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. You can even put rolls of canvas through it. 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!

Blown away by the quality! I’ve debated buying this printer on and off for 2 years, I’m so glad I finally purchased it. The 13 by 19 prints are stunning and rival the quality of a professional printer. To be honest, after several paper tests and tweaking the print settings, I’ve exceeded in quality printing images I’ve spent hundreds of dollars on in the past (paying for prints) there is an art to printing your own work, you dial it in, experiment and enhance the image the way it’s meant to be. I know canon has higher end printers but I’m so happy with this pixma ip8720, fast shipping too, awesome!

The media could not be loaded. I hope I was clear enough in my video, I couldn’t be any more disappointed in a piece of technology from a well reputable company. You would think that canon would actually have some sense in selling products that was ready for the consumer. Everyone on here gloating about how they had no issues at all Clearly they did not have the same batch of printers that the rest of us had that left one star reviews. I’ve been in IT for over a decade, let’s be honest a little longer than that. I run my own media company. This is a printer that appears to have great print quality however it doesn’t have great networking quality. The networking chip in here is not working. Keep getting the yellow light indicating there is an error. Trying to connect directly to the printer as the printer has its own networking hub that way you can adjust the settings and connect it to your wireless network through your phone. No it’s not that easy it only worked for about a few minutes until the light turned yellow in lost connection. I’m literally trying to connect here you have to stand within 2 feet of the printer of the entire time along with that the printer must be directly next to the router to have any clear connection whatsoever. Lots of troubleshooting involved with this piece of crap. First you must make sure that it’s not your 2.4 or 5.0 GHz connection issue. The printer has to connect to a 2.4 GHz network. With eero, Amazon’s mesh router system, it automatically will adjust your devices to whatever network is best at that time you have to disable the 5 GHz connection temporarily so the device can connect to the 2.4 GHz. This was the first problem in many problems. Also for some reason iOS 18 doesn’t mesh well with this printer networking services. I tried on my iPhone, and my iPad however my android backup phone did appear to have a connection. Also attempted to connect directly to a Windows computer and failed multiple times unable to connect or find the printer. I don’t know who’s in charge of these products at Canon however they really really need to take a deep look and quality of employees or perhaps machines that are making these. Someone decided to save money instead of focus on the value of this product. I hope someone actually reads this and finds it helpful, if there’s anything I could possibly do to sway you from purchasing this product I hope that I achieve that.

Once you have this set up, the actual print quality is pretty nice, and the printer takes orders by wifi instantly.That said, the actual installation is a pain in the ass. My wife and I both work in tech and were still driven half-mad by this cryptic puzzle of a setup process. (This printer was designed like a decade ago, and it shows.) For the record, if you don't have a CD drive, you're better off googling for the drivers than trying to navigate the official US website. (You'll find the drivers on the official Asian website and they work fine.) And if you need the admin password to add wifi information, you'll find it in a settings printout, which you can create by holding down the bottom button for exactly 6 flashes of the power light.It took around 2 hours for us to troubleshoot through everything and get the printer connected to the wifi, but now that it's connected, it just works. And we're pretty happy with that.