Canon Reviews

An excellent printer, lots of great features for the money, although a few minor quirks. I was considering some other flatbed all-in-one's from HP, Brother, Lexmark, etc, and am using this to replace separate older HP all-in-one and Canon scanner units. Some reasons I chose this unit include combination of ability to copy 8x14 legal (auto-doc feeder only), individual color cartridges (cheaper and environmentally more friendly), high speed color fax w/270pg memory, 2400x1200 color print resolution (useful for digital photos), 30pg auto-doc feeder, direct hi-res color copies (1200x1200), 25-400% copy enlarge/reduce, and print speed.

Setup was easy - quite a few steps to unwrap packing tapes and other setup, but fairly dummy-proof both hardware and software. Performance is excellent in many ways for basic printing, copying, scanning and fax. In the 1200dpi direct color copying mode, even does a respectable job copying direct to glossy photo paper. Doc feeder is smooth, no jams so far. Note that 8x14 legal scans work fine, but are through the doc feeder only, which runs them through a small separate 1"-wide scan area - the plate glass accepts up to letter and A4 sizes (the doc is wrong on this suggesting 8x14 glass copies, but a note on the canon web site corrects this). The unit is a good healthy size, but not overly huge. It vibrates back and forth a bit during inkjet printing sweeps, but a good solid base will help. There is also a plastic cover over the paper tray, a nice touch to keep dirt/dust off the paper supply.

On the down side, the docs are well written for basic functions, but very poor for most advanced features. Many technical terms are not defined (eg: most fax tx/rcv settings) or not documented beyond just mentioning them by name. There is no single section or roadmap for all of the on-printer menus and most menu settings are not in the index either, so you have to jump around the pages by eye. The color/quality/paper settings in the print setup, while flexible, have little documentation in terms of what they really do (eg: difference between photo/glossyphoto/photofilm paper type settings). I'm still working on trying to compensate a bit for correct skin tones from my Fuji digital camera, which tends to favor red more than I'd like - although shots from another digital camera came out fine. Another nit: the max scan resolution I've seen is 600x600, so I'm not sure where the claimed 600x1200 settings come from. Finally, 17c/12b ppm copying and printing speeds are not what I'm seeing for highest resolution settings, these numbers must be for either lowest resolution, or multiple page copy speeds.

All that aside, I'm very happy with the unit, it copies and prints great high-resolution pictures in reasonable speeds, and is nicely priced.

Needed a fax machine and looked around, for the options and the name brands that are more popular like Brothers, and Panasonic for fax machines and copiers as well as HP. Canon has definetly taken the TACO!!! Very easy to setup, in 2 words idiot proof. I use this for my personal use, I can only imagine it would do wonders for a small office or a home buisness. Ink jets for the F50 are cheaper than jets for my 6 year old Canon BJC-4550. It's smooth and fast, software can get annoying, simply tons of warnings, when Multipass isn't online. Pictures even on regular paper are rich and full, very detailed, gotta wait till photo glossy paper comes in!! Copying carbon copy receipt is weak, regular copies are amazing. Worth the price!!!! By far, Canon is the best. One con though it is loud, compared to laser printers. Faxing is almost instant!! Trust me buy it!

I bought this to use in my back office. I'm a busy doctor and the 20-minute setup according the color poster couldn't have been easier to follow. The printer worked GREAT right out of the box. It's fast. The included software runs easily but also offers options (like adjusting ink color levels manually)that allow you to be a little creative if you like. It's fast (great when we run out of a form unexpectedly). I love being able to scan a document to fax, type in the name and fax number of the recipient, add a few lines for the cover sheet, and have the computer take care of the rest. Did I mention it's fast? I plan to replace all three of my employees' printers with this machine!

If my sister askes whether to buy this C755 Multipass, my answer is, "Darn forget it." Yest it prints, scans, faxes and photo copies. But that's it. Quallity of printing (whatever it is black, color, faxing or copying), is almost tragic. There are very notable thinny line between one horizontal ink spread and another. Another agony is popping up when you leave it out for a relatively long period of time. Ink or nozzle (I don't know what actually cause problem) are sticking up and it produces jagged letters or images which is very unsmooth. Scanning quallity? It's even no better than today's digital cameras which many cell phones arm with. Last pitfall is it needs on-memory utility software turned always on. Considering the large memory size of today's computers, the on-memory residencial utility program could not be a big issue. Yet, it makes lots of problem such as scarry blue screen and reasonless system stop with certain applications. I manually dragged the utility out from my start-up list for trouble shooting and reenter it when I needed printing. All in all, I gave it away to somebody and I'm so happy about it.

