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Color at Work
®
Summing Up
While Sharp may have been a late arrival
onto the color MFP scene and has had to
struggle playing catch-up, the Japanese
giant is now well and truly in the market,
with a range of color MFP products that
will put up a worthy offense to the market
leaders.
BERTL was very impressed by the way in
which Sharp has gone from so little to so
much in one generation and has firmly laid
down the gauntlet to others in terms of
both user friendliness and overall
functionality.
The device is not perfect, with reproduction
of greyscales in full color mode and the
lack of a centralized cost accounting
system being its major hurdles.
However, the wide array of unique user-
friendly features listed below makes the
Sharp MX-3501N one of the easier 5-star
grade decisions that BERTL has made
over the past 12 months.
• Favorite groups allowing each login to
customize the device to the person
• Scan to USB functionality for on-the-fly
hard copy to soft copy conversion
• A plethora of security
features that should make
most CIOs sleep a little
better at night
• A 150-sheet single pass
duplexing document
feeder to handle large
jobs in a single visit
• Highly-featured printer
drivers ensuring that
desktop printing is made
as efficient as possible
We look forward to seeing how the
departmental class color-enabled units
fare and how the competition struggles to
combat these new color MFP products.
What we would like to see next:
• More attention to accessibility features
such as either a tilting control panel or
a remote copy/scan control
mechanism
• Better queue viewing capabilities
allowing desktop users to see the
volume of copy jobs at the device
• More scan workflow functionality built
into the firmware of the device such as
color dropout, deskew, and despeckle
which will further aid the device being
used as a decentralized scanning
resource.
• Scan preview from the touch screen
control panel.
BERTL analyst impressed by the Sharp MX-3501N