MC561 Mfp Color Laser E/f/p/s Adf USB Enet 1200X600 31/27PPM 120V Save 20% off

• Print and copy at speeds up to 27 ppm in color, 31 ppm in black & white
• HD color printing technology for outstanding print and copy quality
• Scan at the machine or from your desk

Pros: Good price, quality output

Cons: Somewhat noisy. Complex software.

Overall: Owned now for six weeks and so far very impressed. This is the third laser MFP I''ve owned. It replaced a Brother color laser MFP which was a poor performer and which went in the bin after two years ($1,200 wasted).

Good points: Great price. Excellent color photo output. Not as a good as a photo inkjet on photo paper but far better than anything else I''ve seen. Output has a sheen to it which I like. Speed is good and it doesn''t take long for the first print from cold (half the time of the Brother). It has a power save button which can put it into or take it out of power save mode; this is a surprisingly useful feature.

Scans fast uses a LED lamp so there''s no waiting for a cold cathode tube to heat up. Scans are good quality. Scanner is a duplex/reversing type a feature I use a lot. Original toner cartridges and parts appear to be about the same price as other brands. I do a lot of booklet printing it does this well and on 150 GSM card too.

Cons: Instruction manual is appalling so it is somewhat difficult to set up. I eventually got it going more or less how I wanted but it took an afternoon. Some odd software quirks which you get used to but remain slightly annoying For example to scan to your PC you can''t just open your PC program Adobe, Photoshop, &c. You first have to press SCAN on the printer control panel then scroll through to `Scan to remote PC''. After a few minutes this defaults back to copy so if you have further scanning you have to go back to the printer control panel. I haven''t yet worked out how to set up a default fax cover page.

It''s somewhat noisy when heating up and printing. Doesn''t worry me but some might find it too much. There is fan noise when on standby but it stops when it goes into power save mode.

Summary this is a great small office printer with a lot of advanced features and high quality output. Downside is confusing instructions and quirky software.

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All features worked though not at the level expected. The colors were not as true as desired. We bought this to replace and old Dell that was working properly but the cost of replacing the toner was more than the printer was worth. Which is becoming true for almost all sub $600 printers.

The good, its compact and fast. Easy installation and pretty quiet operation. Single button to select to copy in black or color.

The bad.. its a nightmare on envelopes, wrinkles them. Also the Multipurpose Feeder Tray is finicky. The colors did not match our colors in any of our previous publications. Even after making adjustments it was not good.

Overall thought the system worked but not for our needs. If we didn''t use it for publications then it might not be an issue, but we do and also the envelope thrashing was bad. For those reasons we returned it.