May 01, 2010
Canon Color imageCLASS MF8350Cdn All-in-One Printer
Posted by: kk : Category: Printers & Ink
- Print and Copy in color and Black/White at up to 21ppm
Product Description
The color imageCLASS MF8350Cdn provides a user intelligent and compact small or home office solution for producing high quality laser color 2-sided documents. It inlcudes four color Single Cartrodges which means you never have to replace a drum seperately. Also with fast print and copy speeds it also includes an intuitive scanner that allows you to scan documents directly to your network. Remote management of the new MF8050Cn is also included for accessing your machine while you are on the go.
Canon Color imageCLASS MF8350Cdn All-in-One Printer
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May 1st, 2010 at 1:56 am
The features of this printer are awesome for the price, and I would highly recommend it. I purchased this product on sale for $569. I was also seriously considering the Brother DCP-9045CDN, which has slightly lower ink prices (with their high capacity cartridges), but I’m pretty sure that I won’t regret sticking with the Canon brand. After purchasing several Canon products (including this one), I have a lot of respect for Canon’s consistent product quality, customer service, features, and value.
This is my first home laser printer. I’m quite pleased to finally graduate from the world of inkjets: no more slow printing, annoying print head cleaning cycles, frequent cartridge replacement, or tedious management of print settings to save every drop of ink! The cost per page is about the same, but the reliability is so much better!
Some features that I really appreciate include:
1) Reliability: This printer always _just works_ when I need it to. Beats even the best inkjet printer out there. For my usage level, I fully expect to do zero maintenance or cartridge replacement within the next 2.5 years!
2) Speed: Wow, this thing makes quick work of any job!
3) All the little things that Canon gets right. Just one example: the print driver can automatically detect whether to use color or B&W mode…something I’ve always wanted a print driver to do for me!
The only notably missing features are:
1) The automatic document feeder only supports single-sided scanning/copying. So doing double-sided scan/copy requires manually flipping the stack and passing it through again.
2) No built in wireless.
3) Photo quality, while very good for a 600dpi consumer laser, is not competitive with inkjet-based photo printers. I still use this printer for many photos and am happy with the results, but I keep a second inkjet photo printer on the side for times when I really care about photo quality (i.e. scrapbooking, etc).
Although those features would be nice additions, I’m still very happy with what this machine can do for the price.
BTW, Canon’s own online store had the best prices I could find for cartridges for this printer, with free shipping.
Rating: 5 / 5
May 1st, 2010 at 2:52 am
I bought this unit around the new year with the hope of bringing some organization to my home office. I was able to set it up and start using it very quickly (less than an hour, even counting the time required to unbox it). I wanted to be able to print from several devices on my network, so I plugged it into my router and followed the simple instructions. As a network printer, it works extremely well for me. I can print from my mac laptop, from my main desktop and from other wireless devices (such as friends’ laptops) that I add to my network from time to time.
However, I was also really looking forward to using the scanner. When I first set it up, the scanner worked okay. The resolution is low (like 600×600) but adequate for scanning in documents. (Forget about trying to scan pictures or your kids’ artwork, of course). Unlike the printer function, the scanner can only work with Windows boxes. No problem.
After a couple of weeks, when I scanned a document I got an error on the windows box I use as my primary workstation and scan destination. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers and all the usual voodoo that usually fixes stuff (all of this was incredibly time consuming). No luck, so I called Canon technical support.
I spoke with a nice guy who walked through a checklist of issues. I should add that I’m running a clean and plain-vanilla vista box. However, as soon as he found a step that I couldn’t take—in my case, moving a windows scanner driver from one folder to another—he considered the case closed. Can’t move twain.ds out of the folder? Not our problem any more. He advised me to contact the company who manufactured my computer, or Microsoft. I’m morally certain that when I do talk to these people they will blame Canon’s drivers and bounce me back to their tech support. Why haven’t I called them yet? Because it costs some ungodly amount to talk to live human, and there is nothing on the internet, the help boards, the FAQS, or Canon’s own technical documentation to help me try to resolve this issue without talking to human.
So: nice unit, shame that it doesn’t work. And even more shame that Canon has provided me with zero technical information to try to fix the problem myself.
Rating: 2 / 5
May 1st, 2010 at 5:13 am
This has to be the best all in on I’ve seen on the market. Full two sided color laser printing is fantastic. I use this to print high quality double sided listing flyers for my real estate business and people are amazed at the quality of the photos and it prints so quickly. For the price this is a tremendous value and I would recommend this to anyone After using it for a month I decided to buy another one for my office.
Rating: 5 / 5
May 1st, 2010 at 6:47 am
This is hands down the worst printer and worst value for a printer I have ever experienced. I use a line of printers for my own work in professional photography and graphics, but also use all kinds of printers and devices when programming web sites.
Here’s the summary:
- We had problem after problem with the toner. The machine ships with full toner cartridges (CMYK) and after 3 weeks the black toner was reported as empty. This was hard to believe but with a busy office had no choice but to order more and follow up with tech support. Within another 2 weeks again the black toner was being reported as empty. But as before, if you shake the thing around and put it back it you could eeck out more printing. Mind you, this is not an office that prints much from this machine each day. Mostly faxing and very light copying each day. NO direct printing from computers at all.
- Although I had the above printing issues, which became a panic issue because of faxes that were happening, I used the “continue to receive faxes even with low toner” option and this done pretty much nothing. My question is why can’t the thing still print inbound faxes using the other 3 cartridges (CMY). Cyan and Magenta combine to make Blue which would be perfectly fine for printing inbound faxes.
- Cartridges cost about [...] each, so that’s [...] for a full load of cartridges on this machine. This is probably about .05c per page for each cartridge on average, which is my guess based on the documentation and my discussion with tech support.
- The machine is really heavy, for whatever odd reason. I’m 5’11 230 and in great shape and this was still a heavy machine to move around.
- Unbelievably there is no built in wireless. You can buy a [...] inkjet with similar speed and cost/sheet and also get built in wireless.
- The on board controls just … suck. There’s no other word for it. The LCD is black and white (or white and black if you want to indulge in such a lush feature) and the menu options are so many levels deep Canon has to include a trifold explaining the menuing system.
The nice part of this story is that in a pinch I had to run out and buy an Epson Workforce 610 for about [...] from Sam’s. It was easy to install, wireless is built in and a breeze, it’s as fast or faster than the Canon behemoth, and the cost for ink is about the same. Do yourself a favor and either buy the Workforce 610 and save yourself [...], or if you really, really insist on paying the [...] let me sell you a 610 for [...] and you will be much happier.
Rating: 1 / 5