Canon MultiPass F80 Multifunction

by Canon

Product Details

Product Manual [3.93mb PDF]

• Product Dimensions: 18 x 12.8 x 23 inches ; 28 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 38 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00006JXVS
• Item model number: 7923A002
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 17, 2002

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The MultiPASS F80 delivers high-quality legal-size and letter-size copies at speeds up to 20 copies per minute (cpm) in black and white and 13 cpm in color. It also scans documents and photos at 9,600 dpi in brilliant 36-bit color. But it's more than a copier and scanner; it also offers printing of exceptional quality. Included are a built-in color fax with Canon's Super G3 high-speed facsimile technology and a 30-page Automatic Document Feeder.

The F80 features the exclusive Canon Think Tank system, intelligent ink management with four ink tanks (one for each color). When one color runs out, just replace one tank rather than the entire cartridge. Also, a low-ink sensor alerts you to drop in a new tank, so you avoid the risk of running out of ink in the middle of a print job.

The MultiPASS F80 has advanced Exif Print compatibility built in for smart processing of digital camera images and comes with Easy-PhotoPrint software, so you can easily print digital photos with a level of accuracy never before possible. It allows you to print directly from digital-camera memory cards and produces photo quality borderless 4-by-6-inch or 8.5-by-11-inch prints, without a PC.

In addition, Canon's MicroFine Droplet technology helps put remarkable photo-quality color printing to work for you with up to 2,400 x 1,200 dpi resolution. With its ultrafine, 5-picoliter droplets, it ensures refined color, precision, and detail for magnificent photo printing, even on plain paper.

Product Description

Overview The Professional Business Tool for Professional Results. High-quality, high-performance for the small office The MultiPASS F80 does it all. It delivers high-quality legal and letter-size copies at speeds of up to 20 copies per minute (cpm) in black and white and 13 cpm in color. It also scans documents and photos at 9600 dpi in brilliant 36-bit color. But it's more than a copier and scanner; it also offers exceptional quality printing. Also included is a built-in color fax with Canon's Super G3 high-speed facsimile technology and 30-page Automatic Document Feeder. Photo-quality printing The MultiPASS F80 utilizes advanced technology Exif Print compatibility built in for smart processing of digital camera images and comes with Easy-PhotoPrint software (Windows only) to make it easy to print digital photos with a level of accuracy never before possible. It allows you to print from digital camera memory cards and produce photo quality borderless 4" x 6" or 8.5" x 11" output without a PC. In addition, Canon's Advanced MicroFine Droplet TechnologyTM helps put truly remarkable photo-quality color printing to work for you with up to 2400 x 1200 dpi resolution. With its ultra-fine, 5-picoliter droplets, it refines color, precision and detail for magnificent photo printing even on plain paper. Whether you're printing 4" x 6" borderless photos or making color presentations, you can count on quality output every time. Main Unit Spec Print Speed (up to) Black:20 ppm Color:13 ppm Print Resolution (Up to) Black:600 x 600 dpi Color:2400 x 1200 dpi Ink Compatibility BCI-3Bk Black Ink Tank, BCI-3C Cyan Ink Tank, BCI-3M Magenta Ink Tank, BCI-3Y Yellow Ink Tank Paper Sizes Letter, legal, A4, 4" x 6", banner paper, U.S. #10 envelopes, European DL envelopes Paper Compatibility Plain paper, envelopes, Canon Specialty Paper - Banner Paper, Glossy Photo Cards,

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

163 of 170 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Side by side comparison of Canon F80 and HP D145, November 13, 2002

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Harold Corbin (Lynden, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Canon MultiPass F80 Multifunction (Office Product)

I wanted a quality all-in-one solution for my home office and personal use, and after some research my options boiled down to 2 models: the HP Officejet D145 and the Canon Multipass F80. Since I couldn't find a store anywhere that had BOTH of these models running for comparison, I bought ONE OF EACH and brought them home for my own evaluation.

I bought the HP D145 first. The PROS: Fast, great quality prints and copies even on plain paper in "Normal" mode. Makes double-sided copies. Multi-format card reader. Good software and tutorials. Intuitive and easy to use frontpanel buttons.

CONS: Printed manual only covers a few of the options, and help files on the CD cover the rest. Won't print borderless photos. If you need to copy something that has printing near the edges of the original, you need to reduce a few percentage points first or you'll end-up with cropped copies.

I printed a few photos from my PC and also from my Nikon Coolpix 995 3.3 megapixel digital camera using the card reader. If the photos are well lit and of high quality, they will print nicely on Photo quality paper. The only catch is the 1/4" border around the edge. I haven't tried printing on 4x6" photo paper yet, but my guess is that the border will print there as well. Some may not see this as a big deal, but if you want to print copies of scanned photos or digital camera images, they won't look the same as other photographs in your album if they have borders around them. An option is to make 4x6" prints on full sheets of paper, but then you have to cut them by hand. This is also a waste of expensive paper.

