Review on Enhanced Kyocera ECOSYS M5521cdw Multifunction Color Printer (Copy, Scan, Print, Fax) at 22ppm by Mateusz Swierczynski ᠌

Name: Enhanced Kyocera ECOSYS M5521cdw Multifunction Color Printer (Copy, Scan, Print, Fax) at 22ppm
Item: Enhanced Kyocera ECOSYS M5521cdw Multifunction Color Printer (Copy, Scan, Print, Fax) at 22ppm
Rating: 3

May 03, 2023

Overall it's good but I expect more, there are some downsides.

Unfortunately, there are no compact laser color MFPs with an extended cartridge resource and automatic two-sided scanning in the price range up to 20 thousand. (Or did I search badly?). They took it for home use (my wife quite often scans and prints children's books in English, color (black and white children are not interested)), they took a laser MFP due to the property of the ink to dry out in a short time, otherwise they would have taken an inkjet. I can’t say that I am very disappointed, but there is no satisfaction from the purchase either. Although the competitors are not perfect. We do not use fax, we do not need it, I would change this function to automatic two-sided scanning.

Pros

1. Cheaper (not much) than competitors. 2. They say you can "turn off" the chips, add toner (I haven't tried it yet, the starter cartridges haven't run out).

Cons

1. The complexity of operation (for the wife, she mostly needs color printing). She has an inkjet (color MFP) with three buttons, easy to operate, which also prints on cardboard, the comparison is not in favor of this device from Kyocera. 2. Poorly takes thick paper like drawing paper (frequent jams). 3. More than 400 pages of non-informative instruction manual (I saw noticeably smaller (approximately the same font), but much more informative manuals). More or less informative guide only in English on the global site, but how much "water" is there. 4. There is no duplex scanning (they could have done it in addition to the duplex printing function, the MFP would not have risen much in price). 5. It is defined by the operating system (win 7) as five separate printers / scanners / faxes (but each is configured separately, which can be an advantage), after installing the drivers there is no normal scanning through twain (third-party software products are needed, like a fine reader). 6. A lot of extra buttons on the control panel (it doesn’t really annoy me, my wife doesn’t like it), the display is small, you have to peer to read it.