Product Description
Canon PIXMA MegaTank G5020 Wireless Printer: Eliminate the need for ink cartridges with this Canon MegaTank wireless printer. The integrated tank system holds up to 6,000 black and 7,700 color prints, while the 4800 x 1200 dpi resolution delivers detailed images. This Canon MegaTank wireless printer has print speeds of up to 13 ipm in black and 6.8 ipm in color for high-volume printing tasks. Prints up to 13 ISO ipm* in black, up to 6.8 ISO ipm* in color
Dimension
Product Height : 6.6 inches
Product Width :15.9 inches
Product Depth :14.6 inches
Product Weight :14.3 pounds
Features
Prints up to 13 ISO ipm* in black and up to 6.8 ISO ipm* in color Produces a 4" x 6" borderless photo-quality print in 45 seconds.*
Works with Amazon Alexa for voice control Ask a compatible voice assistant (device required) to help you print shopping and to-do lists, various crossword puzzles and games, coloring activities, comics and more.
Compatible with Google Assistant Use the Google Assistant (device required) to print your Google Calendar, various crossword puzzles and games, comics and more.
Ideal for home or small business use This inkjet printer offers excellent print quality for photos and documents and accepts a variety of paper types and sizes.
Wireless and mobile printing capability Connect this printer to your home or office network with built-in Ethernet or wireless LAN. You can also print from your mobile device with the free Canon PRINT app or Apple® AirPrint.
Apple® AirPrint enabled You can use it for Apple iPad® and iPhone® printing.
Up to 4800 x 1200 dpi (dots per inch) color resolution High resolution allows producing incredible quality and detail in documents and photos.
Four economical individual ink tanks Only replace the ink tank you need when a color runs out. Three dye-based inks produce vivid color in photos, and the pigment-based black ink provides crisp text.
Large paper trays for high-volume printing Reload less often with 250-sheet front and 100-sheet rear input trays.
Monochrome two-line full dot-matrix display Easily input commands for printing, copying, and scanning directly from the printer.
USB port for simple connectivity The high-speed USB 2.0 port offers a standard connection to your PC.
Built-in duplex printing Print on both sides of the page without turning it over manually to minimize your printing costs and help the environment.
Apple, the Apple logo, iPod, iPad, and Apple AirPrint are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.
Requires high-speed Internet connection.
* Print speeds vary with use. See manufacturer for the information on print speeds.
What's Included
2x Bonus Black (PGBK) Ink Bottles
4" x 6" Photo Paper Sample Pack
Black Print Head
Canon PIXMA MegaTank G5020 Wireless Inkjet Printer
Color Print Head
Full Set of Ink Bottles (PGBK, C, M, Y)
Owner's manual
Power Cord
Setup CD
Reviews
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ANYTHING THAT CAN GO WRONG, WILL GO WRONG
This is by far the worst printer I have ever experienced in my life. EVERYTHING that could go wrong with a printer has gone wrong with this printer, and I've only had it for a couple weeks and am returning it tomorrow. It prints EXTREMELY slow and sometimes takes about a min to print ONE sheet. Sometimes when we print the ink is still wet even after a couple mins and it smears across the paper. When we want to print from the paper in the rear sometimes it takes from the paper in the front, when we want to print from the paper in the front, it takes it from the rear. It also has difficulty connecting to our brand new laptop as well and doesn't want to keep a proper connection. There has been NOTHING positive about this. It is extremely cheap and by far the worst printer I've ever experienced in my life. DO NOT BUY THIS.
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Great deal, value and quality.
Fantastic printer. Came with bonus inks. Nice amount of paper storage. I just miss a scanner and copier. However for the price this is excellent.
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Say goodbye to expensive ink cartridges!
