Canon IP8720 Wireless Printer, AirPrint and Cloud Compatible, Black

I'm a professional graphic designer and specialize in print work. I've been using this printer in my design studio since 2018 and have printed 5,000+ sheets on it now, and I am still exceptionally happy with it. The print quality is excellent, as good as any of the lower Canon and Epson Pro models I've used. I print photos, posters, invitations, business cards, flyers, greeting cards, vinyl stickers, postcards, envelopes, and more with this for myself, clients, and retail products. I've used up to 140lb watercolor paper and printed branded tissue paper (on a carrier sheet of course) with no issue. I've maybe had 5 paper jams total throughout the life of this printer. I use Canon papers, HP papers, Red River papers (my favorite), and all sorts of off-brand paper, scrapbook paper, cardstock, and printable vinyl. Matte, satin, and glossy. This thing prints like a champ and takes whatever I've thrown at it. Keep in mind that higher-quality papers will always give you higher-quality results, no matter the printer. If you have a color-calibrated monitor and use Canon inks with the proper settings, the color accuracy is excellent. Far better than vista print in color accuracy and quality, in my experience. As with any photo printer, using off-brand inks can and often damages the print heads, in addition to causing color accuracy issues. I get amazingly vibrant, high-color artwork prints out of this machine, the ink quality is amazing. My cost with Canon XL carts for a one-sided, full-color 13x19 glossy highest-quality photo print (which uses the most ink) is roughly $0.009 per square inch or $2.21 per page. OfficeDepo has a great rewards program that includes giving you credit/points for recycling cartridges. I buy most of my tanks from Amazon unless OfficeDepo has a sale, but for every 10 cartridges you recycle, you can get a free XL tank. This isn't a plug-and-play consumer printer though. It takes a few minutes to set up and you have to understand how to use a higher-quality inkjet printer. You have to use the print utility and use the settings appropriately. Almost every bad review I've seen on here is because someone didn't take the time to learn how to use it correctly. If you are tech-illiterate, this isn't the printer for you, and the same will be true for nearly any higher-quality photo printer. Be sure you go to the Canon website and download the drivers offered there, the 8700 driver is great and has a ton of options. Make sure you are using the correct settings for the material you are printing on for the best results. If you think it's too loud, turn on the quiet mode found in the printer utility. You can also adjust the print speed through the utility as well. If you're printing documents, fast printing is fine. If you're printing photos, posters, printable vinyl, or anything ink-heavy (ESPECIALLY on glossy mediums), turn your speed down to the slowest speed for the best results. You CAN set it up without wifi, I set mine up wired at first without issue on my old MacBook Pro. When I replaced my hardware with an iMac, I set it up via the wifi without issue. I've used it over several versions of Mac OS and iOS without issue. I've set it up on two different models of HP laptops as well over wifi without issue. I've used it over several versions of Windows now as well without issue. As with any printer, when you upgrade your operating system to a new version, you may have to redownload the drivers or uninstall and reinstall them, but again that should be understood as that's true of any higher-quality printer. If you have an obstructed wifi signal you may have issues, but that's a given. If your router doesn't have the bandwidth for all the devices using it, you'll have issues, but that's also a given. If you have issues with the wifi, you absolutely can use this printer hardwired as well, and it will print faster. If you have a large print file, you may want to consider hardwiring for that job. When I print multiple copies or multiple pages of 13x19 prints I do this. Be sure to do proper maintenance, which means periodically running cleaning functions, running the print head alignment check, and realigning the print heads with the utility when required (the utility has an automatic function for this you just have to click run and evaluate the test result when complete). These things are true of ANY photo or art printer though. These things will greatly extend the life and quality of your equipment. I have been happier with this printer than I ever expected, especially for this price point!

PRO: This printer is capable of absolute amazing accurate color, black and white grayscale prints, but only with a perfect custom made printing profile. CON: I had to creat my own printing profile using x-rite profile maker with my own tweaking adjustments. The printer is very quirky with wi-fi connectivity. I was unable to find a printing profile that prints proper color and grayscale on the same print.

