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As the low-end model of Canon’s new Maxify series of small office/home office (SOHO) printers, the Canon Maxify MB2020 Wireless Inkjet Small Office All-in-One Printer ($179.99) leaves off a few frills found in the other multifunction printers (MFPs) in the line, most notably an Ethernet connection and a touch screen. The MB2020 ($109.99 at Canon)(Opens in a new window) otherwise provides a decent feature set at a lower price.
Canon has geared its Maxify line to full-time home offices and sole proprietorships, as well as businesses with a few employees. They are a step up, and a change in focus, from its Pixma line, whose printers are more suited for the dual role of household and home-office MFP, and for lighter-duty use. The Maxify line eschews consumer-friendly features commonly found in the Pixma line, such as a dedicated photo-paper tray and a media card reader.
Design
The MB2020 prints, copies, scans, and faxes. It measures 10.3 by 18.3 by 18.1 inches (HWD), and weighs 25.4 pounds. Paper capacity is 250 sheets, which should be enough for most of the SOHO users to whom the printer is targeted. But with just a single paper tray, and no options for more with this model, you have to swap out the paper each time you want to change paper size or stock. The Canon Maxify MB2320 Wireless Inkjet Small Office All-in-One Printer, one step up in the Maxify line, solves this by boosting the standard capacity to 500 sheets, split between two 250-sheet trays.
An automatic duplexer for two-sided printing comes standard with the MB2020. On top of the MB2020 is the letter-size flatbed, plus a 50-sheet automatic document feeder (ADF).
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The 2.5-inch, non-touch color LCD is controlled by buttons, plus a four-way rocker with a center button. All the other Maxify MFPs have touch-screen LCDs. An alphanumeric keypad lets you enter fax numbers and other data.
Mobile Printing and Connectivity
The MB2020 is AirPrint-compatible, and also includes the Maxify Cloud Link interface, which lets you upload scanned documents to Evernote, DropBox, Google Drive, and OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive) directly from the printer’s screen, as well as print pictures from online photo albums, office templates, and more, even without a computer. It also supports Google Cloud Print, which lets you send documents to your printer from any Web-connected computer, smart phone, or device. You can also print and scan photos or documents from a mobile device with the Maxify Printing Solutions app installed on it.
The MB2020 can connect to a network via Wi-Fi or directly to a computer via USB. I tested it over a USB connection with its drivers installed on a PC running Windows Vista.
Print Speed
The MB2020 printed out our business applications suite (as timed with QualityLogic(Opens in a new window)‘s hardware and software) at 4.2 pages per minute (ppm), a solid, if unspectacular, speed for an MFP at its price. The Editors’ Choice Epson WorkForce WF-3640 ($480.00 at Amazon)(Opens in a new window) turned in 5.4ppm, while we timed the Editors’ Choice Brother MFC-J4610DW ($1,999.00 at Amazon)(Opens in a new window) at 5.6ppm and the Canon Maxify MB2320 at 4.7ppm. The Editors’ Choice HP Officejet Pro 6830 e-All-in-One Printer ( at Amazon)(Opens in a new window) was a bit slower in testing, at 3.5ppm.
Output Quality
Overall output quality for the MB2020 is a little above average for an inkjet, with above-par text, slightly sub-par graphics, and average photos. Text is crisp for an inkjet, and should be fine for any documents other than ones requiring very small fonts.
With graphics, most backgrounds showed traces of banding (a regular pattern of striations). Thin lines were all but lost in two illustrations. Many graphics showed dithering in the form of graininess. Graphics quality is okay for most internal business uses, though I’d hesitate to use them for handouts going to people I was trying to impress.
Most of the photos I printed with the MB2020 were about the quality you’d expect from drugstore prints. Our monochrome test photo showed a slight tint, and there was some loss of detail in bright area in a couple of prints.
Running costs, based on Canon’s price and yield figures for its cartridges, are 2.7 cents per monochrome page and 8 cents per color page. They are low for an inkjet at its price, particularly the color cost.
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Although it’s a capable small-biz MFP, the MB2020 falls well short of the Canon Maxify MB2320, lacking the latter’s Ethernet capability and touch screen, only having half of its 500-sheet paper capacity, and lagging somewhat on speed as well. Unless you can get the MB2020 at an unusually low price, the Canon MB2320 is clearly the better deal.
The MB2020 has lower running costs than the Editors’ Choice Epson WorkForce WF-3640, but has lower paper capacity (the WF-3640 takes up to 400 sheets), and lacks the Epson MFP’s Wi-Fi Direct and duplexing ADF.
The Canon Maxify MB2020 Wireless Inkjet Small Office All-in-One Printer comes in at a (slightly) lower price than the next lowest model in Canon’s new Maxify line, and sacrifices some features to get there. Unless you can get the MB2020 at a substantial discount, though, in buying it you may be pennywise and pound foolish.
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The Canon Maxify MB2020 Wireless Inkjet Small Office All-in-One Printer provides good text quality and low running costs in an inkjet multifunction printer (MFP) meant for small- and home-office use.
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