Customer Ratings & Reviews

I have had this printer for almost a month now and love it! It prints clearly, scans and copies easily! i have not tried printing a photo yet, but am confident that it will turn out great. I have it connected to my laptop by USB and it more or less set it self up when I turned it on.

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.

I like it a lot, the prints come out impeccable. It is easy to install and use, the process is quick

I loved the product, the price quality is unbeatable ideal for students 100% recommended.

Love it so far. Its nice being able to print without having to worry about ink cost in the back of your mind. Being able to print from your phone has been nice too. We even made stickers for Christmas.

Setup was a little tricky with network connection and air print, but the instructions were pretty good. Large ink tanks is like taking the printing monkey off your back. Full page glossy prints on photo paper look good and everything else has worked as expected.

This was an attempt to escape from my war-torn and expensive cartridge printer that was more of a hassle than helpful. Cartridges will run out faster than the wind and it being a family computer wasn't doing it any favors. However, it was the MegaTank that showed me a new road. A path of longer lasting ink, inexpensive replacement, and affordability. Ever since then, my purchase has been more than worth it! Highly recommend for anyone or family needing a basic home printer.

Very good printer. I'm satisfied with the prints & the quality.

Terrific photos color easy to use but the color it’s really bad no matter how you correct the foto

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.

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.

Great printer. Does use alot of ink like all the others ive bought and it prints really fast.

This is my first tank Inkjet printer. I can’t remember the last time I used my existing Inkjet printer. I mostly rely on a laser, because it just always works. I would use my inkjet intermittently and whenever I would need to use it, it would seem it was clogged, and I would expend virtually all the ink to unclog it. Now, I need to print some photos, and rather than going out and buying new ink cartridges for my decade+ old Inkjet printer, I decided to see what new printers have to offer. More ink, theoretically lower cost, higher resolution, hopefully faster speed. Also, none of my existing printers have integrated wifi, a feature I have wished I had for awhile. My laser printer is connected to my network, but connecting to it is not always simple, especially with chromebooks, and it limits where I can place it in my home since it needs to plug into the network. Upon arrival, I took this printer out of the box. There is a card in the box with a link to a website. From that website you follow the installation instructions. I installed it from a Windows laptop, so it downloaded some Canon software from the Microsoft store and then it had step by step instructions to install the printheads, and then each bottle of ink. There was a little more to it than a standard inkjet printer. First you install two printheads, which look identical to the ink cartridges of old. Then you dump each of 4 ink bottles into matching ports. Then it takes about 5 minutes to presumably prime the ink and get it from the reservoirs to the printhead Once that was done, I printed their test print to regular paper and it printed fine. Next, I decided to print a photo. I used photo paper I had from, a long long time ago. Glossy photo paper. Again, no idea how long I have owned that paper, but I do know it has been a long time, more than 5 years at least. I found a photo to print, and printed it at 5x7. I didn’t select 8x10, because I didn’t want to wait all day for it. I am used to my old inkjet. I selected glossy photo paper as the paper type from the printer settings. I was surprised when the print finished very quickly. I am not sure how long it took, because I didn’t actually time it, but it was pretty fast, couldn’t have been a minute, and the photo looks good. I am impressed. I haven’t even aligned the print heads at this point, and am not sure I need to. All has gone well up until now. A couple of things I didn’t mention. After following the installation instructions, the printer is installed in Windows twice. When I go look at installed printers, it is listed two times. Not sure why. I certainly didn’t install it two times. After printing that first photo. I got an error message saying the photo I was holding in my hand had failed to print. A few minutes later the printer started to become active again. I wasn’t sure what it was doing? It sounded like it did some more ink priming, and then, it started printing. It printed the photo a second time. Maybe it assumed, since it had “failed the first time” it should try again? This time, it printed to standard paper, since that is what was loaded in the printer. As expected, the colors were a lot duller than when using photo paper. As I had not selected a paper type for this second print, I presume it was still using the photo paper option. Even though it seemed finished, about five minutes later it moved again. Looking at the LCD display, it said it was downloading. I would have thought any updates would have been done while it was setting itself up and priming its ink for 5 minutes. Once whatever it was downloading was complete, it moved again, and the LCD said update was successful. Printing from Chrome One of the reasons I wanted a wifi printer was to hopefully make it easier to use with Chrome. I opened my Chromebook. I selected add a printer. The Canon printer was listed. I selected Add. I then tried printing a photo from Google Photos. It didn’t have as many print options in the settings as were available in Windows, even after selecting more. I couldn’t find a way to change the paper type, for example. I printed a photo and it finished very quickly, and looked good. See attached photo of a lake. Printing from Mac Mac was similar to Chrome. I went to printers and the Canon printer was listed there. I added it as a printer. I printed another test photo. This time, I decided to time it, and I decided to print the full 8x10. I again used the Epson Glossy Photo Paper. The Mac printer settings also did not appear to have settings to select paper type. The print took 1 minute 10 seconds. It also looked good. See attached photo of some berries. Each time, after doing a print, some seconds after the print is complete, the printer does something. Maybe parking the print heads or something. So, the printer prints well. The printer is fast. Time will tell I guess if this is any different than my old inkjet as far as the printheads getting clogged and the printheads look like they can be replaced, but at a cost similar to the ink cartridges of yore. I may try to print something periodically just to keep that from happening. What I do really like about it though is the potential to be more environmentally friendly if the heads can be kept from clogging. I have bags of old printheads that I have saved for recycling, but never sent in. One concern I might have about this new tank style printer is if I ever had to transport my printer. Like when my kids take a printer back and forth to college. I worry that if the printer got flipped on its side, or flipped upside down if the ink could end up everywhere. I am glad I chose to get this, it was definitely time, and would recommend it.

