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The Canon Pixma MG6820 Wireless Inkjet All-in-One’s ($149.99) strongest selling point is its high-quality photo output combined with fast photo printing. That makes it an obvious candidate if you need an inkjet multifunction printer (MFP) for home use. The MG6820 ($799.99 at Amazon)(Opens in a new window) is the next step up in Canon’s line of photo inkjet MFPs from the Canon Pixma MG5720 Wireless Inkjet All-in-One ($586.45 at Amazon)(Opens in a new window) , which is our Editors’ Choice budget MFP for home use. Not surprisingly, it shares most of the same features and adds a few more, though not enough to justify the higher price.
The key differences between the two are the addition of memory-card slots on the MG6820, its slightly faster rated speed, and its 3-inch touch screen instead of a 2.5-inch LCD with button controls. However, the speed difference is so slight that although the MG6820 was a little faster than the Canon MG5720 on our tests, the speed in pages per minute (ppm) came out the same after rounding.
As with the Canon MG5720, Canon offers two other models that it says are identical to the MG6820 except for color. The MG6820 is available in black or white, the Canon MG6821 is black and silver, and the Canon MG6822 is white and silver. All the comments in this review apply to all three models in all four choices of color.
Basics
Basic MFP features for the MG6820 are limited to printing, scanning, and copying, and there are memory card slots that let you print from, but not scan to, memory cards. There’s no USB Type A port, which means you can’t print from a USB key or connect a PictBridge camera with a USB cable. However the printer supports Wireless PictBridge, which Canon says is available on all of its recent camera models that offer Wi-Fi. It isn’t available on any cameras from other manufacturers.
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Like the Canon MG5720, the MG6820 supports mobile printing and scanning, as well as the ability to print from selected websites. You can connect to your network via the printer’s Wi-Fi, and print from and scan to iOS, Android, and Windows phones and tablets through an access point on your network. Assuming your network is connected to the Internet, you can also print through the cloud, and if you download the Canon Print App to your phone or tablet, you can use the app to give commands to specific websites and cloud-storage sites—including Dropbox, Google Drive, Facebook, Twitter, and more—to send print jobs directly to the printer from those sites.
If you choose to connect to a single PC via USB cable instead of connecting to a network, you’ll lose the ability to print through the cloud or print directly from websites. However, you’ll still be able to connect directly to the printer from mobile devices, using Canon’s equivalent of Wi-Fi Direct, to print and scan.
Paper capacity is disappointingly meager for the price, but sufficient for most personal use, with a single tray that can hold only 100 sheets of plain paper. One welcome extra is an automatic duplexer. Paper handling for scanning is limited to manually placing pages on the letter-size flatbed.
Setup Is Slowwwwww
At 14 pounds and 5.9 by 18 by 14.6 inches (HWD), the MG6820 is easy to find room for. Setting it up is standard fare, except for the software installation. Although you can install the drivers and other software from the disc the printer comes with, the Getting Started guide sends you to Canon’s website to download everything instead. The Guide does mentions the disc, but the layout makes it easy to miss that information.
Downloading the software ensures that you install the latest versions. However, it can take an annoyingly long time. After watching the download window insist for 30 minutes that it would be done in just 6 minutes more, I went off to do something else. And note that this was with a broadband connection with a promised 75Mbps download speed. Fortunately, you only have to do this once—or, at least, once for each computer you’ll be printing from.
Speed and Output Quality
Print speed for the MG6820 is best described as acceptable, but unimpressive. On our business applications suite, I timed it (using QualityLogic’s(Opens in a new window) hardware and software for timing), at a lackadaisical 2.6ppm. That makes it tied with the Canon MG5720 and a touch faster than the Editors’ Choice mainstream inkjet MFP for home, the Canon Pixma MX922 Wireless Office All-In-One Printer ($478.97 at Amazon)(Opens in a new window) (2.4ppm). However, it’s significantly slower than the Brother MFC-J870DW, our pick for mainstream office-centric MFP for home, SOHO, or dual-purpose use (4.7ppm).
Photo speed is much faster relative to the competition, averaging 52 seconds for a 4-by-6-inch print. That makes it the fastest in this group, although only by a few seconds. Speeds for the other three printers range from 54 seconds to 1 minute 5 seconds per photo.
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Output quality is above par overall, thanks to the high quality for photos. Black and white prints have a slight tint under some lighting conditions, but color photos are in the top tier for inkjet MFPs, which makes them higher quality than you get from most drugstore prints.
Text and graphics output are both typical for inkjets. For text, that translates to being good enough for almost any business use, as long as you don’t have an unusual need for small font sizes. Graphics output is easily good enough for PowerPoint handouts and the like. Most of the output in our tests was even good enough to hand out to a client you’d want to impress with a sense of your professionalism. However, a few of the full-page graphics weren’t quite at that level.
Conclusion
If you need Ethernet, fax capability, or an automatic document feeder (ADF) for scanning multipage documents, consider the Canon MX922 or the Brother MFC-J870DW. If you don’t need these office-centric features or the ability to print from memory cards, the Canon MG5720 will give you essentially the same capability as the Canon Pixma MG6820 Wireless Inkjet All-in-One at a lower price, though it lacks the MG6820’s ability to print from memory cards.
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The Canon Pixma MG6820 Wireless Inkjet All-in-One offers above-par photo quality and speedy photo-printing, making it a good fit for home use.
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