Customer Rating: 
Summary: Canon PIXMA mp830-Inexpensive, but limited
Comment: For the $$, this is a good inkjet printer. It is easy to set up and to operate but it is limited in the following:
SCANNING- even using the auto feeder, you can only scan a maximum page size of 81/2 by 11. The manual tells you that you can do bigger sizes and then "paste" them together but I was unable to do this using an original of 8 1/2 by 14. (An important feature for me as I do many legal sized documents.)
INK USEAGE- The printer seems to go through ink rapidly- I am replacing all ink in the first 6 weeks of purchase and have really not used much color. Probably printed a maximum of 2 dozen color pages and have all my other documents printing on "greyscale" and "fast" to minimize ink useage. I have had a laser printer for 10 years (replacing ink cartridges only 1-2 times/yr) so I don't know if this is "standard" for ink jets...but it has been expensive to get new ink. I would also recommend keeping an extra ink cartridge of all colors on hand because if you run out of ANY color..including the standard black, you can no longer print. I had to go to a copy store to finish a project because one ink ran out....and the rest of the project was BLACK ...which I had plenty of black left! That was frustrating. AUTO DOCUMENT FEEDER- grabs more than 1 page when I am scanning...need to stand by and watch it closely. Most of the time it "copies" without pulling more than one..but for some reason, with the scanner it is malfunctioning.
Nice Features: Can leave 2 types of paper in the machine and use the "feed switch button" to manually change the paper without needing to unload paper from cassete. Flat bed scanner makes it easy to scan small documents and the program (MPNavigator) is easy to use. Can print 2 sided copies. When ink gets low, any incoming faxes are stored in memory and only printed if you want them...also the machine warns you before you print that you may want to cancel the printing due to low ink.
I would recommend this to someone with "light" printer useage...if you are running a business, I would go to a laser printer or check around more. Color ink seems to deplete quickly. Quality of photos was good.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Do Not Buy This Printer
Comment: Just 3 weeks after a warranty exchange for my original MP830, (jamed paper resulting in error code) this one through up error code 6500, which IMO is the kiss of death. Tech support was useless. Repair shop wants 65.00 just to look at it. No more Canon for me.
Customer Rating:
Summary: ABSOLUTE RUBBISH
Comment: I warn you with the utmost sincerity that this machine will give you ulcers. The only aspect of this machine to function as it should is the scanner, however, even that will be compromised, as detailed below. What goes wrong:
* Everything;
* Faxing: it will drag multiple pages through at a time, forcing you to resend the document dozens of times before it will (maybe) be transmitted.
* Everything else;
* Even if the machine that we own is a fluke, a lemon, still the programmed functioning of this piece is ludicrous. We have had several of the correct CANON ink tanks that the machine will not recognize, forcing us to contact Canon and beg them to send a new one, dodging insinuated accusations of dishonesty (it seems that they are used to this complaint; Google it). EVEN IF THAT IS A FLUKE, once you run out of an ink, the machine becomes as useful for faxing as your own mouth. Until you replace the ink (and God forbid that the machine doesn't recognize the cartridge, for then you must wait until Canon sends you a new one, or you sell a kidney to buy a new one) the machine WILL NOT FUNCTION.
* Ink GUZZLER - this thing drinks ink faster than you can.
I have another Canon printer/scanner that works fine, just as it should. But before buying this behemoth, consider whether or not you want higher blood pressure and a massive plastic sculpture.
Customer Rating:
Summary: No problems so far, I'm completely happy.
Comment: This is my first multi-function center, but not my first Canon product. I have been satisfied with their cameras for quite a while.
I am a very light user, and I don't put a lot of demands on this product. I print off black and white text documents, and I scan in drawings and pictures so I can put them on my website.
I think the ink life was acceptable for what I have done so far, and I wasn't shocked to see the price of replacement ink tanks. So far, I have only been through one of the black ink tanks, and I bought a two pack of refills for $24.
My text documents printed very clean appearing, high contrast prints all the up until the point at which the ink tanks were completely dry. There was no gradual fading out of the strength of the black.
Like I said before, I don't have a lot of experience in using these kind of machines, so maybe I'm easy to please but I think the quality of the scans has been great. I have had no problem using the machine as far as moving through the menus and doing things like printing with special effects or shrinking pictures.
