The $400, Canon ImageClass MF4690 has all the trappings of a great small office printer. This multifunction laser Printer, Canon MF4690, has the ability to scan documents to a file server on the network.
The cheap Canon ImageClass MF4690 is compact for a multifunction laser printer. Printer measures 15.4 inches wide, 17.4 inches deep, and 14.6 inches tall, and weighs just less than 32 pounds. The 250-sheet paper cassette tray resides at the bottom of the printer and can be adjusted to hold legal sheets. Also mounted on the input cassette is a manual feed tray for one-off prints. It only holds one sheet at a time, though, so you’ll have to manually feed each sheet. The output tray has a pull-out arm to corral long sheets.
The printer’s control panel is well organized and clearly labeled. The only other feature on the MF4690 is a USB 2.0 port for connecting USB storage devices (more on this in the Features section). The Canon ImageClass MF4690 also consists of a starter toner cartridge, rated to print about 1,000 pages. The 2,000-page replacement cartridge costs $70, for a per-page cost of about 3.5 cents.
The cheap Canon ImageClass MF4690 prints black text at a rate of 14.70ppm and black graphics at a rate of 14.51 pages per minute (ppm). The quality text print is good overall: sharp characters and nice, deep black. The same goes for the grayscale graphics print. Overall, the print quality is acceptable for a small office or work group.