Having been impressed by the HP D145, but underwhelmed by it's inability to create borderless photo prints, I decided to see what the Canon F80 had to offer. For more than a hundred dollars less, it seemed logical to compare the two to see what HP was providing for the extra money. I also thought there was a chance that the quality of photo prints from the HP weren't that great, but I had nothing to compare to.

I bought a Canon Multipass F80, and the first thing I noticed was it's smaller size and compact footprint. It didn't come with a USB cable, and the only way to connect to your computer was with... a USB CABLE! It seems a little crazy to me that they don't include a cable that probably costs them pennies. Luckily, I had a extra one available. Having already experimented with the HP a couple of days earlier, I knew right off the bat what I wanted to know about this machine... so I tried to print a full page photo from the Cardreader. It wouldn't recognize the card at first, so after some digging throught the manual I discovered that the card must be formatted by the camera and NOT the PC. After I did this, and took a few new photos, the F80 was able to recognize the card (Compactflash only). I printed an index first, and compared to the HP D145 the photos were very small (stamp sized, compared the HP's ~1x2" index photos). The HP has this cool feature that let's you select the photo(s) and print sizes of images on the index page... then you scan the page and it automagically prints your selections. The Canon F80 doesn't do this, but I'm not sure how often I would even use this feature if I had it. There is nothing in the F80 manual that leads me to believe that you can increase the size of the thumbnails.

Canon F80 PROS: Higher quality photo prints. I ran a page of wallet sized prints from the cardreader on both machines, and a close inspection revealed slightly better quality on the Canon. In fact, it was impossible to tell that it wasn't an actual photo-lab print on the Canon. The HP looked good, but you could see a slight bit of dithering in some areas. Unless you use a magnifying glass on the photos hanging on your wall, you'll never notice the difference, but I wanted to point it out nonetheless. I also printed a photo using the borderless option, and WOW!! Again, a perfect photograph printed to the edge of the paper... just like you'd get from Kodak. Compared to the same full page print on the HP d145, the F80 print was larger (borderless) and brighter.

I haven't used either of these machines enough yet to know anything about the ink usage and long-term costs. The F80 uses 4 different colored ink tanks, and the HP D145 uses 1 black and 1 color tank... but the large color tank feeds ink to 4 separate color printheads. I'm not clear on how this works exactly, but I imagine that when you run out of Yellow ink, you'll need to replace the whole color cartridge. Only time will tell for sure, and I'll decide to take one of these back before I get that far.

COMPARISON:
HP D145 wins: quality of color copies and prints on normal paper, double-sided copies, index print quality, software.

CANON F80 wins: photo print quality, borderless prints, small footprint, lower cost.

UNKNOWN: speed and scanning ability (untested)

BOTTOM LINE: It depends on what's important to you. Compare the PROS and CONS and decide what's the best fit for your needs.

Good luck!

43 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This product ROCKS!, November 24, 2002

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Michael L. Andrews (Plano, Tx USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Canon MultiPass F80 Multifunction (Office Product)

I just got the MFD today, but already I can say it rocks! The auto feeder is one of my favorite features. I can put a stack (about 10) of legal pages in it and then go into Acrobat and tell it to scan. I go about my business, and minutes later I have converted hard copy docs into a pdf file.

The printer is excellent quality from what I've seen so far. I haven't printed on photo paper yet, but other reviews rave about the high quality.

Setup is easy, if you follow the setup card. No problems, even got my two wireless laptops printing to it within minutes.

The only negative I see is that the lcd display on the unit is really hard to see. I noticed this in the store and hoped it was just on the demo, but the one I bought was the same way. You can see it, but compared to the HP display it's not nearly as good. I can't find a contrast control to adjust it either. But this is really minor.

I really like the software that comes with it. The Multipass toolbar looks really nice and gives you all the functionality you could want.

I can't find any feature I need that is missing.

I have other canon products, G1 digital camera, flatbed scanner, and I love both.

Also, some reviews complained about USB only and no USB cable included. I say, welcome to the 2000's. USB beats the hell out of parallel. Also, USB cables are a bit expensive. I already had one and really would not of wanted to pay more for this product so I could get a cable included.

I like HP products, but this one was quite a bit less costly than the d145, had the same features, and I read all the reports of HP's print cartridges not lasting. I decided to give Canon a chance since I love my other products, and I'm glad I did.

Good luck.

44 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The machine is amazing!, October 14, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Canon MultiPass F80 Multifunction (Office Product)

The Canon F80 multifunction does everything and performs flawlessly!!! The print quality is perfect. It can determine the difference between a regular phone call and a fax transmission, so you don't need another phone line for faxes. You can scan or fax from either the flatbed or the document feeder. It is USB 2.0 compliant, very fast! It can print borderless.

I'm glad I bought it!!!

Canon has done an excellent job engineering this device!