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4.5
I bought this printer because it is small, compact and portable. I have had Canon printers in the past, and they are good photo printers, however my last 4 printers were all HP. They all still work, just old technology. I bought a wireless HP printer/scanner for home, it was easy to set to work with any wireless network without using a cd rom to set it up. I needed a portable printer for work and all of the HP printers the size of the Canon Pixma were way out of my price range. So, I bought the Canon printer for the price point, size, and Canon's reputation. I got so frustrated trying to set this printer up, I almost sent it back. I needed to set this printer up, so it worked with my Android phone and Android tablets. When I am at home, I'm on one network, but when I go to work, I am on a different network and I use my cell phone carrier's network when I'm not at work, or home. Setting it up, was a nightmare, because you get no real instructions in the box. I also read the reviews, so I know I was not the only one. I downloaded the manual for this printer and I figured out how to set this printer up very easily for Android. Once I knew what to do, it literally took 2 minutes to set up! First go to the Google play store and download Canon Print Injet/Selphy app and Canon Print Service plug-in app. Turn your printer on, hold down the wifi button, until the power button blinks 3 times. Now, go to your wifi settings on your device and look for your printers wifi address, the address will end with ip110. Look at the back of your printer, the pass word for printers ip address will be there, consisting of 4 letters and 5 numbers, it will say serial number, but it is also your password. Enter your password then click your Canon Print Injet/Selphy app, and print away! Yes it's that easy! You would think that someone at Canon would have made a simply instruction booklet to explain that simply wireless set-up, so that us consumers wouldn't be so frustrated, but that's too much like right. I heard the set-up for Apple devices is really easy too. Please remember this, if you want to print pages off the internet, you must download or screen capture them first, then switch to the printer's wifi network, to print wirelessly.
