Canon Pixma G3060 Review

Lakshmi — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 08:15:07 +0000

The Canon Pixma G3060 is a wireless all-in-one printer catering to home and small office use. Canon recently launched seven new Ink Tank printers under its PIXMA G series, which includes PIXMA G3060, PIXMA G3021, PIXMA G3020, PIXMA G2060, PIXMA G2021, PIXMA G2020, and PIXMA G1020. The G3060 we got here is the top of the line in the 3000 series available currently in India now. With printer, scanner and copier combo, this would come ideal for people more than ever now with study from home and work at home the new norm.

At home, I use Canon G3000 which lacked a display and wireless functionality. Later models in the 3000 series did add these missing features. The G3060 has a two line display and Canon says the printing speed is a bit better on this, well let’s find out how faster it is in my real test.

Box contents:

The G3060 printer
Black and Color heads
Black Original Ink Bottle x 1
Cyan Original Ink Bottle x 1
Magenta Original Ink Bottle x 1
Yellow Original Ink Bottle x 1
Power cord
USB to printer cable
CD with drivers
Documents

Setting up the Canon G3060

The setup is fairly easy but if you are doing it for the first time, it might overwhelm you but trust me it is an easy job. The Canon documentation gives you pictorial guide to walk through the setup. You can also watch my video if that makes it easier.

Compared to how I had to squeeze the ink bottles of my Canon Pixma 3000 to get the ink flow into the smart tank, the new design of the bottle makes it very easy and smooth. You just pop the bottle into the nozzle. The spill free design does the job neat without any ink dripping outside plus no squeezing either. As usual with most printers these days, installing the print heads is no-brainer, simple plus and shut job.

Of course the display would let you know if there is any error happened.

Canon G3060 Design

The printer weighs approximately 6.4 kg. If you would want to know the dimension to see if it fits wherever you are going to place it, out of the box it measures 445 x 330 x 167 mm. With the tray extended it measures 445 x 555 x 238 mm.

The display and buttons are all laid out on the top for easy access. It has got a 5.08 cm LCD display for easy navigation and confirmation of print settings. It’s a monochrome display supporting two lines. Underneath the display is the navigation buttons. You also find power button, menu, scanner copier, WiFi etc in an array of assortments.

The ink maintenance cartridge can be easily accessed from behind in case of any issues. It is easily replaceable. The paper tray is tucked in at the rear. When closed, there is a lid that makes sure dust doesn’t go inside through that gap. On top, we have the Scan bed.

Connectivity & Features

Apart from the USB wired connectivity, the G3060 is WiFi-enabled and provide smart wireless connectivity for printing. There is no dual-band support and works on 2.4Ghz. It also supports remote printing via Canon Canon PRINT Inkjet/SELPHY. This feature is very handy both at work and home, where multiple users or family members can print without having to login to a connected computer. The G3060 does not have the automatic two-sided printing option. It allows for duplex printing but you need to do reverse feeding.

The copy mode offers many features like enlarge, reduce, print intensity etc. The display offers many useful features to access right on the printer.

How to connect the Canon G3060 to Wifi?

The printer can be connected to your Wifi router via the cableless connect button or by WPS push method or by manually. I got it done easily via the cableless connect button option.

Press and hold the cableless connect button for 3 second
You will get a prompt in the display
Then go to your mobile Wifi settings, choose the Canon Wifi temporary Wifi that would be visible, select it and connect to that Wifi
Open the Canon Printer App, it will detect the Canon printer and would prompt you to add the device. Add it.
After adding the screen would prompt you to add the home Wifi network, add it back.
The printer would show it connecting and finally press the OK button to complete the setup

Canon G3060 Specs, Speed and Cost per print

The G3060 is compatible with both Windows machine as well as Mac system. The G3060 is a Thermal Inkjet and Canon’s product page states it has a duty cycle of Up to 3,000 pages/month. This makes it ideal for home and small office. If you have page volumes more than these monthly numbers, you should be ideally looking at different models. For those not sure what duty cycle means printer duty cycle also called the monthly duty cycle, is the absolute number of pages that can be printed per month at the rated print quality of a machine and without errors/jams.