I was tired of running out of ink so quickly with every printer I've own, even though I would purchase the XL tanks. Refills were expensive, manually refilling tanks was messy. We would run out of ink with no warnings which was super inconvenient. I wanted to try out this PIXMA MegaTank because of the large ink capacity and the fact that I could view the actual ink tank levels from outside of the machine. Initial ink fill was very easy. We even got extra ink with our purchase. It's been over a year and we haven't needed to refill any colors yet. Prints come out clear and vivid and zero smudging. I love the 2 paper trays. Initially I didn't see the point but I realized that I can keep specialty paper in one tray and regular paper in the other tray at all times and never need to switch back and forth. It is easy to select which tray you want to print from on your print selection screen-same place you select quantity and quality. Currently I keep our really nice 24# paper in one tray and we are using the other tray for our old paper stock that isn't as good as quality. So if something is being printed that isn't important like our grocery shopping list or coupon, then I select the tray with the lesser quality paper. We have only had one paper jam, not sure what caused it. On every printer I've ever owned frequent jams were a part of life. Not so on this PIXMA. We have a few cons with this PIXMA. It's expensive. And after having it for over a year I don't feel like it justifies the price it sells for. Wait for a good sale. The display is very hard to read. It is not backlit. I was not aware of this, all of my previous printers had a backlit display and especially as this was a newer machine I just assumed it would also be. The angle the screen is at makes it very difficult to read unless you are at eye level. Again, being a newer and expensive machine I would expect they have had the display be tilt-able as my older machines had been. Our original placement of this printer had been on a low shelf on our desk. We had to sit on the floor and use a flashlight to read the screen. We've since moved it to our kitchen counter, it's higher up and in a brightly lit room. Setting this printer up to our network was a nightmare. We could not get it to connect. The instructions did not mesh with the prompts we would get. Canon tech support was not able to get it connected, even with workarounds. Eventually I found that I could print with my phone using Apple AirPrint. That meant that everyone needed to email their documents from their computers to my phone, very inconvenient. Or they could bring the printer to their rooms and wire it to their desktop when they needed to print. Even then it didn't always work. I had a tech guy at my house installing a new router and mesh units and he unsuccessfully spent about 30 minutes trying to get this printer on our network. Several months after getting this printer I worked with Canon support again, still no go. They said it must be a problem with my network. Even though we could get our old Canon PIXMA online to work wirelessly. Then I got a Mac and found that I could use Apple's AirPrint and there was a Mac printer setting allowing me to share the printer on my network!! So if any of you run into the problem I had and you have an Apple computer try going into settings, printers and scanners. Select the printer and then check the box to share this printer on the network. Then go into sharing preferences and make sure that printer sharing is checked and the PIXMA printer is selected. Under users select everyone and set it to can print. Hopefully that will work for you also. A bonus of doing it this way is that if you have a visitor over and they connect to your wifi they will be able to print.
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Effective little printer
Waited until I had it a while before I posted a review. Love this it’s efficient and prints great on every paper I’ve tried so far.
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Great 2-Sided Prints, Hard Setup, Mediocre Photos
REVIEW Canon - PIXMA MegaTank G5020 Wireless Printer Best Buy Tech Insider Network Review Program SUMMARY: Great Dual Side Prints, Hard to Setup, Mediocre Photos UNBOXING IMPRESSION: Easy to unbox, simple packaging. Extra included ink is fantastic. SETTING UP (Learn from my mistakes): I am an IT professional. If you are not very computer literate, then get someone with IT experience to help. This is the most complicated printer I’ve tried to install in ages. Printheads: I found the initial installation of the print heads, somewhat confusing and the pictures were not that much of a help. Once I stopped looking at the directions and went with intuition it went much better. It did not help that some of the pages were getting stuck together. Ink: Fun pouring in the ink bottles. Drivers and Network: THE RIGHT WAY - Go to your app store on your phone. Search for PIXMA and install the phone app and follow the instructions. Once the printer is installed from your phone app, tell windows to add a printer and let it download a driver that works. THE WRONG WAY – Go to the Canon website, search for G5020 install the suggested G series driver (this is the