Ink tank printers can be a compelling option for those who print a lot of documents or photos. They offer a number of advantages over traditional inkjet printers, including lower operating costs and better print quality. Not to mention a longer time between changing out consumables. But there are also some considerations to keep in mind when going this route; many ink tank printers are slower to print than traditional cartridge printers and the initial cost can be higher than traditional ink cartridge printers as well (as most brands sell the printer at a reasonable price only to make the back-end profits on replacement cartridges). Canon has produced a worthy introduction to ink tank technology with the Pixma G3270. This was my first encounter with both ink tanks and with Canon printers in general and I have to say that so far I have been very impressed. The build quality is quite high, and the printer looks sturdy yet somehow still streamlined. There’s no paper tray to load as it is a top feed rear tray design. This means you’ll have to leave a little more room behind and on top wherever you locate it, but it also means a straighter paper path. I welcome the trade off myself; I think this means less jams and better print quality for photos. And the print quality is exceptionally good, while still being quite fast – even at highest quality. High gloss, matte and even borderless prints are produced with vibrant colors and great edge to edge coverage. The included ink bottles are not like the usual ‘starter cartridges’ provided with some printers. These are high quality pigment-based inks and there’s enough to fill the tanks. That’s enough for thousands of pictures or even more of text pages! The straight paper path does mean that the Pixma 3270 can only print on one side of the page, but Canon has done a neat job of still making this feature available. In the print driver you can select double sided printing and after the one side is printed both the driver and the printer’s screen give clear and concise instructions on how to stack and reload the paper and you simply press the OK button to print the other side. I thought this was a really thoughtful touch by Canon! (Oh, one more positive about the rear paper path; it allows you to do banners if you have the use case…) Loading the ink was easy (there are step by step instructions online) and despite my concerns turned out to be a cleaner experience that replacing a few cartridges in my day. At least a couple of times I’ve had to scrub ink off my fingers but filling the tanks was simple and totally clean. Surprisingly, this all comes at a price that puts them squarely in the range of competitive ink cartridge printers. Long term, this could save you a lot of money as the tanks last incredibly long and the replacement bottles are considerably cheaper than cartridges. A few things to keep in mind; in order to get the most out of this printer, it has to be used. Both in terms of getting the savings value and keeping it running. Because of the separation of the ink tank and the print heads, some ink tank printers can be more prone to clogs if they sit unused for a long time. I haven’t been with the Pixma for a long enough time to give a good opinion on this but the research I did showed that as long as you print a couple of color docs or a test page once a week, this shouldn’t be a problem at all. But if you normally use a laser printer for the majority of your documents and only want an ink jet printer for occasional photographs, this may not be the printer for you. However, if you can benefit from ink tank technology, I couldn’t recommend a better intro than the Canon Pixma 3270. It continues to impress, and I think it will for a long time!

