Canon PIXMA TR7120 Ink Cost Per Page: a Short-Lived Cartridge
The Canon PIXMA TR7120 is an inkjet that prints, copies and scans, with automatic duplexing and Wi-Fi built in. It sells for $173. Running costs land at $13.00 per 100 pages in black and $28.00 in color. The CN-PG295XL-BK cartridge behind that black figure is rated for 400 pages at $52.
That $52 cartridge sits well up against the printer's own $173 price tag, and at just 400 pages it needs replacing often for anyone who prints steadily.
Within Canon's own lineup, the PIXMA TS7720 sells for $162 and runs cheaper too, at $10.00 in black and $25.00 in color per 100 pages, while adding a touchscreen the TR7120 lacks. The TR7120 itself ties for 25th of 31 inkjet printers on black cost per page, part of a three-way tie.
The closest rival from another brand is the HP Envy Inspire 7255e, which costs $200 and has a touchscreen of its own. Its running costs sit close to the TR7120's — $10.50 in black and $27.12 in color per 100 pages — essentially even in color and only slightly cheaper in black. The TR7120 also ties for 23rd of 31 inkjets on color cost per page, another three-way tie.
Canon's own MAXIFY MB2720 is the running-cost floor among inkjet printers, at $4.17 in black and $13.16 in color per 100 pages, for $216 up front. It also adds fax, a touchscreen and Ethernet, and prints at 24 ppm against the TR7120's 14 ppm.
For color-heavy printing, Canon's own PIXMA G3270 tank printer costs $249 up front but drops running costs to $0.38 in black and $0.97 in color per 100 pages; it lacks the duplexing the TR7120 has. Across every type InkTax tracks, the TR7120 ranks 93rd of 97 printers on black-and-white cost per page, near the bottom of that field.