Canon i-Sensys LBP5050 toner cartridges

Let the Canon LBP5050 Impress with professional colour output. This compact colour laser printer offers personal and small office users superb quality with quick, quiet operation - in a convenient, space-saving design.Cartidge Concept offer all Canon 716 cartridges at discount prices as listed below.

 Canon i-SENSYS LBP5050 Review

This is the USB-only printer in Canon's i-SENSYS LBP5050 colour laser range, which we originally checked out as soon as it first was launched in 2008. All the printers based round the LBP5050 apparatus have come down both in price and operating costs since their initial launch, which makes the collection well worth revisiting.

At £155, the LBP5050 will cost you little more than a likewise specified mono laser, which makes it ideal for consumers on a tight budget. Its print costs are not quite so cost effective, at 10.1p per page of blended black and colour however mono expenses are a reasonable 1.6p.

It's easy to setup and the installer quickly discovered the printer on our network, although we had to manually select it as being our default printer. Four shallow toner cartridges inhabit a drawer which runs from behind a door in front of the printer. It's an excellent layout, but space is restricted, therefore there's no possibility of increased yield cartridges. Space is limited within the paper tray, as well, which only has enough space for 150 sheets. There is additionally a single-sheet feed at the front end designed for printing on envelopes as well as heavier paper stock, right up to 230gsm.

The LBP5050 is actually a single-pass printer thus, although its 9.8ppm mono print speed is average at best, the LBP5050 managed to print a combined colour document at a sharp 7ppm - quicker than every correspondingly priced colour laser printer we've examined.

Both standard paper as well as envelopes printed without having any significant curling. Mono text, colour and also greyscale pictures were all duplicated to a very high standard, and even very small 5pt text was legible. Sections of bold colour were lustrous as well as well defined, even though red tones were a little too pronounced. This was simple to fix making use of the driver's colour modification settings, which include an easy click-and-drag colour-correction tool.

Every Canon i-SENSYS LBP5050 printer toner cartridgefeatures its own built-in print head, thus there will not be any unseen expenses. All you've got to purchase are the toner cartridges. This gives the LBP5050 a remarkably small Total Cost of Ownership with respect to even heavy use ( approximately 2,000 mono and 1,000 colour pages monthly for three years). The printer' s maximum monthly duty cycle of 25,000 pages suggests that it ought to be able to deal with the strain of a couple of thousand pages consistently.

However it isn't as good a deal with respect to light users as Samsung's CLP-315w, though. It doesn't possess network support and we marginally preferred the caliber of the Samsung's graphics prints. We likewise have reservations concerning the LBP5050's mono print speeds. Nevertheless, this is an outstanding cheap colour laser. Like most, printing in colour could be an expensive prospect, however we were pleased by its rapid colour speeds and also low ownership costs.

This is a very good individual laser, yet if you need a major workgroup machine having faster rates of speed plus more functions, we suggest Epson's Aculaser CX21N MFP.