Printers: Compare features & prices Canon Pixma MG8150 review http://www.which.co.uk/technology/computing/reviews/printers/canon-pixma-mg8150/review/
Close to being an all-singing all-dancing machine, the Canon Pixma MG8150 is a printer, copier and scanner that can also scan slides - though it doesn't include a fax. It has a host of options, including printing from smart devices.
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 wrote: | Leblanc wrote: The printer is like...   The printer is like a car doing only a few miles to the gallon. It seems to use ink when not in use! I think it has an ink eating gremlin. The easy answer would be for Canon to make the inks really cheap so that replacements are cheaper than filling up my car. Pros: Cons:
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| wrote: | bhappe wrote: While all the funct... While all the functions on my MG8150 work extremely well, I am appalled at the high ink usage. Every time I switch the machine on one of the colours seems to have evaporated! Pros: Cons:
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| wrote: | Cressex661 wrote: Canon Pixma MG8150 I bought my Canon Pixma MG8150 about ten months ago and it has proved to be an excellent printer, copier and scanner, when the scanner works that is. This was an expensive product (£190) but I need a scanner that works all the time and not just some of the time.The problem with the scanner is that on scanning multi-page documents it will intermittently stop operating for example it might stop on page 5 of a 10 page document, so it will not scan the whole document. It then displays the unhelpful error message "ScanGear. Printer is in use or an error has occurred. Check status. Scanner Driver will be closed. Code 2,140,200". The document then has to be re-scanned and the chances are that it will fail again.The Canon website is not helpful and even though I deleted the scanner driver software on my computer and re-installed it from the Canon website, and even though I tried wireless printing and printer cable printing, the problem still persisted intermittently.The retailer, Amazon, was most helpful though and they are going to give me a replacement printer free of charge and then take the old one back, their service was excellent so far. Pros: Cons:
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| wrote: | mswisterski wrote: Ouch! This is the n th Canon I've had. It does everything really well but - seems to spend a long time pumping up the ink, is terminally slow printing duplex ( I imagine waiting to avoid smearing the ink) and fiercely expensive to run.Photos are amazing, scanning very good and general printing beyond reproach.I'm happy for manufacturers to be profitable but this is not a cheap throwaway printer and the inks are expensive. I am not a consistent enough user to quantify how many pages are yielded per cartridge since I have access to other machines but it seems a heavy user.I'm afraid that I will now be upgrading ( downgrading) to a machine which costs less to run. Pros: Cons:
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| wrote: | PaulVLGill wrote: Canon MG 8150 does NOT work with Mac OS X 10.7.3 LION WARNING: This printer does NOT work with Mac OS X 10.7 LION. I spent three days on the phone with Apple Support, they advised me to reformat my hard drive disk, and then rebuild it from scratch (big hassle); just to find the Canon Software still crashed stating "crashed thread 0. Dispatch queue: com.apple.main thread". Which apparently means the Canon Software is trying to access an area which is not large enough.Canon support is useless. They just emailed me their latest improved software, which crashed immediately. They then said "I don't know, you had better contact Apple again". Fortunately, I bought from Amazon, who offer a 30 day guarantee. So with extreme pleasure I waved goodbye to this 'load of trouble'! Pros: Cons:
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| wrote: | JohnRR wrote: Pixma MG8150 using excessive ink LAYLA53 is unhappy about the amount of coloured ink used when printing black. This could well be because printing black from images is not the same as printing black from a Word or Excel document. When printing from Word or Excel, black text uses only black ink. When printing an image, including from a pdf, which you would think is black, the printer approximates to black using a mixture of colours - primarily Cyan, Magenta and Yellow, and with a little black. This proccess is the same as used in the professional printing industry. The solution to the problem is to print direct from Word or Excel docs where possible. Pros: Cons:
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| wrote: | ReneeP wrote: PC World advice. Has 3837967 tried cleaning or doing some other utilities check to stop the white lines? Don't be taken in by PC World, they almost always try to persuade you to replace or get an expensive repair. Have a look at Which Local for an independent computer man in your area if cleaning doesn't work. Pros: Cons:
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| wrote: | tobr wrote: Canon Pixma Two and a half years after purchasing the much acclaimed Canon Pixma 850 it is now starting to give trouble: narrow white streaks across some lines of print which spoils things a bit.My local PC World tell me that the cost of fixing it would be as much as the cost of a new printer, so why bother. Maybe they are right. Welcome to the throw-away society!Perhaps I'll go for a laser printer next time. Anyone got any recommendations for a good reliable multifunction device? Pros: Cons:
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| wrote: | gordon.dow wrote: Ink Usage Re David20's link, I'd already read that. I'm seriously thinking of buying this printer but the ink usage is a real concern. I certainly don't want to have to leave the printer on standby and thus waste electricity. Pros: Cons:
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| wrote: | David20 wrote: INK USAGE For the explanation for the high ink usage, see http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/RTIU35YNC8C47/ref=cm_cr_pr_viewpnt#RTIU35YNC8C47Have ordered the machine, but not yet tried it Pros: Cons:
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| wrote: | LAYLA53 wrote: Canon Pixma MG8150 I find this excellent to use but am puzzled and disappointed with the way the ink is used. I have tried without comprehensible response to find out from Canon why the ink is being used like this, but remain unconvinced. I have never printed anything in colour, have had from the start the printer set to print in Duplex, Grayscale, on plain paper only and for the majority of the time on Fast to save ink. I bought it only a month ago and have printed less then 400 pages, and yet the ink tanks are visibly running out - first the Magenta and Blue suddenly went from full to only 2/5 left, then the Yellow went the same way, and the Gray and Large Black are now also showing only 2/5 full. Only the small Black is still showing full. I have always used Pixma printers with separate ink tanks, and have never seen this before, normally the colour tanks will only run down when I am printing in colour, and I just don't understand why these are running out so fast. The responses from Canon were first that the printer shipped with Sample tanks which didn't contain a full load, then a 2nd email telling me this wasn't so and that what was happening didn't sound quite right, and then 2 non-commital emails explaining how the printer settings should be used (what I am already doing) but not agreeing or disagreeing that the colour inks should not be used so fast. So I am stumped, and very angry if I am going to have to constantly replace the colour tanks when at the moment I am only printing text from PDFs and Word/Excel files. This is as bad as the old days when colour printers just used 1 tank that contained all of the inks. I would be very interested to hear other people's experiences and opinions - maybe I need to return the printer for refund or replacement? Pros: Cons:
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