Canon imageCLASS MG8450C Color Printer Overview

Overview

A color printer, copier, scanner and fax machine with full network support, we call it the Canon imageCLASS MF8450C. The manufacturer makes it sound like this printer is dedicated for small offices, businesses and workgroups with fast-paced environments. To satisfy this claim, they touted that unit as a reliable machine that can produce business-quality results particularly in color and image printing.

It features Superior Color Imaging Technology that offers tone-on-tone clarity for consistently crisp and detailed color printouts especially with images that capture real life scenes. Additionally, it enhances plain black printing through Canon’s very own Pure Black Technology that produces richer black prints. However, this feature mainly consumes the black Canon 117 toner cartridge instead of the traditional way of mixing it with color toners.

Features from top to bottom

An innovative 3.5-inch color TFT (Thin Film Transistor) screen gives it that modern yet sophisticated look, making it more appropriate for business like environments. They made a few tweaks or rather not, but it seems that controlling it is seemingly easy. The Easy-Scroll-Wheel is totally groundbreaking with various uses and functions you’ll easily fall for it.

The flatbed scanner sitting at the top is somewhat too large for it, but Canon still managed to deduct that conclusion by making it look like it perfectly fits the unit. Its duplexer also works for faxing giving it a double check for an office printer.

Both the input and output trays can handle up to 250-sheets of loaded media, supplemented by a 50-page automatic document feeder that works hand-in-hand with the duplexer.

Printing speed is not too quick for a laser type, at 17 pages-per-minute users can copy or print between the range of 13-17ppm based on Letter-sized test printing. Scanning of course doesn’t have a fix rate. While faxing on the other hand is powered by Super G3 incorporating a speed of 33.6-Kbps, hence you can expect 3-sec/page fax transmission.

Interfaces and Connectivity

Well it includes the basic High-Speed USB 2.0 port for direct scanning and printing from flash drives through the USB interface. For network printing, the built-in Ethernet port that’s just perfect for fax and scan purposes.