Canon I-SENSYS MF8050Cn Review

The idea of incorporating a flatbed scanner as well as an Automatic Document Feeder (ADF) to a colour laser printer to make a business multifunction printer is becoming much more popular and Canon's i-SENSYS MF8050Cn was created for small business or perhaps smaller workgroups within much larger businesses.
It is quite a well put together multifunction, a little wider than the A4 flatbed scanner, that sits on top of it. It is pretty deep, however, since the in-line, colour laser engine flows the paper from front to back, exiting on to the top of the printer area, in which there exists a cut-out close to the control panel, to help you access documents easily.
The control panel per se, although busy, is actually nicely laid out, along with a fax dial-up pad off to the right, combined with the copy controls. In the centre is the five-line, backlit Liquid crystal display, with the three primary function keys regarding Copy, Fax and Scan at the rear along with a navigation ring in front. To the left exist fax and also copy-related options and also the first five of the quick-dial numbers. Lift this area of the panel up to uncover 19 more quick-dials, a nice way of applying dual-function keys.
There's a simple front panel USB socket just beneath the control panel which will take a USB drive, however it is restricted to keeping scanned images as PDF files and also is unable to handle walk-up printing.
It is a fully networked, multifunction device, designed for printing as well as copying in an office environment, however it features a single 150-sheet paper tray without any method of including an additional one, though there's a single-sheet multipurpose slot.
Installation is actually fairly easy, having a typical pack of Canon multifunction software plus a copy of Presto! Page Manager intended for document management. Drivers are supplied for Windows and also OS X, though you'll find nothing particular provided with regard to Linux.
Our five-page black text print returned 5.77ppm and even though we saw 9.52ppm for the 20-page test, it is nevertheless quite a bit short of the target figure.
Our colour test generated a speed of 4.84ppm. Subjectively, the device appears slow and whenever copying a five-page text document from the ADF, it was pretty obvious that the scanning concluded before the first page was out of the unit.
The caliber of the print is as fine as we have come to anticipate from Canon, even though regular black print is a touch lighter than from some of its competitors. Black text and also colour graphics show the good quality of colour fills and despite the fact that there's certain texturing of regions of fill, colours are very good and strong areas emerge nicely. There is a little haloing of black text over coloured backdrops.
A colour copy generated very little degradation from the original while colour tones were well reproduced at really near to their original hues. The photographic print appeared more natural as compared to many, with a smaller amount of the distinctive over-saturation many lasers create. The default 600dpi resolution of the print engine is quite obvious in dither patterns, nevertheless.
The only real consumables include the four drum and Canon i-SENSYS MF8050Cn toner cartridges, that are good for 2,300 pages of black as well as 1,500 pages of each colour, at ISO coverage levels.
It is a reasonable colour laser multifunction unit from Canon, although the absence of a walk-up print ability and also the tiny capacity of the main feed tray are actually odd design aberrations from a firm that usually gets these matters spot on. Even the inkjet all-in-ones have got two, 150-sheet paper trays as standard.

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Theodore Beach is a member of the Cartridge Concept team which specialises in printer cartridges.

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