Hey everyone. Daniel here from TwinBytes with another quick tutorial for you.
This time of review on my current printer that I'm using,
which is the Canon Pixma MG3029.
So be sure to stick around through to the end to get all the
information on this, and see if this is the right printer for you.
Alright. So before we get started, just a quick reminder if you're new to this channel
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videos every single week. OK, so the printer that I am using here is the
Canon Pixma MG3029. I've been using this for quite a while now, and it seems
to be working pretty well for me. The only thing is because it's an InkJet
type printer, those you can really go through ink fairly quickly.
Laser, typically you can have the ink last a lot longer, and then
there's newer ones that will use wax or even there's another one that is
apparently uses the ink that you pour right into the printer, and that one now
I can't think off the top of my head, but that'll be another one to do a review on
at some point, that I helped clients set up, and apparently it's got some
outrageous amount of paper and ink that it can go through in comparison to
everything else. Alright, so let me give you some specs on this here to start with.
Then I'll give you our little review and close-up on the printer which
I have just here behind me. So one of the features they have is cloud connectivity,
which means that you can connect to it through Dropbox, Evernote, and through
your smartphone or tablet directly. So that really helps with when you're
working on things that are in the cloud you'll be able to print directly from these things.
It has something called a Hybrid Ink System. So that combines the
Dye Ink for vivid colors, in combination with a black Pigment Ink
for getting a higher sharp quality text.
The maximum print resolution is 4800 by 600 dpi.
You've got built-in Wi-Fi as well or USB that you can use.
Pretty much any printer is USB but they don't all have Wi-Fi and
I just had somebody that we set up printer for, or we were going to set one up,
just to find out that they thought it was Wireless because they just assumed,
I guess like many people, that all printers have Wireless. Not everything is Wireless
by default. You need to check and make sure. If you want Wi-Fi make sure it has WiFi.
This one does have the ability to connect through wireless as well as a
network cable or a USB cable. So you're covered through all three methods.
The speed of this thing, it does 8 ipm, images per minute, for color, and it does
4 ipm, or images per minute, for black. So it's fairly quick.
That doesn't count the time it takes to wake up the system if it's in sleep mode.
I just printed out my little cheat sheet
that you may notice me looking down at throughout
here to check on my notes, and it took about 12 seconds to print black from
sleep mode. So even though it's 4 seconds or less if it's already on; but
if it's asleep, for me this took 12 seconds to print a one-page.
Leading off of that; It has a auto power-on feature. That's what I was just talking about
that took the 12 seconds. To save power it powers itself off and goes to sleep
after a certain period of time; which I believe you can program, and when you go
to print next, it will have to wake up the printer and then start printing.
So even though in my case of printing a one of black text, taking 4 seconds,
it actually took 12 seconds including the time it took to wake it up. But if I was
printing out several pages then it would be 4 seconds per page. It has a
feature called Quiet Mode. So if you're working from home late at night or early
in the morning and other family members are sleeping, then you can have it run
quieter so that it doesn't wake everyone up. Another great thing about this is
compatibility which is something else that you may have to look at.
This has compatibility for everything!
Windows, Apple, Linux, and your smart phone.
So it can print from everything. You've also got access to a whole bunch of software
which you may not care about. I personally don't care and I don't use it,
but just for your own interest,
it has access to My Image Garden, Full HD Movie Print and Creative Park Premium.
It also says that it came with a manual. I can't really find mine anymore.
It's possible that I threw it out from way back when I got it.
But it does have an online manual, the only thing now is looking at this
online support page. There's a Canadian page and there's a U.S. page. So depending
on which one you're looking at, you're going to get different things.
I'm in Canada, so when I went to the Canadian page, I don't see any driver information
or manuals or anything. Well when I go to the US site, I see the manual and I got
access to the drivers and everything there. But on the Canadian side it shows
the specific model. On the US side it says basically the 3000 series. But it is
basically the same printer. So from there I got access to the manual which I've
linked in the description down there below. Which, speaking of down below,
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So if you want to get access to the manual, I'll have that link down at the bottom.
Setting this up on a wireless network is very easy. You got a bunch of options.
