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I’ve had this multi-function printer for about a year now, and I’m very happy with it. It is priced well, and for duplex, it was well worth the price for me.

Pros
- Duplex
- Top-loading feed for copying/scanning/fax; in other printers, having to do each page individually is a huge hassle.
- Scanning is fast and easy; yes, it’s true that the scan button on the printer itself doesn’t work. You really do have to use the MF Toolbox application to scan. But there are a lot of options to choose from, including scanning to pdf, so that doesn’t bother me.
- The Price
- Power save mode makes it easy to leave it “on,” but save power at the same time as being able to use it fast when you need it.
- Each toner cartridge is cheap to buy and lasts a long time. In the past year, I’ve only used 3 toners, and I print nearly every day for business and personal use.

Cons
- Warns you that the toner is low way before you ever need to replace it.
- Scan button on printer is not operational; see comment above.
- The paper tray juts out in the front of the printer, taking up a lot of space.
- No wireless capability; for the price, this isn’t a big deal, but worth pointing out.

In fact, I like this printer so much, I’m considering re-buying it when I move in two weeks (the current printer is staying here with my fiance). This is a meta-review of my notes and impressions after reading all 152 reviews. I am leaning towards buying this printer for a small office with a single user.

PUNCH LINE:
1. great printer with very good specs,
2. duplex printing
3. good print quality for the price,
4. no network access
5. limited duplex functionality for scanning and copying
6. Cartridges may not be easily available; it was disturbing to not see them pop on the Amazon page of things suggested to buy with this printer. I suggest researching this before getting printer.

PROS:
1. easy to install
2. easy to use, mostly push a button
3. energy saving mode when not in use, fast from standby mode to first print
4. print quality good for the price. many say crisp and clear, some say, quite good, others say only average and not as good as inkjet. LIkely to be fine for most small business use
5. paper feeder very robust, even with card stock, mostly jam free. one complained hard to unjam paper jams. A few complained it is difficult to get paper in straight.
6. 120-150 sheets in paper feeder
7. inexpensive per-sheet ink cost (although some complained that cost was too high)
8. most say quiet, some say a bit noisy, but no more than other lasers. The duplex mode is noisier, of course.
9. scan to pdf, scan to image, scan and launch software
10. duplex printing only, no duplex copying
11. duplex scanning 1-sided to 2-sided (NOT 2-sided to 2-sided)
12. light footprint
13. solid quality feel
14. decently fast printing especially for the price, duplex is 1/3 as fast due to the flipping paper
15. Canon phone technical support is excellent, no wait time, no maddening menus

CONS
1. A number of people complained of not straight printing or scanning through ADF
2. Only comes with starter cartridge, not a full one. Buy full one when getting printer
3. Will not work with a USB print server.
4. USB cord not included with printer, need to use your own.
5. No wireless access
6. No network access, but there is a work around for single users: “What I do is gain access to the printer via my computer connections to my network with the printer connected via a USB to my primary computer which I leave on all the time.”
7. Several complained printed or scanned crooked
8. can’t feed multiple envelopes at once (says the manual, someone says it takes up to 10)
9. one complained about cartridges not being available any more, I could not find one on Amazon, very surprising! Call Canon first.

USER TIPS: A few user tips, all from one reviewer (sorry I forgot to make a note of who):
* When scanning from ADF, keep sheet quantity below 35 pages.
* If you want to make copies really fast, choose the “photo/text” option on image quality, my printer is copying at 20 cpm.
* If you have problems printing legal paper, try with other sizes in the menu, the printer is a little touchy with the size of paper.
* You can use the multipurpose tray to print a couple of sheets, I think 10 is the max. The manual says that is good only for 1 sheet but you can put it more.
* If you have problems with ADF scanning, check the size of the scanned documents, don’t put documents with different sizes at one time, scan them separately.

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