Putting the MF217w on my wireless network required a little trip to the network setup menu and pressing the WPS button on my wireless router. Setting up the printer was a simple matter of removing the toner cartridge and a few pieces of packaging, and sliding the toner cartridge back inside the unit. MORE: Best All-in-One Inkjet Printers - Scan, Copy, Fax It started up in just 10.9 seconds in our testing - roughly half the 21.7-second average.
For example, the Brother HL-L2380DW, whose standard cartridge has a 1,200-page yield, offers another cartridge rated at 2,600 pages that lowers the printing cost to 2.6 cents per page. Some models, however, offer a high-yield cartridge that can lower the cost per page further.
Text looked just as sharp and smooth, though graphics lacked some detail in dark areas, and midtone transitions weren't as smooth. And, though you might expect copies made with a high-speed setting (the default) to be of lower quality than other selections, I found the impact to be minimal. I was impressed by the print quality of text and graphics letter forms were very sharp, and graphics looked detailed, with smooth textures.Ĭopy quality was similarly high, with accurately reproduced details and textures that were on a par with those produced by the best entry-level all-in-ones we've tested. And the MF217w makes very few trade-offs. Print Qualityįast speeds don't add up to much, of course, if document quality suffers. The same six-page document the MF217w printed in less than 30 seconds from a PC took 80 seconds to print from my Android phone. You also can print to Canon's MF217w from an iOS or Android phone, though it's likely to print much more slowly than from a PC.
Compare that to the ADF on the HP M127fw, which slowed things down considerably that machine took more than 53 seconds (5.7 ppm) to copy the same document. The unit copied our five-page text document in 22.3 seconds, for a rate of 13.4 ppm.
Loading up the document feeder with multiple pages will quicken the per-page speed. Scanning to PDF format in black and white was equally quick: The MF217w made a scan in 6.7 seconds, or 9 ppm - significantly faster than the average of 11.2 seconds. Similarly, the MF217w scanned a color photo to the JPEG format at 600 dpi in 28 seconds - almost 10 seconds faster than the category average.
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