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Customer Review
In the Canon MF8280's world, paper has only one side. If paper has TWO sides in your world, this is the wrong machine for you.
Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2015
This might be a decent upgrade from an inkjet (then again, what isn't?), but compared to similar (even 'lesser') laser printers, it's remarkably poor.
It goes through toner like a five year old hitting a stash of pixie sticks (not helped by the fact that the toner cartridges are unusually small -- and expensive, given their capacity).
No duplex scanning, copying, or even printing. Weighs over sixty pounds, and they couldn't even squeeze in a duplex printing option.
If you're upgrading to this from another laser printer simply to get color printing capability, you are making a mistake and selecting the wrong machine.
If you're upgrading to this from any other type of printer for a personal home office, you are selecting an unwieldy beast that does one job reasonably well (faxing: who cares) and three things half as well as a machine that does it properly.
If you're buying this for a professional office of any kind, this is half the machine you want, for twice the toner replacement hassle.
With all that said: as a paperweight, the MF8280 is Top. Notch. Even the flimsiest of receipts will stay put in gale-force winds with this monster sitting on top of them. (As a bonus, if this is all you use the machine for, the toner only runs out about once a month.)
In summation: if you want to *accumulate* paper in a useless, immobile stack and do nothing else with that paper, this is the printer for you. Otherwise, buy something else.
It goes through toner like a five year old hitting a stash of pixie sticks (not helped by the fact that the toner cartridges are unusually small -- and expensive, given their capacity).
No duplex scanning, copying, or even printing. Weighs over sixty pounds, and they couldn't even squeeze in a duplex printing option.
If you're upgrading to this from another laser printer simply to get color printing capability, you are making a mistake and selecting the wrong machine.
If you're upgrading to this from any other type of printer for a personal home office, you are selecting an unwieldy beast that does one job reasonably well (faxing: who cares) and three things half as well as a machine that does it properly.
If you're buying this for a professional office of any kind, this is half the machine you want, for twice the toner replacement hassle.
With all that said: as a paperweight, the MF8280 is Top. Notch. Even the flimsiest of receipts will stay put in gale-force winds with this monster sitting on top of them. (As a bonus, if this is all you use the machine for, the toner only runs out about once a month.)
In summation: if you want to *accumulate* paper in a useless, immobile stack and do nothing else with that paper, this is the printer for you. Otherwise, buy something else.
