Built for households and one-person offices that print a few pages a day, the Canon PIXMA TS3640 ends the cyber café trip for every eCitizen form or KRA iTax receipt. Parents handling CBC worksheets and project photos print them at the kitchen table after school. Students at University of Nairobi, Kenyatta University, and Strathmore send assignments straight from a phone. Freelancers and home-office workers in Kilimani, Ruaka, and Kitengela scan signed contracts and email them within minutes. The Canon PIXMA TS3640 suits anyone printing under about 100 pages a month who wants a low upfront cost.

Unlike other electronics retailers in Kenya, Mascom International lets you pay only when the Canon PIXMA TS3640 reaches your door, in any of the 47 counties. At KSh 9,300, it costs less than half what Nairobi shops typically ask for an Epson EcoTank L3250. At Mascom International, we're seeing more parents buy a first home printer as CBC take-home tasks call for printed pages and pictures. Walk in to Kimathi Street to watch the Canon PIXMA TS3640 print a test page, or order on WhatsApp for same-day Nairobi delivery.

Yes, for households and small offices printing under about 100 pages a month. At KSh 9,300, the Canon PIXMA TS3640 gives you printing, scanning, copying, and Wi-Fi in one box, with starter cartridges included. That covers school worksheets, KRA iTax returns, eCitizen forms, and scanned IDs without a cyber café trip. The trade-off is cartridge running cost, roughly KSh 13 per page at current Nairobi cartridge prices. Light users keep the upfront saving over an ink tank printer for years before that gap closes.

Yes. The Canon PIXMA TS3640 prints straight from Android phones, iPhones, and iPads over Wi-Fi. Install the free Canon PRINT app, or use Apple AirPrint on iPhone and Mopria on Android, which are already built into the phone. The printer joins 2.4GHz Wi-Fi only, so pick that band on a Safaricom Home Fibre, Zuku, or Airtel router. No router at home? Access Point Mode lets your phone connect to the printer directly, and scans save straight to your phone's gallery.

Expect roughly KSh 13 per page for black text, with a similar figure for colour pages. A genuine PG-445 black cartridge sells for around KSh 2,400 in Nairobi and lasts about 180 pages under Canon's ISO yield test. The CL-446 colour cartridge costs a similar amount for about 180 colour pages. The PG-445XL raises black yield to 400 pages, and the CL-446XL lifts colour yield to 300. Choosing Draft quality and grayscale in the print settings stretches each cartridge further.

Choose the Canon PIXMA TS3640 if you print lightly and want the lowest upfront cost. Nairobi retailers typically list the Epson EcoTank L3250 between KSh 22,000 and KSh 28,000, so the Canon saves you at least KSh 12,700 today. The Epson's refillable tanks cost far less per page, so it pulls ahead after roughly 1,000 to 1,500 pages. A home printing 40 pages a month reaches that point after about two to three years. Heavy daily printers should pick an ink tank model.

The Canon PIXMA TS3640 prints about 7.7 black pages and 4.0 colour pages per minute under the ISO/IEC 24734 office test. A 10-page black report finishes in well under two minutes. A borderless 4x6 family photo takes about 65 seconds. The first copy appears in about 27 seconds, then copying continues at roughly 3.0 pages per minute, with up to 20 copies per job. The flatbed scanner captures at 600 x 1200 dpi, sharp enough for national IDs and KCSE certificates.

Yes. It prints borderless photos at 4x6, 5x5, and 5x7 inch sizes on Canon photo paper up to 275 g/m². That covers CBC portfolio pictures, family prints, and small posters for church or chama events. Canon Magnetic Photo Paper turns prints into fridge magnets, while Restickable Photo Paper makes removable stickers for classroom charts. The free Easy-PhotoPrint Editor app adds layouts, calendars, and passport-style photo sheets. Wi-Fi PictBridge sends pictures straight from a compatible Canon camera without a computer in between.

Yes, through manual two-sided printing. The driver prints the odd pages first, then prompts you to flip the stack and reload it in the rear tray. It takes an extra minute but halves paper use on long documents, a real saving when an A4 ream costs several hundred shillings. The rear tray holds up to 60 plain sheets and takes A4, A5, B5, Letter, and Legal. Custom sizes from 89 mm wide to 676 mm long suit odd-sized cards and church programmes.

It works with Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8.1, and Windows 7 SP1, plus Windows 11 on ARM laptops. Mac users get support from macOS 10.15 through macOS 14 at launch, and Canon's download centre lists support for newer releases. Chromebooks print through ChromeOS. The setup CD covers Windows only, so most Kenyan laptops without a disc drive should download the driver from Canon's website instead. A USB cable does not come with the printer, although Wi-Fi removes the need for one.

Power draw is light, so KPLC outages cause little trouble. The Canon PIXMA TS3640 uses about 9 W while copying and 0.3 W when off, which a small home UPS carries easily. The auto on/off feature wakes it when a print job arrives. Canon rates it for 5-35°C and 10-90% humidity, covering Nairobi, Kisumu, and coastal Mombasa conditions. Keep the scanner lid closed and cover the printer during dusty dry seasons. Printing one page weekly helps keep the cartridge nozzles clear.

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Every unit comes with the 12-month warranty above, and our team helps with Wi-Fi setup over WhatsApp after delivery. Buyers across Kenya rely on Mascom International for honest specifications, current pricing, and after-sales support on every printer we stock.