Friday, April 12, 2013

Canon IMAGECLASS MF8380CDW Printer Review


Overview
Nowadays, we are living in a world where space, money and efficiency rate are very important things. As a result we need products that must be cost effective. Because of this fact, manufacturers developed Canon IMAGECLASS MF8380CDW which can make things easier by bringing you high quality at lower prices. If you need a multifunctional device (printer, scanner and fax at the same time) this Canon model is the right choice. When we say Canon IMAGECLASS MF8380CDW, we definitely say quality, efficiency and performance, because it comes with a lot of features like auto duplexing, wireless connection to the internet or manual connection through Ethernet. A lot of people prefer to choose this multifunctional printer because the installation, maintenance and usage are so simple.

Pros
The auto duplexing option allows you to print 10 pages per minute on two sides and up to 21 pages per minute, 1 sided, and by using both color and black & white.
Because it weighs around 68 pounds and it has a dimension of 17”x 19.2”x 18.9”, it needs to be placed on a table. The printing resolution of 600 x 600 dpi makes the quality of the print very good, be it a photo or a plain documents. The standard memory is 256 MB, but it can be upgraded if you needs to.
Features like Push, Pull Scan Duplex Scan or even Rotate are making this multifunctional printer one of the best from its price range. In addition, it has other options like printing directly from USB devices and sending PDF and SMB via email.
The printing quality is very high and the printer can copy at speeds of 10 pages per minute for double sided. However, when we talk about copying single sided printings, we notice even a higher printing speed, of 21 pages per minute.
You can adjust the copies dimensions from 25% to 400% zoom.
Troubleshooting and configuration can be made simpler, because of the existence of a control panel which has a 5 line monochrome display.
This printer can handle with 400.000 pages per month, the duty cycle that Canon recommends to clients,
The fax function works very well and it can transmit at speeds equal with 2.6 seconds per page. In addition, you can connect to the internet through G3 network, which is a remarkable thing for a multifunctional device. The memory of the fax is 512 sheets.
More features like fax forwarding, PC fax (just for sending) and memory backup make this multifunctional printer an amazing fax.

Cons
A black and white page is 3.7 cents and a color page is 16.4 cents, which is quite expensive.
The control panel is placed on the top of the printer and you need to put the printer low in order to reach it.
This printer was not made for graphic design. Even though it has a lot of very high performance features, printing graphics is not one of its strengths.