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 - Great Machine For The MoneyI bought this machine for use in my home music studio. I teach private music lessons and find that I'm regularly needing to photocopy music for a student to use as a rehearsal copy. (No copyright violations here!) I've got the machine connected to my Windows laptop computer (running XP) and I don't recall having any difficulty installing the drivers at all. This machine has performed flawlessly as a printer and as a copier and, for the price, it's a very good deal. Rating:  - Great Low Volume CopierI didn't want a printer; I needed a low-volume copier. This fit the bill perfectly. It turns on instantly after being in energy-save mode, copies as fast as it says, makes extremely nice copies, is easy to clear jams, and does copy (manually) on both sides of the paper. I doubt it would be great for high-volume use (the toner would probably be too expensive, though still less than a service contract on a higher-priced copy machine), but I installed it in our math department workroom and it has performed wonderfully. How does it work as a printer? Can't say ... I didn't connect it that way. We use it only as a copier. I recommend it highly! Rating:  - Two sided printing is NOT SUPPORTED (Rebuttal to the Rebuttal)I just purchased this printer, largely based on the 'rebuttal' by By Corey S. Hatch, to the accurate warnings posted here by Thomas Bradshaw. Unfortunately, I have found Thomas Bradshaw's observations to be right on the money, in regards to paper curling and the difficulty and unreliability of two-sided printing. Corey S. Hatch's comments to the contrary contradict Canon's own FAQ on the support site which says that two-sided printing is flatly: NOT SUPPORTED! Of course, it can be done, with difficulty. The purpose of this review is to inform others of what I have learned, by trial and error, since this function is very important to me and now I must live with it. -- DUPLEX NOT SUPPORTED First of all, 'duplex' printing is not supported, which isn't a big drawback since, with many printers, a simple workaround is to print odd pages first, then even pages, in reverse order. -- EVEN / ODD PRINTING NOT SUPPORTED IN DRIVER Unfortunately, the printer driver does not support an 'even pages only' or 'odd pages only' option. This is pretty sad. Even my ancient Apple Laserwriter Pro 600 had this feature over a decade ago. Fortunately, this isn't a problem when printing PDF files since both Adobe and Foxit PDF reader applications support even or odd, and reverse order printing. However, if you use Windows Picture and Fax Viewer and try to print with Windows Photo Printing Wizard, you are out of luck, except to manually uncheck the individual odd or even photos, then do it all again in reverse. -- MULTI-PURPOSE TRAY NOT SELECTABLE IN DRIVER This becomes a problem when attempting to use the multi-purpose tray for printing of side two (see below). The printer automatically selects paper in the multi-purpose tray - BUT ONLY IF IT IS DETECTED - which becomes unreliable, due to paper curl. -- PAPER CURL / PAPER HANDLING PROBLEMS This didn't seem like a big problem when reading review, prior to purchase. But now I see - this is where things get sticky. After printing the first side, you will find a very pronounced curl along the top edge of the output pages. I have tried to smooth this out by manually rolling the pages in reverse, but it has not seemed to help. I will experiment further with different types of paper - maybe that will help. The problem arises in that the printer does not sense and/or pickup curled pages reliably. You have two options for printing side 2: multi-purpose tray or using the sheet feed tray. -- SIDE TWO PRINTING USING THE MULTI-PURPOSE TRAY (recommended) This is the best route I have found, despite its limitations. The first problem is that the multi-purpose tray feeder slots only accept '10 pages' (20#), according to the manual. This is true, in terms of the limiting width of the feeder slot, however an equally important limitation which seems to reduce this capacity even further is the inability of the printer to sense the presence of paper in the multi-purpose tray, due to the CURL which gets caught and prevents the stack to be smoothly inserted far enough into the printer to be detected. If you have 10 sheets in the multi-purpose slot, it is almost impossible to wiggle them enough to force the curled edge far enough inside the printer to be detected - you have a much better chance with 1-3 sheets - but it is unreliable. The result is that: 1. There is no way to know BEFORE printing, if the printer will detect the papers in the multi-purpose tray. 2. If the paper in the multi-purpose tray is not detected, then it will default to using paper in the 250 sheet tray, which will be wasted, or, worse - it will use some paper from the 250 sheet tray, then suddenly detect paper in the multi-purpose tray wasting those as well since, now, the pages will all be printed out of sequence and you have to start over printing side one again, from scratch! WORKAROUND: > Remove all paper from the 250 sheet tray PRIOR to attempting to print from the multi-purpose tray - thus giving yourself a second chance to insert the paper properly, if it does not get detected. -- SIDE TWO PRINTING USING THE 250 SHEET TRAY (not recommended) This is the method I tried first, since, if it worked, it would avoid the 10 page (or less) capacity limitation of the multi-purpose tray. Unfortunately, the printer is far less reliable in picking up CURLED paper from this tray: in one case, it skipped the top page and picked up pages underneath; most often it will grab two pages instead of one - in both cases your job is messed up. Use of the multi-purpose tray seems to effectively prevent the printer from picking up more than one sheet, or in skipping a sheet. -- NO ABILITY TO QUICKLY STOP PRINTING; NO ON/OFF SWITCH This printer is fast! When you have paper feed problems and paper is being wasted, it is difficult to stop the machine. My first response was to press the red 'stop/reset' button - but this has no effect (I guess it is only for copy jobs). Once the job has been sent to the printer, you can't cancel it from your computer. Although the manual claims you can use the status monitor function controls to cancel a job, after some 'are you sure' bit of dialog - it might be quicker to simply pull the plug. Fortunately, I have a powerstrip with an on-off switch on a separate cable that I position right next to the printer. You might consider using an extension cord that has an inline switch. It seems pretty cheap of Canon to have saved $1 or so by not including an on/off switch. Other than these problems with two sided printing, I like the printer but haven't tested much else yet. I was attracted by the reported low cost per page but, given that two sided printing is such a pain, you probably want to add a penny or so per page since you will need to use twice the paper with this machine. Rating: - Canon ReviesMakes great copies if you can figure out how to work it. The instruction manual is very confusing. Rating: - Review Canon D320 Image ClassMy opinion on this product is the copier is okay, but as far as the coping goes with the fact that this copier rolls the paper to copy it does not leave the new copy in a smooth sheet,it has a rolled look. Now when you make a copy on front and back the copylooks even worst than the original copy. Like I said the canon D320 is just okay as a copier/printer it does not stand out as a good quality copier.
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