Wireless All-in-One Home Office Printer with Auto Document Feeder

• Fully integrated 30 page auto document feeder for raid copying scanning and faxing


• Super G3 high speed fax with 20 coded speed dials storing up to 50 incoming pages when receiving ITU-T No. 1 chart


• Various security features including password protected PDFs


• -InchEasy-WebPrint EX-Inch lets you clip arrange and print web contents


• Bonus 4-Inch x 6-Inch Photo Paper Included!

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High Performance Photo Printing up to 13-inchx19-inch for Professional Quality

• Maximum 4800x2400 dpi FINE printhead technology


• Photo Lab quality 11-inchx14-inch color photo in approximately 1 minute 23 seconds


• Support for fine art paper up to 13"x19" with two separate paper paths including front feeder for heavy-weight paper types


• Professional printer features using Easy-PhotoPrint Pro plug-in software


• Ambient Light Correction feature; optimizes color output to match the specified lighting condition

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High-Performance Wireless Photo All-In-One with 2.0-Inch LCD

• Keep it Green - Built-in 2-sided printing helps the environment and cuts your paper usage by 50%


• Amazingly compact printer with both wireless and built-in 2-sided printing


• Maximum 9600 x 2400 color dpi2 for exceptional photo quality


• Use the new “Auto Photo Fix II” to automatically adjust and correct your photos


• Easily print your photos from compatible memory cards3 and USB Flash drives

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Wireless All-in-One Home Office Printer with Auto Document Feeder

• Fully integrated 30 page auto document feeder for raid copying scanning and faxing


• Super G3 high speed fax with 20 coded speed dials storing up to 50 incoming pages when receiving ITU-T No. 1 chart


• Various security features including password protected PDFs


• -InchEasy-WebPrint EX-Inch lets you clip arrange and print web contents


• Bonus 4-Inch x 6-Inch Photo Paper Included!

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High-Performance Wireless Photo All-In-One with 2.0-Inch LCD

• Keep it Green - Built-in 2-sided printing helps the environment and cuts your paper usage by 50%


• Amazingly compact printer with both wireless and built-in 2-sided printing


• Maximum 9600 x 2400 color dpi2 for exceptional photo quality


• Use the new “Auto Photo Fix II” to automatically adjust and correct your photos


• Easily print your photos from compatible memory cards3 and USB Flash drives

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Nirvana

My highest priority was for an all-in-one that would fit upon my home desktop alongside my computer and monitor. I needed to replace my HP F4180 because of queuing problems with the latest version of one of my photo editors.

By comparison the F4480 is much faster quieter and sleeker. Prints spew out at least 50% faster. The unit is quieter in operation and has the sound of quality. The F4480 is sleeker and shorter.

I can't address this unit's durability except to say that I am a computer hobbyist of over thirty years. For about the last ten years I have chosen HP products exclusively. I am very pleased with HP's online support (chat) system.

As for ink usage I will willingly pay more for the convenience of needing only two cartridges.

Tho I use printers predominantly for printing and copying documents I am delighted with the photo quality of the prints which are sometimes exhibited on the walls of our home.

As for the software I downloaded the driver only version from the HP website. The full HP software on the CD may be helpful to novice users but is an annoyance for folks who don't like all the ads. Better freeware options exist elsewhere online.

Price was not an issue this was simply the best at fulfilling my particular needs. However I am still in awe of the low price.

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Good fun for the creative folks out there...

I purchased the Polaroid PoGo today and have done a fair bit of "playing" with this compact little printer over the past couple of hours. In fact I have already used the first package of 10 sheets of Zink (Zero Ink) paper that come with the printer. So my first recommendation is; if you are planning on buying a PoGo I highly recommend getting extra paper so you can get through your "testing" phase without having to purchase more paper. However don't go crazy and buy too much there are expiration dates on the paper which may affect your picture quality if you take to long to "expose" (print) them.



Connectivity:

I have tested the Bluetooth capabilities with my Motorola Q Laptop Computer (Bluetooth enabled) my desk-top Windows Vista computer (with Radio Shack "Bluespoon" Bluetooth 2.0 adaptor added) and my PictBridge capable Canon Powershot A 640 camera (directly connected to PoGo via USB cable) and the printer worked like a charm in all of the above tests!



