Saturday, May 25, 2013
Canon Copier ImageClass MF4270
Measuring only 18 inches by 15.5 by 17.5 inches and weighing 28 pounds, this won’t take up too much desk space. This puts it right into the sights of the home worker, or home office. Space is often precious when working at home, so the footprint of any device is of more importance than many manufacturers realize. Fortunately Canon isn’t one of those.
What is also refreshing is the black and dark gray styling. It makes a nice change from standard beige or gray and will look cool on a modern desk next to a black and silver monitor.
Despite the compact size the MF4270 can still find room for 250 page paper cassette and an automatic document feeder that can hold a further 35. Toner is good for 2000 pages, which means for a low use home office, this device doesn’t need much looking after.
The only chink in the armor of this machine is that it needs to be connected via USB to get the best out of it. Even though it comes with a built-in network port, some scanning functions won’t work over a network. To get the best out of the MF4270, it would have to be connected to a PC via USB, then networked. Not a show stopper, but an odd choice for Canon to have made.
It can print and fax over a network, can work as a standalone fax and copier and can work as a fully featured all in one. Print quality is good, as one would expect from Canon, with text being the highlight of the show. The quality is superb, as you would expect from a laser, but stands out even among other laser products. Edges are clean and sharp, fonts are well printed and any filling is smooth and even. Copying or printing image or photo heavy documents presented no problems either, with the MF4270 chewing them up and spitting them out at the same rate as text pages.
The Canon Copier ImageClass MF4270 is an odd beast, with the USB functionality being better than its network one. However as this is aimed at small or home offices it doesn’t prove much of a problem. The speed and quality of the prints is what makes this a winner.