Usually downloading the software, following through the prompts, it tells
you exactly how to do it and when to do it, but looking at the options here with
the software you can use following the prompts, it's got WPS, which is the
Windows Protected Setup. You would press the button on the wireless router for
the WPS button, and then there's a button or a combination of buttons that I'll
show you in a bit on the printer on how to connect that through the WPS, and it
syncs them both up. You've also got the option through WCN or Windows Connect Now.
There's also the Easy Wireless Connect. All this information for the wireless
setup, you can find on page 103 of the manual that I've linked in the
description below. So let's have a look at this printer.
So here's the printer.
You've got a flatbed scanner on here. One thing is if you want to get a feeder scanner,
it doesn't have that on this model. So you would only be able to do
flatbed scanning. You can't do anything through a feeder of doing multiple pages
at once or anything longer than 8.5 by 11.
You can see in here, it gives you some of the measurements.
If the lighting was good enough here.
It tells you what type of letter size, A5 and so on.
There's an arrow to indicate exactly which corner of the the scanning bed,
where to line this up.
The paper comes in from the back and then you've got a paper tray
that slides out in the front to catch the paper as it comes out.
The lights here are telling you when it's on and a few other pieces of information.
So you got the power button right here, which it doesn't say power, it says
wireless underneath it. But that's meaning this other information is
wireless. So the power button you can turn it on and off from here, but you
never really have to turn it off, because it's set for auto off, and you never have
to press it to turn it on when you want to print because, as I mentioned earlier
it has an auto on feature. Now the wireless here tells you how it's
currently set up. If it's set up wirelessly, through a network cable, or
direct like through a USB. The lights indicate how its set up now. So I've got
it set up through a network and direct. Personally I'm only using it through a USB.
So I could be able to turn that off. So what we want to do first, is you're
supposed to hold the Wi-Fi button here until it flashes. So we'll hold that down
2, 3 and now it's got the light flashing here, and then it says to press
that same button repeatedly to change between the options here. So if I press
it once it's showing networking direct are lit up. If I press it again, I'm not
really getting anything else. So I think because I took too long, it actually
timed out, so we'll try that again; holding it down a few seconds and it's
flashing. So if I press it and keep pressing it, and it is not changing in
this case as it should; and that's probably why I never had this changed
So this clearly doesn't work as it instructs... as the instructions say that
it should, but that's apparently how you're supposed to be able to switch it
between the 3 different options here. I've got a little light here which
indicates if there's a problem. So if that comes on, it'll indicate some kind
of issue and you'd have to look it up in the manual to find out
exactly what's wrong; but the common issues are some kind of a paper
jam or something happened to the ink. If it's not printing right after
changing the ink you probably didn't install it correctly. You also got light
indicators for the black and the color ink to let you know if there's a problem
with them or when it's time to change the ink. It also prompts you on the
computer itself. So in my case here they're both lit up because it's time
for me to change both the black and the color. You've got a stop button just in
case there's an issue that you need to force stop whatever is printing or
scanning. Then you've got the copy buttons, where you can do a black and
white copy or a color photocopy of something.
These buttons are also used to make changes when you're setting up other
things, such as the wireless which is not working in this case. Holding down the
button and once you select what it is you want, then you're supposed to be able
to hit the start button. So this is flashing and then I'm supposed to just
press this repeatedly until I get the options I want which it's not changing,
and then hit the button there for it to accept the changes, but in this case all
that's doing is, thinking that it wants to print a photocopy of something.
So that was completely useless. So you can see here that it's not working the way
that it's supposed to. But in my case I've already got it set up.
I've got the USB cable back there, and that's how I want it set up,
and it works fine for me that way.
So aside from this printer not working properly with the buttons for choosing
between the wireless, wired, and USB connections, it prints perfectly the way
it's supposed to when it's set up and working. So those buttons don't seem to
allow us to set it up that way but you can set it up and configure it through
the software when you're going through the initial installation; and
again, the detailed instructions on how to do that are in the manual, but if
you're interested in getting some detailed instructions through video on
this or anything else, please let me know in the comments below. It really helps me
out to know what it is you guys are looking for, and if you found this type
of video helpful, I can make more like this for you, and give you a walkthrough
on exactly how to do just about anything with the computer.
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