- 1 to 2 sided printing,copying, as good as faxing
- Print as good as Copy up to twenty-three ppm
- Quick First Print provides initial duplicate in we estimate 9 seconds
- Built-in Networking as good as Energy effcient with usually 3W of appetite used
- 35 piece ADF as good as 250 piece Paper Cassette tray
Product Description
Desktop Functionality in an Affordable Network-Ready Device Print, Copy, Fax, Scan as good as Network regulating the imageCLASS® MF4370dn Networkable: The imageCLASS MF4370dn delivers large-office network capabilities in an affordable compress package. It can be continuous over an Ethernet, so everybody can simply share printing, Personal Computer faxing as good as scanning without delay from their PC. Smart Paper Handling: The MF4370dn boasts imitation as good as duplicate speeds of up to twenty-three pages-per-minute (ppm) for letter-sized output, as good as delivers Quick First Prints or duplicate pages in we estimate 9 seconds. It has the flexibility to duplex imitation without delay from the Personal Computer as good as duplex imitation incoming faxes as good as duplicate letter-sized documents, assisting revoke … More >>
Canon imageCLASS MF4370DN Laser All-in-One Printer
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I was interested in buying this printer (it may be a great printer, haven’t gotten one yet). The Amazon page said it was on sale, eligible for free shipping, and when I added it to my cart the price reduced from $399.99 to $263.87 (a rather odd price)–nice savings! Wanted it quickly, though, so I thought I’d see if I could pick one up same-day at Best Buy for close to the same price. Looked online at Best Buy, and sure enough, they had one on sale for $229.99, but it was online-only. I started to order one, figuring if shipping through BB was cheap enough, it’d still be a little cheaper than Amazon. Lo and behold, shipping through BB was $33.88–bringing the total price to $263.87. Methinks “Prime” shipping just means Amazon prices the shipping into the price of the product. Wonder how much “extra” they charge for shipping if you DON’T have Prime?!?
Missing manual feed select in the driver. It really sucks for printing Quicken checks or any kind of form. You have to run over to the printer, load your form, say a quick prayer that no one prints from the network, run back to your workstation, and then send your print job. If someone else prints before you get back to start your job, it spoils your form, and then locks up the printer for everyone because it’s waiting for more manual-feed pages to complete that job.
THIS COULD BE A BIG INCONVENIENCE FOR A SMALL-OFFICE ENVIRONMENT.
Every laser printer I’ve every owned or used had a manual select setting in the driver paper source setting, from the original, lowly HP Laserjet II. Not the MF4370; its paper-select software setting has only “Auto”. An oversight, you might say. But no, it turns out it’s by design.
You see, the worst thing about this is the arrogant attitude of the company (after talking to 4 tech support people including two managers and one senior support tech) that it’s simply the way it was designed from the first printer in the series and I shouldn’t need to use it. And when I pressed the issue, I got the “I’m sorry you feel that way” brush-off and then denial that it was an issue. I can’t believe how condescending that is. I even got that line from a customer relations representative.
One tech support person first couldn’t believe it was missing. Then when he tried it himself his attitude abruptly changed and became a statement of policy: “That’s the way it was designed and that’s the way you have to use it.”
It’s easily addressed in a driver and/or firmware update. But they have to consider it a problem first in order to “fix” it. Right now they’re laughing at customers who are inconvenienced by it.
After talking to five people, I finally got an offer from a customer-relations person to submit it as a customer request. But then I got the “I’m sorry you think it’s a problem” line and I hung up before I exploded. So don’t expect a fix for this any time soon.
Very unfortunate because it seems like a pretty good printer otherwise. But my faith in Canon support has been reduced to zero. I’m going to try to get Amazon to take this back.
I purchased this all in one for my home office to print, scan, and copy using a relatively new iMac. After more than 6 hours of phone customer support I’m sill unable to scan. The device causes text to bleed down four inches down the page. The Canon technician maintains that this constitutes “scanning”. Of course this is a non-starter but it is even worse than that. The technician informed me that even if the image scanned perfectly, if I scanned more than one page, for each page I would need to individually frame each page with the mouse which could be a real hardship for large documents. Also, the device periodically failed to show as an option in image class or preview. I also had problems with printing — it is necessary to save .pdf and word documents before printing, something I never had to do with my more primitive Brother printer scanner. The Canon customer service were largely oblivious to Macs. All in all a terrible time-wasting experience.
Exellent all in one printer. Super fast.
Easy to install. It looks beautiful and very professional in my office.
Overall the best printer I’ve had.
I am using this printer on a network (cabled and wireless) with several Macs, both desktop and notebook.
PROs: It is light and compact, easy to use, and produces prints and copies of very good quality. Laser printers are generally cheap to maintain, and with cartridges purchased through Amazon, the ink expense is about US$0.02 per page. What amazed me was the great speed of printing, which adds substantially to convenience.
This model is largely compatible with the Mac, with one minor exception.
CONs: Some of the instructions for setup could be clearer. Why does the on/of switch have to be hidden? The cartridge included is a mere starter, good for half the usual number of copies. (This may actually be a good thing from the consumer’s viewpoint, as it lowers the shipping costs a bit.) The scanner will not work by network with a Mac: I rather resent features which are not enabled for the Mac. However, here is why that is not so important: first, the network scanning is limited to 600 dpi, and higher resolutions are available with a (user-supplied) USB cable, which is the way to scan recommended for the Mac. Let us assume that Canon guessed that Mac users generally want to do things the high-quality way. Second, you have to be at the unit to feed in what you are scanning anyway, so networking is only necessary if the scanner is far away from your usual computer.
Scanning to the computer with a USB cable is easy to implement only if the unit is near your computer: Canon says that the USB cable should not be longer than 3 m (10 English feet). So, you may have to rearrange things in your work area to get the scanner close enough to your computer. You must use up yet another USB port. For some people, that is no problem. In my case, it meant a major reorganization of my little office area.
I was going to score this printer 4 because of the lack of network scanning for the Mac. Then I reconsidered, and realized that for the above reasons, this is really not such a big deal, and not worth a whole grade-point. They could have included the necessary USB cable, but still, I will give a 5. Nice printer, and I really like mine. I may buy another — it’s that good.