Canon Pixma TS8320 Wi-fi Inkjet All-In-One Printer Evaluation

The Canon Pixma TS8320 Wi-fi Inkjet All-In-One Printer ($199.99) is a consumer-grade all-in-one (AIO) picture printer designed for reasonable use in a house setting. This six-ink machine churns out not solely excellent-looking pictures, but additionally extremely legible, near-laser-quality textual content and detailed, precisely coloured enterprise graphics. It lacks the handy auto-duplexing automated doc feeder of the Editors’ Selection Epson Expression Premium XP-7100 Small-in-One, however is in any other case a wonderful home-office companion.

All of the Colours

Together with the usual cyan, magenta, yellow, and black (CMYK) course of colours, the TS8320 comes with pigment-black and photo-blue inks. The pigment-black darkens textual content and makes black areas in pictures and graphics deeper. And, in line with Canon, the photo-blue ink improves definition (by serving to to eradicate graininess) and will increase the colour vary.

Just like the Pixma TS8220 earlier than it, the TS8320 is available in three colours: black, crimson, and white (Canon despatched me a white one). At 5.6 by 14.7 by 12.6 inches (HWD) and weighing 14.6 kilos, it is the identical dimension and girth as its TS8220 predecessor and the extra sturdy Pixma TS9120. Epson’s competing photo-centric Expression Premium XP-7100 Small-in-One and HP’s Envy Photograph 7155 All-in-One are additionally comparable in weight and dimension. Client-grade photo-centric AIOs like these are meant for home-office use and due to this fact are designed to eat a minimal quantity of desk area.

Configuration and walkup duties, reminiscent of printing from SD playing cards or scanning to or printing from the cloud, are dealt with from the TS8320’s management panel, which consists solely of an influence button and a 4.3-inch touch-screen show, proven right here.

The TS8320, like an increasing number of client AIOs as of late, helps voice-activation by way of Amazon’s Alexa or Google’s Assistant good residence home equipment or via your smartphone from an app, in addition to different platforms, reminiscent of Microsoft’s Cortana or Apple’s Siri, that assist IFTTT (If This Then That) scripting expertise. Along with the scripts that include the TS8320, you will discover and adapt further ones from IFTTT.com and several other different websites.

The TS8320’s paper dealing with is comprised of 200 sheets break up between a 100-sheet drawer up entrance and a 100-sheet tray that pulls out from the again.

The rear tray will even maintain as much as 20 sheets of letter-size (or smaller) picture paper. There’s additionally a tray that slides in simply above the primary paper tray for printing labels on appropriately surfaced optical discs. This time round, although, the CD tray is billed as a “multipurpose” tray that helps a number of several types of media, together with printable fingernail stickers, magnetic and re-stickable picture papers, in addition to 3.5-by-3.5-inch and 5-by-5-inch sq. picture papers. The TS8320 prints two-sided pages mechanically, and the flatbed scanner scans and copies as much as letter-size pictures and paperwork.

Moreover, the 30-page output tray extends as wanted—in order that your paperwork ought to by no means wind up on the ground.

Sadly, there is no automated doc feeder (ADF) for scanning and copying multipage paperwork. In actual fact, to get an ADF from a TS-series Pixma, you may must step all the way in which as much as the wide-format TS9520. As talked about, Epson’s XP-7100 comes with a 35-page ADF.

By comparability, the Pixma TS9120’s paper capability can be 200 sheets, whereas the XP-7100 holds as much as 120 sheets, break up between a 100-sheet predominant cassette and a 20-sheet picture paper insert inside that. Canon stopped publishing month-to-month obligation cycle and advisable month-to-month quantity rankings on its consumer-grade picture printers just a few years again, although my educated guess is that the TS8320 ought to simply churn out just a few hundred pages every month with out breaking a sweat.

Connectivity and Software program

Normal interfaces are Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0 LE (Low Vitality), connecting to a single PC by way of USB 2.0, PictBridge Wi-fi for printing from suitable Canon cameras, and a reminiscence card slot for printing from SD playing cards. Along with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, cell machine assist consists of Apple AirPrint, Google Cloud Print, Mopria, or the Canon Print app. You too can print from a number of flavors of SD playing cards by way of the slot situated to the left of the output tray.

