Worst printer ever made.
347153
Worst printer. Never used the color ink and I now need to replace it. Shook the ink cartridge and ink came out. Still not recognizing the cartridge. HP support was useless.
4228158
One of the worst printers I have ever owned. I did not purchase through Amazon, but I hate this product enough to seek it out and leave a bad review here as well. This device is the bane of my existence and has failed me nearly every step of the way since the first day I opened it. It constantly runs out of ink, even going as far as to tell me a brand new XL cartridge is getting low after running an initial head cleaning. You will need to run said head cleanings every single time you use the device if it is more than a month or so out of the box. Not worth anyone's time. Absolute garbage. I'd have rather burned $40 for the heat!
937504
My heroic effort to finish a Sociology paper before class has failed, thanks to this printer. So, instead of going and facing my professor empty-handed, I will write this review.

If you can afford to use this printer, you can afford to buy a better printer.

This printer will:
-Quit on you for no reason, right when you need it the most. It has singlehandedly cost me at least 2 letter grades in my college career.
-Print with horrible vertical lines brand new out of the box, unless you run an exhaustive battery of tests and calibrations (see below).
-Cost you $10-15 for each (very low capacity) printer cartridges. ALL FOUR are required at ALL TIMES to do anything at all.
-Survive being dropped on the floor numerous times when it becomes apparent that it serves no Earthly purpose other than to make money for Epson.

This printer will not:
-Scan a document to your computer unless all 4 ink cartridges are full and installed.
-Print anything unless all 4 ink cartridges are full and installed. There is no way to print in only black or to synthesize black out of the other 3 cartridges unless you already have all the inks anyway. In that case, what's the point?
-Even use the memory card slot if a single ink cartridge is empty! You literally have to have all ink in order to do mundane tasks which have nothing to do with ink!
-Be reliable. It will quit at the worst possible time, guaranteed.
-Do a good job, even in optimal operating conditions. It jams, takes in paper crooked, and is loud enough to wake the dead.

I took this printer as a freebie with a new MacBook pro, based on the recommendation of the Apple sales rep. I could've chosen an HP instead, and you should too. Words cannot describe how bad this printer is.
226142
I made the mistake of buying this printer for the name "Canon", thinking that if they make good cameras, they would make good printers to print the pictures taken by said cameras. Boy was I wrong! I have put up with this printer for almost three years and I am fed up. It quits printing wirelessly, won't reconnect and makes me re-install the software every few months. It is the WORST ink hog I have ever had. Really. You can only print maybe 3 high (ha!) quality color pages before it's empty. The resolution is lousy. I print a lot of pictures so this is unacceptable. But the worst thing about this printer is it's miserable excuse for photo editing software. The software really isn't anything but a way to print. There is minimal editing or re-sizing allowed. You're forced to use Windows Live Photo Gallery (which really sucks also by the way), editing and printing at the size you want is next to impossible. The printer's driver also corrupted my MS Word program which could only be fixed by uninstalling and re-installing the driver. (True, just Google it.) I have no idea why that would affect a word processing program, but it did. Caused Word to constantly be in "thinking" mode with busy and glitchy cursor.  SAVE YOUR MONEY AND BUY ANYTHING ELSE BUT THIS. I really miss my old HP Photosmart and the Photosmart Essentials program. I tried installing that with this printer but the software now has minimal functionality because of this printer! Canon should stick to cameras and stay out of the printer business.
1410300
Printer fails to work. when i finally get it to work it prints horribly. it has streaks all over the print. Just awful quality.

CUSTOMER SERVICE/TECH SUPPORT is even worse. they don't even attempt to help you. they give you short answers until your frustrated enough to just get off the phone. they don't care if your problem is solved, they just take the call, listen to your problem and let you go.

STAY VERY VERY FAR AWAY FROM THIS PRINTER!!!! i gave it to my brother since is is more "techy" and then me and it was not even compatible with his computer!!!

I can't return it because they want to charge me tons of money for the shipping. so the only choice i have left is to throw it away.
3216654
I have used Deskjet HP printers for many years so I decided to upgrade to a wireless with this one.  WORST printer I have every used.  Never worked right from the day I got it.  It always stops working.  I have had to uninstall and reinstall the driver at least 15 times.  The scanner interface is terrible and always stops functioning as well.  The prints look terrible too.  Color is always off.  I have spent more time trying to fix this piece of junk than actually using it.

