The Canon Pixma TS702 Wireless ($129.99) is a consumer-grade photo printer designed for home-based office and family use.
Its robust paper capacity and high volume rating make it more of a workhorse than most five- and six-ink photo-centric Pixmas.
It also supports XXL ink cartridges for greater convenience (but not necessarily lower running costs), as well as voice-activation technology.
But don't mistake this for a standard office printer: While most other TS-series models come with scanners (making them all-in-ones), the TS702, like the Editors' Choice HP Tango X, supports scanning and copying exclusively via mobile devices.
Overall, the TS702 is a good choice for families who prefer top-notch output over budget-friendly operating costs.
Scan From Your Phone
Like HP's Tango X ($199.99 at HP) and DeskJet 3755 All-in-One Printer, the TS702 supports scanning and making copies, but doesn't have a scanner.
Instead, it relies on the camera in your smartphone or tablet, which means that scanning multipage documents isn't exactly efficient and, often, quality won't be as good as you'd get from a flatbed scanner.
Much depends on the quality of your mobile device's camera, your patience, and how steady and methodic you are while taking the picture of the document or photo you're scanning.
At 6.3 by 14.7 by 14.4 inches (HWD) with its trays closed and weighing 10 pounds, the TS702 is, despite its lack of a scanner, close in size to (but a few pounds lighter than) a few of its several all-in-one siblings, such as the Pixma TS6220 and the Pixma TS5120.
It is, on the other hand, significantly more substantial and a few pounds heavier than HP's Tango X and DeskJet 3755 ($59.99 at HP) .
Even so, compared with most other printers designed for home-based office use, the TS702 has a small footprint and will take up very little space on your desktop.
Since scanning and copying are done via your mobile device, and the TS702 doesn't support printing from USB thumb drives or other memory devices, it doesn't require much of a control panel.
There's no need to display images on a graphical touch screen.
Instead, what you get is a two-line dot matrix display navigable via arrow keys and an OK button, as shown below.
The TS702's paper input capacity of 350 sheets, split between a 250-sheet main cassette in front and a 100-sheet tray that pulls up from the back, is larger than all of its competitors mentioned here.
Its rear tray will also hold up to 20 4-by-6-inch sheets of photo paper or 10 5-by-7-inch sheets.
Typically, Canon doesn't publish volume ratings for its consumer-grade printers, but, in this case, it rates the TS702 at a maximum monthly duty cycle of 15,000 pages, with a recommended monthly print volume of up to 1,000 pages.
Both numbers are high for a consumer-grade photo printer in this price range.
The Tango X, for example, is rated at a 500-page maximum per month and up to 300 pages recommended, and the DeskJet 3755 has a 1,000-page duty cycle, with up to 200 pages recommended.
However, as you will soon see, pushing the TS702 to anywhere near its recommended volume is an expensive proposition.
Like most consumer-grade printers these days, the TS702 supports smart voice-activation through Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and standard IFTTT (If This Then That) scripting.
Other notable features include support for Instagram's square media format (3.5-by-3.5-inch, 4-by-4-inch, and 5-by-5-inch), printing T-shirt transfers, and printing labels on printable CD/DVD/Blu-ray disc labels.
Connectivity and Creativity Software
Between Canon's mobile apps and the TS702's standard interfaces, this Pixma comes with at least one connectivity option for every scenario.
The standard interfaces are Bluetooth LE, Ethernet, connecting to a single PC via USB 2.0, Wi-Fi, and wireless PictBridge for printing from Canon digital cameras and video recorders.
In addition to Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, other mobile device connections include Apple AirPrint, Google Cloud Print, Mopria, the Wireless Direct (aka Wi-Fi Direct) Canon Print app, and Pixma Cloud Link.
Also available for your mobile device is the Android or iOS version of Easy-PhotoPrint Editor, which is a mobile version of Canon's simple photo editing and printing software.
In addition to the standard print driver, Canon also throws in a wide range of productivity software for your family PC and your mobile devices.
There's PosterArtist Live Software (Windows only) for creating posters and other layouts, Master Setup, My Printer, Network Tool, and Quick Menu.
That last one, as shown in the image below, is a collection of shortcuts for various functions of the printer, such as printing optical disc labels or from the cloud.
Canon also includes its Message In Print app that allows you to embed text, images, links, and so on in your photos, that you can, in turn, send to friends and family.
They can then reveal the "message in print" by scanning it with their mobile devices' cameras.
