PRINTING. The Canon Pixma G2200 prints using inkjet technology, which sprays liquid ink onto the paper from a moving head. Its text printing is good, though not as good as most inkjets. Text printing was reasonably fast, 8.3 pages per minute, costing 0.3 cents per page. Its color graphics printing is very good for reports, newsletters and web pages, at 0.5 pages per minute, costing 1.4 cents per page.
SCANNING and COPYING. Scanning performance was very good, fine for general-purpose scanning. It can scan or copy an area up to 11.7 x 8.5 inches (letter size). Copying performance was very good, suitable for most purposes. Includes OCR (optical character recognition) software, useful for making scanned documents editable in a word processor program.
CONTROLS and DISPLAY. The printer has no display screen.
CONNECTIVITY and NETWORKING. It lacks USB PictBridge for direct printing from cameras. There is no networking capability, only direct USB connection.
COST OF OWNERSHIP. The purchase price for this printer is about $270, which is typical for an all-in-one inkjet printer. But printing uses up ink. Over time, as you print, the costs add up. After 2 years of use, we estimate the total cost to be $280, which is low for an inkjet. The estimated yearly cost is $10 -- that's also low for this printer type. So the 3-, 4- and 5-year estimates are about $290, $290 and $300 respectively.
NOTE. Messy adding ink to tanks.