I owned this printer for several years and now that I just got rid of it I’m compelled to write a long term review. The good: I had a great day 1 experience with this printer. It does what it says, I liked the image quality and it’s really great being able to make high quality photo prints at home. The bad: everything else. The longer I owned this printer the more I hated it, until after one more ink cartridge error I finally had enough and recycled the damn thing. Over time the maintenance and consumable costs become extreme. None of these inkjet printers are suitable for low volume occasional home printing, for the simple reason that the print heads will dry up and clog if they’re not actively used about once a week. I would go several months between working on projects and printing something - and it was not uncommon to power on the printer and have streaky images that needed deep printer head cleaning. This wastes paper and ink. Most of the ink I bought was wasted cleaning the print heads or it just evaporated between uses. And when any printer cartridge runs dry it won’t print. So, eg, if you run out of yellow it won’t let you print black and white documents using the black tank, even if that is full. This is a horrible design. Here’s what I replaced this printer with: I bought a little monochrome laser for documents and a mini 4x6” thermal color photo printer. The advantage of these over inkjet is they will never clog and the ink will never dry up if I don’t print something for a few months. Will use online photo printing services or a local print shop if I need larger photo prints, which is much less stress and likely cheaper than forever wasting ink into this printer. Printer makers really need to get their act together and stop making printers that clog and evaporate ink when not in use.

I have not yet printed photos or any oversized pages with this printer, but I am disappointed with Canon. This is my third Canon printer, bought for home office and photographic use. My first Canon printer, a mid-priced version, was great. Then I bought the bottom of the line printer after a divorce, and struggled and struggled with it, with connecting wirelessly and with Canon's weird and disconnected website for support. I limped along with that Pixma MG 3620 AIO for several years, not all of them wirelessly, until that printer stopped feeding paper, probably due to aging rubber rollers. I had been wanting to print larger, but budget constraints kept me from being able to go with a giclee printer, so I opted for this ip8720 for printing my digital artwork. It has worked just fine, so far, for documents and a copy of a sketch, but once again I am horrified at the support pages of the Canon website. Everything is chopped into small sections, is difficult to navigate, is offered in an outdated GUI and dated font, and is not quite clearly enough titled. In a day and age when websites can offer an interface which makes using it pleasant, even immersive and fluid, Canon really lets the customer down with pages reminiscent of documents I word processed for defense contractors, back in the 80s. We had contracts with the Army to produce instruction manuals for simulators, and the Army wasn't looking for anything really helpful. The manuals were crude, rough, and IMHO barely readable, and Canon seems stuck in that era with their website. I guess their focus is on selling the product rather than supporting it. Shame, Canon.

