Customer Reviews

Canon FAXPHONE L80 Laser Fax/Printer

5 star:		(16)
4 star:		(11)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(5)
1 star:		(12)

 

 

My fax and printer went out on the same day (what a week!) and I replaced my plain paper HP fax and my HP 1100 printer with this Canon L80.

I use it for everything! No problems, easy setup, clear faxes. After 2 months of constant use as both a fax and a printer, I have no problems with this unit.

I've owned the Canon L80 for about a month now. I find it to be a great laser fax machine, and it also doubles as a fine copier for small jobs when collating and a flatbed copier are not needed. For my small office needs, this Canon works perfectly for me.

I purchased this model around 6 months ago, and the problems continue every day. This machine won't fax multiple pages...instead it likes to pull the whole 5 or 6 page set through at once, thus jamming and causing headache. Secondly, the machine likes to jam up while receiving. I am not the only one I know with these problems.

I wasted good money on this product and I would suggest you not do the same. Now I'm off to buy a new one of a different model; the old Canon got a swipe of the sledgehammer.

I purchased this item because I needed a good fax machine and got a great bonus with it being a laser black & white printer also! Inkjet fax machines cost a fortune in replacement cartridges and the Canon has a very good laser replacement cartridge at a good price as it gets 2,700 to 3,000 prints per cartridge. The quality is beautiful since it is a laser. Set up was very simple and the prints from my computer are professional. I also utilized the distinctive ring features so I know a fax is coming in versus a regular phone call and don't pick it up. I highly recommend purchasing it.

If you like a machine pulling multiple pages through at one time and being forced to feed each page before it shuts off, then this is the machine for you.

I think the most frustrating thing about a fax machine, is when you put your four or five page fax into the feeder, and the machine sucks two or three sheets at once ruining your whole fax! I especially got this machine because I thought it was a quality machine, and wouldn't do that, but I was wrong. Sometimes this machine sucks more than one sheet at a time which is very frustrating. I would stay away. It prints nicely, but it doesn't help if it ruins your faxes. I see other reviewers have the same problem.

We bought this because we wanted to be able to send a 10+ page fax well. It constantly pulls more than one page if you have under 5 pages...this results in you haveing to hold each page separate until the one before it gets sucked up. The most annoying thing is that it doesn't hold much paper and is constantly running out if you don't frequently check it. AND! once the paper runs out, We have a hard time getting a new stack of paper to load. I keeps saying load paper, and you jiggle the stack around and it rotates the roller but never sucks up a new piece and keeps showing "Load Paper" I will fiddle with it for about twenty min. before it grabs the first page and works properly. Needless to say I am searching for a new machine and when I find one I am throwing this the L80 into the lake at the next "Load Paper".

Replaced an old Sharp fax machine with what I thought was newer and better machine. WRONG!! if you don't baby it , it will not feed multiple pages. likes to pull two or three sheets at a time. What a pain! Other functions are not as intuitive as one would expect.

I am surprised to see positive feedback for this fax machine. Ours frequently takes in more than one page at a time when sending a fax so I aways need to hold on to all but the bottom page to keep all pages from all going through. I find this machine very frustrating.

Overall the machine has pretty good features, including its ability to double as a laser printer and super G3 technology. However, I do have a few problems:
- Papers tend to stick together when scanning
- Scans tend to become crooked since the input tray can not lock at the letter size
- Print outs tend to be crooked unless you make sure to pad down the paper in the output tray and make sure they are all aligned properly

Other than that, the machine works great.