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PIXMA TR7820 Two-sided scanning?

kzkwp5 — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 19:16:47 GMT

I am considering purchasing a Canon PIXMA TR7820 printer/scanner. My question is, can it scan two-sided documents? I have found information that similar models offer "manual duplex scanning" as opposed to "automatic duplex scanning." What is the difference? I often have twenty-page two sided documents to scan, and do not want to need to scan each side of each page individually.

Re: PIXMA TR7820 Two-sided scanning?

jrhoffman75 — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 16:47:28 GMT

@kzkwp5 wrote:

I am considering purchasing a Canon PIXMA TR7820 printer/scanner. My question is, can it scan two-sided documents? I have found information that similar models offer "manual duplex scanning" as opposed to "automatic duplex scanning." What is the difference? I often have twenty-page two sided documents to scan, and do not want to need to scan each side of each page individually.

Will not auto duplex.

Re: PIXMA TR7820 Two-sided scanning?

kzkwp5 — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 20:34:47 GMT

Thank you so much! That will work for me!

Re: PIXMA TR7820 Two-sided scanning?

kzkwp5 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 00:18:10 GMT

For anyone interested in a printer/scanner that says it is "manual two sided ADF scan" or "duplex ADF scan", for $140 this does the job much better than my$400 all in one."Manual" means you feed all the pages in through the ADF once, it scans side 1 of all pages, then you rotate the stack of pages from the output tray once, scan them again, and the scans are digitized in the right order. I scanned 31 pages/62 sides, and it worked perfectly. Quality is fine, the prnter is a little slow, but definitely functional.Toner is ridicuously expensive, but it comes with starter cartridges, and I scan far more than print, so it does not matter.

Setup went reasonably well. The instructions proposed a couple of ways to link to your wifi. After spending a half hour on the two "shortcuts" that failed, I just resorted to keying in my password the same old obnoxious way, and it worked fine first time. I have to say that the user interface is a zillion times better than it used to be...for scanned pages, you can rotate them, reorder them, delete them. If you can one bunch, you can scan more on to make it one file when you save it. Finally an inexpensive printer that actually does all the basics and then some.