Canon PIXMA G7020 Ink Cost Per Page: A Tied Color-Cost Floor
The Canon PIXMA G7020 is an ink tank printer that prints, copies, scans, and faxes, with auto-duplex and Wi-Fi built in. It sells for $380. Running costs are $0.38 per 100 pages in black and $0.97 per 100 pages in color; the black figure comes from Canon's CN-GI20-BK bottle, priced at $23 and rated for 6,000 pages.
The Epson EcoTank ET-2980, the next step up from the G7020 in running cost, sells for $330 — cheaper up front — and undercuts it on black ink at $0.29 versus $0.38 per 100 pages, but costs more in color at $1.08 versus $0.97 per 100 pages. That $0.97 rate ties the G7020 for 1st among the 30 ink tank printers InkTax tracks on color cost per page. The Epson also does without fax and without Ethernet, both of which the Canon includes.
Within Canon's own tank lineup, the entry-level PIXMA G3270 costs $249 but drops auto-duplex, fax, and Ethernet, offering just print, copy, and scan. The G3290 and G4280, at $270 and $280, restore auto-duplex and add a touchscreen, though still without fax or Ethernet. Only the G7020, at $380, brings fax and Ethernet together with the duplexing and Wi-Fi already found lower in the range.
For anyone who never prints color, the HP LaserJet Pro 4006dw is the mono option nearby: print-only, with no copy, scan, or fax, at $400 up front. It adds a touchscreen the Canon lacks and prints far faster, at 47 ppm against the G7020's 13 ppm. Its toner runs $2.23 per 100 pages in black, dwarfing the Canon's $0.38 — a black rate that ranks 10th of 97 printers on black-and-white cost per page across every type InkTax tracks.