Product Description
Designed for home and home offices, the Canon PIXMA G3270 MegaTank All-in-One inkjet printer delivers high-quality, low-cost printing, and outstanding wireless connectivity in a compact size. Get serious print productivity with a high page yield of up to 6,000 Black / 7,700 Color pages per full ink bottle1 set and a low cost per print - MegaTank means Mega Savings. The PIXMA G3270 comes with a full set of ink, so you can print with confidence. The PIXMA G3270 is easy to set up and maintain and offers great media versatility to print on a variety of media types and sizes, including photo paper, envelopes, banners and more. Use Poster Artist Online to create professional-posters, banners and signage. Print both documents and photos on a variety of paper types using a hybrid ink system with pigment black for sharp black text and dye-based colors for vivid borderless2 photos up to 8.5" x 11". Produce crisp, colorful documents quickly and cost-effectively with fast print speeds and a high quality 4-color pigment-based ink system. Keep printing with a plain paper capacity of up to 100 sheets or 20 photo sheets (4"x6"). Easily connect and print through high-speed USB or wirelessly2 from computers or mobile devices. This comes with a 1-year limited warranty3 and is backed by Canon's Service and Support network.
Dimension
Product Height : 7 inches
Product Width :16.4 inches
Product Depth :13.3 inches
Product Weight :13.2 pounds
Features
Up to 4800 x 1200 dpi (dots per inch) color resolution High resolution for producing incredible quality and detail in documents and photos.
Wireless Connect Easy Wi-Fi setup in minutes. Connects to wi-fi without the need for a computer.1
Backlit 1.35" square LCD Screen Get the job done with an intuitive and easy to use 1.35" Square LCD Screen
High page yield Print up to 6,000 Black / 7,700 Color pages with just a single set of inks.1
Easy to fill Ink bottles have a “keyed nozzle” design to only fit and fill the correct color ink tank.
Easy setup Get running in just a few minutes thanks to a streamlined and easy setup process out of the box.
Mobile device printing Print from your favorite mobile devices using the free Canon PRINT app2, Apple Airprint and Mopria Print Service.
Versatile media support Print on envelopes, photos, high resolutioin paper, and more!
100-sheet rear paper tray Easily load envelopes, labels, high resolution paper and more in the rear tray.
Poster Artist Poster Artist2 is a poster creation software program designed to be used by all levels of users to creat professional - posters, banners and signage.
$1,000 Ink Savings Ink savings of $1000 with the included ink bottle set.1
Integrated ink tanks Conveniently view and refill ink using ink bottles.
Borderless photo printing Print beautiful borderless photos up to 8.5" x 11" (letter size).3
Easy user replacement parts - less down time Designed with basic operations directly from the front and back of the printer.
Stay waste-conscious Thanks to high page yield ink bottles, keep wast and time spent refilling ink to a minimum.
Inkjet printers are best for home or small business use They offer excellent print quality for photos and documents and accept a variety of paper types and sizes.
11/6 IPM Prints up to 11 images per minute in Black and up to 6 images per minute in color.
1-Year Warranty Have peace of mind with a 1-Year Warranty.
Disclaimers 1 - Page yield of included ink bottles used for initial setup is lower than the replacement ink bottles, as a certain amount of ink is consumed to fill into the print head during setup (charging the print head initially).
Page yield is the estimated value based on Canon individual test method using the ISO/IEC 24712 chart and continuous printing simulation with the replacement ink bottles after initial setup. Page yield of color inks is an average yield of cyan, magenta and yellow inks combined.
Page yield varies significantly depending on content printed, ink levels maintained in all four reservoirs, and other factors. Up to 6,000 (black)/7,700 (color) printed page yields are approximate using `default printing mode’, up to 8,300 (black)/7,700 (color) printed page yields are approximate
using `economy printing mode’ via Windows/Mac OS driver or printer copy setting, based off document pages printed. A full set of MegaTank GI-21 ink bottles (pigment black, cyan, magenta, yellow) is equivalent to 30 each standard capacity Black (PG-260) and Color (CL-261, composed of cyan, magenta
and yellow) ink cartridges sold individually based on print yield. Ink value savings based on MSRP (USD) of stated equivalent ink cartridges as of November 2020.
2 - Paper types NOT supported for borderless printing are as follows: Envelope, High Resolution Paper, T-Shirt Transfer and Photo Stickers. The maximum borderless printing size is 8.5”x11”.
3 - Warranty program is subject to certain conditions and restrictions. See warranty card for details.
