Canon All In One Printers Canon I-SENSYS MF8050Cn - Colour Laser MFP Review

Canon is picking up the pieces with laser printing market and it's doing a decent job. One of its latest colour laser release, the Canon i-SENSYS MF8050Cn is the printer to look out for. For starters, it is a multi-function colour printer and features solid interfaces for hooking onto PCs and networks. The printer comes with a flatbed scanner for scanning and copying documents. A 33.6 KBps fax module is also integrated. Most importantly, it can print in monochrome and colour, and the printer costs under £320.

Print quality from Canons are generally good. We decided to take a closer look at this printer. Black prints were OK at best, with the colour fills being on the lighter side of things. If it was a tad darker, it would have been perfect. Colour prints are generally good with no specific complaints. Photo prints came out quite accurate to the digital images that we employed.

Canon claims that this colour laser printer can spit out prints at 12 pages per minute for monochrome prints and 8 pages per minute for colour documents. We ran a 20 page test and the results obtained were more or less on the lines we expected it to be; at 9.5 pages per minute for monochrome and 5.5 pages per minute for colour.

Cost of printing is generally an area where Canon lacks majorly and no surprises in that regard for this printer. The Canon i-SENSYS MF8050Cn printer is economy for monochrome prints at 2.9p but swings the other way around for colour documents at 11.9p.