Typical Pixma Performance
As with most of its photo-centric Pixmas, Canon rates the TS702 at 15 pages per minute (ppm) for standard letter-size documents; 4-by-6-inch snapshots are rated at 21 seconds each.
To find out how fast the TS702 is, I tested it over Ethernet from our Intel Core i5 testbed PC running Windows 10 Professional.
The Pixma TS702 printed our standard 12-page Microsoft Word document at the rate of 13.2ppm, which is very close to what we've seen from most recent TS-series Pixmas.
That score beat HP's Tango X by just short of 3ppm and HP's DeskJet 3755 by a whopping 8.9ppm.
See How We Test Printers
For the next part of my tests, I printed a collection of colorful,multifaceted Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint documents containing embedded business graphics, including several full-page charts and graphs.
Then, I combined those scores with the results from printing the 12-page text document in the previous test and came up with a score of 4.8ppm for churning out our entire suite of test documents.
While this is a typical score for consumer-grade photo printers in this class, this Pixma trounced both HP models mentioned above by 3ppm or more.
Finally, you can't test a photo printer without printing some photos.
The TS702 churned out our brilliantly colored and highly detailed 4-by-6-inch test snapshots at an average time of 21 seconds, matching Canon's rating.
Exquisite Print Quality
More important than how fast a photo printer turns out photos is how well it prints them.
Like every five-ink Pixma I've tested over the years, the TS702 churned out beautiful borderless images ranging from snapshot-size to letter-size (8.5 by 11 inches).
Colors were brilliant and accurate, and detail was spot-on.
Perhaps only Canon's six-ink Pixmas, such as the TS9120 ($899.00 at Amazon) or the wide-format TS9520 ($318.32 at Amazon) (both Editors' Choice models), produce better-looking images, though you must examine the output side by side and closely to see the difference.
The TS702's text looks good, too.
It's well-shaped and highly legible down to about 6 or 7 points, making it more than acceptable for most home- and family-oriented tasks.
This Pixma, as do most others, also printed our Excel charts and PowerPoint handouts with solid fills and evenly flowing gradients, with minimal-to-no banding or streaking in fills or stepping from color to color or tone to tone in gradients.
As always, I found nothing to complain about in this Pixma's output.
Off-the-Chart Running Costs
Despite the availability of so-called XXL cartridges for this printer, using Canon's page-yield estimates and suggested pricing, I came up with a monochrome cost per page (CPP) of 4 cents to 6 cents, and color pages run between 16 cents and 22 cents each.
Note that the use of the fifth (photo black) ink and the inability to tell when it deploys and how much ink is applied makes estimating exact CPPs impossible.
It's not unusual for consumer-grade photo printers to have high running costs, however.
Black pages on the Epson XP-7100 ($199.99 at Amazon) , for example, cost about 5 cents each and color pages run about 14 cents.
But Epson does sell a five-ink EcoTank consumer-grade photo printer, the Expression Premium ET-7700 ($549.99 at Amazon) , that prints monochrome pages for less than 1 cent each and color pages for just more than 1 cent.
(But then, that printer costs about four times more than the TS702.)
In addition, the HP Tango X and DeskJet 3755 are Instant Ink-eligible machines, meaning that you can buy ink through the company's Instant Ink subscription program for as low as 2.9 cents per page.
(And that includes any page, even letter-size photos, that uses a tremendous amount of ink.) Granted, these are four-ink printers that can't match the quality of five- and six-ink Pixmas.
When Exceptional Print Quality Is Essential
Like all photo-centric consumer-grade Pixmas we've reviewed over the past several years, the TS702 is expensive to use.
But if printing a high volume of top-drawer photos and graphics are more important to you than ongoing running costs, this Pixma might be the right choice.
Yes, nowadays there are several alternatives, and some of them, such as the Epson XP-7700 and Instant Ink-ready HP models discussed here, are much more economical to use than this and other TS-series Pixmas.
Furthermore, some of them, like Epson's five-ink EcoTank solution, print exceptionally well.
But you should choose the Pixma TS702 if what you need is the best output—and lots of it.
Canon Pixma TS702 Wireless
Pros
Terrific print quality, especially photos.
Small footprint.
Massive paper input capacity for its size.
Robust mobile device support.
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The Bottom Line
The photo-centric Canon Pixma TS702 Wireless is an inkjet printer that turns out exceptional output, making it a great choice for home offices and families.
