Product Description

The performance of a laser facsimile and a laser printer, with the speed that today's businesses demand. With state-of-the-art fax capabilities and a 19 page-per-minute printer, this space saving business machine is the ideal choice to replace your old ink jet or thermal fax. Convenience copying adds to the performance of this cost-effective solution.With features such as a 50-sheet Automatic Document Feeder, Super G3 fax speed and large fax memory, the FAXPHONE L170 can keep pace in any busy office. A front loading paper cassette adds to the convenience. The telephone handset included allows for added versatility. Users will find the functions easy to use on the smartly designed control panel. Move up to an office solution that provides powerful laser fax and printing features in a space-saving desktop design. The FAXPHONE L170 will provide any modern office with the quality laser performance required for today's demanding business environment.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12524 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Canon
• Model: FAXPHONE L170
• Released on: 2004-06-20
• Format: CD
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 14.00" h x 23.00" w x 21.00" l, 31.30 pounds

Features

• Laser fax with 450-page memory
• 32 speed dials with 100 coded dialings
• Convenient telephone handset
• Prints up to 406 x 391 dpi
• USB interface

Customer Reviews

Pay a little more and get a lot more.
Now that it's up and running it's so reliable and easy to use that we don't even think about it. It's great to have a really fast fax machine that also doubles as a USB laser printer and a copy machine.

Three "heads ups" for you:

First, there might be a learning curve if you've never owned a fax machine before. You have to put this together and it takes a few minutes. The pieces seem flimsy and you might wonder if it's going to work but once you get it together if it works fine.

Second, the manual is printed in a very small font that's hard to read even with my reading glasses on.

Third, with this machine you get a "starter toner cartridge" that is good for about 300 pages. To get a "real" toner cartridge you have to spend well over another hundred dollars. The toner cartridge costs more than half the price of the machine. You may also have to buy a USB cable.

So, with the toner cartridge and the service contract (which I think you're foolish not to buy) and sales tax in my state included it was upwards of $500.00 to get this thing up and running, but now it's a faithful servant that just sits there and works. So far so good.

Fax and Printer
The fax function works well enough, but is not outstanding; I like it as a network printer except that it has a tendency to lock up with an error message if the print job indicates legal size paper; then it takes too much of an effort to clear out the message and reset the machine. The front door opens poorly; cheap design. It would have been great to have an easier way of feeding legal size paper than having to open the lower tray, taking out the paper, expanding the tray, then placing the legal size paper, then repeating again to place letter size paper. Otherwise I believe it will serve me well.

worked well for over a year
I've used this machine in my small office for almost two years. Setup was a cinch. It worked flawlessly for over a year. Now I have problems with paper jams. Continuous paper jams. Sometimes I stand over the machine for 30 minutes at a time pulling out a jammed paper and restting the machine only to have it jam on the next piece of paper. For that reason, I am now shopping for a new machine.