What's Included
PIXMA MegaTank G3270 WH Wireless All-in-One Printer
Set of Ink Bottles (GI-21: PGBK, C, M, Y)
Print Heads
Documentation
Power Cord
Reviews
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Missing One Very Important Feature
Since my first home computer in 1998, I think this is the seventh printer that has been in my life at home. Over that time I have developed a number of opinions on what I like and don’t like…and your opinion may vary. The Canon G3270 MegaTank ink jet printer shows up with some awesome features and some that make me scratch my head. It is described by Canon as an All-In-One printer, but it lacks facsimile capability, however that will matter to very few people. Since there is no document feeder, the scanner can scan only up to letter-size documents on its flatbed scanner, but it can print on paper up to legal-size in length. It can scan multiple small items (such as business cards) in a single pass making some jobs go faster. First, some boring statistics; it’s about 16 1/2 inches wide, 13 1/2 inches deep (22 inches deep with the trays open so that the printer can be used), 7 inches high (12 inches to the tip of the paper with letter-size paper loaded in the rear tray), and weighs a little over 13 pounds. The power cord is detachable and about 5 feet long. It does not come with a USB cable to make a wired connection to a computer. The input jack on the printer is USB-type B and is a “hi-speed” connection. The only accessories the printer comes with besides a power cord are four bottles of ink, 3 colors and 1 black - oh yeah, the two print heads are separate and have to be installed but this is easy to do. I’m going to start with some observations about the manual and set-up. The online manual can be downloaded and is 472 pages long, but most of the pages are only about half full of text or illustrations. I found it odd that the diagrams showing the physical parts of the printer and telling what they are, didn’t come until page 153 rather than at the beginning of the manual which is where one would expect to find them so that you know what they are talking about in the sections regarding operation and connection of the printer. This manual is also completely “written” in English except for the section on WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) Regulations for Europe and there are many different language versions, in this section only - again, odd. Set-up of the printer is accomplished by scanning a QR code from an enclosed card and using your mobile device to walk through the steps after downloading the Canon PRINT app. One interesting thing I found during this process was that it states to squeeze the ink from the bottles into the ink tanks when filling the printer. These bottles are impossible to squeeze but will slowly drain into the printer tanks by themselves if left for a couple minutes. Other than that, set-up was pretty painless. The location and angle of the control panel makes using the printer much easier the higher the printer is located. If your location is down low by the floor, it can be hard to see and operate because the black and white LCD display does not tilt. And it is very small at 1.35” x 1.35”, which results in a very small font to squint at for a lot of menu items. It is not very user-friendly for older folks or those with less than stellar vision. But, this little display can show menus in 32 different languages! The G3270 has a provision that will wake up the printer to print a job when a file is sent to it, even if the printer has been turned off - that is pretty cool. And there is a setting to automatically power it off after it sits idle for a user-selectable period of time. And for people where their smart phone is their only computer, Canon has what they call “Wireless Direct Connection” which allows you to connect your phone (or tablet or computer) to the printer wirelessly withOUT the necessity of having a router or Wi-Fi network. There is a “Transport Mode” which caps the print heads so they don’t dry out, but it appears the printer may possibly spill ink unless it is kept upright because Canon recommends moving it in a sealed plastic bag. Speaking of ink, Canon recommends using the printer at least once a month to help keep the print heads from drying out and clogging, yet the manual states that “To keep printer's performance, Canon printer performs cleaning automatically according to its condition.” An interesting feature to prevent a user from accidentally filling an ink tank from the wrong bottle is that the neck of the ink bottles have differing “grooves” or “keys” molded into them so that they will fit on only the correct ink tank in the printer. This printer also has something I have never seen before (but maybe other manufacturers use a similar feature), and that is a “Maintenance Cartridge” that collects waste ink from the head cleaning procedure. This cartridge has to be replaced at some point when it gets filled up and there is a warning that appears on the display to alert you to this. This is not an overly expensive piece. There is a “Quiet Mode” so the noise the printer makes is less intrusive, but it appears from the manual that all it does is slow down the printing process which reduces the noise, yet the paper handling mechanism noise is not dampened in any way. The rear paper tray will hold up to 100 sheets of paper or 10 envelopes in a stack. Since this printer is designed for the world market, the supported media sizes are quite extensive including many paper and envelope sizes that a user in the United States will not encounter. While the common business envelope size #10 is supported, another common envelope size encountered in the U.S. is #6-3/4 (which is 3 5/8” x 6 1/2”), which I could not find in the list of supported media sizes. If you are scanning from a book, the document cover can be removed from the machine to get it out of your way and make it easier to position the book on the scanner glass. ?The clarity of printed text and the color rendition of copies were very good. No one should have any qualms about the quality of work this machine will output, and honestly, I think that is to be expected nowadays from a reputable manufacturer and from anything but the very cheapest of printer. The ink refills for the MegaTank line of Canon printers are very reasonably priced and should be a pleasant surprise to those used to paying for replaceable cartridges. The one thing about the Canon G3270 that keeps me from rating it any higher than three stars (“average”, in my mind) is the simple fact that it is designed for only single-sided printing. It never crossed my mind that in this day and age that a printer at this price point would not be capable of two-sided printing. I guess some of what you save in ink costs will be used up by having higher paper costs. For a high volume user, and isn’t that really the market an ink tank printer is designed for, not being able to print on both sides of a piece of paper automatically can be a deal breaker for some consumers.