The Canon Pixma TS702 Wireless ($129.99) is a consumer-grade photo printer designed for home-based office and family use.
Its robust paper capacity and high volume rating make it more of a workhorse than most five- and six-ink photo-centric Pixmas.
It also supports XXL ink cartridges for greater convenience (but not necessarily lower running costs), as well as voice-activation technology.
But don't mistake this for a standard office printer: While most other TS-series models come with scanners (making them all-in-ones), the TS702, like the Editors' Choice HP Tango X, supports scanning and copying exclusively via mobile devices.
Overall, the TS702 is a good choice for families who prefer top-notch output over budget-friendly operating costs.
Scan From Your Phone
Like HP's Tango X ($199.99 at HP) and DeskJet 3755 All-in-One Printer, the TS702 supports scanning and making copies, but doesn't have a scanner.
Instead, it relies on the camera in your smartphone or tablet, which means that scanning multipage documents isn't exactly efficient and, often, quality won't be as good as you'd get from a flatbed scanner.
Much depends on the quality of your mobile device's camera, your patience, and how steady and methodic you are while taking the picture of the document or photo you're scanning.
At 6.3 by 14.7 by 14.4 inches (HWD) with its trays closed and weighing 10 pounds, the TS702 is, despite its lack of a scanner, close in size to (but a few pounds lighter than) a few of its several all-in-one siblings, such as the Pixma TS6220 and the Pixma TS5120.
It is, on the other hand, significantly more substantial and a few pounds heavier than HP's Tango X and DeskJet 3755 ($59.99 at HP) .
Even so, compared with most other printers designed for home-based office use, the TS702 has a small footprint and will take up very little space on your desktop.
Since scanning and copying are done via your mobile device, and the TS702 doesn't support printing from USB thumb drives or other memory devices, it doesn't require much of a control panel.
There's no need to display images on a graphical touch screen.
Instead, what you get is a two-line dot matrix display navigable via arrow keys and an OK button, as shown below.
The TS702's paper input capacity of 350 sheets, split between a 250-sheet main cassette in front and a 100-sheet tray that pulls up from the back, is larger than all of its competitors mentioned here.
Its rear tray will also hold up to 20 4-by-6-inch sheets of photo paper or 10 5-by-7-inch sheets.
Typically, Canon doesn't publish volume ratings for its consumer-grade printers, but, in this case, it rates the TS702 at a maximum monthly duty cycle of 15,000 pages, with a recommended monthly print volume of up to 1,000 pages.
Both numbers are high for a consumer-grade photo printer in this price range.
The Tango X, for example, is rated at a 500-page maximum per month and up to 300 pages recommended, and the DeskJet 3755 has a 1,000-page duty cycle, with up to 200 pages recommended.
However, as you will soon see, pushing the TS702 to anywhere near its recommended volume is an expensive proposition.
Like most consumer-grade printers these days, the TS702 supports smart voice-activation through Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and standard IFTTT (If This Then That) scripting.
Other notable features include support for Instagram's square media format (3.5-by-3.5-inch, 4-by-4-inch, and 5-by-5-inch), printing T-shirt transfers, and printing labels on printable CD/DVD/Blu-ray disc labels.
Connectivity and Creativity Software
Between Canon's mobile apps and the TS702's standard interfaces, this Pixma comes with at least one connectivity option for every scenario.
The standard interfaces are Bluetooth LE, Ethernet, connecting to a single PC via USB 2.0, Wi-Fi, and wireless PictBridge for printing from Canon digital cameras and video recorders.
In addition to Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, other mobile device connections include Apple AirPrint, Google Cloud Print, Mopria, the Wireless Direct (aka Wi-Fi Direct) Canon Print app, and Pixma Cloud Link.
Also available for your mobile device is the Android or iOS version of Easy-PhotoPrint Editor, which is a mobile version of Canon's simple photo editing and printing software.
In addition to the standard print driver, Canon also throws in a wide range of productivity software for your family PC and your mobile devices.
There's PosterArtist Live Software (Windows only) for creating posters and other layouts, Master Setup, My Printer, Network Tool, and Quick Menu.
That last one, as shown in the image below, is a collection of shortcuts for various functions of the printer, such as printing optical disc labels or from the cloud.
Canon also includes its Message In Print app that allows you to embed text, images, links, and so on in your photos, that you can, in turn, send to friends and family.
They can then reveal the "message in print" by scanning it with their mobile devices' cameras.
