The Canon PIXMA TR8620 is a disappointing all-in-one inkjet printer for small or home offices. Despite being marketed as a small or home office printer, it's perhaps best suited for families or students. Photo quality is great due to vibrant colors and nice detailing, while the color accuracy should be passable enough for casual photo use. It has outstanding connectivity options, including Bluetooth support, and is compatible with the Canon PRINT Inkjet/SELPHY companion app. Unfortunately, its black cartridge yields few pages and often needs replacing. Printing speed is also rather slow regardless of what you're printing. On the upside, the cartridges are quite affordable and particularly offer good value for printing in color.
The Canon PIXMA TR8620 is a great printer for family use. The quality of printed photos is excellent and color accuracy is passable enough for casual use. It has a great cost-per-print for both black and color printing, and it has a flatbed scanner for scanning small books and fragile photos. You can also print photos from an SD card and it's compatible with an outstanding companion app.
The Canon PIXMA TR8620 is a sub-par printer for small and home offices. Its black cartridge has a low yield and needs replacing often. Printing speed is also slow, regardless of what you're printing. It won't take up much space on your desk, but while the build quality is decent overall, some parts feel flimsy. On the other hand, it has integrated fax and an automatic document feeder, but it lacks duplex scanning.
The Canon PIXMA TR8620 is an excellent printer for students. It has great cost-per-print, especially when printing in color. It has outstanding connectivity options, including Bluetooth support, and its compact size won't take up much space in a dorm. It has a flatbed scanner for scanning small books and there's an automatic document feeder, but it lacks duplex scanning.
The Canon PIXMA TR8620 is a mediocre choice for printing in black and white. The first page of a document prints pretty slowly and subsequent pages aren't that much faster. Its black cartridge has a low yield and needs replacing often. Fortunately, the value of printing in black-only is great as replacement cartridges aren't expensive and there are even high-yielding cartridges available should you need it. However, while there's an automatic document feeder, it lacks duplex scanning.
The Canon PIXMA TR8620 is a very good printer for casual photos. Photo printing quality is excellent and color accuracy is passable enough for casual use. Its design feels a bit flimsy but it's compact enough to not take up much space. Unfortunately, it can't print on 2" x 3" paper.
The Canon TR8620 has a decent build and design quality. It's made entirely of plastic, with some parts, such as the output tray and scanner lid, feeling flimsy and wobbly. The scanner lid does raise slightly to accommodate average size books and stays up on its own. Also, potential paper jams are easy to get to from the rear access point. The printer itself needs to be on to change the cartridges, which is an otherwise easy task to accomplish.
The Canon TR8620 has an excellent display screen. It's easy to navigate the menus on its large LCD touchscreen, and it's easy to view at most angles. It has quick access to copy, scan, fax, and print options from the menu and there are even instructional tutorial videos for tasks like fixing paper jams. Unfortunately, the screen is prone to double clicks and is unresponsive to touch at times.
The Canon TR8620 has an okay cartridge system. It has two black cartridges and three color ones. While the yield of the black ink is quite low and often needs replacing, the color cartridges offer a better value. That said, there are higher-yielding cartridges available should you need them.
You can also use third-party cartridges in this printer, although it might void your warranty.
This printer has great scanner features. It has a flatbed for scanning average-sized books or manuals, and there's an automatic document feeder. Unfortunately, it lacks duplex scanning, so you have to manually flip double-sided documents yourself. Also, the scanner lid has a bit of wobble to it when it's open. There's integrated fax, which may be beneficial for those in an office environment. The scan resolution defaults at 600 DPI, but you can boost this to 1200 DPI from the 'Scan Gear' option by accessing the Canon IJ Scan Utility app from your computer.
The Canon TR8620's cost-per-print is great. Printing is fairly affordable due to the low cost of the ink cartridges, which is great as the black cartridge has a low yield. Printing photos is also quite affordable and even cheaper than the Canon PIXMA TR8520.
Keep in mind that even if you print only in black, most inkjet printers continue using the color cartridge for servicing tasks, so you'll likely still need to replace it eventually.
This printer has mediocre printing speeds. The first page of a black-only document prints fairly slowly, and subsequent pages aren't much faster. Printing in color is even slower.
The Canon TR8620 has mediocre color accuracy. While it's likely not a dealbreaker for those who want to add a splash of color to documents or print a few photos for the family scrapbook, those who need more accurate color accuracy for their profession may want to consider a different printer.
The Canon TR8620 has excellent photo printing quality. Photos have good detail and vibrant colors, with yellow, in particular, looking great. There's no banding present, but there's some slight coloring on the grayscale.
These results are based on the actual physical photo, not the scanned image provided for reference above, which may not be representative of the printer's photo print quality.
The Canon TR8620 has two adjustable paper trays, one in the front and one in the rear that each holds 100 pages. It supports most common paper sizes, but can't print 2" x 3" photo size or the 11" x 17" tabloid size.
The Canon TR8620 has outstanding connectivity options, including Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Ethernet, and USB. It's compatible with AirPrint and Mopria and there's support for printing from SD cards, but not for USB flash drives.
We tested the Canon PIXMA TR8620 in black, and there aren't any variants available. You can see our unit's label here.
The Canon PIXMA TR8620 is a disappointing all-in-one inkjet printer for office use. It's a step above the nearly identical Canon PIXMA TR8520, though that one's color cartridges have a higher page yield. The TR8620 is marketed as a home office printer but would be a better choice for students of families. For other options, see our recommendations for the best photo printers, the best laser printers, and the best all-in-one printers.
The Canon PIXMA TR8520 is a slightly better printer than the Canon PIXMA TR8620. The two are nearly identical to each other; however, the TR8520's color cartridges have a higher yield. That said, the TR8620's color cartridges are cheaper.
The Canon PIXMA TR8620 is a better printer than the Canon PIXMA TS8320. The TR8620 has a higher color page yield and an automatic document feeder. On the other hand, the TS8320 is more compact and has an optional ink subscription service.
The Canon PIXMA TR8620 is a better printer than the Canon PIXMA TR7520. The TR8620 has a much better display screen and superior connectivity options. That said, the TR7520 has better color accuracy and yields more color pages.
The Canon PIXMA TR8620 is a better printer than the HP ENVY Photo 7855/7858. The Canon has three additional color cartridges and has a much lower cost-per-print. On the other hand, the HP has superior color accuracy and is a bit faster at printing documents.
The Canon PIXMA TR8620 is a better printer than the Canon PIXMA TS9120. The TR8620 has an automatic document feeder and easier access to paper jams. On the other hand, the TS9120's printing speed is a bit faster for black-only text documents and a higher color page yield.