Canon IR C3100
The Canon IR C3100 can print in monochrome at a fast 32ppm but in colour it can only print at 7ppm. It can also copy, scan, and fax in colour.
The C3100 shipped with four paper trays and standard 50-page document feeder to give you a combined capacity of 4750 A4-sized pages. There was no finisher attached to this device but you can get one as an option.
The C3100 can be configured using a browser. The interface is simple to use, however it needs a fresh new look because the design looks very primitive. You can block users from printing in colour, for example. As an option, you can purchase Canon's NetSpot Accountant that allows an administrator to see who's doing what and then be able to report on it.
The C3100 was very fast at printing plain documents, equally as fast as the Ricoh. Printing in colour was a different story and it was also very slow printing in duplex mode.
| Product | Canon IR C3100 |
| Price | AU$19,550 as tested; from AU$13,585 |
| Vendor | Canon |
| Phone | 02 9805 2600 |
| Web | www.canon.com.au/imagerunner |
| Interoperability |  |
| Wide range of operating systems, hardware platforms, and networking protocols supported. | |
| Futureproofing |  |
| Large paper capacity, large range of finshers available, large HDD. | |
| ROI |  |
| Priced only slightly higher than the mono-only Kyocera. | |
| Service |  |
| Thirty-day warranty, service contracts available. | |
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hi there
good info sofar, mfd's could also have answering phone/machine etc or will ansa machine work seperately to mfds? sometimes ansa machines answer on faxes, how to avoid this?