PIXMA TS705

I would just like to share my experience after having purchased this printer. I ordered it late afternoon on Wednesday and it was delivered to me just after 10am on Thursday. I live in Kent and the printer was sent from Shropshire. I am not in Prime and the printer came directly from the seller (not Amazon), via their own delivery van man. I think that this is exceptional service and well worthy of the five stars on the delivery time aspect alone. I waited until Friday (today, as I type this) to try and set the whole thing up. Wifi in our house is sometimes a bit hit and miss, so I decided I was going to install the printer to my laptop via USB. Taking the printer out of the box, unwrapping it and removing all the orange transit stickers was laborious but had to be done. I was pleased to find that, having a smaller footprint than my outgoing Canon IP7250 printer, it gave me extra room to manouvre it on the table. Trying to fit the electricity cable into the back of the printer was a bit more than just a sod to achieve, though, but I got there (eventually). Whoever the dimwit is at Canon who thought it a 'clever idea' to design and put the socket for the cable plug at a stupid angle on the back of the printer is in serious need of retraining. And, as I found out a bit later, the same applies about the square(ish) socket for the USB lead. The printer came with an installation CD and I used that because I have a Windows 10 laptop with a CD/DVD drive (yes, a rare beastie nowadays). However, I still had to be connected to the internet because the CD looks for installation updates on the Canon website to download and install. The instruction booklet that also came with the printer was quite useful but didn't go into too much detail about the installation process, stating only to 'follow the onscreen instructions' which I didn't find too hard to do. Everything did take quite a time nonetheless but I wanted to get the installation done so I sat watching a film on TV while the installation worked away. Eventually, the printer burst into life, doing what Canon printers are famed for doing - namely, performing an ultra-mega cleaning session after which I was left with 5 half-full (or half-empty) ink tanks from full. Thanks for that, Canon, as I was rather hoping you'd cured that very same problem I often experienced with my 7250 machine. The LED screen on the front of the printer is a nice touch, though, as in idle mode it displays the current ink tank levels for each colour; it's just a pity that Canon forgot to insert a lightbulb at the back of it to make it unnecessary for me to hold a lighted candle in front of it to read what is on there. The printer produced three pages of test print which further cut into the remaining ink tank levels but, hey, I can order some compats for three times the cost of the compats I paid for my 7250, or a set of geniune Canon inks totalling almost the cost of this printer. So, it's all covered. Canon Easy-Photoprint Editor software was also loaded onto my computer and that will allow me to design and print onto printable DVDs amongst other things. I read a review somewhere, while researching this printer model, where some unhappy buyer stated that this TS705 doesn't print booklets like his old 7250 did. I think the review might have been 'elsewhere on the internet', or it might have been on here (Amazon) but, either way, I have got really good news for that person. This printer DOES print A5 booklets exactly how I was able to on my old 7250, and the set-up is exactly the same. If you have an A4 document (PDF/LibreOffice/Word/Whatever) and you want to turn it into an A5 booklet, just select File > Print > Select Printer (surprisingly, Canon TS705) > Preferences and tick the Duplex Printing box then the Page Setup tab, under Page Layout scroll to the right and hit the Booklet option. Hit the OK button... et voila! The booklet will be printed. It might save a rainforest somewhere. Overall, I hope that this TS705 printer will last the almost 5 years of use to equal that of my IP7250, before it mysteriously (pre-programmed?) dies an instant and uncontrollable death. I can recommend this printer, if you are in the market to replace your IP7250 (or whatever printer has just expired on you) but, please be patient while setting it up. It is NOT an all-singing, all dancing scanner, photocopier, bacon slicer, etc., and it doesn't claim to be. Fingers crossed, it is just a suitable replacement for the IP7250, and that's all you ask for, really.

Easy set up

Easy set up installation, though i have just connected with a USB as it's all i need. Very pleased with the way the printer prints A4 Glossy photos to the little square ones (forgot the dims for these) also very impressed with how quiet this is (last on used to make the dogs bark!). Yes for Photo printing i give it thumbs up and would definitly recommend.

Can print multiple copies quickly, particularly in draft which still gives good quality. I do up to 40 copies and then manually turn to print next side which is so much quicker than using duplex printing.

Here is my review of the Canon Pixma TS705. It prints very well, nice sharp photographs, good text printing. I found it quite easy, if a bit time consuming to set up using a USB lead but no problems, it's no noisier than most printers, and so far it is working fine. On the downside, it is an ugly looking thing with bits sticking out on the top and on the front, it looks like the front tray is not pushed in properly. Very poor design compared to the Pixma 4700 it replaced. As several reviewers have mentioned the display panel is in the wrong place and much too small and dim to see properly, and it is necessary as there are so many things you inadvertently do wrong. Such as a flap which you can hardly see because it is clear plastic and should be up or down or whatever is the reverse of the way you have it, or something that should be pushed in or pulled out, also I can't see why the disc carrier was hidden under the bottom of the front tray and not loose in the box. The supplied CD was a waste of time. None of the utilities work properly on my windows 7 computer, in fact the computer found the necessary drivers as soon as I connected it, so the CD was useless. Fortunately I had not deleted Easy print and CD label print from the 4700, and these work fine with the 705. I don't know how much ink is in the supplied cartridges but they seem to empty pretty quickly, so I shall bite the bullet and buy XXL cartridges for an eye watering eighty quid the set, and hope they last a reasonable time. Nothing to do with the printer but I think, in this day and age Canon should ditch the polystyrene packaging, and use that cardboard egg box stuff that many companies use today. So all in all, a fairly good printer, which I think should be better for the money.

I like the way it prints when I ask it to unlike my old printer. I expected for some reason that it would also be a scanner but it isn't. I thought wrongly that all printers were scanners. It took a bit of setting up before I could print t but that done it does the job. Also the cartridges were quite generous for originals. Much better than I have had on other new printers.

Plugged in and swithed on, the little screen is supposed to light up to enable setup. It stayed blank and triangular warning light came on, together with blue 'ON' light flashing. Unable to get the thing set up and working. Possible transit damage.

Obtained this as an IP7250 replacement ( suddenly died for no reason with a persistent Canon error message after hundreds of A4 travel photos) Apart from being somewhat fiddly to set up and difficult to read the ink levels / instructions on the info screen, the printer has produced great paper prints ( front paper tray) and surprisingly good A4 photoprints feeding generic A4 photopaper (back tray) and generic inks.