Typical Pixma Performance
As with most of its photo-centric Pixmas, Canon rates the TS702 at 15 pages per minute (ppm) for standard letter-size documents; 4-by-6-inch snapshots are rated at 21 seconds each.
To find out how fast the TS702 is, I tested it over Ethernet from our Intel Core i5 testbed PC running Windows 10 Professional.
The Pixma TS702 printed our standard 12-page Microsoft Word document at the rate of 13.2ppm, which is very close to what we've seen from most recent TS-series Pixmas.
That score beat HP's Tango X by just short of 3ppm and HP's DeskJet 3755 by a whopping 8.9ppm.
See How We Test Printers
For the next part of my tests, I printed a collection of colorful,multifaceted Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint documents containing embedded business graphics, including several full-page charts and graphs.
Then, I combined those scores with the results from printing the 12-page text document in the previous test and came up with a score of 4.8ppm for churning out our entire suite of test documents.
While this is a typical score for consumer-grade photo printers in this class, this Pixma trounced both HP models mentioned above by 3ppm or more.
Finally, you can't test a photo printer without printing some photos.
The TS702 churned out our brilliantly colored and highly detailed 4-by-6-inch test snapshots at an average time of 21 seconds, matching Canon's rating.
Exquisite Print Quality
More important than how fast a photo printer turns out photos is how well it prints them.
Like every five-ink Pixma I've tested over the years, the TS702 churned out beautiful borderless images ranging from snapshot-size to letter-size (8.5 by 11 inches).
Colors were brilliant and accurate, and detail was spot-on.
Perhaps only Canon's six-ink Pixmas, such as the TS9120 ($899.00 at Amazon) or the wide-format TS9520 ($318.32 at Amazon) (both Editors' Choice models), produce better-looking images, though you must examine the output side by side and closely to see the difference.
The TS702's text looks good, too.
It's well-shaped and highly legible down to about 6 or 7 points, making it more than acceptable for most home- and family-oriented tasks.
This Pixma, as do most others, also printed our Excel charts and PowerPoint handouts with solid fills and evenly flowing gradients, with minimal-to-no banding or streaking in fills or stepping from color to color or tone to tone in gradients.
As always, I found nothing to complain about in this Pixma's output.
Off-the-Chart Running Costs
Despite the availability of so-called XXL cartridges for this printer, using Canon's page-yield estimates and suggested pricing, I came up with a monochrome cost per page (CPP) of 4 cents to 6 cents, and color pages run between 16 cents and 22 cents each.
Note that the use of the fifth (photo black) ink and the inability to tell when it deploys and how much ink is applied makes estimating exact CPPs impossible.
It's not unusual for consumer-grade photo printers to have high running costs, however.
Black pages on the Epson XP-7100 ($199.99 at Amazon) , for example, cost about 5 cents each and color pages run about 14 cents.
But Epson does sell a five-ink EcoTank consumer-grade photo printer, the Expression Premium ET-7700 ($549.99 at Amazon) , that prints monochrome pages for less than 1 cent each and color pages for just more than 1 cent.
(But then, that printer costs about four times more than the TS702.)
In addition, the HP Tango X and DeskJet 3755 are Instant Ink-eligible machines, meaning that you can buy ink through the company's Instant Ink subscription program for as low as 2.9 cents per page.
(And that includes any page, even letter-size photos, that uses a tremendous amount of ink.) Granted, these are four-ink printers that can't match the quality of five- and six-ink Pixmas.
When Exceptional Print Quality Is Essential
Like all photo-centric consumer-grade Pixmas we've reviewed over the past several years, the TS702 is expensive to use.
But if printing a high volume of top-drawer photos and graphics are more important to you than ongoing running costs, this Pixma might be the right choice.
Yes, nowadays there are several alternatives, and some of them, such as the Epson XP-7700 and Instant Ink-ready HP models discussed here, are much more economical to use than this and other TS-series Pixmas.
Furthermore, some of them, like Epson's five-ink EcoTank solution, print exceptionally well.
But you should choose the Pixma TS702 if what you need is the best output—and lots of it.
Canon Pixma TS702 Wireless
Pros
Terrific print quality, especially photos.
Small footprint.
Massive paper input capacity for its size.
Robust mobile device support.
View More
The Bottom Line
The photo-centric Canon Pixma TS702 Wireless is an inkjet printer that turns out exceptional output, making it a great choice for home offices and families.
