Canon FAXPHONE L190 Multifunction Laser Fax Machine

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You get what you pay for. This si not a very high quality machine. It is mostly plastic. Just recently the 2 hinges snapped that hold the main lid for opening above the paper tray.. this not the part that hinges for the glass bed that gets more use. OI hardly ever open the bottom part of the lid, except to change toner ever couple of minths. One day I heard a loud "snap and looked over to see the lid slightly off balance. The hinge had broken on its own. In another week to other one went. The onyly thing that is holding it in place is the wiring harness. Getting it fixed would cost more than the machine. cost I am sure. it has some annoying features from the beginning. If you stop a fax mid way it insists on printing out a failed fax message. Every page does a double routine whether or not it is 2 sided. I stopped buying OEM cartridges. Amazon sells compatible ones at 1/3 the cost and they are juist as good. If the yield is a little lower it is still a bargain. I will keep using it until it finally gives out. Those hinges are not all that important. I think they should not have broken on their own

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Machine works like a charm. It is less advanced than some other models but it gets the job done. I only dinged it one star for not having an ethernet connection so we could desktop fax over the network*. *I knew that when I bought it; Im just saying who builds a fax machine for office use and doesnt put an Ethernet port on it anymore? If you dont need Ethernet, this is your machine. The LinkYo (sp?) comparable toner cartridges are dirt cheap and work like a dream in this thing as well.

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Top loading feeder is fast and quiet. It has not jammed on me except when I used wrinkled paper. The paper storage bin has plenty of capacity. Instead of installing the handset I plugged a cordless phone in back and use the fax line as a spare. Print quality is good. Lots of programmable options. The downside is that the toner cartridge 128 is expensive. You can use generic cartridges that are much cheaper with no loss of quality. The Blake 128 replacement worked well for me. What you need to know is that the fax machine appears to be programmed to display an error message, " check cartridge" when a generic one is installed, even when it is working perfectly. You just have to ignore the message. I would purchase this again.

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I send and receive numerous FAXs during the course of the day at work. Ive been using a Cannon FAXPhone L170 since 2007. Its been a true "work horse", but alas the L170 needed to be replaced. I purchased this FAXPhone L190 and was duly impressed with its presentation, easy setup and very clear documentation. The basic users guide is well written in plain English with excellent illustrations. The tray holds up to 250 sheets of paper. The control panel is well laid out and easy to read. I was also impressed how fast the paper is delivered to the outside tray after the FAXING portion has completed. It also sends and receives at the same time as advertised. I gotta say, excellent value for the money and thank you Amazon for the fast shipment.

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This device cannot scan documents digitally. You can only FAX or make hard copies. Online reviews and the information here are misleading or in some cases outright false in regards to the scanner.

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I have 30 staff using this daily. It handles 20-30 faxes and copies every day and has lasted more than twice as long as any of the other 7 machines weve tried in the past 6 years.

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Excellent machine! We usually use it for outgoing faxes. I wish though as soon as I hit Start it would show on screen the activity and as to whether the fax is sending, in case it gets a busy signal. If it fails to fax, like it did yesterday because the other offices fax was broken, it does print a page telling me that. Overall, no regrets; I think we made a good choice in this machine. One reviewer said it wont send a bunch of sheets at a time; Ive only evaluated up to 5 pages at a time, no issues. Next time we send more and it if jams I will write back!

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Overall we are impressed with this unit. No 5th star because the toner that came with the unit did not perform as well as expected. Anymore I think I should lower my expectations when it comes to consumption type products like this. We started using this in August 2014, printed an average of 45 pieces per month since, and it now says the toner is very low in early Jan. 2015. The unit is solid, prints on both sides of the page, and suits our need for now.

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I have been using printer for more than 15 years. I need roller copier with scanning function but also gives me many pages with inexpensive cartage. It come with a fax functions that I do not needed. However more is better than not meeting my needed. Cannon is one of the great brand I love beside Samsung. I used Brother printer before and I hated it!

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So I have had this fax in my office for about 2 weeks now. My office is a mid size office. We send about 50 faxes a day and receive in about 100 to 150 a day. It has workes GREAT. We love it. Our last fax sounded like a cat in a garbage disposal for the last few weeks we had it so this fax (as quiet as it is) was a blessed relieve. I don’t really have any issues to report. It prints fast, holds a lot of paper in the bin (about 250 pages). The only thing that threw me off was that you put the papers face UP rather then face down to fax. But other then that the set up was easy to do (about 40 minutes all together and that included entering in all 50 of the speed dial contacts). The toner just today stated it was getting low. So it lasted about two weeks BUT it was the starter toner so we didn’t expect it to last longer then this. It seems about the same time frame as our last fax machine toner. And the toner is the same price as our last one so that’s a good sign. All in all I would suggest this fax machine to anyone who has a low to midsize office. It works great.

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