This Canon imageCLASS mf6530 Printer is a very versatile duplex printer and copier. The monochrome laser printer and copier has 24 bit depth color scanning capability. It has a fast 23 pages per minute output rate of a 20 lb paper is used.
There is a 500 page cassette and a tray with 100 page capacity for multipurpose uses, such as labels and envelopes and use of paper of varied sizes and types. It uses high quality ImageClass MF6530 replacement toner that will leave your prints crisp and sleek.
The platen glass has a legal-size capacity and its automatic document feeder has a capacity for 50-sheets. The reduce and enlarge features of the scanner stretch from 50 percent to 200 percent on 1 percent increments.
The copier function buttons permit selection of its different settings. This model allows you more variations amongst the setting range. The machine has versatile single and double sided copying and printing capabilities. You make the selection simply by pushing the applicable button.
The benefit of the document feeder is that it permits the user to easily work with multiple pages and the duplex function. Duplexing is an outstanding feature of this Canon product. Double sided copying and printing without the additional chore of manual work by the user can be very helpful when you need double sided printing and copying. You can scan and save pages and business documents to your PC. It has the ScanSoft, OmniPage SE OCR software for Windows document conversion application.
Operational problems are not a chore to solve. The location of the exit ray for the document feeder is just under its input tray. The output pages are released into a tray below the exit tray of the feeder. The standard paper drawer pulls out from front of the machine. The Canon laser toners and the secondary paper tray can be accessed from the left side.
The keypad for the copier has a numeric values and an LCD screen shows the currently selected paper tray, zoom ratio, number of copies selected, and contrast setting. It is easy to read in a normally lighted room. This monochrome laser printer has print resolution capacity in black up to 600 x 600 dpi, 1200 x 600 dpi quality.
The copiers copy resolution capacity is up to 600 x 600 dpi; 1200 x 600 dpi quality. The maximum optical scanning resolution capacity is of 600 x 600 dpi and Interpolated 9600 x 9600 dpi. Double sided scanning from the feeder and double sided copying or printing is slower than the 23 pages per minute normal job rate.
The printer also comes with a USB 2.0 port in the back for optimal performance for the connection to the personal computer. If all you want to do is use it as a copier, there is no need to connect the machine to your computer. The connection will only be necessary, if you want to scan or use the printing function.
The copier comes with a CD-ROM with an application suite that installs the toolbox that provides the basic control functions for copying, scanning text, scanning an image, creating a PDF and printing. Each button opens an operating panel for the particular set of functions. For cost effectiveness, you will appreciate the single cartridge toner it uses. The cartridge yield is 5,000 sheets. However, there is toner save mode for use with normal text documents.
The software suite comes with a page manager that lets you view the scans or send the documents to the printer. OCR or optical character recognition software program also gets installed for reading scanned text.
The resulting PDF file whether it is one PDF per page or a whole set of pages in a single PDF will be clear and the search function in Adobe Acrobat will be able to find any words in the document thanks to the OCR software program. The model MF6530 has no networking capabilities, but its full array of versatile features are useful for small office needs.
The set up process and putting in the ImageClass MF6530 laser toner is easy to understand and it comes with a basic guide explaining the user friendly features. This is a nice multipurpose printer for an affordable price. This versatile machine maintains its high performance reliably. Why spend more when so much can be done by the imageCLASS MF6530 that lives up to the quality standards of Canon printer toner and printers? The Canon series has an excellent reliability record and this machine, with its vivid laser toner cartridge, should provide trouble free performance for years to come.
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