

The Canon Pixma MG5220 provides a generous serving of speed, high image quality, and features for a reasonable price.

A four-color page would cost about 13 cents. The dedicated photo black, also $14, lasts for about 660 photo images (or adds a small amount to a typical document). The separate inks include a $16, 341-page black cartridge (4.7 cents per page) and $14 cyan, magenta, and yellow cartridges lasting between 500 and 520 pages (2.7 to 2.8 cents per page). Scans of color photos tended to look dark, but monochrome scans and copies were sharp. As for graphics, test photos that looked overly bright on plain paper were nothing short of fantastic on Canon’s own photo paper. Such results are ideal for business correspondence and the like.
CANON PIXMA MG5220 COST PER PAGE DRIVER
At the default settings we use for testing, its text quality was quite nice, but the output turned nearly laser-like when we chose High quality in the driver (taking a bit of a speed hit). On output quality it fared about as well as it did on speed. All-in-One Printer with Auto 2-sided Print, Copy, Scan and Fax, 50-page ADF. At any speed, the MG5220 is noticeably quieter than most printers. image 0 of Canon PIXMA MG5220 Wireless Inkjet Photo All-in-One (4502B017. Color scanning was fast, too, while black-and-white copies landed in the middle of the pack overall. A higher-res, full-page photo on our Mac understandably took longer, almost 2 minutes. Snapshot-size photos averaged a swift 2.3 ppm on the PC. Get more pages per cartridge and go longer between cartridge replacements the Canon PIXMA MG2555S wont cost the earth to run. On plain paper, printing mostly text with some simple monochrome graphics, the MG5220 posted a fast result of 8 pages per minute on a Mac and 7.8 ppm on a PC. Using the optional high-capacity Canon XL ink cartridges, you can save as much as 30 on the cost per page compared to their standard equivalents. The MG5220 performed very well in our tests. Memory card slots support CompactFlash, Memory Stick, SD Card, and XD-Picture Card. The scanner cover telescopes to accept thicker material.
CANON PIXMA MG5220 COST PER PAGE PLUS
That minor complaint aside, the MG5220’s impressive paper handling includes automatic duplexing (two-sided printing) and two 150-sheet input trays: one undermounted drawer for plain paper, plus a vertical rear feed for thicker media. We miss it on this otherwise capable machine. Most home-oriented MFPs such as the MG5220 lack an automatic document feeder for scanning multipage documents.
