The Panasonic Corporation is globally famous as a company offering equipment powered by laser printing technology. Panasonic solutions may satisfy the needs of various customers. There are Panafax Workio laser fax machines and multifunctions for large enterprises and offices with high volumes of monthly printing. For small and medium working groups Panasonic offers relatively affordable and effective devices like laser multifunctions with fax features.
The Panasonic Corporation is globally famous as a company offering equipment powered by laser printing technology. Panasonic solutions may satisfy the needs of various customers. There are Panafax Workio laser fax machines and multifunctions for large enterprises and offices with high volumes of monthly printing. For small and medium working groups Panasonic offers relatively affordable and effective devices like laser multifunctions with fax features.
Today we will get acquainted with the possibilities of Panasonic KX-MB283 laser MFP. The key difference of this model from its "younger" brother in series, the KX-MB263, is the availability of the 20-sheet ADF and the LAN network interface (10/100 Base-T).
Panasonic KX-MB283 is designed to perform various tasks in the office, as it unites a laser printer, copier and color scanner under one roof. The device meets all the requirements of small and medium offices for the right MFP: printing and copying rate of up to 18 ppm, ability to scan color document and pictures in high resolution (600 x 1200 dpi) in batch mode (up to 20 sheets), several connectivity ports, and compactness.
Design and decoration of the KX-MB283 laser MFP can be called the trademark of Panasonic: light gray shade body, frontal information panel and color coded controls.
You would not have difficulty assembling and preparing the MFP as the procedure is well illustrated in the attached instructions.
Panasonic KX-MB283 printing system is powered by electrostatic copying. To extend the service life of the replaceable units, the toner cartridge and the drum are manufactured as two separate parts.
After the toner cartridge and drum unit have been unpacked and assembled, the made up kit is installed into the appropriate slot in the device. In addition to detailed descriptions of each step in the instructions, assembly of MFP is much facilitated with icons depicting each step.
The MFP can run in autonomous mode, that is without a computer, but you can connect it to desktop over USB 2.0 or LAN. However, even in autonomous mode the device retain the functionality intact, with monitoring of operation processes and service messages.
The Panasonic laser printing devices have long reached the brilliant printing quality. So, the outcome of printing tasks was expectable: results were admirable for the announced 600 dpi. Good production of vector elements, great rasterizing algorithms for images and vector elements, brilliant reproduction of fonts confidently legible at the size of 6 pt, and even 4 pt for some fonts.
Economy mode of printing makes the prints less contrast and clear. However, the outcome is good enough for drafts, especially given that the usage of toner drops to 40%, according to the specifications.
The built-in scanner demonstrates high quality work. Since the device reproduces colors just fine, for any office work the quality of scans can be described as abundant.
The function of copying, the child of marriage of scanner and printer, also produced quality output. The copied pages were of just a little less good compared to the printed pages, however, you can hardly notice it without close examination.
The running costs of the Panasonic KX-MB283 are comparatively small: the toner cartridge KX-FAD92A lasting 2,000 copies costs around $33. The photoconductor (KX-FAD93A) lasting 6,000 copies would be $100 more. Thus, based on the usual occupation of small and mid-sized offices, this printer would require only modest financing from the budget.
Don't forget about the 18 pages per minute of laser printing and copying speeds, high-rapidity USB 2.0 and network 10/100 Base-T interfaces, and the possibility of high-quality scanning of color and monochrome images, including the batch mode.
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Panasonic KX-MB283 laser printer looks good as a piece of office equipment for small and med-sized offices. Provided you correctly estimated the document flow of the office, because if laser toners for 2,000 copies aren't enough even for a week, it probably makes sense to think of other MFP with capacious Panasonic laser toners.
