LBP6650dn

Canon i-Sensys LBP6650dn toner cartridges

The Canon i-Sensys LBP6650dn laser printer is shipped with the standard capacity 719 toner cartridge capable of printing up to 2,100 pages. We recommend purchasing the high yield 719H toner ratedat 6,400 pages, this will lead to fewer cartridge changes and a lower cost per print.

 Canon i-SENSYS LBP6650dn Review

Speed is among the leading differentiators amongst mono laser printers, particularly if you are taking into consideration cost. Anything over 20ppm usually attracts a premium and when you reach 30ppm you are normally considering a purchase expense of several hundred pounds. Canon's i-SENSYS LBP6650dn may well break this mould, though, because it is obtainable for well below £200 plus, at least on paper, breaks the 30ppm barrier.

It's a nicely formed and unimposing laser printer, which may be located on the workplace whilst not hogging the whole desktop, or sat upon a separate stand, if you need to share it comfortably among a number of individuals.

The flat top of the machine supports a fair control panel, that has a four-way navigation ring and three individual buttons, including direct selection of the three potential paper sources. There is a black-on-white, backlit, 16-character Liquid crystal display cocked up at an angle at the rear of these, therefore it is readily legible.

The three paper sources are a 500-sheet primary tray, a 50-sheet, fold-down, multi-purpose tray above this as well as an optionally available, second 250-sheet one, that will sit beneath.

At the rear are sockets designed for USB as well as Ethernet, the two data connections provided on the printer, additionally , the on / off switch is located at the lower front of the right-hand side panel, which makes it easy to use.

Actual set up is extremely simple, since Canon provides a single, integrated drum and toner cartridge, which slots in by the front, once you have lowered down the front panel. Software contains a Canon native driver as well as one designed for PCL 5/6, and also supports both Windows as well as OS X.

Canon boasts 33ppm for the unit and our five-page text print needed merely 14 seconds, rendering a speed of 21.4ppm. On the 20-page text, this improved to 29.3ppm, so with a lengthier document this unit may exceed 30ppm, which is near enough. It is rather uncommon to see a model in this particular price bracket reach this sort of pace.

Not only this, the company's assertion of a rapid initial print time is matched in use, with hardly any processing time evident. Consequently no matter if the unit is sleeping, and consuming almost no electrical power, it will wake up and begin printing very quickly.

Duplex print, which is standard on this particular device, is about one half as fast as single-sided, and we measured 15.6 sides per minute on our 20-side/10-page text evaluation. The five-page text and graphics print was as quick as the straight text document plus a 15 x 10cm photograph upon an A4 sheet needed eight seconds.

Text is thick and devoid of spatter plus, even at small point sizes, there isn't any hint of any jaggedness from the 600dpi print engine.

Greyscale graphics are OK, although fills look just a little spotty as well as irregular and additionally dither patterns are generally quite apparent. This turns up within photograph images, also, although shadowed regions of those pictures nevertheless demonstrate a bit of fine detail, which is much more than lots of mono lasers can manage.

The Canon i-SENSYS LBP6650dn printer toner cartridge is available in two volumes: 2,100 pages and 6,400 pages. The high-yield consumable offers the greatest economy.

Although we have never quite seen the worth the printer industry places on out-and-out speed, especially on a product that is not going to be used anything like continuously, we are able to appreciate the value of getting even a moderately sized print job away quickly. Canon's i-SENSYS LBP6650dn definitely does that and generates fine print at affordable cost into the bargain. The duplex facilities could save you cash on paper and bundling this all into a bundle costing about £176, makes the device excellent value. When it comes to high-end single use or even smaller workgroups, this ought to end up on your shortlist.