wrong one and won’t work and won’t complete the install for USB, Network, or WiFi). Turns out this is the wrong driver entirely, I wasted about 2 hours here. If you decide to load from the Canon site, then make sure it is the G5020 driver. Trust me, just let windows auto discover it. Once you get it installed and available on the network, you can use a web browser to get to the printer directly. Switch to admin mode (password is serial#) and change settings like default time out (sleep mode) and more. There are some good utilities on the Canon Website to help you with this. One tip is that you can’t switch from LAN to WiFi without rebooting the printer. What this means for example, is that you can’t hard code an IP address for the LAN from WiFi or USB. First you have to use DHCP, figure out the address, then you can hard code the IP. EASE OF USE: Paper, Ink, Front and Rear guides are all very easy to use. I only have one big complaint. The LCD panel on the printer is not backlit. It is impossible to read without a flashlight. That is just crazy for a modern and not cheap printer. For about a penny more they could have made this backlit. Another note is that I think the rear paper page up indicator is reverse. OVERALL PERFORMANCE: The print quality is fast and fantastic. The fact that it does double sided printing is fantastic. The colors are clean and sharp. Unfortunately, the photos are only average. They are not bad, but even on photo paper they are a little washed out. The bad LCD is unforgivable, but minor once everything is all set up it does not matter. CONCLUSION: I gave up on ink jets about 15 years ago. When I did use them, I only used and recommended Canon. I gave up after spending a ton on ink, I switch to lasers. With enough included ink to print nearly 20,000 pages, this printer may have changed my mind. Time will tell how long the print heads will last, if they clog, etc. So far for this past month, this has been my everyday printer, and my laser is mostly idle, unless I need waterproof prints.
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Too Many Flaws for the Price
I would love to give this printer a higher review, but it is seriously flawed with respect to speed and for the fact that its display is not back lit. PROS: This printer is very economical in ink usage. I used it to print 140 home produced Holiday Greeting cards, in addition to a moderate volume of incidental print jobs. It is still over half full in all ink tanks. Impressed. The color quality of the greetings cards was acceptable, particularly for a general purpose inkjet printer, but it was not as vivid as I had been getting from a comparable printer of a different brand. So far (five months), I have had no technical issues. CONS: NO BACK LIGHT IN DISPLAY!!! This is significant and would have been a deal breaker had I not been in great need of a printer. I keep a flashlight nearby so I can read the frequent messages in the display. Print quality is not particularly sharp or vivid, so everything is a bit washed out regardless of paper quality or print settings or whether printing text, graphics, or color. SLOW for anything but text. Also, it spends an inordinate amount of time making internal noises. COMMENTS-CONCLUSIONS-RECOMMENDATIONS: I like the mega-tank concept, and the system for filling the tanks is simple and mess-free. This printer is economical to use but does not provide the overall quality of output I have come to expect from Canon. The display, which is needed frequently in order to make adjustments, is NOT BACK LIT. That is an inexcusable design flaw (cheap) by Canon. I would not recommend this printer based on print quality, the lack of a back lit display, and being super slow with color. However, it has worked without technical issue since I got it, and It filled an immediate need I had at the end of last year. However, I am still looking and will probably give this printer to one of the
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Great Ink Jet printer
I own other Canon products and have been please with them. This is no different. Pros Huge ink capacity Multi feed options Multi connection possibilities (with caveats) Great cloud printing capabilities I used Google cloud print Print quality on photo printer is really good. Cons Hardwired via USB printing could not work with photo printing even after all drivers and updates were done You can only pick between wireless connection or LAN CAT5 connection. You can't do both. Took about 2 hours to fully set up out of box and ready to print. If you can look beyond the cons this is a great printer. If you can't then at least you know it's strengths.
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No More Ink Cartridges
Bought for the tank system as I was tired of buying cartridges. It was easy to fill and set up wirelessly. It is great for printing color pictures. It is a bit slow printing text documents in B&W. The unit should have a scanner for the price paid.
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Good printer
Good printer for the price I paid. Easy to set-up. Prints nicely. Love how it has automatic double sided print. Only downfall is pictures have to be pri ted through top feeder.
