Canon PIXMA MG5320 Wireless Price Review

The beautiful PIXMA MG5320 Wireless Inkjet Photo All In One delivers superior quality, versatility, and easy use. Fitted Wi Fi®1 technology lets you to easily print and scan wirelessly virtually anywhere around your house. Print gorgeous, borderless2 photos at home up to 8.5" x 11' size with a maximum print color resolution of 9600 x 2400 dpi3 and five individual ink tanks. Have all new kinds of fun with your pictures by adding new effects like Fish Eye, Miniature, Toy Camera, Soft concentrate and Blur Background before you print. Enjoy a new sphere of printing alternatives as PIXMA Cloud Link allows you to conveniently print pictures from online photo albums Canon Image Gateway and Picasa also as templates as well as seasonal stationary and calendars from a matched Canon PIXMA Wireless All in One, all without a computer. Fitted Auto Duplex Printing lets you to automatically print on both sides of the paper and may help decrease paper handling and cost by up to 50. The MG5320 also allows you to print on your CD, DVD and Blu ray Discs, and you may be able to turn your HD Movie clips into beautiful photos. View beautiful, easy to view scans by advanced image analysis and area by area data correction, automatically. Plus, you may be able to print and scan jpeg and pdf files wirelessly from matched iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and Android devices4 without a computer. And, enjoy direct printing alternatives from matched memory cards5, USB Flash Drives6, PictBridge and optional Bluetooth devices.7

45 of 48 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of five stars nice printer for informal use, September 21, 2011
By Angela Evans (Toledo, Ohio) See all my reviews
(TOP 1000 REVIEWER) This review is from: Canon PIXMA MG5320 Wireless Inkjet Photo All in One Printer (5291B019) (Office Product)
Buyer review from the Vine™ Program () Out of the box, this is a sharp looking unit with its high gloss black finish and flush folding LCD screen and paper tray. It seems great in the home office and is intended to finish basic printing and scanning tasks. After using the printer for about a month, it looks like it can complete the tasks that could be projected by most home users with the added bonus of being wireless right out of the box.

This is what we like about the printer:

1.Easy set up: The set up is straightforward and easy with the included CD. The printer connected to our secured wireless network with no problems and the software has been installed quickly on two laptops, again, with no difficulties. The Easy Photo Print Android app also has been installed with no problem on an HTC EVO 3D and was free to download from the market. It took about thirty minutes to get the product out of the box and set up on a computer.

2. Print quality is good: We printed a couple of photos using the printer and most printed inside 15 seconds. The color is good for the most part. We found lighter colors (tan, cream, beige, light pink) to be somewhat off. Do not use this copier to make up for professional printers if you need photos printed as gifts that integrate these light colors. Printing black and white papers in draft mode doesn’t really sacrifice quality. We were impressed that papers printed in draft mode were comparatively crisp in look.

3. Great looking: As noted, this is a sleek black printer that fits into the design of the home office.

Some gripes:

1.Will need cleaned frequently: The gloss and color of this part of equipment means that finger prints and dust are easily seen.

2.Paper tray is a bit small: The paper tray should have been a little bigger in its capacity. Admittedly, the capacity (which is a little less than 100 pages) is most likely not atypical for a printer inside this price range and for this printer’s meant use and should be more than adequate for informal use and the home office.

3.Cartridges: One of the biggest gripes people have about printers usually relate to the cartridges. A total of four small color cartridges, and one big black, feed the printer. Canon sells the four smaller cartridges in packs and may be found for forty five to fifty dollars. The smaller cartridges bought alone are about thirteen dollars.

4.Printing speed: While print quality is good, the speed isn’t great. A photo takes about 15 seconds. A black and white page in draft quality can take eight seconds. Again, this is most likely not atypical for a printer inside this price range.

Overall, this printer gives you exactly what it promises. The product’s particular features are well laid out in the product description listed on Amazon. Succinctly, but, this is an easy to use and easy to install, wireless home printer/copier/scanner. This printer accomplishes basic tasks that could be obliged of it in a non professional home office/casual use environment. This printer looks to be a safe purchase that should offer dependable and hassle free home service.

This product is made in Thailand.

