Inkjet printer Canon Pixma iP7240 (6219B007). Canon Pixma iP7240 inkjet printer: description, specifications, reviews So, let's move on to testing print quality

The Canon PIXMA iP7240 printer seems to be created to be discreetly stored somewhere on a shelf, waiting for its finest hour. Its appearance carefully hides its belonging to printing devices, and indeed to any devices, for that matter.

Without instructions, it is impossible to understand that this is a printer; rather, the Canon PIXMA iP7240 can be mistaken for a media player. We know that a printer must have a paper input tray and a paper output tray. An opening lid for installing cartridges, after all. You won’t find any of this on the Canon PIXMA iP7240 until you start feeling it with your hands.

Although, due to the abundance of glossy inserts in the surface, it is not recommended to touch it with your hands - fingerprints on the case remain very noticeable. And in general, dust sticks to these inserts very actively, which does not quite suit its image of an “inconspicuous box on a shelf.”

The Canon PIXMA iP7240 has carefully removed all the most important things inside itself and is in no hurry to reveal its secrets without instructions. Even the buttons are reliably disguised as design elements. There are only four buttons, three on the left and one on the right. The one on the right is mechanical, and its only function is to push out the tray to eject images. Moreover, if you decide to start printing without pressing this button, the tray will recline on its own. The three buttons on the left already have deeper functionality. Under the power on/off button is a universal button for communicating with the printer (you press it if paper is stuck, if it’s time to change the cartridge, if the paper is out, and many other “ifs”). And even lower there was a round button for connecting the printer to Wi-Fi networks.

There are two paper trays hidden at the very bottom of the printer. The one slightly higher is designed for photo paper in small but popular formats - 5x7 inches (13x18 centimeters) or 4x6 inches (10x15 centimeters). You can insert a disk into it, but from the bottom side, for direct printing on its surface. The lower “cassette” is more versatile; you can insert all popular formats into it, up to A4, and it can hold up to 125 sheets. Thanks to this solution, you won’t have to constantly change paper if you alternate printing abstracts on plain paper with printing photographs on small-format photo paper.

The printer has no other active elements - no screen, no card reader, no USB port for connecting the camera directly. Perhaps, for a home printer, which is the Canon PIXMA iP7240, these additions are not really needed.

In general, no matter how you look at it, the printer seems to be designed to stand peacefully in a corner, not take up extra space and not attract unnecessary attention. The flat, rectangular design makes it easy to fit into any space, and the lid will soon start to accumulate papers or decorative items like stuffed animals, whether you like it or not. The wireless technologies with which the printer is packed will allow you to get by with one single power cord, and two trays will allow you not to get up too often to change plain paper for a photo.

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It prints better photos if you install the XPS driver!

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He will ruin you on cartridges. All these printers are a stupid scam for money. Manufacturers make profits not from the sale of printers, but from the subsequent sale of branded cartridges. Moreover, you won’t be able to install left-handed or refillable cartridges, don’t even dream about it. Everything is chipped, with the wrong cartridges, the printer will be slow and glitchy.

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I used alternative Burstein slam-shut caps with OCP inks. Quite quickly problems began with mixing colors. Magenta was mixed with cyan and after being idle for 1 day, it had to be cleaned at least twice before the first print. Replacing the cartridges did not help, and then the nozzles in the head partially failed. It is possible that if I had used original consumables, all this would not have happened, but the costs for them would have been many times higher than all my manipulations with alternative components.

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The printer is super, no words...

Vyacheslav F. yesterday at 06:48

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About the service: I never expected that there would be no additional shipping costs. The Pick Point service turned out to be very convenient for me. And in general, the whole chain - from order to execution - is amazing.

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In general, the model as a whole is not bad for the money. I struggled a bit with the Wi-Fi setup, which is why I bought the printer. And even at one point I regretted the purchase, realizing that I wouldn’t be able to set it up. But one day he simply began to work through the air without additional intervention. So everything is fine now. The printer is very noisy and slow-witted. I read other reviews and laughed about the slowness :) It’s all true. Printing “quickly” will not work. It will take a long time to turn on, set up before printing, etc. It will definitely wake someone up at night, so it’s better to use it during the day. But if you’re not in a hurry, it’s quite satisfactory. The best option, I found - turn on the printer in advance, then it will be faster to think. In order not to go broke on cartridges, I advise you to purchase an additional set of refillable cartridges and keep them ready. Then suddenly running out of ink will not be an unpleasant surprise. Original cartridges are also easily refilled without any additional equipment. I always have one set in reserve. You need to experiment with ink and photo paper and find the right ratio so that the pictures do not fade over time.