Along with the usual AIO drivers that enable your PC or Mac to work together with the TS8320, the software program bundle contains the next applications and utilities: Scan Utility (a reasonably sturdy scanner interface); Scan Utility Lite (macOS solely, a scaled-down iteration of Scan Utility); Straightforward PhotoPrint Editor Software program (for modifying and enhancing pictures); My Printer (Home windows solely, for monitoring and making configuration adjustments to your printer) Community Device (for monitoring and configuring your community to work extra effectively along with your printer); Fast Menu (a set of shortcut icons that show by default within the lower-right nook of your display and permit you fast entry to a lot of the options listed right here).

You too can get Straightforward PhotoPrint Editor as a cell app that permits you to make corrections and enhancements to the pictures you’re taking along with your cell machine with out transferring them to your PC.

Additionally included within the bundle is Canon’s Message In Print app, which lets you embed hidden messages, reminiscent of animations, textual content, music, video hyperlinks, and so forth, straight contained in the picture. Associates, household, or coworkers can obtain and set up the app, after which merely maintain their cell units’ cameras over the picture to disclose your custom-made messages, or to open the hyperlinks contained throughout the pictures.

Clocking the TS8320

Canon charges the TS8320 at 15 pages per minute (ppm) for monochrome pages and 10ppm for shade pages. To substantiate these speeds, I examined it over USB from our normal Intel Core i5 testbed PC working Home windows 10 Skilled. Throughout the first portion of my testing routine, the TS8320 printed our normal 12-page Microsoft Phrase check doc on the price of 15ppm, matching its score. That rating is about 1.5ppm quicker than its TS9120 sibling and its TS8220 predecessor. Epson’s XP-7100 additionally printed the doc at 15ppm, and HP’s Envy 7155 managed 1ppm behind that.

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For the following check, I printed a number of colourful and sophisticated Acrobat enterprise paperwork, Excel spreadsheets and charts and graphs, and PowerPoint handouts containing enterprise graphics and a wide range of fonts at a number of totally different colours and sizes. Then I mixed these outcomes with the rating from the earlier 12-page textual content doc check and got here up with a rating of 5.1ppm, which was ever-so-slightly quicker than each the TS8220 and the TS9120, 1.5ppm slower than the XP-7100 and 1.3ppm faster than the HP 7155.

The TS8320 printed our pair of colourful and detailed 4-by-6-inch snapshots at a median of 29 seconds, which was shut by just a few seconds to a lot of the different fashions talked about right here, besides that the HP 7155’s 44 seconds was a number of seconds slower. Between 30 and 60 seconds is about common for snapshot printing amongst these consumer-grade picture printers.

Pixma Imaging Excellence

Few consumer-grade picture AIOs print and replica in addition to Canon’s six-ink Pixmas, particularly pictures and graphics, and the TS8320 holds up this custom. It additionally prints well-shaped and extremely legible textual content, and graphics come out with no noticeable banding or streaking. Colours and gradients are good and correct.

However the TS8320 is a photograph printer first, and it reveals. The check 4-by-6-inch and 8-by-10-inch borderless pictures I printed displayed vibrant colours and spectacular element, rivaled solely by Canon’s different five- and six-ink Pixmas and Epson’s five- and six-ink Expression Premium AIOs, such because the XP-7100 talked about earlier.

Excessive Operating Prices

Like most different consumer-grade picture printers, the TS8320 is dear to make use of. Relying on what you print, you may pay someplace between 4 to six cents for monochrome pages and 15 to 17 cents for shade pages. Images with one hundred pc ink protection can price significantly extra. However this is not unique to Pixmas. Epson’s equally priced picture printers, together with the XP-7100 talked about earlier, price about the identical because the TS8320 to make use of.

HP’s four-ink (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black) printers, together with the Envy 7155, are Immediate Ink-capable machines. In the event you enroll them within the firm’s Immediate Ink subscription program, you possibly can spend as little as 3.5 cents per web page.

Six-ink Pixmas just like the TS8320 price considerably extra to make use of than many comparable fashions, however few inkjets out there print as effectively, making this a basic instance of getting what you pay for.

When High quality Issues

If top-notch output is what you are on the lookout for in a house workplace all-in-one, the Pixma TS8320 will serve you effectively. Whereas it isn’t low cost to make use of, it churns out distinctive paperwork and pictures at a decent clip. In the event you typically scan or copy multipage paperwork, you may wish to try the Editors’ Selection Epson Expression Premium XP-7100 Small-in-One, which comes with the auto-duplexing ADF that this Canon mannequin lacks. In any other case, the TS8320 is a wonderful possibility in the event you’re prepared to pay in the long term for high quality output.