I have even found much of the bundled software to be really useful, which is rare for me to do.
For what I paid for this product, I am very pleased with what I got. So far, so good.
I did have to go through the software installation process about 5 times before my computer got it all right and was able to go ahead with detecting the printer. That is not the fault of Canon or the fault of the MFC, I just used the manual to troubleshoot the problem and I eventually got everything installed fully and correctly.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Impressed...glad I took so much time to read the reviews
Comment: I just bought the mp830 after reading so many reviews on all-in-one printers, and I am glad I took the time. If you are like me, it seems that all in one printers don't seem to fair to well on customer satisfaction. I was very surprised to see such a high score on this printer on amazon with reviews totaling over 300, that seem to say a lot. Surprise... truth does seem to be in the numbers. Except I think it is a 5 star product.
Setup was easy and the only problem I had was getting the pc to recognize my printer, but low and behold it was a buffoon error on my part. I had not realized that there were 3 various usb connections in the back. LOL...Make sure you pick the right one, and not for the fax or phone but the one on the far outside. I admit I am always in a hurry to get things done and this little error caused me to take a few more minutes than it should have.
As far as the quality of printing and scanning. I couldn't be more happy. I own a hp psc 1315 printer, hp photosmart 1115 and Epson Stylus Photo R800 professional printer and hp flatbed scanner that always worked like a gem. It appears this unit is all I need. The scanner impressed me with it's quality of scanning. I am not sure I can tell the difference between my epson r800 prints from the one's I printed off the mp830 using that very expensive photo paper from epson. Yep, the mp830 seems to do well on this paper whereas my hp photosmart 1115 didn't. I don't need the networking feature so buying the mp850 was a moot point. OH...it looks pretty nice on my desk too.
I never thought I could be happy with an all in one, but decided to clean up the office a bit and hoped that I would not sacrafice quality in the process and it appears i was more successful than dreamed.
One person commented on referring to this printer as an ink hog! WELL, based on my other printers, the mp830 does better than what I am use to. The ink also seems to costs less online compared to my other printers from what I see on that auction site.
Yep, I am happier than I ever thought I would be with this printer. I highly recommend it to anyone looking for an all in one.
Summary: Canon PIXMA mp830-Inexpensive, but limited
Comment: For the $$, this is a good inkjet printer. It is easy to set up and to operate but it is limited in the following:
SCANNING- even using the auto feeder, you can only scan a maximum page size of 81/2 by 11. The manual tells you that you can do bigger sizes and then "paste" them together but I was unable to do this using an original of 8 1/2 by 14. (An important feature for me as I do many legal sized documents.)
INK USEAGE- The printer seems to go through ink rapidly- I am replacing all ink in the first 6 weeks of purchase and have really not used much color. Probably printed a maximum of 2 dozen color pages and have all my other documents printing on "greyscale" and "fast" to minimize ink useage. I have had a laser printer for 10 years (replacing ink cartridges only 1-2 times/yr) so I don't know if this is "standard" for ink jets...but it has been expensive to get new ink. I would also recommend keeping an extra ink cartridge of all colors on hand because if you run out of ANY color..including the standard black, you can no longer print. I had to go to a copy store to finish a project because one ink ran out....and the rest of the project was BLACK ...which I had plenty of black left! That was frustrating. AUTO DOCUMENT FEEDER- grabs more than 1 page when I am scanning...need to stand by and watch it closely. Most of the time it "copies" without pulling more than one..but for some reason, with the scanner it is malfunctioning.
Nice Features: Can leave 2 types of paper in the machine and use the "feed switch button" to manually change the paper without needing to unload paper from cassete. Flat bed scanner makes it easy to scan small documents and the program (MPNavigator) is easy to use. Can print 2 sided copies. When ink gets low, any incoming faxes are stored in memory and only printed if you want them...also the machine warns you before you print that you may want to cancel the printing due to low ink.
I would recommend this to someone with "light" printer useage...if you are running a business, I would go to a laser printer or check around more. Color ink seems to deplete quickly. Quality of photos was good.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Do Not Buy This Printer
Comment: Just 3 weeks after a warranty exchange for my original MP830, (jamed paper resulting in error code) this one through up error code 6500, which IMO is the kiss of death. Tech support was useless. Repair shop wants 65.00 just to look at it. No more Canon for me.
