Customer Reviews

Canon PC430 Personal Copier

5 star:		(8)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

If your looking for a copy machine, and have been settling for a scanner instead then sell your scanner and pick up a Cannon PC420 or PC430 copier. (I bought the 430 but tested the 420.)

The copies are nice and crisp. With text it will even do perfect copies of text in 8-point font. For pictures it will copy fine. Not perfect, some edges will appear pixilated, good enough for a teacher to make copies from a book for students to do. Yet not good enough for a critical sales or marketing presentation. If you copy from workbooks or textbooks the PC430 will pay for itself in just a few months. No more hassles of waiting or paying on a per copy basis.

The PC430 can have some trouble when you have many gray or offgray boxes that are small. It will smudge the edges but not considerably. For the price though it is perfect, you would have to pay 10x as much for a copier that doesn't do this.

Being able to hit the Power button and begin to copy is unbelivable. No warm up! If you are used to using $10,000 copiers that take minutes to warm up when you only need one or two copies this is a godsend.

All in all this is one of the best home or homeoffice products you can buy. It works as advertised and is simple to operate. In today's world of gizmos and gadgets that is saying alot.

It can be carried around to seminars easily. I take mine to quilting classes, so we can copy "foundation papers" for everyone to try. Share recipes. Drag it to a class and when the teacher runs out of handouts, offer to make more on the spot. (If you don't want to carry it "naked," it fits in the larger courier bags, and if yours is the kid that has a zipper that expands it to 8" depth, you can carry a ream of paper too, although it gets heavy.)

When not carting it around for such uses, it takes up remarkably little space on a home desk or shelf. The tray folds up. Ours has been quite resistant to pet fur- we have to be careful with any devices, to see that rabbit fur does not get in the moving parts; we find rabbit fur in our printers, rabbit fur floating on monitors, rabbit fur in the keyboards, rabbit fur in the gas stove burners- but so far, no rabbit fur has gotten inside this copier, and the lid has been good enough to keep rabbit fur off the glass surface.

A copier that's portable and pet-resistant, and inexpensive to boot; if it weren't for the slow speed I'd give it 5 stars instead of 4.

I bought this copier several years ago and it has work well for me. I like that it can also do legal size paper. It does take up alot of desk space due to the two paper trays. I think that there are better choices now. This copier doesn't have an internal paper tray, doc. feeder, or enlargement of image.

After fighting for several years with all in one printer/fax/copier machines, I decided to buy seperate components to do these specific jobs. The Canon PC430 was my choice as a copier and I amd very pleased with it. I does it's job very well for small business use with small to moderate copy jobs. It's a simple machine and compact enough to fit on the desktop. The set up is easy. The copies are perfect reproductions of the originals. No frills just does the job it's designed to do.

I thought they stopped making stuff like this. Simple and easy to use, and great photocopy results. Go for it.

Not for high volume of copies needed for some businesses but for home use it is an excellent choice. Easy to use with uncomplicated controls very accessible. Copies are clear with darkness/lightness either automatically of manually controlled. Legal sized copies versus only standard size is a real plus over other similar copiers.

CNMPC430 Personal Copier,15-7/8"x16-3/8"x4-1/8",Instant Warm Up,WE
This is a very handy, compact, easy to operate personal copier.
It updates one that is ten years old which we liked very much and instantly replaced with Canon's newest version.

Canon PC430 Personal CopierWhen there is no need for the big complex printer,copier, scanner & fax this little PC420 is just the ticket. Fits in a small space and copies like the big boys.The automatic brightness/darkness feature makes copying newspaper articles a snap. Love it!

All OK. Except it has no toner cartdrige.
I expect the next time I'll buy a car to have to buy the tires separately.

I had one just like this that I had purchased 12 years ago. It had lasted so long I decided I would look for another one just like it. The only reason I had to get a new one was because my neice had decided to copy her hand and broke off a piece of plastic. Otherwise, it was still going strong.