The maximum support document size is A4 / LTR. The supported paper quality are Plain Paper, Photo Paper Plus Glossy II (PP-201/PP-208), Photo Paper Pro Luster (LU-101), Photo Paper Plus Semi-Gloss (SG-201), Matte Photo Paper (MP-101), Glossy Photo Paper(GP-508)

Let’s see the claimed IPM values. IPM is Images Per Minute. Canon uses IPM instead of PPM, IMP values are comprehensive with a mix of word, excel and pdf print averages. For G3060 Canon claims 10.8 IPM or prints per minute in black and 6 IPM or prints per minute in colour. Canon says you can take 6000 black and white prints and 7700 prints with the refill bottles. The cost of each subsequent refill bottles would be around Rs 400 in India, so the print cost would be very affordable in this printer.

The print quality including photos come real good. The print speed in my real practical test varied a bit a color print of 4*6 size took close to a minute, an A4 color document print took around 34 seconds. For a home use this should be manageable.

Verdict:

Canon G3060 offers lots of features including wireless easy printing for home needs. This would be an ideal printer for home use and for small business with less than 3000 pages printing requirements.

Digitization and Automation- ‘Making Business Simple’

Lakshmi Rajan — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 03:29:54 +0000

In 2015, the government of India launched the Digital India initiative with a vision of transforming India into a digitally empowered society. With this, the aim was to empower every citizen and enable businesses to transact easily and efficiently in today’s digital-driven economic landscape. Corporate India was quick to respond to the call of digitization by adopting various digital transformation initiatives to streamline the business processes. Today, organizations have witnessed efficiency and increased productivity with the automation of time-consuming manual processes. Though, organizations have traveled the road of digitization and automated business processes that previously were manual, they still push the paper document around in an obsolete and inefficient manner. Paper documents not only are difficult to store and carry the risk of perishability but are also time-consuming when handled for data stored in them. With huge amount of data being handled in the form of paper documents, it has become imperative for organizations to improve and optimize their document handling processes through automation.

Business Can Be Simple

Canon, a global brand, which has been ranked as the leading brand for copiers in Asia for 2018 as well as has No 1 Market Share in India for H1 2019 as per IDC data, follows the motto of ‘Business can be simple’. The philosophy behind the motto aims at reducing complexity by simplifying workflows within an organization through digitization of paper-based processes. By leveraging Canon’s diverse range of hardware and software solutions that includes a wide portfolio of digital copiers, scanners, projectors and print and document solutions, businesses can save time and resources that otherwise would have been spent towards filing, indexing and storing the documents. Aside from scanning documents, a document management solution also incorporates a suite of applications that facilitates creation, indexing and storing of digitized documents. Such a comprehensive office automation solution helps speed up the workflow, improve efficiency, eliminate human-error and enhance corporate data security.

The importance of data security

Data security is a prime concern for organizations, and with data being manually handled through piles of paper documents, there is always a looming threat of data and privacy theft/leakage. Canon with its imageRunner series of multi-functional devices provide additional features of preventive measures that empower businesses to address security vulnerabilities. Besides scanning, copying and printing, the imageRunner series of products offer additional security features and low cost of ownership, which helps organizations reduce operational costs and bring in process efficiencies.

Integrated product portfolio for business needs

Apart from hardware solutions, Canon also offers software solutions that include IrisPowerscan, a powerful document management solution. The solution can scan, structure, sort, index, OCR, convert and export all digitized paper documents into fully searchable text files. With IrisPowerscan, an organization can save time, improve efficiency and optimize business processes. With Canon’s Therefore Document Management solution, organizations can efficiently and economically handle paper documents. By leveraging a combination of Canon imageRunner products, IrisPowerScan and Therefore Document Management solutions, data-driven companies can quickly import and integrate, share and compare, store and retrieve, or distribute and print documents of any scale and volumes with minimal human intervention. Thus, helping employees save time from tedious manual processes and focus towards business-oriented goals. Digital India is propelling the new-age India and businesses, entrepreneurial aspirations are on rise and start-ups are data driven and innovative. Canon with its motto of ‘Business can be simple’, is helping organizations to optimize resources, manage business efficiently and become agile to meet the dynamic customer needs.]]>

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