Canon i-Sensys MF8050Cn toner cartridges

The Canon i-Sensys MF8050Cn multifunction colour laser printer uses four individual 716 toner cartridges, listed here at discount prices.

Canon i-SENSYS MF8050Cn Review

The thought of incorporating a flatbed scanner as well as an Automatic Document Feeder (ADF) to a colour laser printer to create a business multifunction printer continues to get much more fashionable and Canon's i-SENSYS MF8050Cn was created for small business or smaller workgroups inside bigger organizations.

This really is quite a neat multifunction, little broader than the A4 flatbed scanner, which in turn rests on top of it. It's pretty deep, however, since the in-line, colour laser engine runs the paper from front to back, exiting on the top of the printer section, in which there is a cut-out alongside the control panel, so that you can retrieve documents easily.

The control panel itself, though busy, is actually nicely presented, along with a fax dial-up pad off to the right, combined with the copy controls. In the middle is a five-line, backlit LCD display, along with the three primary setting keys with regard to Copy, Fax as well as Scan at the back plus a navigation ring right in front. To the left there are fax and copy-related features and the first five of the quick-dial numbers. Elevate this area of the panel upward to uncover 19 more quick-dials, a nice way of applying dual-function buttons.

There is a front panel USB socket just underneath the control panel which will take a USB drive, however it is limited to storing scanned images as PDF files and also can't manage walk-up printing.

This is a completely networked, multifunction device, created for printing as well as copying in the office environment, yet it features a single 150-sheet paper tray without any method of adding an additional one, although there's a single-sheet multipurpose slot.

Installation is fairly simple, by having a standard bundle of Canon multifunction software and a copy of Presto! Page Manager for document management. Drivers are provided for Windows and OS X, however there's nothing specific provided for Linux.

Our five-page black text print returned 5.77ppm and even though we saw 9.52ppm for the 20-page test, it's still quite a bit short of the target figure.

The colour test generated a speed of 4.84ppm. Subjectively, the device seems sluggish and when copying a five-page text document from the ADF, it was apparent that the scanning completed before the first page was out of the printer.

The standard of the print is as decent as we have come to anticipate from Canon, even though regular black print is a bit lighter in comparison with from several of its rivals. Black text as well as colour graphics show the high quality of colour fills and despite the fact that there is a little texturing of regions of fill, colours are very good and stable areas emerge effectively. There is a bit of haloing of black text over coloured backdrops.

A colour copy developed almost no degradation from the original plus colour tones were effectively reproduced at really near their original tones. The photo print looked a lot more natural compared to quite a few, with a smaller amount of the typical over-saturation numerous lasers produce. The default 600dpi resolution of the print engine is quite noticeable in dither patterns, nonetheless.

The only real consumables are 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 good colour laser multifunction unit from Canon, even though the absence of a walk-up print ability and also the tiny capacity of the primary feed tray are actually unusual design aberrations from a firm that usually gets this stuff right. Even the inkjet all-in-ones have got two, 150-sheet paper trays as standard.