Canon PIXMA MP470 Multifunction Photo Printer - 2177B002 - Refurbished
Canon PIXMA MP470 Photo All-In-One Inkjet Printer

I've had good luck with it thus far. I've discovered I'm not a big fan of the gravity feed paper source. Unless you put a new piece of paper in everytime you want to print, over time the paper sags and curls. Plus, to duplex, you've got to stand up to put the just printed paper back in the back of the machine.
 
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Bought this in November 2007 and rarely used at home. Now the copy function is dead. To get around that I have to scan and print. At least those still work but when the ink runs out I plan to get a different brand.
 
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It is a very good copier as well as printer. The printed copy looks sharp, clean and professional. It is easy to use.
 
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I like this printer! I recommended it already to a friend who bought it, also! The only complaint I have with it is it is a little large in size, but I can live with that. It is very easy to use, makes beautiful pictures, and copies in just seconds! So far I'm very happy with it!
 
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After 10 months of very gentle use, doing everything "by the book", the paper jams on the right side and won't go through the rollers, as per other reviewers. This makes the printer function totally useless. This happened without any warning; after following the repair instructions in the manual many times, Canon tech support said they would replace the machine. I am concerned that this is a design defect in the MP470, and I will have the same problem with the replacement.
 
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I'm pretty satisfied with this printer. Only complaint is that it sometimes folds the upper left corner of the paper when loading. Overall I'm satisfied with the unit.
 
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I have had this product for a couple of weeks. It is a good printer/scanner but is noisy.
 
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In the beginning it was fine, but it just died...the paper no longer goes in, therefore, can't print, which means no longer useful.
 
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Nce quality printer for the very low price. Easy to set up. This was my first experience with Canon Unbielable response from them on the most minor question.
 
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I like this printer very much. For the money, it's a very nice piece of hardware. I can't comment on the durability, since it's only been running for two weeks, but it seems to run fine. Setup was easy, once I figured out where everything was. Not having a USB cable bundled in is a pain, but that's the only real hurdle to get over. Scanning works well. Printing is slow when machine isn't warmed up, however; but things improve quickly after that. The vertical blank paper feed is a space-saver, but curls the paper and looks messy. But all these are minor complaints. Buy this machine!
 
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I have only used this for a few weeks, but it was easy to set up, looks very nice and has performed to my expectations and as advertised. Thus far all is good, nothing negative to report.
 
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I did my research and read all of the great reviews for this printer. Mine printed one sheet of paper properly and then it stopped feeding paper (always jamming on right side). This problem is not discussed in the manual so now I am having to deal with factory support.
 
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We like it very much . Great photo's and just works good all the way around .
 
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Purchased this printer expecting to "get what I paid for", but I never expected that the printer wouldn't last long enough to make it through a single ream of paper before failing. The print quality is really great for the money, but I am now on my second MP470. The first one failed after about 1 month complaining of a paper jam even though no paper could be found anywhere in it. Canon Support was very good about quickly sending a replacement, which I have now had for about 2 weeks. It is now failing in the same way - "Paper Jam". I have tested the printer on another computer and even without a computer connected and it still fails. Simply turning it on displays a Paper Jam warning. I have completely disassembled this printer and no paper jam can be found. This is likely a design flaw. I guess I'll be contacting Canon again....
 
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I got this bad boy for $68 delivered to my door, and I could not be happier. The printer takes a while to spit out images, but the results are nice. The scanner is very cool, along with the software that comes with it. It scans in color images and the text is very clear. The copy function works great as well. Great product for the price I paid. Only negative is the printer is kind of big, so will occupy some desk space. Worth the trouble, however.
 
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The Canon MP 470 printer is an excellent unit. It is a multi-function device with the ability to print, scan and copy. It reads camera memory cards and can read directly from properly equipped cameras. I use the printer primarily to print photos from my computer, which it does very nicely, and fast, too. The unit was easy to set up, Canon does a nice job with the setup software, I am using Windows XP Media edition, and the setup took about 15 minutes. The quick start instructions quickly guided me through the process. One caveat, no USB cable comes with this printer, so be sure to have one on hand. After setting up, I decided to try to print a photo. I went in to the properties for the printer, and was able to easily set it to print for the photo paper I was using. The photo printed quickly. I later dived into the properties to examine the options and soon found some enhancements that improved the picture quality. The inks used by Canon give the prints a warm cast, I don't know yet how expensive replacement inks will be. The printer uses 2 cartridges, a black and 3 colored color cartridge (#40 & 41). For the $68 I paid for this printer, it is a great bargain at an excellent price! I am very well satisfied with it.
 
