Canon MF4690PL toner cartridge

This compact, versatile laser All-in-One, the Canon i-Sensys MF4690PL has Super G3 fax anddelivers high quality professional output. Built-in networking, auto-duplexing and SEND functionality ensure optimal workgroup productivity.Cartridge Concept offer both Canon original toner cartridges and value compatible toner suitable for this model.

 Canon i-SENSYS MF4690PL Review

Canon includes a whole lot of multifunction devices in its wide range and the i-Sensys MF4690PL is definitely at the top end of the newest batch of launches.

This specific machine features a fairly compact footprint, although it is deeper than many. The control panel is held on a couple of columns, that affords an overall appearance of featuring a dark-grey cowl across the front of the machine. It causes it to be a bit more difficult to fill the 250-sheet paper tray and much more tough to utilize the 10-sheet multi-purpose tray, whose guides now reside about 100mm within the cowl.

The Automatic Document Feeder (ADF) includes a steeply raked feed tray and it can carry 35 pages for lengthier copy and fax work. The flatbed scanner can manage 24-bit colour at a top optical resolution of 600ppi, while using enhancement this grows to 9,600ppi.

Canon has managed to keep the control panel commendably simple to use. The 2-line by 16-character LCD display is backlit, along with three control buttons right in front for navigating menus and also three right behind intended for mode selection. On the right is a fax number pad and to the left is a set of seven quick-dial numbers for commonly used recipients. The Start and Stop buttons are large and at the right-hand side of the panel as well as a number of controls, such as enlargement, brightness as well as document type, are arranged along a silver panel at the rear of the primary controls.

There is a dual-purpose USB socket situated underneath the control panel to the right, that makes it possible for scanning of documents directly to a USB drive as PDF files and also printing or faxing of documents from a PDF.

Software furnished with the i-Sensys MF4690PL features PageManager as well as OmniPage, well regarded applications for document management as well as OCR, respectively. There is also the CanonMF Toolbox, supplying quick and easy entry to e-mail, OCR scanning as well as the generation of PDF documents.

The appliance is a capable fax, in addition to possessing print, copy and also scan options. Canon claims it can transmit a page in three seconds and it is modeled round a Super G3 fax modem, which means it can produce as many as 256 greyscales. The MF4690PL additionally includes a 512-page fax memory, therefore it will be able to deal with lots of inbound faxes, even if the paper tray's unfilled.

The five-page text and text and graphics tests produce speeds of 11.1ppm and 11.5ppm, hardly fifty percent of the stated rate. When we tried the 20-page document, we ended up seeing 15.4ppm. The machine features automatic duplex, hence we ran the 20-page document double-sided, as well, generating 10 pages in 122 seconds, equal to 9.8ppm.

Copies of the text and graphics page required 13 seconds through the ADF together with eight seconds from the flatbed glass. Both of these times are excellent.

The standard of the pages created is generally fine, though there's some moderate spatter round the serifs of text characters. Greyscale graphics are just reasonable, with tints possessing a blotchy appearance to them and mid-greys exhibiting an evident crosshatching. While in normal use, you almost certainly would not notice these kinds of attributes; you can find laser printers as well as multifunctions for a equivalent cost, which generally don't exhibit them.

A photocopy of our text and graphics page demonstrated a bit of deterioration in fine quality of greyscale duplication, guaranteeing that a few lighter tints were practically gone. Our test photograph print, while using the printer's dedicated photograph setting, ended up very well, having good levels of fine detail and, curiously, a reduced amount of the blotchiness than we observed in the business graphics print.

The only consumable is a drum and toner cartridge. The Canon i-Sensys MF4690PL printer toner cartridge is rated as 2,000 pages. That puts the i-Sensys MF4690PL within a fair spot next to its primary competition.