Saturday, October 12, 2013
Panasonic PanaFax UF 8000
The UF-8000 is a substantial machine, weighing in at a hefty 48.5lbs. Solidly built with well constructed drawers lid, output tray and control panel. The panel itself has a full QWERTY keyboard, that is slightly downsized but still perfectly usable. The controls are laid out in a logical manner and offer everything the average user needs.
The UF-8000 is an good performer, producing documents at a rate of 19 pages per minute at a resolution of 600dpi. Whether it’s a fax, print or copy, the print is crisp and clear with good shading on larger images.
The fax is exactly what you would expect from a multifunction. It can send and receive good quality faxes with the minimum of fuss. The controls on the panel include a full dialing keypad, auto dials, phone book, send later and other controls. The Super G3 modem will get the faxes to their destination in a little under 3 seconds per sheet and can broadcast to up to 330 destinations at once.
The copier is good, offering resize, rotate, multiple copies and other features. The native 600 dpi is clear and text is exact. Edges on both text and images were clean and free of jaggies. Grayscale was even across the images and the 256 shades were used to full effect when copying color images.
The UF-8000 is very easy to work with. The paper drawer holds 250 sheets, and the automatic document feeder a further 100. It can be connected via USB or Ethernet and will work with any Windows operating system.
The toner is easy to replace once it has printed 5000 pages or so. The cartridges come in two sizes, the basic 5000 page on and a high yield 10,000 page one. Seeing as there is only a moderate difference in cost between the two, it makes sense to opt for the high yield.
The UF-8000 is a good, value for money multifunction device that is aimed at the SOHO market. With ease of use and solid performance, this is a good buy if you’re in that market.