Speed of Printing:

Print time is about 1 minute per photo. There was no noticeable change in print speed with any of the tests I performed. Using the Bluetooth (wireless) connection or plugging in your USB cable directly from your camera did not seem to make any difference as to how fast the image printed.



Image Quality:

Not great...but not the worst I have seen either...The pictures I printed from my camera (via USB connection) looked better than my pictures from my cell phone but this was likely due to the higher megapixel image created by my camera versus the 1 megapixel image from my cell phone. However the "white balance" of both my camera and cell phone images were a little "off". The whites were extremely white (almost washed-out) and the dark (shadow areas) were very dark. So if you stay away from printing bright "beach / snow" images or dark "night" photographs you will be OK. Photos with lots of color (flowers for example) looked pretty good when printed with the PoGo.



Cool things to do:

The adhesive on the back of the photo paper is a nice feature of this product. This makes it possible to add pictures to your hand written journals. You can stick them to business card magnets and put photos all over your refrigerator. You can make photo luggage tags cards and much much more.



If you don't need the highest quality image but want to do some fun creative stuff with photographs I would definitely recommend the PoGo. If you are a photographer hoping that the PoGo would give you a quick "proof" of what your printed images will look like then this printer is probably not for you since the image quality is not as good as you could get with some standard ink jet printers.



Have fun...



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Had to return the first one

I did a ton of research and finally decided to go with this unit despite no reviews at the time. Installation was a breeze (using Mac OS X) except for one part where it asks you to set up a print queue. After doing so it didn't recognize it after multiple attempts. I finally decided to click past that step and it worked fine anyway.



We printed about a dozen photos over the first three days. On day 4 the printer booted up and slammed the print cartridge hard to the left then came up with a "Carriage Jam" error. The nice thing about the touch screen is that it also visually walks you through pictures of the areas that you need to check for paper jams etc.. Alas after going through every trouble shooting step provided it didn't solve the problem.



We returned it to Amazon (Very hassle free I might add--can't fault them a bit) and decided to try a second one since we did like the features. I was glad to see that Amazon ships you another even before you return the defective one. So far this one is working fine although it's only been a couple of days.



Our last HP was probably 4 years old. I have to say the print speed on this one is amazingly fast by comparison. I'm impressed it can print a 4x6 photo as fast as it does. Copy and scan work well too although I've found I have to initiate scanning from the Mac. Didn't seem to work if I tried to use the touchscreen to scan. I was pleased how easy they make choosing options with scanning. You can scan a document straight to PDF JPEG TIFF Memory Card USB drive OCR...



Overall it does seem as though this printer is very well made. It's also great having a tray for both paper and 4x6 photos. Unlike so many printer reviews it doesn't appear as though this printer is burning through much ink at all.



Although I would definitely recommend it I can't give it 5 stars due to the issues mentioned above.



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An Amazing Value Printer

Disclaimer: I do not own this printer but have worked with and installed tons of them at my school and I use them all the time. Anyway we have about 4 of these units and all work perfectly fine.



Quality: The image quality of this printer is stunning the detail level and color reproduction is great! When compared to the Canon iP6600 the color and detail reproduction seem to be slightly better.



Speed: It is fairly fast for photo printing its not a speed demon or anything but it is faster then most printers I have used.



Features : This printer has a ton of features too many to discuss but it can scan images it has a card reader and can be hooked up to the network via ethernet or via wifi.



Ink Consumption : This printer is also very easy on the ink and the wallet. Ink seems to last a fairly long time even when doing a lot of photo prints.



Setup: Setup was painless I installed all 4 of these units in about 40 mins just run the disc connect the printer install the print head and then the ink cartridges. ( I do however wish they used less packaging )



All in all I woud definitely recommend this to a friend. I have yet to have a single problem with any of the 4 and they are being used by tons of people each day for photo printing.



Edit; I forgot to mention that I have only tried this on Windows XP can't comment on the problem the other user spoke of with Macintosh Snow leopard 10.6.More detail ...

Works flawlessly with Mac Snow Leopard

I wrote this review to help Mac OS X 10.6 users. If you are a Windows user please read the other reviews of this product.