Customer Rating:
Summary: ABSOLUTE RUBBISH
Comment: I warn you with the utmost sincerity that this machine will give you ulcers. The only aspect of this machine to function as it should is the scanner, however, even that will be compromised, as detailed below. What goes wrong:
* Everything;
* Faxing: it will drag multiple pages through at a time, forcing you to resend the document dozens of times before it will (maybe) be transmitted.
* Everything else;
* Even if the machine that we own is a fluke, a lemon, still the programmed functioning of this piece is ludicrous. We have had several of the correct CANON ink tanks that the machine will not recognize, forcing us to contact Canon and beg them to send a new one, dodging insinuated accusations of dishonesty (it seems that they are used to this complaint; Google it). EVEN IF THAT IS A FLUKE, once you run out of an ink, the machine becomes as useful for faxing as your own mouth. Until you replace the ink (and God forbid that the machine doesn't recognize the cartridge, for then you must wait until Canon sends you a new one, or you sell a kidney to buy a new one) the machine WILL NOT FUNCTION.
* Ink GUZZLER - this thing drinks ink faster than you can.
I have another Canon printer/scanner that works fine, just as it should. But before buying this behemoth, consider whether or not you want higher blood pressure and a massive plastic sculpture.
Customer Rating:
Summary: No problems so far, I'm completely happy.
Comment: This is my first multi-function center, but not my first Canon product. I have been satisfied with their cameras for quite a while.
I am a very light user, and I don't put a lot of demands on this product. I print off black and white text documents, and I scan in drawings and pictures so I can put them on my website.
I think the ink life was acceptable for what I have done so far, and I wasn't shocked to see the price of replacement ink tanks. So far, I have only been through one of the black ink tanks, and I bought a two pack of refills for $24.
My text documents printed very clean appearing, high contrast prints all the up until the point at which the ink tanks were completely dry. There was no gradual fading out of the strength of the black.
Like I said before, I don't have a lot of experience in using these kind of machines, so maybe I'm easy to please but I think the quality of the scans has been great. I have had no problem using the machine as far as moving through the menus and doing things like printing with special effects or shrinking pictures.
I have even found much of the bundled software to be really useful, which is rare for me to do.
For what I paid for this product, I am very pleased with what I got. So far, so good.
I did have to go through the software installation process about 5 times before my computer got it all right and was able to go ahead with detecting the printer. That is not the fault of Canon or the fault of the MFC, I just used the manual to troubleshoot the problem and I eventually got everything installed fully and correctly.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Impressed...glad I took so much time to read the reviews
Comment: I just bought the mp830 after reading so many reviews on all-in-one printers, and I am glad I took the time. If you are like me, it seems that all in one printers don't seem to fair to well on customer satisfaction. I was very surprised to see such a high score on this printer on amazon with reviews totaling over 300, that seem to say a lot. Surprise... truth does seem to be in the numbers. Except I think it is a 5 star product.
Setup was easy and the only problem I had was getting the pc to recognize my printer, but low and behold it was a buffoon error on my part. I had not realized that there were 3 various usb connections in the back. LOL...Make sure you pick the right one, and not for the fax or phone but the one on the far outside. I admit I am always in a hurry to get things done and this little error caused me to take a few more minutes than it should have.
As far as the quality of printing and scanning. I couldn't be more happy. I own a hp psc 1315 printer, hp photosmart 1115 and Epson Stylus Photo R800 professional printer and hp flatbed scanner that always worked like a gem. It appears this unit is all I need. The scanner impressed me with it's quality of scanning. I am not sure I can tell the difference between my epson r800 prints from the one's I printed off the mp830 using that very expensive photo paper from epson. Yep, the mp830 seems to do well on this paper whereas my hp photosmart 1115 didn't. I don't need the networking feature so buying the mp850 was a moot point. OH...it looks pretty nice on my desk too.
I never thought I could be happy with an all in one, but decided to clean up the office a bit and hoped that I would not sacrafice quality in the process and it appears i was more successful than dreamed.
One person commented on referring to this printer as an ink hog! WELL, based on my other printers, the mp830 does better than what I am use to. The ink also seems to costs less online compared to my other printers from what I see on that auction site.
Yep, I am happier than I ever thought I would be with this printer. I highly recommend it to anyone looking for an all in one.
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