TR4722 Bad Engineering

[neals384]

When my wonderful MX410 reached its end-of-life shut down (i.e. ink pads full), I went cheapo and replaced it with a TR4722.

I do a lot of scanning, so having a working doc feeder is top of my wish list.  The ADF on the TR4722 has only a single feed roller, and it's offset to the far side of the printer.  The ADF will occasionally feed correctly if the paper is the perfect weight and unblemished. Otherwise, the roller pulls the paper and you either get a skewed scan or a feeder jam.  Who is the engineer who decided the roller didn't need to be IN THE MIDDLE of the feed tray - they should be fired.

Anyway, this printer will go to the dump - I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.  Its replacement will not be a Canon.

[bratcher99]

You are correct—it is not your particular printer/scanner nor a particular model but the engineering on Canon ADF scanners.  If you watch videos of canon scanners in operation, you will see that they all pull to the right, even if it does not cause a paper jam.  It is a design flaw and Canon needs to make it right.  What they have done instead is to simply remove the ADF feature from some models.