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Canon i-SENSYS LBP5100 Laser Colour Printer
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List Price: N/A
Our Price: £231.00
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1 to 3 months
Manufacturer: Canon
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Binding: Electronics
Brand: Canon
EAN: 8714574992280
Feature: Canon LBP5100 Laser Printer 1315B008AB
Label: Canon
Manufacturer: Canon
Model: 1315B008AA
Platform: Windows
Publisher: Canon
Release Date: 2007-06-11
Studio: Canon
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Canon LBP5100 Laser Printer 1315B008AB
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Official Review:
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Benefit from fast print speeds of 10ppm in colour and 12ppm in mono with this compact, quiet and robust colour laser printer. Switch on and start printing almost immediately with a First Print Out Time of approx. 20 seconds. Colour CAPT and Hi-SCoA technologies ensure rapid print processing and rendering, so you can print without waiting. Convenient built-in automatic double-sided printing saves you time and money. Cut paper costs and produce more professional looking documents and booklets with ease. Ben...
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Canon i-SENSYS LBP5100 Laser Colour Printer User Reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Frustrating. Mac users beware.
Comment: Great, super-fast service from Amazon. Printer arrived yesterday.
No included driver for Mac OS X. 24 hours later, using the driver download from the Canon site, I still haven't managed to get the unit to run reliably, in fact barely at all. I'm an experienced user of this tech and haven't had to mess around, with zero progress, like this for a long, long time. This is very frustrating as the few pages I have coaxed out of the machine look very good. I'm just wondering what to do next. Canon support poor.
Update: 12th October 2008 - I have now run the printer from an Windows XP machine. The results are very good, processing / printing speeds are more than satisfactory with appropriate reliability. BUT the problems persist with the Apple Mac driver and use with my Macs is what I bought it for. Canon clearly state that this machine is Mac compatible but I'm afraid the driver software from Canon fails scrutiny. Other users on the web are finding these problems too. Canon support is unimaginative and extremely arduous to elicit. I am now considering return and refund.
FINAL UPDATE 16th October 2008: I know this a review site and not a tech forum - but I do feel the need to be fair. Canon finally came through with useful support, even if the process was long, hard work. My LBP5100 is now working perfectly down to an additional factor in the driver installation process not covered by the Canon installation guide. By using two different Mac OS X 10.4.11 machines to test the correct AND incorrect process, I've found that deleting all other Canon printers, trashing the Canon folder from 'Library' then using 'Reset Printing System' in 'Printer Setup Utility' is essential, prior to a reboot and then driver installation, to allow the driver and utilities to load properly.
The printer and utilities now work very well indeed and I like this printer a lot. 4 stars now - only one subtracted for all the wasted time, toner and paper - aren't I generous?
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good but only for normal printing
Comment: This is an excellent printer provided you only want to print colour on normal paper, it doesnt handle glossy paper or thicker grades of paper. If you only want to print high speed on normal 80gsm paper this is the printer for you.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Wonderful, if a little big
Comment: This printer was a very pleasant surprise after struggling with inkjets for years. Speed of print is great, the pages just fly through, irrespective of how much detail or colour there is. Quality is faultless, both reproduction results and build. The printer is very solid and substantial. It is also a lot bigger than I anticipated. It fits on a desk with ease, but the picture is deceptive.
It comes with a couple of brief manuals and an installation cd. The bundled software is minimal to the extreme. Manuals and drivers are all you get. The driver utility whilst brief is all you need. This machine works with no frills. Just damn good quick colour copies.
The real clincher was cost of printing, at 2p a sheet it is one of the cheapest out there and makes the similarly priced HP model look ridiculous with its expensive running costs.
I went for the first class delivery and it took a day longer than the outside estimate Amazon gave, but 3 days for delivery was fine for my needs.
I'd highly recommend this piece of kit and Amazon.
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