Canon Pixma G6020 MegaTank Review: An Excellent Printer For Home Use

The Canon Pixma G6020 MegaTank is an excellent all-in-one printer that can handle a wide range of tasks. It has a supertank ink system that produces an astounding number of pages while having a pretty inexpensive refill ink, making printing in bulk very affordable. It’s also made for printing and copying in mid-volume for a family’s home office.

The G6020 comes with enough ink to print thousands of pages, much like the other entry-level all-in-one printers in the same range. However, many inexpensive bulk-ink printers demand you to compromise your productivity and other convenience features in order to achieve their low operating costs. This is not the case at all with the G6020.

Although it lacks an automated document feeder (ADF) for scanning and copying multipage documents, its large paper input trays, strong networking choices, and other useful features more than make up for it to be a good all-in-one printer for your home.

If you’d like to find out more, just keep scrolling to read our review below.

See Where The Canon Pixma G6020 MegaTank Ranks In Our List Of The Best All-In-One Printers For Home Use This 2021.

Overview Of The Canon Pixma G6020 MegaTank

The most obvious reason to favor the Canon Pixma G6020 MegaTank is the use of refillable ink tanks, which enable significant ink savings and dramatically low print prices, thanks in part to the thousands of pages worth of ink that come free with the printer. However, the G6020 provides much more than just low-cost printing.

The compact form is suitable for use in any home office, but don’t let its size fool you. The G6020 also offers a plethora of handy features that will surely benefit any home. To be more specific, you get twin paper trays with a total capacity of 350 pages as well as an automatic duplexer for quick two-sided printing. Additionally, due to their built-in scanning and copying, both features give a speedy performance.

Overall, it has all a home office needs (as long as you don’t require faxing). And, despite its affordable price, it can handle far bigger workloads than the average low-cost inkjet in the market.

The maximum monthly duty cycle for the G6020 is 5,000 pages, however, Canon hasn’t officially provided a suggested monthly volume. With that in mind, I don’t think this implies you can print 5,000 pages every month on this small printer without it wearing out. As a safe recommendation, I would suggest not going over 3,000 pages per month.

Furthermore, the G6020 allows voice-activated instructions to do things like monitoring ink levels, reviewing alerts and other notifications, and printing hands-free via Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant smart home devices, just like many inkjets from Epson and HP nowadays. You can also utilize Siri from Apple, Cortana from Microsoft, or other voice-activated services that are readily available.

Features & Specifications

• Brand: Canon
• Dimensions: ‎15.9 x 14.6 x 7.7 inches
• Weight: 1 lb.
• Technology: Inkjet
• Printing Speed: 13.0 ipm (black), 6.8 ipm (color)
• Paper Sizes: 3.5” x 3.5”, 4” x 4”, 4” x 6”, 5” x 5”, 5” x 7”, 7” x 10”, 8” x 10”, Letter, Legal, U.S.#10 Envelopes
• Paper Capacity: 350 Sheets of Plain Paper
• Colors Available: Black
• Special Features: Print, Copy, Scan
• Specification sheet

What’s In The Box

• Canon Pixma G6020 MegaTank All-In-One Printer
• User guide
• Setup CD
• Power cable
• Black print head x 1
• Color print head x 1
• Canon GI-20 ink bottles ( 3 x GI-20 PGBK, 1 x GI-20 Cyan, 1 x GI-20 Yellow, 1 x GI-20 Magenta)

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What We Love About The Canon Pixma G6020 MegaTank

Design & Build

The G6020 features a tiny body that makes it ideal for use in any home office. The model weighs 17.8 pounds and is measured 15.9 x 14.6 x 7.7 inches. For a model with ink tanks, this is rather compact compared to other similar printers. It has a duplexer for printing two-sided documents, but it lacks an automated document feeder (ADF) for multi-page copying and scanning.

