Canon L170 Laser Fax Printer

by Canon

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 23 x 13.7 inches ; 24.7 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 32 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• 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: B0001KUD5Q
• Item model number: FAXPHONE L170
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #12 in Electronics > Office Electronics > Fax Machines
  • #53 in Electronics > Computers & Add-Ons > Printers > Laser Printers
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 17, 2003

Product Description

Canon L170 Laser Fax Printer

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

49 of 54 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pay a little more and get a lot more., May 18, 2006

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lighten_up_already2 "lighten_up_already2" (Kirkland, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Canon L170 Laser Fax Printer (Office Product)

Now that it's up and running it's so reliable and easy to use that we don't even think about it. It's great to have a really fast fax machine that also doubles as a USB laser printer and a copy machine.

Three "heads ups" for you:

First, there might be a learning curve if you've never owned a fax machine before. You have to put this together and it takes a few minutes. The pieces seem flimsy and you might wonder if it's going to work but once you get it together if it works fine.

Second, the manual is printed in a very small font that's hard to read even with my reading glasses on.

Third, with this machine you get a "starter toner cartridge" that is good for about 300 pages. To get a "real" toner cartridge you have to spend well over another hundred dollars. The toner cartridge costs more than half the price of the machine. You may also have to buy a USB cable.

So, with the toner cartridge and the service contract (which I think you're foolish not to buy) and sales tax in my state included it was upwards of $500.00 to get this thing up and running, but now it's a faithful servant that just sits there and works. So far so good.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Fax and Printer, November 1, 2007

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R. Garcia - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Canon L170 Laser Fax Printer (Office Product)

The fax function works well enough, but is not outstanding; I like it as a network printer except that it has a tendency to lock up with an error message if the print job indicates legal size paper; then it takes too much of an effort to clear out the message and reset the machine. The front door opens poorly; cheap design. It would have been great to have an easier way of feeding legal size paper than having to open the lower tray, taking out the paper, expanding the tray, then placing the legal size paper, then repeating again to place letter size paper. Otherwise I believe it will serve me well.

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars worked well for over a year, September 12, 2006

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B. Bell - See all my reviews
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I've used this machine in my small office for almost two years. Setup was a cinch. It worked flawlessly for over a year. Now I have problems with paper jams. Continuous paper jams. Sometimes I stand over the machine for 30 minutes at a time pulling out a jammed paper and restting the machine only to have it jam on the next piece of paper. For that reason, I am now shopping for a new machine.