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Buy.com delivered it on time. The printer is very good. I just printed documents mostly and the quality is excellent. I haven't tried printing photos yet. I would recommend it to someone who wants a home printer.
 
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Looked at several websites and big box stores for this MFP. Buy.com had the best price and ordering was easy. Delivery as promised. Will shop here again!
 
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purchased feb 2008. Photo printing is very good text is just as good. But after printing only 12-15 photos the color ink is half gone to me that is to much. The scanning is easy to use the program does everything for you. Over all I'm very happy with this purchase.
 
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So far, everything seems good. It's easy to set up and easy to use. The print quality is good. Spooling takes a little longer than I would like, but once it starts to print, it goes quickly.
 
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Very easy to set up and use. I very pleased with this product and would recommend it to anyone looking for a multi function printer
 
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Actually...all I was interested in was a "basic" printer for home use. ConsumerSearch.com rated it the "Best budget multifunction printer" and Buy.com had the best price...so it was a no-brainer. It was quite easy to set up (I'm somewhat PC-challenged) and seems to work great in the little printing, copying and scanning I've done in the week I've used it.
 
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So far this printer has performed excellent for a printer in this price range. I would recommend it to anyone looking for a reiable printer at a good price
 
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I use the printer for my cannon SD1000 Camera it work fine. Quality could be batter but worth the cost of the printer compare to the more expensive model. Only complained is the no USB included.
 
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Not sure why people complain about the speed or the quality of this thing. When printing at top quality text looks like a laser and photos look perfect! We have only done about 23-30 of each but we are THRILLED with this purchase!
 
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I haven't done anything fancy with this machine, just simple copy and print jobs -- no pictures. Overall, seems to do a nice job. My only complaint is what I think is a design flaw -- the flip up LCD screen sometimes comes in contact with the document cover when its opened.
 
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This is a great little printer for the price! It is easy to set-up and operate. I bought a Cannon 3-in-1 a few years ago and it was almost $300 and had a much larger footprint.
 
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I have a HP all in one and the paper is begining to jam. I decided to replace it with the canon PIXMA MP470 since buy.com was selling it.It was easy to set up but do remember to buy a usb cable or make sure you have one at home. It did not come with a cable. It also came with a version of the omnipage software making it really easy to scan and save in pdf format. The print speed was a little slow but I am use to the snail pace of inkjet printers especially when you are trying to print in high quality. Overall it is a nice printer. The ink cartridge is almost the same price as the HP inks.So expect to pay HP prices for the ink cartridges.Overall I think it is a very nice buy for the price.
 
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The MP470 is a superb value at under $90 and is a very flexible tool. It has excellent text output, decent photo output and a useful scanner/copier. <p>* Easy to set up and use * Great for home and school * There are better choices for business and photograhpy * A little noisy <p>Seriously, the text output is fantastic. I'm back in college and have had to print out over 1000 pages of PDF's for my classes this quarter. My workhorse 4-yr old Canon i860 printer was fast and could use cheap non-OEM inks but it often made for very hard reading which wasn't worthwhile. This quality of the MP470's text on plain paper rivals that of the HP 5000-series Laserjets at work. <p>I seem to average a little over 220 pages of text (which includes images) from the CL40 black ink cartridge. That's nearly 9¢ per page, which is not spectacular. For general use I prefer printers which use two cartridges (one black, the other tricolor) as opposed to 4,5, or 6+. It may cost a little more but it's so much easier to keep track of spare cartridges you will inevitably have to keep on hand. <p>The LCD is easy to read and the media card slots are handy but as someone who uses Photoshop to at least sharpen the images I print, the card slots aren't used much at all. <p>The scanner is OK, not great but not bad. Documents scan and print clearly, photo's are OK. I have a Canoscan 8400 and it's much faster and accurate but it cost twice as much as the MP470. I think for school and household use, the scanner is fine. For serious photo scanning, a dedicated scanner will be much better. <p>My one criticism of this printer is the noise. Not as loud as dot-matrix but it's louder than any printer I've used, including the MP160 (which my partner uses for her work). There is a quiet mode with a timer, so you can make the printer quieter (and slower) during certain hours of the day. Scanning can't be quieted, though. <p>I have a certain disdain for all inkjet printer manufacturers for adopting the "Gillette" model; sell the product near cost and earn the profit on the consumables. Not only is this deceptive model for the purchaser of a printer but I think it encourages waste by making many printers 'disposable' compared to the cost of ink. My 2¢... Having said that, Canon seems to be the best of the bunch right now. Due to their design, Epson has head-clogging issues and higher per-page output cost. HP has very lightfast ink but their non-business models always have paper handling issues. Lexmark is undistinguished (and Dell inkjets are just Lexmark printers that have no Mac compatibility).
 