When it comes to the overall design, the G6020 is definitely pleasing to the eyes and has fantastic build quality. Despite being entirely made of plastic, the printer feels solid and well-made. The scanner’s lid can stay open without assistance, preventing it from dropping while the ink tanks are being refilled. It can also stretch to handle thicker papers or volumes.

So you don’t have to manually open the tray and perhaps stop an ongoing print job, the front input tray contains a tiny window where you can view how much paper is left. It’s also worth noting that the printheads are completely replaceable, which makes it a lot easier to repair them if they ever get damaged or clogged.

The control panel also features a few physical buttons for choosing operations and browsing settings menus. For example, there are specific buttons for copying/scanning in black-and-white and color. Additionally, a tiny monochrome LCD sits in the center of the display. Owing to the absence of illumination on the two-line display, it might be a bit difficult to read in dimly lit settings.

Print Speed

The G6020 has a monochrome print speed of 13 pages per minute (ppm), which is 4.3ppm quicker than earlier MegaTank models but slower than most competitors in the same league.

To be more specific, the G6020 produced a five-page monochrome document in 33.5 seconds, or 9 pages per minute, which is just a little below the average. Keep in mind, the category average is 9.1 pages per minute. Furthermore, the G6020 produced a six-page document with a mixture of text and color images in 2 minutes, 46 seconds, or 2.2 pages per minute, which was slower than the industry average of 2.6 pages per minute.

In terms of print speed, depending on what you’re using the printer for, this can be a deal-breaker or it won’t be an issue at all. Like many entry-level printers, you can’t really expect the G6020 to have outstanding printing speeds, but it’s definitely decent enough for any casual user.

So if you’re only going to be using this as a home printer, then the slightly sluggish print speed shouldn’t bother you at all. Not to mention, despite its below-average print speed, what you can count on with the G6020 is its excellent printing quality.

Print Quality

The Canon Pixma G6020 MegaTank, like most of Canon’s previous Pixmas models, produces high-quality prints with well-shaped, readable text at all point sizes along with highly detailed, bright, and properly colored pictures.

The G6020 produced color graphics with a high level of fine detail, appealing textures, and vibrant, natural-looking hues. However, there was some very minor banding, but you’d have to hunt for these problems on purpose to really notice them. Color images printed on both sides were also equally amazing.

Overall, I have no issues with the print quality of the G6020, and I have no reservations about utilizing this printer in a more professional setting that requires marketing materials to create a strong first impression.

Ink Costs

The G6020’s use of refillable ink tanks results in exceptionally reduced ink prices, with text pages costing only 0.2 cents and color pages costing only 0.8 cents.

The G6020 comes with three bottles of black ink (enough to print up to 18,000 monochrome pages) and one set of color bottles (enough to produce roughly 7,700 color pages when paired with black ink).

Both monochrome and color printing are amazing deals, depending on what you print.

Despite the fact that you’ll pay two to four times more for the printer than you would for a comparable non-bulk-ink device without the supertank ink system, the refillable ink tanks on the G6020 will save you a lot of money in the long run.

In A Nutshell

Now that we have discussed the things we liked and disliked about the Canon Pixma G6020 MegaTank, here’s a narrowed-down list of the good and the bad with this particular all-in-one printer.

Our Final Verdict

The Canon Pixma G6020 MegaTank is an excellent home all-in-one printer. It features a terrific ink tank system that can produce a large number of black and color pages while keeping the ink bottles inexpensive, making it highly cost-effective in the long term. Its printing quality is just as good, but print speeds are a little slower than average. Because there is no automated document feeder on the built-in scanner, scanning multi-page documents can take a while too. But despite that, the G6020’s inexpensive entry-level price, low ink expenses, and top-notch print, copy, and scan quality, this all-in-one inkjet printer provides a lot of value.

Do you already own an all-in-one printer for your home use? Did you get the Canon Pixma G6020 MegaTank? Was our review helpful? Let me know in the comments section below if you have any questions, suggestions, or insights to share. I would love to hear all your thoughts!

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