The Canon Pixma G3260 Wireless MegaTank All-in-One Printer is a low-volume all-in-one printer designed for small businesses or home offices. The G3200, like the Pixma G1200, is one of Canon’s MegaTank G-Series printers, which are meant to compete directly with Epson’s EcoTank and Brother’s INKvestment printers, such as the Epson Expression ET-2550 EcoTank All-in-One Printer and the Brother MFC-J985DW XL, respectively.
Design and Features
G-series printers, such as Epson's EcoTank all-in-one printers, utilize ink bottles to fill reservoirs capable of printing thousands of pages. Unlike rival EcoTank printers, G-series printers have built-in reservoirs integrated into a new front-facing chassis design. The black ink reservoir is located on the left side, while the other three containers (cyan, magenta, and yellow) are on the right side.
This design not only enhances the appearance of the G-Series printers but also makes it easier to monitor ink levels. However, the only way to determine remaining ink is by visually checking the machines, although the G-Series printers will alert users when inks are critically low.
Print Quality
The Canon G3260 impresses with its excellent print quality, similar to the G1200 model. Text is clear and easily readable, even at small sizes, and colorful typefaces maintain legibility beyond expectations. The printer handles dark gradients and backgrounds well, avoiding banding or streaking issues.
While a direct performance comparison with the G3200 was not possible, when compared to a similar all-in-one printer like the Epson Expression ET-3600 EcoTank, the G-Series models' print speeds are somewhat disappointing, achieving 12.9ppm for monochrome pages and 6.2ppm for complex documents.
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Print Speed
Canon rates the G3260 at 8.8 ppm for monochrome pages and 5 ppm for color pages, similar to the G1200 and other G-Series machines. I ran the test on our normal Core i5 testbed PC, which was running Windows 10 through USB. The G3200 churned out 7.1ppm when printing our minimally prepared Microsoft Word text page, one of the worst rates we’ve seen from any printer recently and roughly identical to the G1200.
When I added our graphics- and photo-heavy Acrobat, Excel, and PowerPoint documents to the mix, printing speed dropped by more than half, to 3ppm. 3ppm is the slowest we’ve seen with our current benchmarking approach, aside from the G1200’s 2.9ppm.
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