L ike other Canon MegaTank inkjet printers, the G650 (G620 in the USA) is cartridgefree, with relatively highvolume ink tanks, topped up by 60ml bottles of ink, working out to about an eighth of the cost of most cartridge-based printers. The printer itself is refreshingly affordable for a MegaTank.
The photo-friendly line-up of six dye-based inks includes CMYK plus red and grey inks, aiming for a wide colour space and enhanced mono photo quality. The individually keyed, squeeze-free bottles ensure simple, mess-free top-ups and make it impossible to pour a colour into the wrong tank.
There are no internal paper feed cassettes, just an upright input tray at the rear, which makes it easy to swap between different sizes of plain or photo paper. There’s also no colour touchscreen, but the small mono LCD enables an intuitive push-button interface. It makes short work of creating mono or colour photocopies, courtesy of the built-in scanner. Connectivity is good, too, with USB and Wi-Fi, the latter enabling PIXMA Cloud Link for smartphones and tablets, Apple AirPrint, Mopria for Android and Wireless Direct.