Customer Reviews

Canon MF6595 Duplex Copier, Printer and Color Scanner with Super G3 Fax

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DO NOT PURCHASE this item. The copier pictured is not what you will recieve. Adorama shows the copier with the extra paper tray but delivers the copier with only the basic 1 paper tray. The second tray costs over $225 or you need to order the MF6595cx which comes standard with the extra paper tray but costs over $1100. YOu will have to pay for the shipping back to Adorama and your refund will have the shipping to you deducted.

If you need to fax from your pc, get this one. If not, save $300 and get the 6590, which is otherwise identical. I have found the 6595 excellent and reliable

I bought this printer to serve a small work group of 4 employees, 3 of whom use Macintosh notebooks. I specifically chose this model because it was marketed by Canon as fully supporting Macs. My experience with the printer is that 'support' is an exaggeration. It can be made to work with Macs, but not all the time, and certainly not if they are running Snow Leopard. Leopard works fine, with the exception of faxing from the computer which I found impossible to get working, even after several hours on the phone with Canon tech support. Snow Leopard is currently unsupported as of the time of this review.

To be fair, the MF6595 works flawlessly with all Windows operating systems, including Windows 7 Release Candidate. Windows support includes a wonderful installer that automatically locates all networked printers and installs the correct drivers for them (which is nice since we have 2 other canon printers in our office: IR1023 and a 4080 with H1 attachment). I don't know why Apple doesn't program a similarly useful installer for Mac hardware. My experience has been that getting a Canon printer up and running with Windows takes 5-10 minutes. Getting it up for a Mac can take numerous hours and several phone calls to tech support. It's pretty frustrating.

The printer itself works great. It's fast, printer high quality black and whites, and the scan function is fine if you're not doing too many sheets at once. Since the printer is missing a auto-loading document feeder scanning multiple pages can get tiresome, so if that is important to you, go for a different model.

A great printer for Windows, much less so for Macs. Since I specifically bought it to work with Macs, the fact that it doesn't support them well is very frustrating and may lead me to return this printer for a different brand--I hear Brother printers work a lot better with Mac hardware so I might give them a try.