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Good purchase
Very good printer. I'm satisfied with the prints & the quality.
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Great for Small businesses
I love my cannon printer I use it for making my sons graduations party snacks and for stickers and magnets the colors are bright and vibrant. Would and have recommended this for small starter businesses.
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Nice quality, but a tiny screen and glitchy setup
The Canon PIXMA MegaTank G3270 is an all in one wireless printer that prints using actual ink, from ink bottles. There are 4 reservoirs that you initially have to fill up and also a couple of print heads that you need to install. Now, being new to this technology, I am hoping those ink reservoirs are well sealed with no chance of them leaking on the desktop. Also, I was a lot more diligent about filling up the printer with ink than I ever was with a cartridge style printer, I just didn't want to have ink on my counter, staining it forever. That being said tho - the life and durability of the ink completely outweighs the performance of the cartridge based printers. Canon claims that you can get 6000 pages out of the black ink bottle and 7700 pages out of the combined black and color ink bottles. That is very, very impressive when you consider that you only get a couple of hundred prints out of the traditional cartridges. Researching the price to refill the printer when the ink depletes, is a lot less expensive this way, than with cartridges too. It will cost around $52 to replace the ink for another 6000+ prints. Very economical in that case. Setting up the printer - I'm sorry, but Canon, that screen is far too small, far too feint, and really tough to read. You need to check the screen for initial set up, and it wasn't easy to read. There is plenty of space on that front panel to have opened up that screen size by an inch all the way around. During set up, the printer lost connection with the companion app, would tell me it couldn't find a printer and I'd have to restart both the app and the printer. This was annoying as well. The printer was around 25ft from the router, and there shouldn't have been any reason for it to drop connection. Once it was finally set up, I can say that I was very impressed with the first print that came out. First of all, I wasn't expecting edge to edge printing, right out of the gate. In my pictures, there are two prints of the front of my Camaro. The top print was with the default settings (fine detail, gloss photo paper setting - even tho I didn't have any gloss photo paper installed) and the print was nice and vibrant with great coverage. The second print was on the 'standard' setting, it's a little more washed out, but still a good quality print. I sent these wirelessly directly from my iPhone 12 Pro and it printed with no issues. I've sent a 17 page PDF from my phone and it printed effortlessly as well. So once it's set up, it seems to work as expected, showing up on the network, printing directly from the Canon 'PRINT' app, or directly from the Photos folder on my phone, it works just fine both ways. This printer also has the common functions of copying and scanning wirelessly as well. So far, so good with this printer, only had it for a few days, with sporadic printing, but the quality of the prints is great, edge to edge printing is a great feature and it has a nice compact size to go with it. I do feel that the display needs some work, it's not something you look at or check on constantly, but for that initial set up and the visibility of it, it needs to be larger, in color and more defined. That would have given the printer five stars. Overall, great quality printing, edge to edge functionality, massive amount of prints per ink refill and a great form/function for the desktop. Aside from the glitchy set up, I would recommend this printer!
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Compact Printer/Compact Display
The Canon Pixma MegaTank G3270 Printer is a relatively compact printer. It does not take up too much room on your desk or shelf. However, that being the case it does come with a very compact display with no tilt either. Which means you practically have to be eye level in order to see the display and menu options. The setup was pretty straight forward. Only two orange tapes to remove and no extra foam inside the printer. Fill the ink takes and each color only fits its correlating color, so pretty fool-proof. It is definitely nice to actually see the ink levels, Kudos to not having to guess how much is left or will you run out of ink during mid-print. Bigger ink takes are nice and should allow for more prints. Dual labeled print heads are easy to install. Installation instructions were given via scanning QR code and online. I think a quick startup page would have been simpler. Connecting it to your phone, either iphone or android is pretty easy. However, trying to connect it to your computer/chromebook seems a little difficult. I did not want to waste so much time on that part. So therefore, it is not so intuitive to wirelessly connect with the computer/chromebook. I think I will use a direct USB connection for the time being, WHICH it does not come with a USB direct connection cable. Luckily I do have plenty of those USB printer cables. Document print quality is fine. Photo prints I feel lack the color and depth, the blacks aren’t as black and the colors aren’t as crisp, BUT I did not have any photo paper available and was printed on standard paper. So maybe photos will look a lot better on photo paper. It holds a decent amount of paper vertically, but does not actually have a dedicated paper tray. I have not had a chance to print 6000 plus pages of documents to test the capacity of the mega tanks. I will do some price checking to see how much replacement in “bottles” cost. Overall, I do like the size and setup of the printer. I like the mega tanks, I like the ink view windows. Do not like the tiny display screen.
