Canon PIXMA MG8220 Pro Reviews

It's expensive and it lacks an ADF, but the Canon Pixma MG8220 can deliver the photo prints you're looking for and take care of other artistic chores such as scanning and creating CD labels to boot. If your budget is a little tight, consider the lower-priced and ADF-equipped HP Photosmart 7510.

The Canon Pixma MG8220 Photo All-in-One is a quality inkjet printer with unique, useful features while still getting the basics right: printing great looking text documents and color photos quickly. I'm fan of the Intelligent Touch System, it actually helps users navigate menus easily and it looks great. The Pixma MG8220 definitely has style. But it's not perfect. I still had to deal with lenghty processing times during our tests. I'd like to see this printer hop out of sleep mode a little quicker, and I'd really like to know how Canon comes up with print speeds as fast 9.3 ipm in color. Is there a way to bypass the printer stalling between each page? If so, that would definitely be a plus. And like many inkjets on the market today, the ink refills are expensive. I like that the standard capacity cartridges printed over 400 pages during our ink tests for the third time (we saw similar results with the previous generation Pixma MG8120 and the Pixma MG5220). Which leads me to my next point. Besides a few minor changes, the Pixma MG8220 seems to be a replica of the Pixma MG8120. That's not a bad thing since I thought that Canon did an excellent job the first time around. But I would have liked to see Canon address some of the issues, namely the processing times. Overall, I liked the Canon PIXMA MG8220 Photo All-in-One and would recommend it to the user more interested in quality photos and creative features than quanity and speed of document prints.

The Canon Pixma MG8220 Wireless Inkjet Photo All-in-One has equal claim to being either a high-end home MFP or a standalone home photo lab.

This well-built, strong-performing all-in-one delivers superior output of all types. It's a top choice for photo enthusiasts.