This is a high quality versatile quiet well thought out well built all-in-one printer. As with other brands the included software is pile of unnecessary mediocre ugly looking confusing mess. Canon makes a mistake by not offering a driver only installation which would allow us to use the printer and the scanner without installing their proprietary software suite. I am set out to correct their mistake...



Connecting the printer to WiFi is very simple just navigate in the printer's setup menu on it's LCD select your network and type in the password. The blue WiFi LED will confirm that the printer is connected.



To be able to print wirelessly you have to have the latest drivers.To install them forget about the CD in the box (it has OS X 10.5 compatible drivers only) and the 13 page "Getting Started" guide to install stuff you don't need. Just download the latest drivers from the Canon USA website. Go to Canon USA :: Downloads :: Consumer Products :: Multifunction :: Photo All-In-One Inkjet Printers :: PIXMA MP560 grab and install these files:



- MP560 series CUPS Printer Driver Ver. 10.26.1.0 (Mac OS X 10.5/10.6)

- MP560 series Scanner Driver Ver. 15.4.1 (Mac OS X 10.3/10.4/10.5/10.6)

- ICA Driver (Mac OS X 10.6)

(the version numbers might change when updates are coming out)



Once the printer drivers are installed on your Mac and it's connected to the same WiFi network as the printer just go to System Preferences / Print & Fax / + (add printer) and wait a few seconds. You will see a "Canon MP560 Series Bonjour Scanner" and a "Canon MP560 Series_NNNNNN0000000 canonijnetworkr" printer listed you can add them and you are ready to print and scan! When adding you can edit the name to make it look a little bit nicer. If you prefer you can connect the printer via an USB cable and the printer will be automatically installed.



I spent hours trying to figure this all out on my iMac I installed the contents of the CD tried to upgrade the drivers from the Apple and the Canon websites. Once I understood what needed to be done it took only minutes to install the drivers on my two MacBook's. Save yourself some headache and keep your Mac clean of bloated junkware by installing only the drivers you need. These will allow you to control all the printer's functions (duplex paper size and type alignment head cleaning ink levels etc.) and even your spouse and kids will be able to use them.



Why can not these instructions be found on Canon's support pages? Why is their installation procedure so messy? Trust me it's not a Mac problem their Windows soluition is equally complicated. Will the situation be better once their printers ship with OS X 10.6 compatible drivers? I think the core problem is that they are not listening to their customers. If they did you'd see a reply from a Canon official under my review. Don't look it won't be there...



This printer supports direct iPhone printing if you install the free "Canon Easy-Photoprint" app from the Apple App Store. You will be able to print to 4x6" photo paper right from your iPhone when both devices are connected to the same WiFi network.



I recommend this printer it does a nice job once it's set up. Do not hesitate to buy it if you are on Snow Leopard. But call Canon's support line and tell them they should not overcomplicate the printer installation process.



Update 1: If you have any kind of trouble with the printer or the installation call Canon Support at 1-800-828-4040 they are very good with Mac's and willing to spend the time figuring out problems. My iMac could not detect the printer through WiFi no matter what I tried while my MacBook's could print flawlessly. Canon support figured out that Parallels was interfering with the network settings even when not running. I doubted it but Parallels support confirmed it. I had to remove Parallels install the printer and re-instal Parallels. All works now.



Update 2: For occasional single page scanning jobs Snow Leopard's built-in Image Capture is sufficient. If you want to catalog your scans convert them to multi-page PDF's use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to create editable text files from of your scans you should download and install Canon's "MP Navigator EX 3.0". The name is not very catchy but he interface is nice the functions are not too hard to learn and the program does well what it's supposed to do. It's a decent scanning utility go for it if you don't mind the 80 MB installation footprint.



Update 3: Thank you everyone for your kind words in the comments! I am not an educator just a frustrated customer who wanted to save others from the trouble I went through. I'm very pleased that this review helped so many fellow Mac users with installing a nice multifunction printer. Thank you Amazon for the opportunity! If any of you purchases this printer and finds that a Snow Leopard compatible installation disk is included please let us know I will update the review.More detail ...