Canon Pixma TS8220 Wi-fi Inkjet All-In-One Printer Overview

The Canon Pixma TS8220 Wi-fi Inkjet All-in-One ($199.99) is, aside from the addition of a handful of fascinating arts and crafts and hands-free-printing options, primarily the identical AIO as its predecessor, the Pixma TS8120. Like all of the six-ink Pixmas we have examined through the years, the TS8220 prints exceptionally effectively, however, additionally like the remainder of its kin, it prices lots to make use of. Along with above-par output, the TS8220’s help for well-liked scrapbooking and different crafting tasks, in addition to its new good dwelling options, make it a great-value home-and-family-oriented consumer-grade AIO printer for low-volume use.

A Lot Just like the Previous Pixma

With the latest launch of two wide-format (tabloid-size) Pixmas, the Canon Pixma TS9520 Wi-fi Inkjet All-In-One ($299.99 at Greatest Purchase)(Opens in a brand new window) and the Pixma TS9521C Wi-fi Crafter’s All-In-One, there are actually seven TS-series fashions. They vary from the small and light-duty TS3120 ($39.99) to the big and full-featured TS9521C ($249.99). The TS8220 falls about in the midst of this pack, and it and the following mannequin up the chain, the TS9120, are the one two TS fashions that include six-ink imaging programs. The remainder have five-ink programs, aside from the TS3120, which makes use of 4.

Along with the fundamental cyan, magenta, yellow, and black (CMYK) course of colours, the TS8220 comes with pigment-black and photo-blue inks. In accordance with Canon (and confirmed by my many opinions of consumer-grade Pixma photograph printers through the years), the pigment-black darkens textual content and makes black areas in pictures and graphics deeper. The photo-blue ink enhances definition (by serving to to eradicate graininess) and will increase the colour gamut.

Like its predecessor, the TS8220 is available in a alternative of three colours: pink, black, or white (Canon despatched me a white one). It measures 5.6 by 14.7 by 12.8 inches (HWD) with its trays closed and weighs 14.5 kilos. That is the identical measurement and weight as not solely its TS8120 predecessor but additionally its extra feature-rich and barely costlier TS9120 sibling. Additionally shut in measurement and weight is Epson’s competing photo-centric Expression Premium XP-6000 Small-in-One and HP’s Envy Picture 7155 All-in-One. AIOs on this class are designed for home-office use and due to this fact take up as little desk house as attainable.

The TS8220’s paper capability consists of 200 sheets cut up between a 100-sheet cassette up entrance and a 100-sheet tray within the again, as proven under.

The rear tray can even maintain as much as 20 sheets of letter-size (or smaller) photograph paper, and you additionally get a indifferent tray that slides in above the primary paper cassette for printing labels on CDs and DVDs. The print engine is auto-duplexing for two-sided printing, and you will find a letter-size flatbed scanner up prime, however no automated doc feeder (ADF) for routinely scanning multipage paperwork. The output tray extends as wanted—in order that your paperwork ought to by no means wind up on the ground.

By comparability, the Pixma TS9120’s paper capability can also be 200 sheets, whereas the Epson XP-6000 holds solely 100 sheets and a further 20 sheets of snapshot-size photograph paper, and HP’s Envy 7155 helps 140 sheets cut up between 125 in the primary drawer and 15 sheets of photograph paper in a small tray inside that.

Configuration and walkup duties, comparable to making copies or printing from or scanning to the cloud, are dealt with from the TS8220’s management panel, which is comprised solely of an influence button and a 4.3-inch touch-screen show, proven under.

Connectivity interfaces encompass Wi-Fi, connecting to a single PC through USB 2.0, Bluetooth 4.0 LE (Low Power), PictBridge Wi-fi Lan for printing from network-ready cameras, and a reminiscence card slot for printing from SD playing cards. Along with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, cell machine help consists of the Canon Print app or Apple AirPrint, Google Cloud Print, or Mopria, that are accessible from the printer’s management panel. There is no such thing as a Ethernet connection.

Software program and Particular Options

The place the TS8220 departs from its predecessors is within the addition of arts and craft options, in addition to good dwelling hands-free printing through Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. Earlier than taking a look at these comparatively new additions to printer expertise, although, let’s take a fast have a look at the TS8220’s software program bundle.

Along with the usual AIO drivers that permit your PC or Mac to work together with the TS8220, the included CD incorporates the next packages and utilities:

• Scan Utility is the pretty sturdy scanner interface.
• Scan Utility Lite (macOS solely) is a pared-down model of Scan Utility.
• Simple PhotoPrint Editor Software program can be utilized for enhancing and enhancing pictures.
• My Printer (Home windows solely) is for monitoring and making configuration adjustments to your printer.
• Community Software is for for monitoring and configuring your community to work extra effectively together with your printer.
• Fast Menu is a set of shortcut icons that show by default within the lower-right nook of your display screen and permit you fast entry to a lot of the options listed right here.

Simple PhotoPrint Editor additionally is available in a cell model that permits you to make corrections and enhancements to the photographs you are taking together with your smartphone or pill with out having to switch them to your desktop or laptop computer.

You additionally get the Message In Print app, a function much like the HP Sprocket 2nd Version’s ($79.99 at Amazon)(Opens in a brand new window) augmented actuality and Lifeprint’s Hyperphoto. Message In Print permits you to embed hidden messages—textual content, animations, music, video hyperlinks, and different inventive augmentations—instantly throughout the picture. After downloading and putting in the app, buddies, household, or coworkers can merely maintain their cell gadgets’ cameras over the photograph to show your customized messages or open the hyperlinks contained throughout the pictures.

