Canon 2020i GOOD, EXCELLENT, VERY GOOD, Reliability, MULTITASKING, Canon imageRUNNER, Performance Overview, Jobs are processed on a, Administrative Utilities

LAB TEST

Canon imageRUNNER 2020iBuyers Laboratory Lab Test ReportPerformance Overview, — and  represent positive, negative and neutral attributes, respectively.

Reliability

EXCELLENT

The Canon imageRUNNER 2020i completed BLI’s two-month, 50,000-impres- sion durability test without misfeeding or requiring service of any kind.

—The unit’s drum yield is lower than the average for competitive models.

MULTITASKING

GOOD

Offering good multitasking capabilities, the imageRUNNER 2020i enables users to program up to four copy jobs.

Programming of the next copy job can begin as soon as the pages of the previous copy job have been scanned.

A prompt appears on the display letting users know the system is ready to scan the next copy job.

The unit does not offer an interrupt function.

Jobs are processed on a first-in, first-out basis; one function cannot be established as a priority function.

Administrative Utilities

VERY GOOD

Administrative utilities for the imageRUNNER 2020i include the unit’s Remote User Interface (its embedded Web page), which can be accessed from users’ desktops, and imageWARE Enterprise Management Console, which is HTML- based. imageWARE Enterprise Management Console enables discovery of Canon and non-Canon devices on the network and also enables viewing all devices or groups of devices that meet specified criteria. Administrators can choose to view network devices in a list view or in a map view that shows their locations in the enterprise.

The Remote User Interface is very easy to navigate and offers a broad range of functionality. It allows remote configuration of network settings and authentication, viewing counters for every function (copy, print, send,

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