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As the high-end multifunction printer (MFP) in Canon’s new line of small office/home office (SOHO) printers, the Canon Maxify MB5320 Wireless Inkjet Small Office All-In-One Printer ($399.99) has a good feature set and is particularly strong on paper handling.
Design
The Maxify inkjet series is geared to full-time home offices, as well as small businesses. It eschews some of the home-oriented features, such as the memory card reader found in Canon’s Pixma line, to focus solely on business-friendly features, such as fax capability, high duty cycle, and low running costs.
This MFP measures 13.9 by 18.3 by 18.1 inches (HWD), which is larger than you’d want to share a desk with, and weighs 28.8 pounds. It has very good paper handling, with a pair of 250-sheet trays and an auto-duplexer for two-sided printing. It has a maximum monthly duty cycle of 30,000 pages, putting it in good stead for heavy-duty printing. For scanning, the MB5320 ($199.99 at Canon)(Opens in a new window) has a letter-size flatbed, plus a 50-sheet automatic document feeder (ADF) that scans both sides of a document in a single pass.
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Mobile Printing Features
The MB5320 is AirPrint-compatible, and uses the Maxify Cloud Link interface, which lets you access various cloud-based services directly from your printer. You can upload scanned documents directly to Evernote, DropBox, Google Drive, and OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive), and print pictures from online photo albums, office templates, and more, even without a computer. The MB5320 also supports Google Cloud Print, which lets you send documents to your printer from any Web-connected computer, smart phone, or device. With the Maxify Printing Solutions app installed on your iOS, Android, or Windows RT smartphone or tablet, you can print photos or documents from or scan them to your device.
It can connect to a network via Ethernet or Wi-Fi, and directly to a computer via USB. I tested it over an Ethernet connection with drivers installed on a PC running Windows Vista.
Print Speed
The MB5320 printed out our business applications suite (as timed with QualityLogic(Opens in a new window)‘s hardware and software) at 4.6 pages per minute (ppm), which is a little on the slow side for its price. It’s essentially tied with the Canon Maxify MB5020 Wireless Inkjet Small Office All-In-One Printer ($479.00 at Amazon)(Opens in a new window) , which I timed at 4.7ppm on the same test, and a bit slower than the HP Officejet Pro 8630 e-All-in-One , which scored 5.9ppm. But it took more than twice as long to print out our suite as did the Editors’ Choice Epson WorkForce Pro WF-5690 ($399.99 at Epson)(Opens in a new window) , which zipped through the documents at a 10.3-ppm clip.
Output Quality
Overall output quality is average for an inkjet, but inconsistent, with above-par text, average photo quality, and subpar graphics. Text quality is better than most inkjets and even many lasers, and should be good enough for any business use, except ones requiring tiny fonts.
Graphics quality is below par. Some backgrounds showed obvious banding (a regular pattern of striations), and thin, colored lines were nearly invisible. Graphics are good enough for most internal business uses, but I’d refrain from using them for formal reports or for PowerPoint handouts going to people I was seeking to impress.
Overall, photo prints were about the same quality I’d expect from drugstore prints. A monochrome photo was tinted, and there was a loss of detail in bright areas in some test prints.
The MB5320 has the same high duty cycle and low running costs as the Canon Maxify MB5020, and they have similar speed and output quality. The MB5320, however, has double the MB5020’s paper capacity, and its ADF not only scans two-sided documents, but does so in a single pass.
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The MB5320 offers better paper handling than the Epson WorkForce Pro WF-5690, which has 330-sheet standard capacity, split between a 250-sheet front tray and an 80-sheet rear feeder, with the option for a second 250-sheet tray ($99) for a maximum capacity of 580 sheets. The Epson WF-5690’s ADF holds 35 sheets, and scans two-sided documents by scanning the first side, flipping the page over, and scanning the second side, which is considerably slower than single-pass scanning. The Epson WF-5690 does have a higher maximum duty cycle (45,000 sheets, to the MB5320’s 30,000 sheets), and offers both PCL and PostScript drivers, as well as Wi-Fi Direct, which the MB5320 lacks.
As far as speed is concerned, there’s no comparison, with the MB5320 taking more than twice as long as the Epson WF-5690 to print out our business document suite. In output quality and running costs, the two machines are very similar. The MB5320 has better paper handling, but the Epson WF-5690 wins on speed, drivers, and connectivity, and holds on to its Editors’ Choice. That said, the Canon Maxify MB5320 Wireless Inkjet Small Office All-In-One Printer should be a welcome addition to any small office looking for a color MFP to handle large volumes of paper. It’s easy to recommend in that role, and vindicates Canon’s concept of Maxify inkjets that are laser-focused, if you will, on small business.
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As an inkjet MFP geared toward small business, the Canon Maxify MB5320 Wireless Small Office All-In-One Printer offers high paper capacity, low running costs, and it prints text beautifully.
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