Canon has additionally thrown in some “crafter” options, comparable to help for a number of sq. media sizes, greeting card and different templates, and built-in printable patterns—initially included with the corporate’s TS9521C. The sq. media sizes embrace 5 by 5 inches, 4 by 4 inches, and three.5 by 3.5 inches. The built-in printable patterns are simply what they sound like, a group of crafter dots, squares, checkerboard, tablecloth, vacation and seasonal, and a number of other different patterns, saved within the printer’s reminiscence.

The “good” performance is a hands-free print expertise that Canon has included with a couple of of its latest TS-series fashions, together with the wide-format TS9520 and TS9521C. HP, too, has included hands-free expertise with its latest Tango X. The TS8220 and these different machines are good primarily as a result of they work together with, on this case, both Amazon’s Alexa or Google’s Assistant good dwelling home equipment or by means of your smartphone through an app, in addition to different platforms that help IFTTT (If This Then That) scripting expertise.

IFTTT scripts provoke automated workflow profiles that fireplace when your printer receives a string of code from a voice-activated machine (or your smartphone with an app). When used together with the TS8220’s personal printer apps and different automation options, whenever you say one thing like, “Google, ask the Pixma to print pictures from Instagram,” the printer goes to work.

Predictable Pixma Efficiency

Like a lot of the TS-series Pixmas, Canon charges the TS8220 at 15 pages per minute (ppm) for monochrome pages and 10ppm for shade pages. I examined it over USB from our customary Intel Core i5-equipped testbed PC working Home windows 10 Skilled. When printing our customary frivolously formatted 12-page Microsoft Phrase doc, it churned on the fee of 13.2ppm, or simply wanting its 15ppm ranking. That is the identical pace as its TS9120 sibling and 0.1ppm slower than the TS8120.

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Epson’s XP-6000 additionally printed the doc at 0.1ppm slower than the TS8220, and HP’s Envy 7155 got here in at 0.3ppm behind. Brother’s office-centric MFC-J995DW was, at virtually 3ppm behind the TS8220, slower nonetheless.

For the following take a look at, I printed a number of colourful and sophisticated Acrobat, Excel, and PowerPoint enterprise paperwork containing embedded pictures, charts, and graphs, after which mixed these outcomes with the scores from the earlier 12-page textual content doc take a look at, to give you a pages-per-minute quantity for printing our total suite of enterprise paperwork.

The Pixma TS8220 churned out all our take a look at paperwork at a fee of 4.8ppm, which is some extent or two off from each its predecessor and its TS9120 sibling, 1.4ppm slower than the XP-6000 and 1ppm quicker than the HP 7155. And, at 7.7ppm, the Brother MFC-J995DW beat all of them.

Lastly, the TS8220 printed our set of colourful and detailed 4-by-6-inch snapshots at a median of 28 seconds, which was shut by a couple of seconds to a lot of the different fashions talked about right here, and the HP 7155’s 44 seconds introduced up the rear. Something quicker than 60 seconds on this portion of our pace exams is respectable.

Six-Ink Brilliance and Element

Few consumer-grade photograph AIOs print and replica in addition to Canon’s six-ink Pixmas, particularly pictures and graphics. However textual content, too, comes out well-shaped and extremely legible, greater than appropriate for many dwelling and small enterprise functions. Graphics print with little-to-no banding, with vibrant and correct colours and gradients, and no readily perceptible flaws.

However pictures are the place the TS8220 and its ilk flourish. The sequence of 4-by-6-inch and 8-by-10-inch borderless pictures I printed have been vibrantly coloured and extremely detailed, effectively past what you’d get out of your on a regular basis four-ink inkjet printer. If printing pictures is your main cause for getting a printer, the TS8220 is likely one of the greatest within the consumer-grade photograph printer enterprise.

Costly to Use

A downside to most consumer-grade photograph printers is that they price lots to make use of. On this case, although, because of the manner Canon publishes its ink cartridge yields and that this can be a six-ink machine, as a substitute of a typical four-ink mannequin, I can not use PCMag’s customary technique to calculate working prices. As a substitute, utilizing somewhat math and my expertise with these machines, I estimate that monochrome pages run about 4 cents to six cent every, and shade pages about 15 to 17 cents. Photographs, in fact, with their 100% ink protection, price considerably extra to print.

Lately, you do have choices, although. Epson’s five-ink Expression Premium ET-7700 EcoTank All-in-One Supertank Printer ($840.00 at Amazon)(Opens in a brand new window) lists for about two-and-a-half occasions greater than the TS8220, nevertheless it delivers working prices of lower than 1 cent for monochrome pages and simply greater than 1 cent for shade pages. It is a terrific various when you plan to print lots. As well as, HP’s four-ink Envy Picture 7155, with a subscription to HP’s Immediate Ink program, delivers all pages, together with pictures, for as little as 3.5 cents per web page.

Then too, there are the a number of business-oriented printers, such because the Brother MFC-J995DW INKvestment Tank mannequin mentioned all through. Its working prices are simply lower than 1 cent for monochrome pages and slightly below 5 cents for shade. In case you plan on utilizing your AIO for printing and copying quite a lot of doc pages, in addition to pictures, you must think about a printer with some type of lower-ink-cost incentive—except, in fact, price per print is not a priority for you.

Glorious Low-Quantity Printing

In case you want a machine for churning out keeper pictures and printing or copying the occasional doc, six-ink Pixmas just like the TS8220 are made for you. In any other case, their excessive working prices relegate them to low-volume AIOs. If your own home workplace does have a extra sturdy print schedule, printers with low-cost ink packages, such because the Epson Expression ET-7700 or the HP Envy Picture 7155, are stable options. If a extra sturdy function set, together with Ethernet connectivity and an ADF, are engaging to you, the Editors’ Alternative Canon Pixma TS9120 is one other glorious various. In any other case, few machines will churn out better-looking household pictures than the TS8220.