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This is certainly not laser printer, but how slow it works.... After turning it on, it starts to set up, it takes about 5 minutes. Then, when you have chosen what you want to print, it will think for another 3 minutes before starting to print. The printing process itself is fast, but these intervals between the start of printing and the completion of the work... you will print 1 sheet for a total of 10 minutes, because while it turns on, then it will think, then it will think again, then it will print, then turn off 3 minutes... I still don’t understand the principle of its operation: if you need to print several sheets, it can print them instantly, or after printing 1 sheet, think for a couple of minutes, print 2 sheets, think again... although nothing complicated or colorful I'm not typing. By the way, after printing 2 color A4 sheets, the amount of ALL ink dropped by almost 40%. Although I printed a blue-red-black design. And then, not a drawing, but a drawing. Not for frequent use. Otherwise you will finish it off yourself))) Very expensive cartridges. The full set will cost the same as the printer itself. And if you often print color images, then get ready to change cartridges once a season

APPEARANCE

The Canon PIXMA iP7240 printer seems to be created to be discreetly stored somewhere on a shelf, waiting for its finest hour. Its appearance carefully hides its belonging to printing devices, and indeed to any devices, for that matter.

Without instructions, it is impossible to understand that this is a printer; rather, the Canon PIXMA iP7240 can be mistaken for a media player. We know that a printer must have a paper input tray and a paper output tray. An opening lid for installing cartridges, after all. You won’t find any of this on the Canon PIXMA iP7240 until you start feeling it with your hands.

Although, due to the abundance of glossy inserts in the surface, it is not recommended to touch it with your hands - fingerprints on the case remain very noticeable. And in general, dust sticks to these inserts very actively, which does not quite suit its image of an “inconspicuous box on a shelf.”

The Canon PIXMA iP7240 has carefully removed all the most important things inside itself and is in no hurry to reveal its secrets without instructions. Even the buttons are reliably disguised as design elements. There are only four buttons, three on the left and one on the right. The one on the right is mechanical, and its only function is to push out the tray to eject images. Moreover, if you decide to start printing without pressing this button, the tray will recline on its own. The three buttons on the left already have deeper functionality. Under the power on/off button is a universal button for communicating with the printer (you press it if paper is stuck, if it’s time to change the cartridge, if the paper is out, and many other “ifs”). And even lower there was a round button for connecting the printer to the Wi-Fi network.

There are two paper trays hidden at the very bottom of the printer. The one slightly higher is designed for photo paper in small but popular formats - 5x7 inches (13x18 centimeters) or 4x6 inches (10x15 centimeters). You can insert a disk into it, but from the bottom side, for direct printing on its surface. The lower “cassette” is more versatile; you can insert all popular formats into it, up to A4, and it can hold up to 125 sheets. Thanks to this solution, you won’t have to constantly change paper if you alternate printing abstracts on plain paper with printing photographs on small-format photo paper.

The printer has no other active elements - no screen, no card reader, no USB port for connecting the camera directly. Perhaps, for a home printer, which is the Canon PIXMA iP7240, these additions are not really needed.

In general, no matter how you look at it, the printer seems to be designed to stand peacefully in a corner, not take up extra space and not attract unnecessary attention. The flat, rectangular design makes it easy to fit into any space, and the lid will soon start to accumulate papers or decorative items like stuffed animals, whether you like it or not. The wireless technologies with which the printer is packed will allow you to get by with one single power cord, and two trays will allow you not to get up too often to change plain paper for a photo.

PRINTER IN WORK

The Canon PIXMA iP7240 printer, like most new Canon printers, has the ability to connect as traditionally USB cable, and via Wi-Fi. The initial installation of the drivers took about half an hour, but after that the printer, having connected to the home wireless network, detected without problems on all my computers and laptops. Moreover, it automatically became the default printer, which surprised me a lot. Connecting to a Wi-Fi network is possible either by explicitly specifying the necessary settings (for this the printer will need to be connected to the computer once), or by using WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup) technology, which boils down to sequentially pressing the corresponding buttons on the router and printer .