The Canon MegaTank G3270 Wireless Inkjet Printer offers a variety of features, including wireless printing, scanning, and copying, as well as good quality printing at a low cost per page. The first thing you notice about this printer is its ink system. It uses large ink tanks that hold a lot of ink, so you don't have to replace them as often. This can save money in the long run. The included ink bottles empty themselves through the mega tanks. Canon claims one fill-up yields between 6000 to 7700 pages depending on the colors. Setup was a bit complicated at first. The printer had issues communicating with the app and the wifi set up would fail. After several attempts, the connection was successful and it’s been a good experience since. I have it connected to my phone through the app and to my Windows laptop which was a better connecting experience than the initial setup. This printer is easy to use through the app or directly through the small monochrome LCD screen. The controls are simple and straightforward, and the printer produces great quality prints. The colors are natural with sharp text. It can print on a variety of media, including paper, envelopes, and photo paper. From its small size, the biggest compatible paper would be Legal size. I use it at my job connected primarily to my laptop and I print mostly reports and documents, some of them in color. The results are great. I printed a few photos of people, animals, buildings and other objects and they came out great. The pictures are well balanced with vibrant colors more on the blue (cold) side than red (hot). Documents and reports printing jobs start quickly enough. I was expecting a slower response. Photo printing on the other hand can take a little longer. On a couple of occasions, I thought the printing had failed due to the lengthy response. Quite a compact size at 16.5 inches wide, 13 inches deep and 6.5 inches high (my own measurements); it fits snuggly on my office desk. The plastic finish looks good but doesn’t feel solid. Overall, it has a modern simple appearance In conclusion, the Canon PIXMA MegaTank G3270 is a good printer that provides a variety of features, good quality printing, and a long-lasting ink system. Although it wouldn't be my first choice, I’d say that it’s a good choice for home or small office use.

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.

This G3270 replaces a G6020 that quit black printing when I refilled all inks. This review compares G3270 to G6020. The G3270 cost less. But lacks FAX ability, which I had never used with the 6020. The backlit 1" square screen should be an improvement over the larger LCD. But the display text is too tiny. The 6020 display angle could be adjusted up and down. But that didn't help much. The 3270 can't be adjusted. It might help if it could be adjusted left and right. I have the printer on a large desk, to the left of the large monitor. I sit in front of the monitor. So I'm looking sideways at the printer display. Actually, I lean way over to see the display. If I had a shelf above the monitor, the printer would be closer and in line with my eyesight. Even then it would be a strain to easily see the text. Fortunately, the printer has been trouble-free so I haven't needed the display. I haven't timed the printer. For me it is fast enough. The print quality is very good. It is difficult to determine which is the original when I make a copy. Speed and quality, to me, seem the same with this 3270 and the 6020. Ink refill use the same system. I really like the large capacity tanks. I'll never go back to a printer with cartridges. So far, I've only had one paper jam. And it was easy to fix. This is the first printer I've owned that has been top rear loading. The prior ones required loading into front cassette(s). After using this 3270 I much prefer the top rear loading. I can just glance at the printer and determine how much paper is left. Also the cassette system was more prone to paper jams. And more difficult to retrieve the jammed paper. For long documents, this 3270 top/rear loading makes reloading very easy without interrupting printing.

If you are looking for a great photo scanner, this printer is not for you. CONS: With the standard photoscan option with the CANON PRINT utility, the color is not accurate and the crispness is not there. My previous, nine-year-old Canon MC Pixma printer was an excellent photo scanner. By using the CANON PRINT scan utility “advanced mode“, you can tweak the scans to be better than the automatic ones, but it requires your time and effort. Other problems: You can Air Print from your iPhone, but NOT if the printer is ethernet cable connected to your PC for scanning. Additionally, it is not easy to set up where you want scanned items to be filed. Printer set up requires phone app. PROS: printing and copying are easy. Physical set up including ink tanks is easy. Looking forward to printing for years without ink purchase!

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.

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.