Comparative Test of 8 MFCs with Fax

If you work in a home-office or a small working-group, looking for professional assistance, you should take a closer look at this test. DRUCKERCHANNEL tells you all about eight MFCs on ink-basis, which can print, scan copy, and fax and which cost less than 380 Euros.

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Quality and Speed of Text-print

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To test quality and speed of text-print our lab uses two standardized documents: The "Dr.-Grauert-letter", a simple text to test print-speed when copying and to find out, whether or not the manufacturer is exaggerating when specifying print speed. A slightly different version of this letter can be found in our download-area.

In the second test we print a 10-page document, mainly text, but also containing a company logo, a small table, and a diagram. This document is printed in three modes:

fast print (lowest resolution / b/w-print)
normal print (no change in the driver) and in
best print (highest resolution on plain paper)

The pictures below show the letter a in "normal print".

Brother MFC-5860CN

Brother MFC-845CW

Canon Pixma MP830

Epson Stylus DX7000F

HP Officejet J5780

HP Officejet Pro L7580

Kodak Easyshare 5300

Lexmark X9350

Print speed

The table below shows, what the manufactures specified compared to what DC found out. Speed is stated in ppm (pages per minute).

Print speed text
	Manufacturer´s specification	Maximum speed tested by DC	Deviation
Brother MFC-5860CN	30 ppm	11.1 ppm	-63 percent
Brother MFC-845CW	27 ppm	11.3 ppm	-58 percent
Canon Pixma MP830	30 ppm	17.6 ppm	-41 percent
Epson Stylus DX7000F	27 ppm	13.0 ppm	-52 percent
HP Officejet J5780	30 ppm	17.7 ppm	-41 percent
HP Officejet Pro L7580	35 ppm	20.7 ppm	-41 percent
Kodak Easyshare 5300	32 ppm	14.6 ppm	-54 percent
Lexmark X9300	32 ppm	14.6 ppm	-54 percent
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Print speed text (larger values better)
HP Officejet Pro L7580	20.7 ppm
HP Officejet J5780	17.7 ppm
Canon Pixma MP830	17.6 ppm
Kodak Easyshare 5300	14.6 ppm
Lexmark X9350	14.6 ppm
Epson Stylus DX7000F	13 ppm
Brother MFC-845CW	11.3 ppm
Brother MFC-5860CN	11.1 ppm
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