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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of five stars Amazing printer works great with Mac OSX Lion & airprint, November 5, 2011
By Robert Klaproth (San Diego, CA United States) See all my reviews
(REAL NAME) This review is from: Canon PIXMA MG5320 Wireless Inkjet Photo All in One Printer (5291B019) (Office Product) This is an awesome printer that has everything I am looking for in a printer at a great price point when you may be able to get it on sale (which it’s currently). This printer works perfectly right out of the box, I was able to swiftly join it to my wireless n network (only works with 2.4ghz by the way) and my Lion enabled Macbook Pro quickly discovered the printer and downloaded and installed the driver. The only thing you’ll need a USB cable for is firmware updates. Out of the box, the printer does have an older firmware, and if you want to be able to Airprint from your iPhone or iPad you have to update the firmware. Once you do the firmware, which is a fast and easy procedure, you may be able to easily print from your iPhone or iPad, as long as they’re on the same wireless network as the printer, they’ll auto discover it and you may be able to print entitlement to the printer! Look Ma! No Wires!! One thing be aware of about this printer, when you hook up the USB cable and do the firmware upgrade, for many reason after you unplug the cable, the Mac does not go back to using it wirelessly, I had to go into printers, remove it, , then add it back in. No biggie, it quickly found it on the network and re added it no driver installing or downloading obliged.

I am a DJ so I needed the CD Printing so I can make professional demos for potential clients, and it works perfectly. It comes with software that allows you to print CD’s. The software is pretty basic and does not have many of templates, but it gets the job done, and I was able to swiftly print out onto a printable CD R. Some things be aware of here. One reviewer complained about lining up the tray. The slot for the tray fits the tray perfect, so you do not have to worry about that. There is a little line in the slot, and a line on the tray. You do have to be sure they line perfectly or it’ll print the label a little high or a little low based on how you line it up. I think with practice you will most likely be a pro after a couple of tries, but I do not think the reviewer is just in saying that it is a big disadvantage to the cd printing, I was able to print a label that was only about 1/4″ too high on my 1st attempt.

Photo printing is flawless. The printer came with two five packs of 4×5 photo paper. I was able to easily print a photo from iPhoto that looked pretty good. I am not a professional photographer so I can not give you an correct review of the real picture quality, but it was remarkable enough that I feel I could use it to make gifts for family and friends throughout the holidays.

One disadvantage I have found is if you do not use the printer frequently, it does take a long time to print the 1st page. I think this is common for most ink jet printers, it has to go through many priming/cleaning/etc of the print head before it prints the 1st page out after a long period of inactivity. I am only speaking to photos, I think black and white text print outs are a little faster on 1st print then pictures are.

Another pro about this printer is that when you are not using it, it is totally sealed. The front of the printer closes, which keeps all the dust bunnies out! And the coolest thing of all is that the cover automatically opens whenever you print something. The printer is “eco friendly” which means that it has auto power off functionality. I have it set to 15 minutes and it shuts off when I am not using it. I do have to manually power it back on when I print, but I like the idea of saving electricity so it is no biggie.

Other cool stuff I have found, you may be able to print a copy of cd labels right from the printer without using a computer. You just take the CD you want to copy (i.E. A movie or an audio cd) and put it on the scanner and it’ll scan the CD cover and print it right on the printable CD R without having to use the computer!

Like most reviewers have said, the paper tray is pretty small so it does not hold many of paper, but that assists to keep the printer compact. It does not take up many of space, it fits perfectly over my Container Store Elfa file drawer. I like though how the paper tray is a REAL tray that slides out so you may be able to fill it back up with papers. Many of the other brands just have a place to “slide” the paper in, and not an real tray.

This printer is great, you will be happy you made the switch from all those other brands. I had an HP Photosmart before this, and it died after less then two years of using it (wouldn’t power on though the power supply was good). HP would not give me the time, they tried to sell me a cheap substitute printer as part of their “trade up” program, that cost more then this Canon one and had half the features.

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27 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of five stars Upgrade firmware for AirPrint on iOS devices, October 5, 2011
By David Ditzler “ditzlerphoto.Com” (Chicago, IL) See all my reviews
(REAL NAME) This review is from: Canon PIXMA MG5320 Wireless Inkjet Photo All in One Printer (5291B019) (Office Product) I bought this today because I heard it supported AirPrint. I tried the one in the local Staples but it could not find the printer via my iPad. I bought one and brought it home and it did not see it either. Once I upgraded the firmware and restarted nothing looked different on the screen or in the menus but it appeared just good on my iPad.

I loaded letter sized plane paper in the bottom drawer and 4×6 photo paper in the top slot on the back. When I printed a photo from my iPad it printed full bleed on the 4×6 photo paper. When I printed a webpage it pulled the paper from the cassette and printed it on plain paper. There nothed to change and it worked better than I thought and it printed fast. The printer was never plugged into a computer either, except for updating the firmware.

Only cons I have is that there’s no way, to my knowledge, a way to configure media, print settings or any details like that when using AirPrint. I could see why could would not want it on the iOS device or lots of alternatives on the menu of the printer but give us many geeky tools for the web admin section of the printer so we can get many better prints.

The photos I tried printed out a bit warm and maybe too much red in them. It was not bad with people in the photos just a little too warm for my taste.

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