Allrounder no strengths or weaknesses

Anticipation for all technophobic: The Quick Start Guide is sufficient exemplary structured and colored printed in German enclosed. Dei driver installation is foolproof.

The unit is compared with its competitors in simple color lasers relatively heavy but compact. It requires access from the rear, if paper is jammed. The paper hopper must always lie, because it is held only with two noses.

The packaging is extremely stable, the transport securing union firmly, I mean. The construction on white many metal parts, which gives hope that he holds out longer than the warranty period. Overall, the printer seems to be built pleasingly stable. The cable ends are on the back left back against what needs to be considered in the footprint. It's annoying to printers over again, some manufacturers sink the connections. You can leave the network, because it has a (soft) power switch on the front, which I find better opportunity for printers, as somewhere on the page where you will probably poorly ran him permanently. A hard power switch would also have been nice. He hardly produces waste heat, only the bottom left is a relatively small ventilation grille. The printer can then largely disappear on the shelf.

The operation is fairly foolproof because you hardly have controls. Canon thought thankfully a complete paper cover so that dust hardly has a chance to contaminate the printing unit. The paper setting is running smoothly, the left and right stop are coupled, which allows one-handed operation.

The energy consumption is reasonable, with under 10W very ok in standby.

Warming up takes about 1min what other printers can more quickly. The volume printing is louder than a normal conversation and not suitable for living room. But no fan runs as the Epson C1700.
The print quality is professional because balanced, though colors are not shown particularly bright. White is safely saved from overexposure. For this can be in the printer driver (at least under Mac OS) to adjust very fine, what color as saturated and should appear as bright. A gamma correction is possible. Experimentation is one but depending on the paper must, when it comes to reasonably tolerable photo prints. But a good inkjet printer it is with regard to gradients and black depth but not that you know in advance but if you buy a (simple) color laser, I think.

The driver installation and equipment is adequate for the price. Cheap but practical including multiple page printing on a paper page. Downloads on current operating systems are available and relatively easy to find on Canon's website. The timeliness with respect. MacOS is apparently ok, at least one driver with Yosemite as of March was 15 available in April 15. There is also a separate app that can change the standby time. Why that is not integrated in the driver, me remains a mystery. A MacOS driver is not in on CD, for the Windows driver several times in the same language on 2 CDs. Downloaded and installed pleasing to save space with 160MB, but it allows all the important settings then also just in terms of producing color. The unnecessarily cumbersome to reach Toner indicator does not, of course ... Epson can do better, go by OSX widget for their broken printers like after exactly 2 years)

I have absolutely no odors found itself the softening of the plastic case hardly smell musty. A USB cable is of course not in a power cord but already. Rubber feet are mounted at the front, which is not so great for scratch-sensitive surfaces, I think.

The printing costs are relatively high in this printer, I mean to have read about 4Cent for a black / white text page.

Conclusion: Overall, not a bargain, but if you want to save space, hardly finds alternatives. Similarly, little is only the Epson C1700, the. With me for about 2 years and max 1000 side had a total economic damage to the printing group. Identical there is a Xerox. All other color laser on the market are concerning. Footprint larger .. network and duplex printing also missing, the fastest he's not well. For this you get a relatively small, stable, well-thought device with very simple operation and good dust protection and low overall emissions incl. Current drivers. That was my value, therefore 4 stars.