Canon i-Sensys MF9170 toner cartridges

Canon MF 9170, this intelligent colour laser 4-in-1, including fax, offers professional colour output, powerful SEND functionality and auto duplexing. It’s the ideal solution for corporate and business workgroups.

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Canon's i-SENSYS MF9170 was created for small enterprises or medium-sized workgroups and provides colour copying and also faxing to its colour print facilities. Additionally, it may print, scan and also copy in duplex style, providing likely costs savings by utilizing each side of every sheet of paper.

It's a large device, but still mountable upon a counter or perhaps stand. It also sits rather high, at 632mm, due to the fact its colour print engine is actually mounted vertically within the case. Paper feeds through a standard 250-sheet paper tray, or from the fold-down 100-sheet multi-purpose tray above, to the top area of the print area of the device. There is an optionally available 500-sheet tray, which in turn fits beneath the device if you want much more paper storage than this.

The control panel is located as a self-contained component, using a 89mm colour LCD panel fixed directly into its front. It is utilized to exhibit settings and also menu options and it's controlled with some control keys and also one of Canon's click-wheels, that lots of the company's inkjet customers will certainly recognise from its PIXMA all-in-ones. The particular wheel on the MF9170 is a touch too reactive and it's really very simple to overshoot the actual choice you are trying to choose.

Unusually for a colour laser multifunction, the actual control panel module has sockets down both its sides, with twin USB sockets pertaining to USB drives down the right and also camera memory card slots for CompactFlash, SD and MemoryStick cards. The device recognises TIF as well as JPG files and may show thumbnails, to help you choose and print directly, without having to work through a Computer. Pages may also be scanned directly to memory cards in lots of formats, such as Canon's compressed PDF.

The scanner comes including a 50-sheet Automatic Document Feeder (ADF), that, just like the printer, will flip each page over. Scans, at anywhere up to 600dpi resolution, tend to be acceptable for OCR and scanning picture prints.

The Super G3 fax facilities support colour as well as duplex faxing and there's enough internal memory for up to 1,000 received pages.

Cartridge upkeep is easy, because the integrated drum and Canon i-SENSYS MF9170 toner cartridges slide in one above the other in moments, once you've drawn down the front cover. Software support includes remote user interface and also departmental ID management, along with the driver, that is provided with regard to Windows as well as OSX and is obtainable as a web download for a number of Linux distributions.

Canon specs the i-SENSYS MF9170 at 21ppm, however we did not see more than 16.0ppm under test. That was basically for a 20-page single-sided print, whilst a five-page document simply managed 9.1ppm.

On many duplex printers, you may expect each double-sided page to take a bit longer than two single sides, yet we were impressed to observe a speed of 13.8 sides per minute on our 20-page document, whenever printed this way. Duplex copying was not as quick, on the other hand, with the 20-side document taking 2:53 to complete, a speed of only 6.9spm.

Print quality is rather good. Although default resolution of the machine is a pretty standard 600dpi, text characters appear well-defined and also almost letter-pressed. There's no sign of any kind of jagged edges to curves and even diagonals as well as characters are sleek down to small point sizes. Colour graphics also are vivid as well as thick plus registration of black text over solid colour is almost flawless.

Even our test photo print appeared a lot better than many colour laser prints do. Colour transitions tend to be clean and there is a lot better than average detail inside more dark, shadowed places, which regularly cause problems. There is a moderate yellow cast noticeable, yet except if you are really picky, it's not going to cause you any problems.