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Make your home office a smart office with the Panasonic KX-MB1500 multifunction printer! The KX-MB1500 features a space saving and extremely compact body designed for home offices with limited space and includes standard print, copy and scan functionality. All basic operations are performed from the front and this design allows you to place the unit just about anywhere in your office
Easy to use: The KX-MB1500 allows you to print up to 150 pages without reloading the paper tray. It also offers convenient copy functions; such as “Quick ID Copy” which allows you to copy both sides of one or more ID or business cards consecutively. The built-in color scanner also allows you to scan in any document to a PC or Mac and save in full color in PDF, TIFF, JPEG or BMP file formats. The scanned documents can then be easily attached to an e-mail for distribution or saved on your computer.
Speed No disappointments here in terms of speed--the printer took some time to come out of its Power Save mode (about 30 seconds) but once it was moving pages were coming out in under three seconds. That's right where a laser printer should be. Panasonic estimates 18 pages per minute (A4) and 19 per minute letter, and it's hard to disagree with that. Scans and copies took only a few seconds to complete as well.
Quality and Extras With a monochrome laser printer, quality should never be an issue, and it was not for this printer. Texts were clear and sharp, and there was a decent range of grays that made graphics look acceptable if not great. The printer is printing at a 600 x 600 dpi resolution. This little printer (it measures in at 360 mm x 380 mm x 203 mm and around 9 kg) certainly doesn't take up much desktop space, which was surprising since it's a multifunction printer--and these can be behemoths. Perhaps that's because there are few bells and whistles that come with the printer.
Other Panasonic has a "slim back design" in which the power cord is angled; that allows the printer to be put against a wall without having the power cord in the way. That helps keep the printer compact. The control panel is simple and while the the LCD screen is small and black-on-gray, the panel itself is tilted to make it easier to see from any angle, which is typically the flimsiest part of any printer (and which extends the printer's depth by nearly a foot). Instead, pages come out inside the printer just above the control panel. That's a handy space saver, though you need to pull those pages out after a short time since they pile up in a small space pretty quickly. While the printer is aimed at regular users, there's no word in the specifications about what the printer's monthly duty cycle is. The toner cartridge is rated for 2,500 pages; You couldn't find the price of a replacement toner cartridge.
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