Canon Color imageClass LBP7660cdn

Canon Color imageClass LBP7660cdn

The Canon Color imageClass LBP7660cdn ($500 street), a workhorse color laser printer for a small office or workgroup, provides typical speed, a solid feature set, and above-average output for a printer at its price. It's a very respectable choice, although its running costs are on the high side. The LBP7660cdn, white with an off-black top, is box-shaped with a curved front edge. It measures 13.6 by 16.3 by 19.7 inches (HWD), bigger than you'd want to share a desk with, and weighs 49 pounds. It has a standard paper capacity of 300 sheets, split between a 250-sheet main tray and a 50-sheet multi-purpose tray; it has an automatic duplexer for printing on both sides of a sheet of paper. If you need more capacity, an additional 250-sheet tray is available ($199 direct). In addition to Canon's host-based UFR II driver, the LBP7660cdn comes with both PCL and PostScript drivers. The LBP7660cdn can connect to a computer via USB or to a LAN by Ethernet. I tested it over a USB connection with a computer running Windows Vista. Speed and Output Quality Our standard procedure for testing business printing speed is to test using the printer's default settings. Canon is one of the few printer manufacturers that makes duplexing (double-sided printing) the default on most of its recent printers.