For owners mobile devices iOS or Android also offers wireless printing. Owners of iPhones and iPads can print pictures using the airPrint technology built into their devices, support for which is fully implemented in the printer, and owners of mobile devices on Android will need to download the Canon Easy-PhotoPrint program, available for free on Google Play.

When printing, the PIXMA iP7240 finally shines. The print cannot be called silent, but there are practically no vibrations from it. After printing is complete, the printer runs the print head for some time and demonstrates in every possible way that it is ready to print again and again. But having calmed down and realizing that there will be no more jobs, the printer stops making any sounds, until the next print.

PAPER

The paper in the printer is distributed into two “cassettes”. The top one is for popular photo formats (10x15 cm or 13x18 cm), the bottom one is for everything else (A4, A5, B5, Letter, Legal, envelopes, 20 x 25 cm). To adjust the paper size, guides are used, which are fixed in positions corresponding to popular formats. The fixation of the pages is so clear that for the sake of experiment, I sent one page of text to be printed twice on the same sheet of paper. The result exceeded expectations - the letters completely coincided in both attempts.

It would be worth mentioning that the printer supports two-sided printing - one single checkbox in the settings will save on paper and will allow you not to get up once again to turn the sheets over and insert them the other way: having printed one side of the page, the printer sucks it back and immediately prints it on reverse

In total, the lower cassette will hold 125 pages of plain A4 paper. The top compartment will hold much less - only about 20 sheets.

INK

Under the top cover is the heart of the printer - the print head and ink tanks. The Canon PIXMA iP7240 has five of them: three color and two black (one black cartridge for printing photos, the other for text). The one that uses pigment-based ink for texts, which works great when printed on regular paper. The remaining four (three colors, magenta, yellow and cyan, as well as photo black) are made based on Canon Chromalife 100+ technology, which ensures bright and rich color and longevity of prints in their original form, especially when printed on special Canon photo paper. Ink tanks are replaced individually, which should increase the efficiency of their use.

However, in a system of three color cartridges, the savings are not so obvious, because all colors are consumed approximately equally. The blue one ran out the fastest; its resource was enough for 40 A4 photographs taken in high quality. Almost immediately, after just a couple of photos, they asked for a replacement for purple and yellow. Ink tanks that require replacement blink invitingly in red as soon as you lift the lid. Those that are running out, but are still alive, also blink, but less often, it is impossible to make a mistake. Ink tanks are available in two sizes - regular and XL. As the name suggests, XL ink tanks will last you about twice as long as the regular ones I used.

By the way, be careful not to get dirty when you start installing new ink tanks. After installing the first two, I noticed that my thumbs turned purple/blue. By the time I installed the yellow color, I became a little smarter.

The FINE print head system, which is also used in more advanced Canon printer models, is responsible for print speed and quality. Thanks to the scientific developments of the Japanese, it is impossible to detect graininess in photographs of the Pixma iP7240 even with a good magnifying glass. And this while maintaining decent printing speed. One A4 photo at maximum quality is printed in approximately 1 minute and 35 seconds. 10x15 pictures with a simpler quality and completely “fly out” in 25-30 seconds. Printing black and white text on plain paper is almost imperceptible.

PRINT QUALITY AND CONCLUSIONS

For a home printer that will mainly print small event photos, the Canon PIXMA iP7240 showed very good print quality. You won’t find any graininess, even if you try very hard, and otherwise the printed pictures look very vibrant and pleasant.

Original photo

Scanned fingerprint

Original photo

Scanned fingerprint

CONCLUSIONS

Jet Canon printer The PIXMA iP7240 is perfect for light-duty printing at home. Most likely, the buyer of this model will print various documents and vacation photos in approximately equal proportions. You probably won’t be able to print books of a couple of hundred A4 pages on it, just as you wouldn’t be able to print a hundred photographs from your own wedding on it, but for the needs of an ordinary family that needs an inexpensive photo printer, it will be just right.

The closed and flat design of the printer allows you to place it somewhere on a shelf where it will not be in the way. Built-in wireless technologies will help minimize the number of wires, and two trays for different types paper will allow you not to think twice about it when, while leisurely flipping through photos on your tablet, you suddenly want to send one of the pictures for printing.

