Canon Pixma Endurance G7060
The Canon Pixma Endurance G7060 is part of its small office/home office (SOHO) refillable ink tank range. As such it has a focus on the lowest possible ink cost per page compared to traditional cartridge-based inkjets.
The four different ink bottles (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black) can print up to 6000 mono pages and 7700 colors – based on lab tests, of course. But hey, who’s counting when a set of inks costs $104.96—that’s less than a cent per color or mono page!
Now let us turn to the total cost of ownership. It costs $679 with four ink bottles. You can save between 10 and 20 cents per page compared to low-cost cartridge inkjets. Do the math, and after 3000-4000 sheets, you’re well ahead. Cheap printers may not last as long.
So, the use case is for an individual or business that probably prints up to one piece of paper every month. And let’s not forget that it’s a multi-tasking printer (MFP) – built for SOHO to print, scan, copy and fax
Review: Canon Pixma Endurance G7060
- Endurance website here
- 594-Page Manual Here
- Price: $649
- Country of Manufacture: Thailand
- Canon printer setup is a Japanese multinational corporation founded in 1937 and renowned for its printers, cameras/lens, scanners and office equipment.
If you look at the Endurance G7065, we understand it’s the same printer with an additional two black ink bottles.
What is a Canon Pixma Endurance G7060?
One refillable ink tank, SOHO grade, MFP. That means its build quality is a bit more flexible than that of consumer printers. This also means that it only comes in Boring Black.
We won’t go into the finer points of MFPs – print, copy, scan and fax because pretty much every MFP from every brand does what it does. The only thing it’s missing is duplex scanning (it can print auto-duplex).
Setup
For this you need to go to Canon’s website and type in a model number. It then downloads the drivers (Windows, Android, macOS, iOS) and guides you through setting up the printer. Connection is via Wi-Fi (2.4Ghz), Ethernet, or the old-fashioned USB-B.
You can access all the settings via the 2-line screen (not easy) or through Apps & Drivers (easy).
This prints a test page, and you’re ready.
We did notice a slightly disturbing thing. Every time you take out the paper tray or open the rear feed, it asks to confirm the paper size/type. Sure, you can ignore it, but it’s clear that the printer does its best job when it knows paper.
Speed
I mentioned that the print speed is from the lab! And Canon, like every other Canon printer Driver manufacturer, quotes them. The problem is that these are not real life figures.
Canon cites mono/color as 13/6.8 ipm (inches per minute and an A4 sheet about 11.6″ long). Neither does it consider auto-duplex (which you can turn off) which effectively takes more than twice as long.
We test printed 10 single-sided sheets and then 10-duplex (20 prints). Forgetting to print time (about 7 seconds)
- Mono Single – 9 minutes or 54 seconds per page
- Mono Duplex – 20 minutes or 120 seconds per double-sided page
- Single color – 15 minutes or 90 seconds per page
- Color Duplex – 36 minutes or 207 seconds per double-sided page
A 6×4 borderless color print (in photo mode) took less than a minute.
The A4 Borderless takes a little longer.
WARNING: The mono test was a color sheet with the proper ratio image vs text with the driver switched to grayscale. We tested the Straight Text only sheet, and it dropped to 45/60 seconds.
This largely matches the figures stated by Canon.
Ink tanks
The tank holds enough (in theory) to print a 6000 (pigment) mono or 7700 (dye) color combo. But the initial setup sucks up a lot of ink to fill and set the lines. This is a printer you should keep running.
The tanks are straightforward to fill and are color coded. You can also part-fill or top up the tank. And the driver will also tell you the remaining approximate pages.
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