Printer, particularly the multifunction ones are crucial for any business as they help in document creation. Many official tasks are handled by the printer including printing, copying, faxing and scanning. If you have a good printer, then half of your office task is completed without any hassles. Kyocera Mitaâs FS-3540MFP printer aims at helping you reducing the office load. This is a good-looking, efficiently functional machine that can help to print, organize, scan, copy and fax office documents.
Features
This machine has an elaborate control panel on a 110mm color touchscreen over a black and white body. The screen handles most of the key features of the machine. At the same time, the product has some physical buttons for other features. This printer can fax 100 one-touch-dial numbers. The address book can feed up to 200 contacts.
The mono laser engine lies below the control panel and has the Kyocera Mitaâs ceramic coated drum that apparently needs no replacing. There are two paper trays. The first tray is the multi-purpose tray located in the front. This tray can hold up to 100 sheets. The main paper tray can be pulled out from the bottom and has a capacity of 500 sheets. The product also gives you an option of adding three more 500-sheets tray along with a support cabinet that shall include casters and an ID card reader. But you would have to pay additional charges for that.
The printer can be easily charged by connecting it via USB or Ethernet using the toner cartridge. The printer supports Windows, MacOS X, UNIX and LINUX. If you have any other operating system then you can get it supported by requesting the company for a customized model.
The product has high print speed and according to the company, this printer can print 40 pages per minute, but actual usage indicates that the product has a speed of 15ppm for text and 16.7ppm for text and graphics. It was also noticed that if you increase the number of pages to be printed, then the speed increases to 24 pages per minute.
The printer takes about 20 seconds to process a printing command, but in any case, a speed of 24ppm is also good.
The photocopy time also decreases if the total number of pages is increased. For instance, a single page copy can take about 9seconds to copy while a five page document took only 15seconds.
The overall printing quality of the printer is pretty good. Text is clean and easy to read. If you change the printing mode to Ecoprint mode, then the text appears lighter. The printing cost is lower than several other brands in the market.
High points
The large touchscreen is good. This printer can feed up to 200 fax contacts and has a secure ID card access option. The printer is fairly easy to maintain and the print speed is pretty good. The paper handling can be expanded from two to five trays and the overall running cost is fairly low.
Low points
The initial price is higher than the competitors in market. Grayscale print can be a little blotchy. Touching the LCD screen doesnât wake the printer.
Price
This printer is priced at £1,040 in the market. The prices can change due to different market forces and availability.
The product is good because its overall handling capacities and low maintenance and printing cost. Even though it may appear a little expensive in the beginning, the later costs of this product are pretty low, making it fairly affordable. There are several cons of this product, but none of them is bad enough to stop you from buying this product. This printer is a good office printer and has several features to make working easier, ecological and economical.
