Canon MF8350Cdn Review

The Canon Color ImageClass MF8350Cdn multi-function printer (MFP) provides high-quality productivity at exceedingly rapid speeds. It falters upon a handful of modest usability issues; however the overall performance by itself makes it a good fit for the small to the medium-size office it’s meant for. When you take its delicate appearance into account, it is highly attractive in both senses of the word.

The MF8350Cdn prints scan and send faxes over the network. It also functions as a separate fax device and a copier, including a 50-page automatic document feeder (ADF) that allows it to scan single-sided and multi-page documents up to legal size.

The printer’s paper management is a good point. The 250-sheet drawer on its own should be enough for almost all small offices. Nevertheless, the unit at the same time includes a 50-sheet multipurpose tray, so you can have a second type of paper loaded, and also change paper without needing to swap out the paper within the drawer. A print duplexer for automatic printing on both sides of a page is also standard. Plus, if you’d like additional input capacity, you could add a second 250-sheet drawer to give a total of 550 sheets.

Setting up the MF8350Cdn is relatively straightforward, but it’s also one of the places where the machine drops a little short on functionality issues. The hardest part is locating a place for this monster and transporting it into the area. The unit measures 18.9 by 17. by 19.1 inches (HWD), and this I’d call reasonably compact for what it lets you do, nevertheless more substantial than I’d want sitting on my desk. In any case, it weighs in at an actual 64.2 pounds without the toner cartridges in place, which suggests many people would consider picking it up a two-person activity.

The set up worked well enough during my tests. When you get the MF8350Cdn running, be ready to be impressed by its print speed, actually over and above what you might be expecting from the 21-page-per-minute (ppm) rating concerning both color and monochrome. We calculate the time on a business application suite totaling 9 minutes 27 seconds.

The 9:27 total affords the MF8350Cdn bragging privileges as being the speediest color laser AIO in its cost bracket by far. The times on our photo suite were equally quick, averaging 18 seconds for a 4-by-6 along with 20 seconds for an 8-by-10.

The printer’s output quality is not in quite the same class as its speed; however, it is readily sufficient for most business use. Text quality is low for a color laser AIO, yet except in cases where you possess an out of the ordinary requirement for tiny font sizes, that really should not be a problem.

Graphics output appeared to be ordinary for a color laser, meaning it’s merely adequate for just about any internal business need, up to and including PowerPoint handouts. You may also consider it suitable for marketing items such as one-page mailers as well as trifold brochures, however that depends upon exactly how much of a perfectionist you might be. The sole crucial drawback I noticed was minor misregistration in the bright, yet relatively modest, white spaces in between blocks of colors, including text between intensity.

Photos were within the high end of what I anticipate coming from a color laser AIO. Light blues had been shifted just a little in the direction of green, with the sky in one photograph green rather than blue. Nonetheless, most of the pictures in the test suite could pass for correct picture quality if you framed them behind glass.

Even as it stands, the MF8350Cdn is among the perfect color laser AIOs for a small office or workgroup.