Sunday, September 29, 2013
Canon MF6540 Review
Overview:
The Canon MF6540 printer belted out a whopping 24 pages per minute when it was introduced. By today’s standards this is second rate at best.
Pros:
When you compare the MF6540 to the run of the mill 600 x 600 dot per inch resolution of many non-colored printers, it is not such a big advance. While the MF6540 boasts a 1200 x 600 dot per inch resolution which produces sharper text and images such as graphs for businesses, it still doesn’t measure up to the newer multifunctional printers.
The Canon MF6540 printer has the ability to handle standard paper from 17 to 24 lbs in thickness. This is using the standard paper tray. When media paper is needed the multipurpose tray can handle 15 to 35 lbs. Most media will fit adequately in the multipurpose tray, but it cannot handle card stock. The output tray will hold up to 100 sheets of paper before it starts to be an issue. The standard paper tray will hold up to 100 sheets, and the larger paper tray can hold a ream of paper which equals 500 sheets of paper.
The MF6540 comes equipped with a 2 in 1 function, which will automatically print, scan and copy double sided information. This function makes handling two sided paper easy and permits the user to cut down on the expense of paper costs by almost half. When you use the printer’s 2 in 1 copy utility you can save more money on paper.
The digital copy process allows you to manage two pages of scanned information, shrink it to 50% and print both pages on one sheet of paper. The opposite also holds true. You can take one page of information balloon it up and fit it onto two sheets of paper. The MF6540 allows you to zoom in up to 50% and zoom out up to 200%.
Cons:
Today Canon produces printers that can print up to 30 pages per minute; the earlier Canon MF6540 only has the capacity to print 24 pages per minute. Canon constantly attempts to expand on what they have already accomplished, so the Canon MF6540 has already been usurped by newer models.
The MF6540 by Canon only has an upper limit of 15,000 pages per month. While this may seem like a lot of printing, newer models have the capability to print up 30,000 pages per month at half the cost. This makes it rather obsolete in many areas of today’s printers.