At the same time, the quality of the photographs is quite comparable to what is offered by budget darkrooms, and there is absolutely no shame in capturing some family moment, immediately printing it out and hanging it on the wall. Or, having brought friends home, casually show a photo album and say: “we flew to Barcelona that weekend, it’s beautiful, isn’t it?”

Tarantina Antonina 2017-02-13

After reading the reviews on Yandex, I bought at my own peril and risk. Many people write about noise and long preparation times for printing. These users apparently did not print on other printers. Previously I used Epson L200. If you compare these models, they are heaven and earth. The setup is very fast, I’m pleased with the ability to print via wi-fi. My rating is 5.

Advantages

High-quality and fast printing. Printing via Wi-Fi Printing on discs Convenient paper tray

Flaws

Vladimirovich Stepan 2017-02-09

I replaced the cartridges with resettable ones, this is the happiness of saving

Advantages

Simple and high quality, but does not print quickly Multiple trays

Flaws

Slow When printing on a disk, if you don’t make a circular print area yourself, it will print the entire image directly on the tray. He's constantly buzzing and checking something.

Salmin Zora 2017-02-04

In general, I don’t advise anyone to buy this miracle of engineering so as not to be disappointed. You need to think carefully about whether to buy this scrap metal in a plastic box. This Canon creation lasted exactly a month intensive work having printed 30 photos and apparently got very tired from such a load that had fallen on him and died in agony. Shame on the company for such quality. Personally, I will no longer buy printers from this company. I will have to look for a replacement from other companies. Although now there is some kind of general trend of decline in quality. And how to teach a manufacturer to make quality things is to share reviews and not take any rubbish. Everyone Enjoy the shopping.

Advantages

There are no advantages. The printer is terrible a priori. I do not advise you to buy it under any circumstances. The persistent desire to throw it out the window will not leave you the entire time you use this terrible device. It seems that Canon has not made such devices before and this is the first printer it created, somewhere in underground enterprises in a Chinese village, hand-assembled by Liao’s grandfather and his grandchildren.

Flaws

Polished edges that collect dust. Very fragile. Afraid of the slightest shaking. Errors begin immediately and refuses to print. The print quality, when compared with previous models in this line, has simply deteriorated significantly, both in color reproduction and detail. Noticeable noise and grain have appeared. Even longer He began to think about the task at hand, and all this time he rustled, crackled and made some sounds, as if he was trying to communicate with intelligent beings in another dimension.

Kutsenko Maxim 2017-01-20

There were 4 printers from Canon and that's what's interesting. The older the model, the more unpretentious it is and the longer it works. The last one bought 7240 and it lived for about six months. I just decided to print the photos on A4, printed the first one perfectly, but rejected the next one with error B200. How so? So just take it and stop working? Okay, on the ip4820 model I continuously printed 20 photos on A4 and the head burned out, but what happened? It looks like the developers are setting some kind of limit on their new printers. It's just 3.14 awesome! Totally insolent! Update from January 20, 2017 - another printer died: D still the same B200 and I have no doubt that the printer has some kind of limit that breaks it.

In the world of home printing today, MFPs rule the roost - multifunctional devices, which are a printer-copier-scanner in one bottle. Against the backdrop of their rapid development, classic printers seem not so efficient and no longer particularly attractive for purchase. In reality, everything is completely different. The majority of users do not need the rich capabilities of MFPs at all. The copier has long become a professional tool, in demand only among large companies, and a scanner at home can easily be replaced by a smartphone camera. The only device that everyone (students, managers, individual entrepreneurs) still need is a printer. In addition, such a purchase is a more profitable investment, since you will not overpay for printing capabilities and technologies that you do not need. Most likely, some innovations will not be useful at all in everyday life (you don’t scan stacks of documents every day, do you?). Thus, we come to the conclusion that it is better to focus your attention on an inexpensive and monofunctional device. One of these will be discussed in today’s review. Meet the Canon Pixma iP7240 inkjet printer.

Characteristics

It is worth noting that the Canon Pixma iP7240 inkjet printer has quite good specifications. For ease of perception, we decided to present the information in the form of a table, which is located below.

Design and Construction

One of the most important advantages of printers, which is not part of the MFP, is compactness. Such devices are easier to fit in small apartments. Thanks to the low-profile design of the Pixma iP7240, it can easily be placed on a shelf with low ceilings. Canon also took care of the aesthetic component. The Canon Pixma iP7240 body is made of matte black plastic. The printer looks solid and stylish. The number of controls is minimal, everything is done for the sake of simplicity and asceticism. A glossy panel is installed around the perimeter of the lid, giving the device elegance.

