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I’ve recently been sampling new printers, after going many years without one. Now that I work exclusively at home, there’s often a need to print something for work, so having a printer, even in our digital and e-document world is very handy.
The Canon PIXMA TR4720 is a color all-in-one printer that can handle everything a home office can throw at it. You can scan, print, copy, and it even has fax capability. Like most modern printers, it’s built for easy plug-and-play, easy to install, and relies on replaceable inkjet cartridges. In this review, I’ll take a look at what it can do, what the features are and if I think this printer can be a good bet for your home office.
Set up
Getting this printer set up was mercifully easy and only took about five minutes. You’ll turn the printer on and make sure to download the canon Selphy app. The app does a really good job at walking you through the steps to get online and connected. You’ll essentially need to sign into your home Wi-Fi network work then install the ink cartridges.
Loading paper
The paper loads at the front of this printer. It seems like a bit of an odd configuration if I’m being honest. There are two separate flip out trays from the front: one holds the blank paper and the other is. For the document to print out on.
This is actually a huge disappointment for me in the design. A printer that is already this large and takes up such a big footprint does not need an additional side tray taking up even more space. I’m a little surprised the paper tray doesn’t live in a drawer in the bottom of the printer and that the Ccanon designers didn’t simply have the printer paper spit out the top where there is a receptacle for scanned documents. All in all, this printer is much larger than it needs to be, so those in small offices: be warned.
Print Features
The Canon PIXMA TR4720 is capable of standard one-sided printing, two-sided printing, borderless printing, and photo printing. Through Canon’s PRINT Inkjet/SELPHY app, you can link the printer to print wirelessly or from the cloud.
Canon claims a borderless 4x6 photo will take just over a minute to print (2:15, and a standard black and white document prints at four pages per minute (two if the document is color).
In my testing it took anywhere from about 1 minute to over 2 minutes (2:15 to be exact) to print 4x6 photos; this seemed to depend if I was printing natively from the photos app on my phone, or from the Selpht app (the latter being faster).
Single documents spit our super fast in about 6-8 seconds, with a delay of about 12 seconds to send instructions from laptop to printer.
You can print letter or legal-sized paper and photos from 4x6 to 8x10, but you won’t be able to print larger paper formats like 11x17.
When I tested the print quality, I can confirm the documents are clear and legible, with no blurring, or smudging.
Two-sided printing worked very well and it handy to save paper.
When it came to photos, in truth, it was pretty tedious printing them; you’ve got to move the catch tray out of the way, remove the paper, and pinch the feeder closed to hold the photo sheets, load the paper, then flip the catch tray back into place.
Despite the manual nature of this, the photos print well, and look clear and vibrant, and tru to the originals.
Scanning
Scanning only works on one side of the document, and the feeder can hold up to 20 documents-even thicker papers. It worked well in my testing, it takes about ??20 seconds to scan a single page document.
The default setting is 300 dots per inch, though you can reach 1,200 DPI through advanced settings. The max color depth for the scanner is 24 bit.
Overall review
Overall there’s a lot to like about this printer, and the downsides mainly come in the design, not the performance.
On the upside, the printer is clear, prints good quality, and there’s lots of options for paper sizes, plus photo printing. It was also easy to set up and the app seems to work well.
On the downside, the design, with trays opening everywhere, and the large footprint means it takes up more space than necessary, and there could be a better, and higher capacity paper tray, in my opinion. I was also unable to find a way to scan documents directly to my computer during my limited testing period.
But overall this printer works well and I can recommend it to you.
The Canon Pixma Printer TR4720 sells for about $99USD and you can get it from Amazon.