Canon Print Service is a mobile print plugin for Android that enables direct document output to Canon hardware via network discovery.
Product velocity
Maintenance
Daily rank 🇺🇸
#195
▼68Tools · free
Sentiment
4.5
720k reviews
Nemesis
Brother iPrint&Scan
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Users hire this utility to bridge the gap between mobile document storage and physical hardware, ensuring Canon printer owners can complete tasks without moving files to a PC.
For Canon printer users who need to print documents or photos directly from mobile devices in home or office environments.
What does it look like?
Key features
Restricts printer access and tracks usage by specific department codes
Requires authentication at the printer to release print jobs
Locates printers via network broadcast or manual IP address entry
How much does it cost?
The app functions as a free hardware-enablement tool, driving value for Canon printer sales rather than direct app monetization.
Velocity
Maintenance developmentperformanceopaqueShow more...
The app has shipped only two releases in the last 70 days, resulting in a cadence of approximately 0.14 releases per week. Development is currently focused exclusively on minor bug fixes and stability improvements with no evidence of new features or live operations. The release notes are uniformly opaque, providing no insight into specific functional changes. This pattern is consistent with a maintenance-only lifecycle.
Who built it?
Canon
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What do users think recently?
Fresh user feedback skews upset. Users appreciate basic printing functionality performs reliably for a subset of users during standard document tasks, but report persistent connection failures and print spooler errors prevent document output on modern android devices.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- Basic printing functionality performs reliably for a subset of users during standard document tasks
- Persistent connection failures and print spooler errors prevent document output on modern Android devices
50 of 50 recent reviews analyzed · high confidence · Upset overall
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Competitive landscape for Canon Print Service
How's the Tools market?
The app maintains a 3.2 rating on Android, reflecting significant instability compared to the iOS version's 4.76 rating. This platform-specific performance gap signals that the current Android build fails to meet the baseline expectations of the mobile-printing category.
Read the market outlookThe rivals identified
By Brother Industries, LTD.
This is the most direct rival, sharing the exact same niche of OEM-specific print service plugins with a massive, comparable user base.
- Provides integrated scanning workflows directly within the print plugin, which this app currently lacks.
- Maintains a consistent multi-platform UI that bridges the gap between mobile printing and desktop scanning.
- Supports advanced printer maintenance features like ink level monitoring that this app does not expose.
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Key takeaways for Canon Print Service
Where is it heading?
The mobile printing market is consolidating around utilities that offer comprehensive device management rather than simple print-only plugins. Canon's current maintenance-mode update cadence leaves it exposed to rivals that provide superior document handling and scanning, so the app must pivot to a full-featured device suite to remain relevant.
- Persistent spooler errors in the latest release stall document output, which accelerates user churn toward more reliable third-party print utilities.
- Restrictive UI design hides essential print settings, causing users to abandon the app in favor of competitors that offer more granular control.
The SWOT
- Native Android print subsystem integration reduces app-specific overhead
- Department ID management secures enterprise-grade B2B distribution
- Integrate mobile scanning to match Brother's workflow
- Expose ink-level monitoring to increase hardware-ecosystem lock-in
Next best moves
Rebuild Android print spooler logic because spooler errors are the #1 complaint theme → increase successful print job completion
+ 1 more prioritized moveThe counter-intuitive read
The app's biggest risk is not a competitor feature set…
Read the full takeFeature gaps
Integrated scanning workflows (available in Brother iPrint&Scan but absent here) +2
Since the last report: The app has transitioned into a maintenance-only lifecycle characterized by declining sentiment and critical spooler instability on Android.
Bottom line
The app fails to maintain basic connectivity on Android, because spooler instability renders the core utility non-functional, so the PM must prioritize spooler reliability over all feature updates to halt the current sentiment decline.
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