The Canon PIXMA TS9520 is a great printer for family use that's also a great choice for casual photo printing and college students. It's relatively compact, which means you can easily fit it onto a desk or a shelf and it has a wide range of connectivity options. It prints amazing-looking photos, with deep blacks and vibrant colors and the overall cost-per-print is affordable for both black and color ink. It also has both a flatbed and sheetfed scanner, so you can easily copy multi-page documents as well as small textbooks and photos. It has an automatic document feeder, which is great for lengthy multi-page documents, but there's no duplex scanning, meaning you'll have to manually flip over double-sided pages. Unfortunately, the cartridges have a low yield, meaning you'll have to change them often. Also, printing speed is only okay, with color documents taking much longer than black and white.
Our Verdict
The Canon PIXMA TS9520 is a great printer for family use. The quality of the photos it can produce is excellent due to vibrant colors and deep blacks, and the cost of printing in black offers good value. It has a flatbed scanner, which is ideal for scanning fragile photos. Also, it features a wide variety of connectivity options, including Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
- Amazing photo quality.
- Affordable cartridges.
- Outstanding connectivity options.
- Low page yield.
- Slow printing speed.
The Canon TS9520 is a mediocre printer for small and home offices. The black ink cartridge has a poor yield, meaning you'll have to replace it often, and while the color page yield is nearly double that of the black, it's still not remarkably high. Printing speed is only okay for black and white documents and is slower with color. It has an automatic document feeder, but it lacks duplex scanning. The printer is made of solid, sturdy plastic, but access to potential paper jams isn't intuitive or user-friendly.
- Very good cost-per-print.
- Affordable cartridges.
- Automatic document feeder.
- Outstanding connectivity options.
- Low page yield.
- Slow printing speed.
- No duplex scanning.
The Canon PIXMA TS9520 is a very good printer for students. The overall cost-per-print is great. There's also a wide variety of connectivity options, including Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, and you can even connect to the printer from your mobile device by using the companion app. However, the first page of a print comes out rather slowly and doesn't really get any faster on subsequent pages. Also, the cartridges have a low page yield, so you'll have to replace them often.
- Very good cost-per-print.
- Affordable cartridges.
- Automatic document feeder.
- Outstanding connectivity options.
- Low page yield.
- Slow printing speed.
The Canon TS9520 is a mediocre printer for printing black and white documents. While the overall cost-per-print is great, the cartridge has a low yield, meaning you'll have to replace it often. The printing speed is also rather slow, but on the upside, the scanner includes an automatic document feeder, which will make scanning multi-page documents much easier. The printer is made of solid, sturdy plastic, but access to paper jams isn't user-friendly.
- Very good cost-per-print.
- Affordable cartridges.
- Low page yield.
- Slow printing speed.
The Canon PIXMA TS9520 is a very good printer for casual photos. It can print out amazing-looking photos, which feature vibrant colors and deep blacks. It supports most photo paper formats while its color accuracy should be decent enough for casual use.
- Amazing photo quality.
- Affordable cartridges.
- Low page yield.
- Can't print 2" x 3" photo paper.
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Differences Between Sizes And Variants
There's a variant available with some extra features geared towards crafters, the Canon PIXMA TS9521C, but we haven't tested this model and aren't sure how it performs. You can see our unit's label here.
Popular Printer Comparisons
The Canon PIXMA TS9520 is an all-in-one inkjet printer. It's comparable to the cheaper Canon PIXMA TR8520 and performs almost identically to it, but it lacks integrated fax. Its input tray can accommodate tabloid-sized papers, and unlike other printers in Canon's TS series, includes an automatic document feeder. For other options, see our recommendations for the best photo printers, the best home printers, and the best printers for small businesses.
The Canon PIXMA TS9520 is a better printer than the Canon PIXMA TS9120. The 9520 has a sheetfed scanner and an automatic document feeder. Also, the 9520's cost-per-print for photos and color documents is cheaper.
The Brother MFC-J895DW and the Canon PIXMA TS9520 are both all-in-one color inkjet printers, but the Canon produces significantly better-looking photos with much more accurate colors. The Canon also has better page yields and a lower cost-per-print, it prints photos faster, and it can print via Bluetooth. On the other hand, the Brother prints color documents much faster, it can fax, and it supports printing via Wi-Fi Direct.
The Brother MFC-J805DW INKvestment Tank and the Canon PIXMA TS9520 are all-in-one color inkjet printers, but the Canon is much better for printing photos. The Canon prints black text documents and photos significantly faster and produces far superior-quality photos with much more accurate colors. It also has an Ethernet port, can print directly from SD cards, and can print on wide tabloid-format paper. On the other hand, the Brother is better for a wider variety of tasks, with significantly better page yields and cost-per-print. It can also fax and can print via Wi-Fi Direct.
The Canon PIXMA TS9520 is a better printer than the Canon PIXMA TS8220. The 9520 has a sheetfed scanner and an automatic document feeder. That said, the 8220 has a slightly lower cost-per-print for photo printing and can print them much faster.
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