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Word of warning... the printer does NOT come with a USB cable, so be forewarned if you are planning on hooking this up to your computer. Printer was easy to set up and compared to others in it's price range it has great quality and performance. Good quality printout from web pages, scanner worked well and picked up the detail on the page that we copied and printed. Using the memory card to print pictures was easy to do. Could also copy pictures from the memory card in the printer to the PC, so an extra card reader/cable is not needed. Print was drug store quality. Overall pleased with the printer!
 
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very good printer, copier, scanner and photo printing. Good value for money. Good for home printing and other works.. nice value to money spent...
 
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Does everything I want. It's faster than I thought it was going to be.
 
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I got this for my son who attends a technical university and he is thrilled with it
 
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bought this on black friday to replace a worn out Canon printer. It's a slight bit slower than our old one, and were not too happy that canon is making most printers with consolidated color ink tanks now, but the printing quality and machine build quality are excellent. For the price we paid, this is an excellent deal and buy.com has always been great to deal with.
 
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I got this all-in-one printer for a great price (thanks to Black Friday!!). A very handy unit, quite compact, might look slightly bigger that some other printers in this range, but is actually pretty light. And looks pretty sleak too. So far so good with the performance. The scanning is not the greatest, but it definitely gets the job done quite nicely. The installation s/w was actually pretty easy to follow too. The only thing -ve that I'd like to point out is that the unit does not come with a USB cable, which is an absolute necessity. I had go to circuit-city to get that.
 
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My wife has been bugging me for a photo printer, and I saw this guy for 68.99 on buy.com, and decided to go for it. The printer is awesome, and it prints excellent photos, text and graphics. The bundled software that Canon includes for photo printing is excellent as well, and makes it very easy to print the way you want. My only real gripe is that the default scanning software they included (some OCR type program) is super complicated. AfterI dug around the disc, I found that they had a much simpler utility included for scanning and all was good.
 
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Great product. Needed to get a new printer as Vista wouldn't work with my old Epson, and I wanted a flatbed scanner to use for copying old family photos. All features work well. My kids are happy that they can once again print out their homework assignments. Great product for home usage!
 
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If you are looking for a simple and low price all-in-one printer, this is definitely a good choice for you.
 
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Does it all at a great price.
 
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For $68 shipped, I have never seen a better deal for a quality photo printer. The 4x6's on gloss paper look better than anything I've ever had printed from a kiosk or shutterfly. The only gripe I have is the bundled scanning software isn't real intuitive. I did discover that there is a canon utility on the included disc (that didn't install w/ the "easy" installation) that works much better. The bundled photo printing software is the easiest i've used, and makes this a great deal.
 
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Setup took no time : had printer working in windows and OS x on my MacBook pro. Canon has the best color printing.
 
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I bought the Canon MP 470 to replace a new Kodak Easyshare that I couldn't stand using. While fumbling with the sluggish and awkward software, it corrupted my CDROM driver. The Canon was easy to unpack and install, if you have a USB cable laying around. The installation materials lacked detail to allow speedy ink reservoir installation. The paper setup and loading using the LCD panel was similarly poke and hope. You must set the paper type (matte, glossy, Pro, etc) before you can print. Since I bought the Canon primarily for 4x6 prints, I have not attempted to have two media sizes installed at the same time. The print's color accuracy and saturation is decent, but not great (compared to my PC's LCD screen display). It is fairly quiet. The type of photo paper being used may require an adjustment to printer chroma values, which I found odd. I also could not find (on-line lookup) the exact settings for the "everyday" Kodak paper I picked up at Staples, so I picked something close and that was apparently OK. Canon's "Print Wizard" is a good idea, but they could explain it's functions and options better. The photo fix-up functions are not particularly flexible or effective. I suggest using another photo program to edit, crop, and size the files and then print straight through. On the few dozen 5 MP JPEG files that I have printed so far, I feel it is adequate for my needs. For the price, it produces decent prints. It does not produce prints as visually pleasing as Moto-Photo's are from my Panasonic camera, if that is a fair comparison. But, it's what I was previously doing to get 4x6s printed. I am satisfied with the printer overall for my home 4x6s.
 
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