IN Pixma printer iP7240 has 2 paper cassettes installed. One of them (the top one) is loaded with photo paper (10 by 15 and 13 by 18 centimeters). The second (bottom) is loaded with plain paper (sheets A4, A5, B5 and other popular formats). Each cassette is equipped with a specialized clamp that tightly holds the paper during printing, preventing it from slipping away and blurring the image. You can even do an experiment. Load one sheet of paper twice and see with your own eyes how the printer reprints the image with pixel accuracy.

Ink

Just under the printer cover are the ink tanks and the print head. Pixma iP7240 is equipped with 5 ink tanks at once. Among them: two black - one with pigment paint, and the other with regular paint, three colored (with blue paint, yellow and purple). Color ink and photo black paint are made using Canon Chromalife technology. The manufacturer does not disclose the specifics of the technology, but confidently declares an increase in the quality of printing on photo paper. This is especially true in the case of paper from Canon. Pigment ink is needed for printing on plain paper.

Ink on the Pixma iP7240 can be replaced individually without replacing the entire tray. This approach allows you to reduce the cost of consumables. The life of a standard ink tank is enough for about 40 photographs in A4 format. This is the number of pictures that blue ink is enough for. If the ink is running low, the LED on the ink tanks begins to blink (the fewer consumables, the higher the blinking frequency). If necessary, you can buy larger ink tanks. They are marked with the article XL, are more expensive and take longer to consume.

Handling paper and discs

It was already said above that the printer is equipped with two paper cassettes and a stable mechanism for fixing it. It would be useful to say that the printer supports two-sided printing technology - Auto Duplex Print. If this option is enabled, the next page of the document will be printed on the reverse side of the sheet. Printer in automatic mode re-sucks a sheet of paper. No user intervention is required.

During the printing process and absorbing paper, the printer makes a lot of noise, but does not make the table on which it stands shake. Vibration during operation is minimal.

The Canon Pixma iP7240 can print not only on paper and photo paper, but also on CDs. Software for the corresponding prints is included with the printer.

Wireless printing

The main advantage of any modern printer is the ability to print documents and photographs without physical connection to the computer. For this function to work, you will have to install the bundled drivers, which will take a lot of time to set up. But the programmers did their best; the printer is easily detected on any computer and smartphone. The printer can be connected to a Wi-Fi router by manually entering connection information (via a computer). You can use WPS technology if your router supports it.

Software

Canon printers come with several CDs with software. Canon programmers have developed two programs for processing and printing photographs. The first program is My Image Garden. This utility is a tool for creating photo collections, sorting pictures and creating collages. With it, you can apply filters to photos in the style of Instagram. There is a function to “blur” the background, increase the brightness and sharpness of pictures.

My Image Garden turns your photos into beautiful collages and calendars (there are other types of printable templates too). While scanning a photo library, the utility recognizes faces and objects, sorting them into separate albums. In theory, this means that once you feed the program your photo library, it can instantly find all the photos of your friends or even your dog. The program has a complex interface, and some operations are performed one at a time, so it will take time to get used to the utility, but it is worth it.

The second program is Print Your Days. The essence of the program is the same. Artificial intelligence scans a library of images. Categorizes them by date, persons and events. Then he creates a collage and prints it out. The main difference is the source of the photos and the simplicity of the interface. The utility is much more modest in terms of capabilities and collects photos from social network Facebook. For those who often post pictures there, Print Your Days will come in handy.

Print quality and speed

The Canon Pixma iP7240 printer is equipped with a FINE print head. This mechanism is responsible for the quality of prints and the speed of printing. The efforts of Japanese engineers were not in vain. The printer is capable of printing one glossy photo in 20-30 seconds. An ordinary black and white document “pops” out of the printer almost instantly. The photographs come out rich and vibrant. The color rendition of the printer is realistic and deep. There is noticeable slight tuning on the part of the printer, which makes the photographs more pleasant for ordinary people. Those who like to process pictures before printing should moderate their ardor and not push up the contrast and curved lines of some colors. Small flaws are almost invisible. The image clarity is impressive, with no grain or pixelation visible at all.