Canon Pixma G3010 Review: An Affordable, Feature Rich Ink Tank Printer

Jun. 27, 2019

Design and Build

The buttons are all arranged on the right side of the printer, which is also where you’ll find the LCD display. Not a lot can be said about these buttons, other than the fact that they get the job done. Personally, I didn’t find myself using the buttons all that much, since almost everything on this printer can be done using a smartphone (more on that later), but the times when I did use the buttons (mostly to turn the printer on or off), thebuttons felt tactile, and definitely well built.

Once you’ve filled the ink, and set the cartridges, you can move on toconnecting the printer to your PC and/or your smartphone — using a wired connection or a wireless oneif you’d like. For the wired thing, you’ll have to use the USB-port on the right hand side with the included USB cable.

I’m not certain if Canon would approve of that, but hey, I use a MacBook Pro and I wanted to also test this printer out with my laptop, so I did what I had to. The good news is that it works perfectly fine, so if you’re using a Mac, this is something you can do to get the printer working with your laptop as well.

Unlike a lot of other printers, theink doesn’t smudgeif you touch (or even rub) the paper too hard immediately after it’s done printing, and there’s also no colour bleeding on the paper. I did notice once that there were some wet spots on a sheet, but that only happened that one time, and never happened again, even though I printed almost everything I read today, so I’m willing to write that off as a one-off error that will almost certainly never happen again.

Also worth mentioning is that while theprinting speed here is decent, the printer does take a couple of seconds to start printingwhen you send a document or an image to print — this happens regardless of whether you’re printing over a wired USB connection, over WiFi, or sending a print job from your smartphone using the Canon PRINT app. It’s not too long a wait, but if you find yourself printing hundreds of documents every day, the wait might get annoying for you. However, this is something we’ve seen happen with a number of ink tanks in this price range.

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