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DOES NOT DUPLEX COPY OR SCAN, despite claiming to do so twice in description
This printer, Canon imageCLASS MF244dw, DOES NOT DUPLEX COPY OR SCAN. The product description here on Amazon says "All mode duplexing right out of the box" and in the table with other models it says this all-in-one will duplex "Print, Scan, Copy", but it certainly does not. If you read the table comparison quite carefully (as I did after this realization), you can see that tucked away in the same table it says "simplex automatic document feeder". How is that "all mode duplexing"?
So, straight out of the box there is no ability to make double-sided copies from double-sided papers. There's also no feature to scan a packet of double-sided papers, which is the one feature that I wanted from this printer and was looking for based on the 2 claims for it in the product description.
I tried to scan 10 double-sided papers last week. To do so with this printer, I had to scan them on the front side into 1 PDF, then scan them on the back side into another PDF, then email them from home to my work account where I can access Adobe Acrobat Pro, then open both PDFs in Acrobat, then click and drag the pages from one file into the other being careful to perfectly shuffle their placement so that they appear in the correct order, then save the combined PDF, then email it back to my personal account, then download it to my computer.
Can I still return this thing?
Yes, it duplex prints just fine. But if I just wanted a duplex printer I would have just purchased a printer that claimed that it only duplex prints. Sigh.
January 2018 · Office Products · verified purchase