Canon Pixma TR8520 Wireless Home Office All-In-One Printer Review

 

 Earlier this year, Canon replaced its outdated cube-shaped MG-series (consumer-grade photo) Pixma printers with new TS-series Pixma models. Meanwhile, the Pixma TR8520 Wireless Home Office All-in-One Printer ($199.99), one of two models in the Canon's TR series (it has a slightly lower-end sibling, the soon-to-be-reviewed Pixma TR7520), edges out the past-its-prime MX-series (family and home-based office) Pixmas. Specifically, the TR8520 replaces the Editors' Choice . The TR852 is \

smaller than the Canon MX922, redesigned in and out, and supports Bluetooth, making it our new top pick for family and home-based office, low-volume printing and copying.Canon says that the TR8520 is 35 percent smaller than the MX922  , which the company attributes to a new print engine, smaller circuit boards and power supply, an improved paper path, and reworked internal design—in other 

words, it was redesigned. Measuring 7.5 by 17.3 by 13.8 inches (HWD) with its trays closed, and weighing 17.5 pounds, the TR8520 really is significantly smaller and more than 8 pounds lighter than its predecessor, making it a much more comfortable fit for the average desktop.

Even so, there's no shortage of petite printers in this category these days. But that's partly because many of them don't have automatic document feeders (ADFs) for sending multipage documents to the scanner. In contrast, the TR8520 comes with a 20-sheet ADF, which is slightly smaller in capacity than 

the  35-sheet document feeder, though neither of them support auto-duplexing for scanning and copying multipage two-sided documents. The HP 7855 is about 6 inches longer than the TR8520 and weighs about half a pound less, whereas Canon's own ADF-less Pixma TS9020 and Editors' Choice  are inches smaller in all directions, and both models weigh about 3 pounds less than the TR8520.

Also similar in size and weight to the TR8520 is the   and it has no ADF. (As you can see, the field of family- and home-office-oriented inkjet AIOs is quite large; between the four major inkjet printer manufacturers—Brother, Canon, Epson, and HP—there are so many that discussing them all here isn't feasible.)