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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Copy: Quality and Speed with Text and Photos

You can copy in a jiffy, if you have two buttons: One for black and one for color copies. Most contestants have that, except for Kodak and Lexmark. They compel you to wander through a menu, even if you just want a plain black copy. And if you push the "Copy"-button, you get a color copy, advantageous only for the manufacturer.

Exemplary: Two buttons, one for B/W- and one for color-copies.

Just one button: Press it, and you get a color-copy - to do it in B/W you have to struggle through the menu.

That´s convenient: All contestants copy with the PC off.

To test copy-quality and -speed the lab uses a plain page of text. It is copied in black and in normal quality. The second testdocument is a photo (size A4) which is copied in high quality. For both we use plain reprographic paper.

Below you see the results for quality (pictures) and times (charts).

Quality of photocopies

Brother MFC-5860CN

Brother MFC-845CW

Canon Pixma MP830

Epson Stylus DX7000F

HP Officejet J5780

HP Officejet Pro L7580

Kodak Easyshare 5300

Lexmark X9350

Quality of textcopies