Canon

Canon PIXMA TS9520a

Inkjet all-in-oneIndividual cartridges

Tabloid output from a machine that still looks like a household all-in-one. The TS9520a prints up to 11 × 17, which is enough for a scrapbook spread, a small poster or an architectural sketch, though its scanner stops at letter size. Five inks with a separate dye photo black keep the photo quality respectable, and there is a 4.3-inch touchscreen, automatic duplex, a 20-sheet document feeder, wired Ethernet and two paper sources. The SD slot and the disc-printing tray suit craft and scrapbook work. Like the other cartridge PIXMAs here, the running cost is the sting: Canon's own ISO figures put the XXL tanks at 600 black pages and about 760 colour, which is over twenty cents for a four-ink page.

Approx. price: ~$299
Cost per mono page: 7.2¢
Cost per colour page: 21¢
Cost to own, 5,000 pages: ~$791
Print speed, mono: 15 ISO ppm

Best for

Crafters and anyone who needs tabloid prints from a household-sized all-in-one.

marks an estimate. Computed from the consumable's ISO page yield and its list price. An estimate. Purchase price plus ink or toner over the pages shown, assuming four mono pages for every colour page. Price is an approximate snapshot from our last catalogue update.

What it costs to own

Black consumable: Canon PGI-280XXL pigment black tank · 600 ISO pages · ~$42.99
Colour consumable: Canon CLI-281XXL colour tanks · 760 ISO pages · ~$33.99 each
Cost per mono page: 7.2¢
Cost per colour page: 21¢
Cost to own, 5,000 pages: ~$791
Cost to own, 200 pages/month for 3 years: ~$1,008 (7,200 pages)

Computed from the consumable's ISO page yield and its list price. An estimate. How this is worked out

Cost to own · 5,000 pages

Canon PIXMA TS9520a~$791
~$299 printer + ~$492 supplies
Canon PIXMA TR8620a~$691
~$199 printer + ~$492 supplies
Canon PIXMA TR4720~$892
~$99 printer + ~$793 supplies

purchase priceink or toner. An estimate: purchase price plus 5,000 pages at each printer’s computed cost per page, assuming 4 mono pages for every colour page. Printers whose consumable price we could not source are left out.

Specifications

Manufacturer-published figures. Cost lines are computed from the consumable figures above and are estimates.

Approx. price: ~$299
Cost per mono page: 7.2¢
Cost per colour page: 21¢
Cost to own, 5,000 pages: ~$791
Cost to own, 3 years: ~$1,008
Technology: Thermal inkjet
Ink system: Individual cartridges
Inks: 5
Black consumable: Canon PGI-280XXL pigment black tank · 600 pages
Colour consumable: Canon CLI-281XXL colour tanks · 760 pages
Third-party ink lock: No
Ink subscription: None offered
Print speed, mono: 15 ISO ppm
Print speed, colour: 10 ISO ppm
Functions: Print · Copy · Scan
Two-sided printing: Auto
Document feeder: 20 sheets
Two-sided scanning: No
Paper capacity: 200 sheets
Max paper size: 11×17
Borderless photo: Yes
Resolution: 4800 × 1200 dpi
Connectivity: Wi-Fi · Ethernet
Mobile printing: AirPrint · Mopria
Display: 4.3" colour touchscreen
Dimensions: 18.5 × 14.5 × 7.6 in
Weight: 21.3 lb
Released: 2019

Features

Prints up to 11 × 17 inches; scans up to letter
Five-ink system with a separate dye photo black
4.3-inch colour touchscreen
Automatic two-sided printing
Two paper sources with 200 sheets total
SD card slot and a printable-disc tray
20-sheet document feeder and wired Ethernet

Document feeder Auto duplex No ink lock Wider than letter Borderless photo Ethernet

In its favour

A 20-sheet document feeder alongside the tabloid printing
Five inks give better photo output than four-ink all-in-ones
Big, responsive 4.3-inch touchscreen
Prints directly onto printable discs, which almost nothing still does

Against it

Over twenty cents a four-ink colour page, against a fraction of a cent on Canon's own tank models
Wide: about 18.5 inches of desk when closed, more when the trays are out
The scanner stops at letter size, so it prints tabloid but cannot copy it
The feeder takes 20 letter sheets but only five legal

What owners say

No owner discussion has been collected for the Canon PIXMA TS9520a yet. The specifications above are the manufacturer’s published figures and the cost per page is computed from them — but nothing on this page claims to know what living with it is like, because nobody here has read owners on it.