I'm going back to a USB Deskjet.  Please don't waste your money on this nightmare.
4941794
Do NOT buy this printer.  Is is by far the WORST printer I have ever had.  I have an Epson Photo printer that I've had for over 15 years and that has never once given me problems, so I thought this would be great.  What a joke.  The wireless capability works about 10% of the time, finally just gave up on that.  It fails to recognize the new and genuine Epson cartridges (which it eats like candy) about 50% of the time.  And it's EXPENSIVE and trying to get EPSON to refund your money for a bad cartridge is a real chore.  And then about four weeks ago it started printing terribly.  Completely illegible.  I've cleaned the print heads about 50 times (no joke) and I can not get the quality to improve.  It actually printed just fine when it was new, but no longer.  Now I can get a very marginal copy on the HIGHEST quality.  SAVE YOUR MONEY DO NOT BUY THIS PIECE OF JUNK!
112238
This printer is an absolute JOKE although it's not really funny. It has never worked to my satisfaction, the ink cartridges (which are very expensive) run out after just a few pages of photo printing. Then the ink cartridge level indicators tell you there is no ink, even when you just install new print cartridges. I hate this thing! Run away from it and purchase ANYTHING else you can find. I replaced some part after about a week of using it, it worked for about another week and now it still won't print. Nightmare!
1440379
Please, there are so many other printers. This is absolute garbage.
2393588
This is the worst printer I have ever owned.  It prints 50% of jobs without errors.  Every other job it complains of non-existent paper jams.  Even the smallest document takes far longer than it ought to send to the printer over a wireless network.  Every dozen jobs or so it locks up.  When this happens, no jobs can be deleted from the Windows print queue.  The printer must be unplugged before it will print again.  I have left the printer for several days in the state hoping it would recover without any luck.

I wager there would be more reviews like this if Amazon did not limit this listing to only "Verified Purchase Reviews".
121773
This is seriously the worst printer I've ever used.  My husband and I are pretty sure its main function is to try and waste as much ink, paper, and time as it can.  It constantly has errors and quits in the middle of print jobs.  We both dread having to ever print anything out.  We got this printer free when we bought our new MacBook and I still consider it a ripoff!  Save yourself many headaches and DO NOT BUY THIS PRINTER!!
3370770
Worst printer I've ever owned. I must turn it off an on, often more than once, every second or third time I try to print. Often it will not turn off; I must unplug its power cable. Restarting the printer often fails to do any good. I must delete print job and try again. I can't tell you how frustrating this printer is. I'll never purchase HP again.
611233
This is possibly the worst printer in human history. It throws more tantrums than a toddler. I'm pretty sure they designed it specifically just to mess with you. It's really big on making about 20 minutes of noise before actually printing anything, and sometimes it makes noise just for the hell of it. Loudly. Like while you're trying to have a conversation with a person and the printer feels the need to be in it.

Although half the time it won't print and you'll have to try again. Sometimes it will print the second time, but sometimes it will surprise you and print several days later when everyone has moved on from the dilemma and you aren't even trying to print anything. If you have all the time in the world, there's like a 40% chance it will print quickly. If you've worked about 12 hours and are desperately trying to go home, it will break down entirely and give you what will feel like an endless amount of false activity while you cry softly at your desk. Don't buy this crap. The second our new one arrives, I'm office-spacing the s*** out of this printer.
3255333
Of all the printers I have owned, this is the worse piece of junk ever created.  Shame on you DELL for pushing a product beneath your reputation.  No wonder you push it for $45 when someone buys a computer.  You got stuck with a warehouse full of v305 printers and are trying to get rid of them.  One star is the lowest rating one can give in order to write a review so that's what I rated it, but if it had a -10 rating, that's what I would have given it.  And the cost of ink????  What's with $15.00 for a tablespoon of black liquid?

I have never been able to print anything in color with this printer.  It also says it has a preview function, but it goes straight to the printer and prints without being able to see if everything is o.k. before printing.  No print preview.

I would not even desecrate the junk yard with this printer.  Judging by the number of previous reviews, I doubt seriously Dell will be selling much more of this piece of junk IF people bother to read them.
2954080
This is by far the worst printer i've ever owned. The printer is only 2 months old and

1. Paper jams frequently
2. Prints very slow
3. Very noisy
4. Wireless constantly stops working & I have to restart the printer

Nothing good to say about this printer, I wish I read the reviews before buying.
1004339
My wife bought this thing for me as a replacement for a highly reliable but old Hewlett-Packard Laserjet.  I wanted the ability to print color, and to scan documents.  The machine has NEVER worked properly.  Constant paper feed problems.  The only way to get paper to feed correctly to print even a single page is to lift the back of the sheet with your fingers, and "push" it into the paper feeder.

This is my second (and last ever) Hewlett Packard product.  Never again.
3566213
I can not stand this printer.  It is hands down the WORST printer I have ever owned.  Yes, it is an ink eater and that in itself stinks.  But all it gives me is issue after issue.  I am so tired of wasting time trying to figure out why it can't print a decent printout almost every single time I use it!  I buy ink straight from Epson, do all maintenance and nozzle cleanings/alignments as required and it still can't even print one simple page of type!  By the time you get close to a legible printout DING! DING! DING! It's time to change ink again!  I would have to say that out of all the electronic appliances in my house, this printer has by far been the worst appliance that I own.  I will NEVER buy an Epson again!