Canon imageCLASS MF445dw Laser Printer
$244.99
$395.99
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Condition: Refurbished
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Perhaps the best monochrome machine. Ever.
By Nikita on Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2020
It has 3 years warranty. The cartridge that is included is not some "starter" type. It's full-featured, 3100 pages cartridge. So it's like at least 2 extra cartridges is included in the price if you compare with any of the competitors. It's unbelievably fast. It has duplex multi page scanning - it's when you give it stack of paper - it automatically scans both sides of each page and nicely places it into a PDF file, for example. It's silent in the sleep mode, unlike many HP competitors that have high-pitched noise while in the sleep mode. This printer is too good to be true. In fact, it's so good, that you'll get greedy. You would whine that "if only it could print in color". (and then your life-time quest of finding a perfect printer will be over). When I compared the true black document printed on this printer and on a very good inkjet (with print price per page about 10x) - I didn't know which one is better and at some point I confused the two copies. I couldn't figure out what printer printed what copy. And then... the greed. When you print PDFs, some of the colors are not pure black. Meaning your prints will be somewhat "pixelated". However, it gets perhaps much better if you play with the "quality" settings. It's capable of 1200 dpi, but then it has some modes like "photo" or "publication" or "high-definition text" - you need to play with those. This is in NO WAY "the fault" of the printer!!! You are buying monochrome. This is the nature of it. The toner is black or no black. There is no even gradation of the gray. Meaning that even gray has to be simulated from the black or absence of black. It has to be said that inkjets prints are also pixelated. But perhaps because pure black is also pixelated - you care less about the not pure black ones. Laser printer gives you so much sharpness for the pure blacks that you start noticing pixelation on the not pure black colors.
Top critical review
215 people found this helpful
User Interface Design by Rube Goldberg and implemented by Escher
By Scott Lindner on Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2020
Could they have found a more retarded way to design this thing? Holy *** **** this is so insanely complicated to do the most basic of tasks. I have been using various brands of multi-function network printers for decades at home and never in my life could I have envisioned something taking so much *** **** effort to configure this thing. And who the heck logs into a printer to configure it with a user number and a four digit PIN?! I know, I'm a home user and don't need the absurd complexities of this. As an office worker (I'm an electrical engineer and computer guy) I would just walk past this thing and find another printer in the office to use because I have far less time to do a simple task while working than I do at home. Everytime I print the printer beeps telling me to select the only printer paper tray I have available before it will print. I have selected Auto and Tray 1 in the printer config in print dialog and every bleeping time I have to select it on the printer. Every morning the printer won't print. The only way to get it to print is to uninstall and reinstall it from the OS. I have confirmed the IP address is not changing over night. There is absolutely no excuse for how awful this thing is. It's like Rube Goldberg designed it and Escher implemented it. UPDATE OMG do I truly hate this printer. It is beyond stupid. Every time I print I have to go to the printer and select the only tray available on the touch screen before it will print. Because the print isn't certain I actually want to use the only paper available. This thing is complete garbage. And every time I do anything with it, it has to print a transaction log. This thing is so wasteful, time consuming, and stupid I'm going to throw it out and get a printer from a company that actually knows how to make a printer that.. I dunno.. prints?
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