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4 out 5
I like this printer, but when it comes to double sided printing, it’s now good enough, you need to take the paper out and flip it and put it back in.
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Bye bye cartridges
I wanted to try a cartridge-less printer so decided to go with the Canon Pixma G3270 to upgrade our old printer. First thing was to setup the printer which was more work than I expected. There is no quick setup guide included in the box so you have to go online to get started. Connection issues made the process even longer. Filling the ink wells is easy enough with the bottles having keyed tops. They empty into the wells once attached no need to squeeze them or anything and take roughly 25-30 seconds to empty. The black well is on the left with the three color wells being on the right. You can only fill one color at a time has there’s not enough space to fit two bottles at once. Next installing the print heads was not a straightforward deal as where they go is not clearly shown or explained. Connecting to our Wi-Fi network was easy enough with wpa. The controls are easy to use but the lcd screen is to small to me. It’s roughly the size of a smartwatch screen. The text to background contrast is not the best making it a little hard to read for me. Overall it took me roughly 45 minutes to get the printer ready to print. Started with print head alignment then printed a simple b&w text page then a small full color drawing both of which came out good. The color pic was pretty accurate even though I used plain white printer paper. Using Canons windows app to print a pdf from my laptop then scan it back was straight forward. The things I don’t like is having to go online for setup, the tiny lcd screen and the menu could be more user friendly. Same can be said about checking ink levels. Yes there are windows on the front of the printer but they are tinted and not clear so depending on lighting or viewing angle it can be hard to see the exact level. And you can’t check it with the app. Overall I like the G3270 as it does what we need in a personal use home printer. Most of my issues will probably be easier to deal with after more use.
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Quality printer!
Setup was extremely easy and straightforward. I am hoping that the ink lasts as advertised. I purchased the Canon matte photo paper and the print quality is very nice. Just make sure to print on the whiter side. Overall I am pleased with the printer and quality for the price. The photo attached was printed on the photo paper. You can also print borderless images which is a nice feature.
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Capable, if somewhat basic economy printer
The G3270 is a capable printer for anyone looking to leave cartridges behind, but unfortunately does omit some of the features you might expect from an all-in-one device at this price point. The setup process for the printer is very simple. The paper trays are all permanently affixed and simply slide and/or fold out, and there are only a few pieces of tape holding everything in place. There are only two major assembly steps: installing the print heads and loading the ink tanks. Both simply require you to drop the requisite parts into their corresponding slots. Everything is keyed so that there shouldn't be any risk of accidentally mixing up which one goes where, and gravity does all the work getting the ink out of the bottles so there's no mess to worry about if you're less than perfect. WiFi setup is handled via an app, making up for the somewhat basic control panel. All in all, you should be able to get up and running in just a few minutes (though it may take longer to fully prime the pumps responsible for delivering the ink.) As far as printing goes, quality is quite good on both standard and photo paper (though the latter, as expected, makes a significant difference in terms of color quality and overal clarity.) Text is sharp and can be produced relatively quickly. And with tanks this big, you should be able to do plenty of large jobs without exhausting the supply. The scanner is also quite sharp and offers very high quality results. The top mounted paper tray also means it has no issues working with banner paper for larger displays, and its ability to print borderless media appears absolutely flawless. This, however, is when some of the printer's less impressive attributes started to show. To start, it is mechanically quite noisy while operating. I don't know if the ink delivery system is adding to it or if there are just some loud stepper motors driving the print carriage, but it can be a bit distracting while it's going. I also found while testing the copier that the control panel is pretty non-user friendly. It is not adjustable at all and the tiny LCD screen used for feedback and settings is only really easily readable when viewed head on - which isn't likely to occur unless you're fairly short or you've placed the printer up unusually high. Finally, it doesn't have a lot of the features that I've started to just come to expect as standard for something that takes up this much space. There's no built in duplexer for dual-sided printer, no automatic document feeder for the scanner, and only a single paper tray. As such I'd say this is much better suited for occasional home use than an office setting.