I bought this mulitfunction printer about 1 year ago, and at first it seemed OK. I was running Windows 98 and it installed pretty well. But after restarting sometimes, it would not recognize that the printer was even there (much less the printer manager).

COMPATIBILITY : Seemed decent with Win98 (sometimes), but was awful with WinXP
PRINTER: Prints very badly. Lots of broken lines in the images. Tried to print some CD labels, and they never came out straight.
COPIER: Never tried it, so I cannot comment.
SCANNER: You have to really help the picture in to get a semi-decent scan. I probably scanned 100 photos, and only 1 or 2 looked near professional.
FAX: Never tried it

I upgraded my OS to Windows XP Pro a few months ago and it was a nightmare trying to get the printer to work. I used the new XP software from the Canon website, but it still didn't help out. I gave it to my mom to use since she needed one anyways. I STILL can't get the software uninstalled now.

I do not recommend this printer.

I upgraded to this printer from an older Canon multipass machine that a few years ago cost me more than 2x as much and did much less. This printer has black and white and color copying, scanning and printing. It is a good size, easy to use and has ink tanks that are seperate for each color, so you just replace what you need. I have had mine for about 2 months and haven't had any problems with it. Pictures print quickly and are pretty sharp. I think this is a great printer to use at home as I do for my basic household computer printing, and I make many copies which is great too.

If you are using OS9 you will encounter the following problem after installing the included Adobe Type Manager software: "System error type 119." Canon and Adobe are aware of this and the fix is as easy as going to adobe and downloading "Adobe Tpye Manager 4.5.2 Macintosh version" (NOT the deluxe version). At some time in the near future Canon will update the included software, but until then there is no clue about how to solve this problem in the box.

I used a MultiPass C635 for a few years with my iMac Rev. A, and other than a few hiccups in the initial driver release, which were promptly fixed in Canon's next release, the unit was very good to me for scanning, printing, and faxing. Also comes bundled with PhotoDeluxe, a very good photo editor.

What's GOOD: Canon MultiPASS has the perfect design, is an awesome space saver, paper has never jammed, faxing is reliable, and is basically easy to use. What's BAD: Printing is very slow, copying is very slow, I spent about 3 hours on the phone with Canon Tech Support when first installed to work out some software bugs, now about six months later, for some reason when I click the print button it does not want to print. Sometimes I have to click the print button to print a basic MS Word document a dozen times before it decides to print.

This Printer,Fax,copier, and scanner is easy to use and fast it prints like a profesional and does not take up much room!!!

I purchased my Canon Multipass C530 in October of 2000. I paid $199.99 for and it came with a $55 mail in rebate. I consider it to be a very good buy. It is still working very well with one minor quirk that I have learned to live with. If you are using it with a computer that has a Win based modem it sometimes fails to initialize on startup. This problem is easily bypassed by shutting the power off to the unit (unplugging it) and then plugging it back in.

I also found out the hard way that the unit must be kept plugged in. I had the unit plugged into a powerstrip with the rest of my computer. I would shut off the power to everything when I turned off my computer. I couldn't understand why I was going through ink cartridges so quickly, so I called Canon support. After talking with two techs we figured out why I was having this problem. Power must remain supplied to the unit in order to put the carriage in a home position which seals off the ink cartridge so it doesn't dry out. After pointing out the fact that this was one major point that they forgot to mention in the manual they were very apologitic and sent me 2 new ink tanks free of charge.

I have used this unit for everything and have been very pleased with the quality of prints you are able to obtain with it. Grant it they are not the 1200 dpi resolution that you would get with some more expensive units but they are good enough to print out fairly decent color photographs. Quality paper makes a big difference! I have printed out business brochures which turned out fantastic on the higher quality paper.

I have been doing a LOT of scanning photographs for a family photo video that I am putting together. It does a good job of scanning these pictures but if you run one through the scanner feed more than four or five times you will start to notice light track lines across these pictures (even if you keep your feed rollers clean). Because of this I am currently shopping for a flatbed multifunction unit - Canon makes one called the multipass F50 which is also a multifunction unit but has no rollars to leave track marks on my pictures. This is quite a bit more expensive though so if you can get by with only scanning a picture a couple times the C530 might still be a good choice for you.

