through. It's a bad design. Fast printing Uses ink, fax goes to memory when ink is low