Canon LBP7200CDN toner cartridges

The Canon i-Sensys LBP 7200CDN is a network colour laer printer suitable for small network situations. It uses four individual Canon 718 toner cartridges which are listed on this page at a discount price from Cartridge Concept.

 Canon i-SENSYS LBP7200Cdn Printer Review

Canon produces a lot of laser printer engines, not only for itself, and the i-SENSYS LBP7200Cdn implements a new in-line design which decreases the all round length of the device, whilst still giving it a reasonably low profile.

That's not saying it is a discreet printing device; it is fairly large for an A4 unit rated at 20ppm, even though it does contain duplex print as standard. Coloured in cream and light grey, the design is fairly unexceptional, with a curved front edge as well as two individual handles meant for pulling down covers.

A drawer in the base of the front panel supports as much as 250 sheets of plain paper an additional tray, of the same total capacity, could possibly be added as an option. The model claims to be for small workgroups, therefore we'd really like to get a greater capacity tray as the norm. A simple 50-sheet multi-purpose tray at the rear of the fold-down front panel, though, so an all round default capacity of 300 sheets is not really bad.

The control panel is certainly not extraordinary, devoid of an LCD panel as well as merely eight indicator lights with regard to consumables' status as well as error issues. There exists a sole button for you to cancel an ongoing print job, although in our tests the machine seemed to be quite content to keep on turning out pages despite the fact the cancel light was blinking.

At the rear are sockets intended for USB along with Ethernet, both standard, there is however not a wireless option. You might, nevertheless, make use of a third-party wireless print server without a lot of problems.

The Canon iSENSYS LBP7200Cdn printer cartridges are furnished in a pullout tray, which is accessible once you've folded down the whole of the machine's front panel. They're four small neat units, having capacities of 3,400 pages with respect to mono as well as 2,900 pages with regard to each single colour. Yields are reasonable although, as is so common, Canon provides 1,400 and 1,200 page 'starter' cartridges with the appliance.

You'll find that there's definitely not very much in terms of software programs, besides a driver plus a consumables monitor. Drivers are supplied for Windows 2000, XP and also Vista, along with versions of OS X above 10.4.1. No Linux support is mentioned.

Our own five-page evaluation jobs resulted in speeds of 10ppm, really just fifty percent what's advertised, but for longer documents of 20 pages the pace rises to 15.6ppm, more than 75 % of the suggested rate.

This device has an internal duplexer. Our exact same 20-page document, when printed duplex, delivered a speed of 8.6spm, or 4.3ppm, and that is disappointingly low.

Black text is without a doubt distinct and also clean, if not really as black as from some other lasers we've looked over.

Colour images are really bright and eye-catching, along with hardly any indication of fill patterns and exceptional registration of monochrome text above coloured backgrounds. Colours are full-blown as well as radiant so you wouldn't be ashamed to hand full-colour documents printed on this device to valued clients.

The trial photograph print is also effectively reproduced for a laser printer. There's almost no indication of banding and sleek colour fills are in evidence throughout. Foreground fine detail is razor-sharp as well as precise and also shows well within shadowed regions of the pictures nicely as in brightly lit up ones.

The i-SENSYS LBP7200Cdn is an effective mid-range colour laser printer, that is straightforward to maintain and additionally produces excellent print for text, graphics as well as pictures. Speed is fair. This is a good all-round colour machine.