The fax speed is great with the G3 technology you can scan a page in about three seconds and with the error reporting feature turned on you will know right away if you fax has been sent or received properly.

The printer has a built in nozzle cleaning feature which can clean out clogged nozzles with just the touch of a couple buttons. Since I have been keeping the unit plugged in the nozzles stay fairly clean and my ink tanks last pretty long.

Don't be expecting a speed demon with this machine it is not a high speed printer - full color photos take a few minutes. Just remember that this isn't a $300 machine and you can't have everything for almost nothing and you will be happy with it. All in all for the money I would say that this unit is definitly a good buy.

I actually went into the stores looking for a fax machineexpecting to spend about $150. when i saw this at [the offered price], i realized i hit the jackpot. its so nice and small and the cover closes up to hide the buttons for a better look. my print quality was exceptional even though the dpi is only 720x360. in reading about Canon's Drop Modulation technology, i can see how they do it with minimal dpi. black quality is perfect and there are NO paper missfeeds at all. it seems as though it will copy just about anything and that makes me happy. i havent had any worries about this machine and Canon has answered all my questions about the different things i can do with it. Thank you so much Canon for making a great product. Now my fax machine does 4 other things as well! Awesome.

I purchased my multipass and it was supposed to have a color scanner (the book even said so), but when I called them about it they told me that it was a generic book and that mine was not supposed to have a color scanner. The book doesn't list any other machine except for my Canon Multipass C3500. Then my warning light wouldn't always come one when it was supposed to to tell me that I needed to replace the ink cartridge. And to top it off, my print head needs to be replaced. The reason I say don't buy Canon is because I have seen many of their printers up for sale (not just this particular kind) and every time I ask what is wrong the tell me they need a new print head. I've run into many people on the web with the same problem. If only I knew then what I know now.

Like a lot people, I went for something that could do a lot for little money. I knew the risks of buying a machine that can seemingly do everything. Well, I know nothing is a cure-all but I was hopeful.

1. I couldn't use the product for 3 months because of driver problems. I got defective software that included the driver setup. It took 8 weeks for them to send it to me. Took me another month to get it set up.

2. I finally got to use it and then almost immediately started having feed problems with the copy and fax feeders. I had to start manually loading each page of the fax I was sending. If I miscalculated the timing I would wind up sending half of a fax because the machine wouldn't accept subsequent pages.

3. The scanner is VERY poor. I wouldn't even consider it a real scanner. Lots of skipping occurred because this is the same feeder for the faxing and copying I don't think the rollers were built to have that much action. They should have put sturdier rollers/feeders on the machine knowing it was going to be used for so much. If I were using three different machines (i.e. a dedicated copier, fax and scanner) my volume would not be considered that high for each machine. But using the same feeder for all three functions is more than this product can handle unfortunately.

4. I don't like the fact that it doesn't tell me when it's going to run out of ink. Unless, I missed that particular function. But as far as I can tell you just RUN OUT. NO warning. I've learned to "buy ahead" and I used to think it "convenient" that they sold the black ink jet cartridges in pairs, but now I think it's a plot. Canon knows the cartridges have low capacity and/or the machines are greedy.

5. This last problem--the final straw. I came home last weekend after being gone for 5 weeks and "suddenly" the printer feeder isn't working and the function keys are going nuts (possible power surge problem to be fair but everything else is fine and I have a very good power surge protecting hardware). Anyway, called for repair and realized it's two months past my 3 year warranty.

surprise, surprise

These problems weren't constant but seemed to come up at THE most inconvenient times. Good when it worked but it just wasn't consistent enough to be considered a great, reliable product.

Would suggest buying for a college student not a home office--it's reasonably priced enough and should last through most of your student's college career. Also, a college student will have back up computer resources around campus in case of a last minute breakdown.

Its always good to see that a model is still available 3 years later. We have been using this in a light-med duty office for that long. It has really good features for a home office, color copies that look great. Relatively little problems for the three years until now, that it says its out of ink but its a new cartridge. Head cleaning hasn't done the trick. It does eat ink cartridges so be aware!