
Canon ImageCLASS MF4350d Laser All-in-One Printer – SNAPSHOT:

SUMMARY: Mac users will be frustrated but Windows users seem to love this all-in-one printer. Gets great reviews for its ability to save paper with its Duplex (double sided) features. Flat-bed scanner allows you to scan books and magazines. Or, you can feed single pages to it through the Automatic-Document Feeder. Envelope feeder (must feed it one envelope at a time.) Doesn’t network (see the MF4350dn model for that Networking capability.)
FEATURES
- Home and Small Office
- B&W Laser Printer
- All-in-One Printer: Scans, Faxes, Copies, Prints
- Flatbed Scanner: 8;.5″ x 14″ scan area
- Color-Scanning (but not printing): 24-bit color, up to 9600 DPI Interpolated Resolution
- Print Resolution: Up to 1200 x 600 DPI
- Super G3 Faxing: 33.6 Kbps fast-transmissions
- Print Speed: up to 23 ppm
- Paper Tray: 250 Sheets
- Auto-Document Feeder (ADF): 35 Sheets
- Duplex (Double-Sided) Copying – Built-In. For Printing, Copying, receiving Faxes
- Copy single-sided pages as double-sided output to Save Paper
- First Page Output Time: as fast as 9 seconds
- Duty Cycle: Up to 7500 Pages per month
- Speed Dial: 8 one-touch numbers plus 100 coded speed-dial numbers
- Memory: Stores 256-pages
- USB 2.0 High Speed Connection to Computers (NOTE: Cable NOT included)
- Fax from your PC
- Fax Resolution: 203 x 391 DPI
- Copy Reduction/Enlarging: 50 percent to 200 percent
- Compatible with Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000; Mac OS X 10.3.9 – 10.6 [NOTE: Mac Users found this model frustrating and difficult to hook up. Must download drivers.]
- Power Consumption: Energy Saver “Sleep” Mode (3W)
- EnergyStar Qualified
- SIZE: 21 x 15.4 x 17.9″
- WEIGHT: 27.6 pounds
- Warranty: 1 year limited
In the Box: MF4350d, set-up instructions, CD-ROM with Drivers, Danon drivers, RJ-11 fax cord, registration card, cartridge 104, owner’s manuals, NetSPOT device installer, power cord, and warranty card.
NOTE: USB Cable (to connect to your computer) is NOT Included. Be sure to purchase one below.
CUSTOMER PROS: Easy, straight-forward set-up (15-minutes.) Fast warm-up, great copy machine, excellent fax. “Not too big, quiet, and FAST with lots of options.” Converts images into PDF files. Can convert multiple documents into a single PDF. Fast scanning of multi-page documents using the Automatic- Document-Feeder. Duplexing feature excellent. Collates. “No need to turn the paper over to print on the reverse side. This Canon takes care of it for you.” But “Does not appear to copy 2-sided sheets to 2-sided copies.” Excellent customer support from Canon.
Color scanning capability (but not color printing.) Small footprint. Large paper tray. Handles envelopes. “Very cost efficient and reliable printer.” No paper jams. Well-written instruction manuals.
Amazon Reviewer, David Hartke: “It far exceeded my expectations… speed is unbelievable for a printer in this class… two-sided printing speed is even more impressive.”
Amazon Reviewer Mary J. Vail wrote: “This is our 3rd one, we have another ordered, we love them so far.”
Amazon Reviewer, S. Shepherd wrote: “This multi-function printer works great! Tremendous value. I bought 2 of them, one for my home and one for my office!”
Amazon Reviewer, SiTek Solutions wrote: “I recommend getting a replacement cartridge along with this product if your planning on buying it. From experience, I would suggest modifying the ink density per page once you have set it up. Knock it down a few notches to save on ink. You should not need super dark, super rich prints for regular office use.”
CUSTOMER CONS: A real hassle to interface with Macs (but it can be done. Mac Drivers are not included on the CD, you have to go to the Canon website to download them.) Also, Macs cannot install firmware updates for this model. Pictures of the machine make machine look larger than it is. “Mixed Networking” among both PC and Mac computers was a problem for some users.
Doesn’t include Wireless capabilities. The Starter Cartridge of Toner didn’t last long (about 1000 copies) so buy a replacement cartridge immediately to have on hand.
One customer said his documents consistently scanned slightly crooked when fed through the feeder tray. The printer is a little “touchy” with the size of paper. Doesn’t scan quite to the edges of the document. Paper tray is awkward. “Will NOT network with USB print server.” Can NOT hook up to a wireless base station.
While it does Duplex printing, this applies only to printing from PC. “There is no 2 on 2 sided copying and certainly not 2 on 2 sided scanning.” Also, one customer reported, “The printing is sometimes crooked on the paper, especially on the back side when duplexing.”
Menu functions “tediously complicated and not user friendly.”
The secondary paper feeder (for envelopes and other odd-sized media) accepts only one-sheet-at a time. So if you have dozens of envelopes to print, you may be disappointed.
Loud (but not excessively. Can hear while talking on the phone while it’s running.)
Out-of-Toner light will come on even though it’s not out of toner. You can continue to use the toner cartridge until you don’t like the look of the print quality (but you have to put up with the flashing “low-toner” warning.)
In setting up the network, one person encountered problems, “but these went away once I assigned a fixed IP address to the printer.”
Scanning: “One non-intuitive issue with scanning is that one has to press the SCAN key twice to get USB scanning which I felt should be the default – it defaults to network scanning on the first pressing of the SCAN key.”
Faxing and Distinctive Ring: “My faxing needs are modest, so I have the device hooked up to my phone line and use the distinctive ring detect feature to determine whether the 4350d should pick up an incoming call. This works well, except there is a Catch 22 scenario when the 4350d is “sleeping”. It needs to wake up to determine the incoming ring pattern and if its not the one set for fax, it does not go back to sleep right away (almost like MFP sleep apnea!). Minor irritant if using distinctive ring and have lots of incoming voice calls.”
NOTE: For networking, consider the Canon imageCLASS MF4370dn instead
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