Canon ImageCLASS MF3110 Laser Multifunction Review

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(More customer reviews)Are you shocked by the price of this printer? I was, and in fact was sceptical enough to go to the Canon technical website to find out "what's the catch?". I found there was no catch. This printer uses the same X25 toner cartridge, and has the same output specs, as the highly-ranked Canon MF5550 (see the review in PC Magazine, August 2004). I surmised the two printers share the same "engine". So I bought the MF3110, despite the suspiciously low price. And now I'm very happy -- this is the real McCoy! The print quality matches any laser printer you've ever used, and the machine is FAST -- earlier today I queued up a 36 page print job (a PDF of a US Patent) and it was done by the time I had made a cup of tea in the microwave.
The scanner and copier functions work fine. The scanner is 1200x2400 optical, 9600x9600 interpolated (who needs 9600 DPI??!!), with 48-bit color depth.
The negatives? The bundled OmniPage OCR software is a stripped down version. It works, but the snazziest features (like direct reading of PDF files) are disabled, because OmniPage wants you to upgrade to their $150 "pro" version. Still, for something like extracting text from a newspaper clipping or magazine page, the included version works fine.
Double-sided printing is do-able, but it takes some care if you want to print a lot of pages. First you print the even pages, then you reload them into the paper cassette with a certain orientation. The key is to make the stack neat otherwise the printer complains (it didn't jam or skip pages, but a warning message comes up on the LCD). If you have only a few pages to print double-sided, the easiest way is to feed the 2nd round through the single-page feeder slot (which also prints envelopes).
This is a really nice multi-function printer if you like super-crisp text, or if you need to print dozens of pages at one go & don't want to wait forever. And of course it's nice to use as a stand-alone copier even if the computer is turned off.

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