Canon PIXMA-PRO vs. Vasion Print

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Canon PIXMA-PRO
Score 10.0 out of 10
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Canon offers the PIXMA-PRO inket printers for businesses.N/A
Vasion Print
Score 9.1 out of 10
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Vasion Print (formerly PrinterLogic) helps IT professionals reduce legacy infrastructure and costs by eliminating the need for print servers. Vasion Print delivers a highly available Serverless Printing Infrastructure built on our centrally managed direct IP printing platform.
$121.80
per month Per Queue
Pricing
Canon PIXMA-PROVasion Print
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Canon PIXMA-PROVasion Print
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Canon PIXMA-PROVasion Print
User Ratings
Canon PIXMA-PROVasion Print
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(1 ratings)
9.4
(153 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
8.5
(8 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.7
(103 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(5 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Canon PIXMA-PROVasion Print
Likelihood to Recommend
Canon Inc
A daily workhorse that will print and print and print , it is easy on the wallet for ink cartridges and its dead easy to swap out a new cartridge when one runs out. But you get good milegae out of a cartridge and unless you are printing high quality colour photos, the cartridges will last a long time. For its price it packs a punch that a lot of more expensive printers cannot even get close to. I would recommend it to anyone and have done!! A+ 5 stars!!
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Vasion
Great for users that frequently travel between offices. Users can log into their device and get the "local" printer installed based on their subnet. Alternatively, users can choose to send their print to their folder to be accessed on whichever printer they choose. It does this securely which is great for folks in healthcare settings
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Pros
Canon Inc
  • Prints in various different mediums and formats
  • Scans and edits
  • Quick Copy Mode
  • PDf authoring
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Vasion
  • Removes admin privilege requirement for adding printers, but only those you specify.
  • Easily allows printers to be added by user based on their location/situation.
  • Admin portal for printer management is simple yet powerful.
  • Customize access to network printers for specific people (cheque printers, etc).
  • Fantastic documentation/KB.
  • Pre and post sales support was top notch.
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Cons
Canon Inc
  • I mainly print in black and find it incredibly wasteful that the printer just seeps the other coloured ink covers and requires these to be replaced even when I am only printing black. But all printer manufacturers do this, but there must be a better way.
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Vasion
  • We would like to move all of our print accounting into Vasion Print, but there are some features we use in Pharos that Vasion is still building out.
  • The repository can get a little unwieldy if too many people are adding drivers. An internal check to see if a driver for a particular printer is already available would be a nice feature.
  • Direct authenticated release of print jobs from the printer device would be a nice feature.
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Likelihood to Renew
Canon Inc
look, its just a great product!! Does what it says it will, with very little fuss and minimal set up. Highly modular and functional. Can be adjusted to meet numerous demands and never complains. it is an absolute workhorse
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Vasion
Hands down one of our best investments for our IT staff. This has saved so much time and frustration and it well worth the cost. If the budget starts to gets tight, this is one of the last things we would cut out. We also purchased this through our copy machine vendor so it's nice that the charge is integrated with our copy machines lease
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Usability
Canon Inc
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Vasion
Interface has been very easy to use and figure out. Reports to see printer usage is helpful in finding or relocating printers that are over/under utilized and can save funds on continually supplying printers where maybe better utilizing the equipment already deployed will provide cost savings. Being able to make a change in one place and that change is replicated to all devices has been nice and easy to do.
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Reliability and Availability
Canon Inc
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Vasion
So far, Vasion Print has been available for end users without any issues reported as far as we are aware.
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Performance
Canon Inc
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Vasion
A colleague has reported a performance issue with loading printer profiles on Edge. It sometimes takes a very long time to come up, and sometimes not at all, but he switches over to Chrome, and the interface comes up very quickly. This might be a fringe case, since I am able to launch the same profile on Edge browser without any problems.
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Support Rating
Canon Inc
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Vasion
Whenever I've contacted Vasion Print support the responses are always rapid and thorough. The support staff is knowledgeable and always happy to answer any questions I have. Most of the time we needed support was at the beginning of our implementation. Our account rep as well as technical support were skilled and responsive.
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Implementation Rating
Canon Inc
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Vasion
Did not participate, skip
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Alternatives Considered
Canon Inc
Canon PIXMA-PRO model is much slicker and easier to integrate into my system, works flawlessly with minimal care or upkeep required. And its cheap for ink cartridges and has the extra large black cartridge which allows you to print and print, much longer than most other printers, without needing to switch out or replace the cartridges
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Vasion
This doesn't apply since I haven't used another printer management tool, app, or system. Vasion Print is the only one we actually used here in our school district. I don't have the ability to select different companies or vendors, but with my experience with this software, it's been hands down the best. Especially for managing all of our copiers here in the school.
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Scalability
Canon Inc
No answers on this topic
Vasion
We have rolled Vasion Print out to 50+ locations, and scalability has not been an issue
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Return on Investment
Canon Inc
  • has greatly sped up my printing tasks
  • both side printing multi page printing all great options that are easy to set up in the gui
  • easy on the wallet in terms of both its price but also the price of consumables like ink cartridges ... very economical to run
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Vasion
  • Mostly the only thing we deal with on printers now is the physical printer issues.
  • There were no calls about everyone's printers not working when the print server went down, as there is no print server!
  • Making it easy for the users to be able to install their own printer.
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ScreenShots

Vasion Print Screenshots

Screenshot of admin consoleScreenshot of the print job release portalScreenshot of a printer listScreenshot of the self-service portal