Had this printer two days for use with my Mac and, so far, I love it. Seems very much the successor of my old Canon iP9900, which we bought not too long after it was first manufactured in 2004. Except, this one is smaller, uses fewer ink cartridges (although still very expensive ones) and is heavily oriented toward wi-fi printing. So far, I have just produced a few 11 X 14's and 4X6's but they are really nice looking. I have experimented with printing through PS Elements 13, with Preview, and with the simplistic Canon Easy Photo-Print application. The latter, as promised, is easy as can be, but slow as Christmas. I don't know of any other modern apps that are as slow as this one. But I think Canon has just not improved it in several years. They don't really want you to use it. They would rather you use one of their web applications and they have a bunch of them which you can download with the driver or not. At first, I did not, then later I did, to try them out, then I deleted them all. Now I just have the driver and Easy Photo Print. And I expect most or all of my future printing will be out of PS Elements or Preview. It's kind of a dance figuring out how to configure your color management and print sizes and qualities and all that with multiple print dialogues that come up, from both your printing app and the Canon Driver. This can and should be made a lot simpler and more intuitive. There is a Canon manual, which you can download. So far, I have only skimmed it. I found an article from Red River Paper that was published right after the iP8720 was first sold that is very helpful. It's at: http://www.redrivercatalog.com/infocenter/articles/canon-pixma-ip8720-review-introduction-first-look-getting-started.html . And the Canon Support and Drivers page for this copier is a handy think to keep bookmarked: http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/support/consumer/printers_multifunction/pixma_ip_series/pixma_ip8720#DriversAndSoftware . Oh, and I first tried to set up my printer via wi-fi to the Mac and Airport Extreme sitting right beside it but it would not install. I blew that off and used a USB connection (you have to use your own USB cord -- it's USB 3 capable, btw). But my wife, in another room, hooked up to wireless on her Mac very quickly, once I had established the connection with USB. I like USB connections to printers anyway, when they are practical. So, anyway, there are grouses, as there always are with computer stuff but, bottom line, the pictures come out quick and they are beautiful! Not only that, the printer itself, while it takes up quite a bit of desk space, is really pretty. Well, if you like black monoliths. The ink cartridges -- very easy to install, btw -- are just "set-up" cartridges to get you addicted so you go out and buy the ridiculously expensive Canon full or extra size ones when you run out. But I see some very good reviews for knock-off printer ink for this copier, such as from Blake Printing Supply. I am inclined to give those a try. Right before we bought this printer, we bought an Epson ET-4500, a new printer that comes with a ton of ink and was supposed to produce excellent photos. But it was an all-in-one. Hence, ugly -- and most of the money spent making it was for stuff I didn't buy it for. Maybe people in offices, knocking out a few pictures here and there, would find it adequate but I found the photos terrible -- and sent the Epson back. This Canon was it's replacement. And based on two days of use, I think I made a very good choice.

I purchased this inkjet over a month ago and wanted to test it's printing capabilities with my digital prints that I mount and frame before posting a review. Even though this printer has been on the market for several years, it functionality has been exceptional. Very easy to setup with Windows 11, connect to the PC and use the Canon software that is available online after registration of the product. My go to digital print shop is Willow Plus Bleu Studio where I typically purchase and download digital images for framing for wall art. This Canon printer is a workhorse and color matches to the mockups I view on the Willow Plus Bleu Studio designs on both the jpegs and online mockups.

It was a replacement of my 7-year-old printer same model that had printed over 7,000 DVDs. The new one works much like the old. I also print a lot of phots on it and even the old one still does that well. I have to admit that I use aftermarket ink and have all 7 years so my ink cost is very low and the quality is very high.

After upgrading from a more generic printer, I've been blown away by the quality of prints I've been getting with the ip8720. I'm not much of a photographer, but I make digital/3D art and have been looking for a printer that could produce larger prints for smaller posters and presentation pieces. This printer produces exceptionally sharp images if you have the appropriate resolutions to feed it. For vector art on matte paper, you get clean, thin lines and smooth gradients. If you render 8K+ images to print on semi-gloss paper, you can get highly detailed prints, even on smaller A4 pages. I've printed a few full-sized photos that I've taken with my older 5D MK2, which looks outstanding on glossy paper. This printer can also handle a wide variety of mediums. Its relatively flat print path works well with thicker materials like an inkjet-compatible canvas; I've read it can handle material up to 24 mils thick. I once ordered Canon's 13X19 matte paper and accidentally put the thicker backing board through the printer, thinking it was just a couple of sheets of paper. The printer didn't blink an eye and spat out a printed board (it didn't absorb the ink correctly, so the quality was poor.) For larger prints, especially when printed directly out of Adobe Illustrator, you may notice some substantial banding with oranges, blues, and darker colors. I found that this was caused by the printer printing too fast. After exporting the image as a TIFF or PNG first, then using the Windows print dialogue to set the settings to Photo and high quality, the printer slows down enough to get smooth and clean colors without any banding or issues. I also ran into a problem when setting this printer up. It didn't want to connect to my desktop at all. I connected my laptop via USB to the printer, ran the driver software from Canon, and was able to set up my printer for wireless printing. After setting it up, all my devices can talk to the printer wirelessly without issues. Overall, I really enjoy using this printer, and it's helped me print out more of my pieces. If you are a photographer, graphic designer, or digital artist, this is an excellent deal for a high-quality consumer printer!