DP-8045 TONER CARTRIDGE

Panasonic DP-8045 Review

Overview:

Consider the power of Panasonic DP-8045 when looking for a complete solution for your complicated document processing needs as it incorporates the latest in the cutting-edge technology accessible right in your fingertips. Ease of use, versatile performance, cost-efficiency and enhanced security—find this all associated within the fitting design of DP-8045 that boasts a speed that’s faster than fast made to top any other MFPs of its type and of its batch. If you’ve known DP-8035 also of Panasonic WORKiO DP line and had been blown away by its amazing functionality and innovative features, be ready to brace yourself even greater with DP-8045’s faster output speeds that as well contains all features and functions amazing from DP-8035. It offers print, copy, scan and fax functionality that complements every business’ demanding demands while ensuring greater office productivity boost. DP-8045’s design is carefully engineered so as to be accessible for everyone even for those of disability and ease of use is assured. It stands large in its rectangular box resemblance covered by a cream color with only one panel that’s in gray. The gray panel is located at the top and should be prominent with the useful highlights embedded in it. These highlights include an LCD display and an array of several buttons for controls including the ones in green and red used for basic functions such as starting or stopping print actions. The decorating simple yet smart-looking lines are also observable with DP-8035 that just add up in heightening its individuality. 

Pros:

Businesses allow no single second to waste and Panasonic exactly put great emphasis on this while designing the DP-8045. It provides clean and sharp digital copy needs that are of crisp details at an impressive 45 CPM (copies per minute). First copy out time is at approximately 4.5 seconds (letter size) and digital copying is done under the standard copy resolution of 600 x 600 DPI with 256 gray scale steps. Multiple copying is available for up to 999 copies that then automatically resets to 1 with exposure control offering three options which can be either in text, photo or text-photo mode. Copying is flexible with the zooming ratio enabled within 25% to 400% in increments of 1% while sorting memory of standard 32 MB is expandable for up to a maximum 160 MB for a smoother and more efficient sorting. Apart from the offered innovative functions including Double Exposure, SkyShot, and N-in-1, it as well provides a very helpful feature which is the Proof Copy function that provides sample set to check before having a mass-copy. This function significantly prevents costly errors as well as it improves productivity since everything is done error-free and straight-forward.

Printing is done smoothly and effortlessly that are of superb quality delivered as excellent as the copy system’s impressive delivery speed. At 45 PPM (pages per minute) printing speed, prints with deep and vibrant shades of concise contours and tones are provided under printing resolutions 1,200 x 600 DPI and 600 x 600 DPI. Transform DP-8045 to a high-speed network printer instantly as easy as just connecting it to the LAN via the available 10Base-T/100Base-TX and IEEE 1284 parallel interface. Memory was never compromised with the ample 50 MB standard printer memory plus 6 GB additional for spooling.

Digitize your paper documents for easy editing and management with DP-8045’s amazing scanning capability delivering quality scans at impressive 45 OPM (originals per minute) scan speed for letter size documents. Scanning is handled under three options for resolutions namely 150 DPI x 150 DPI, 300 x 300 DPI and 600 x 600 DPI and scanned documents can be saved in TIFF or PDF file format.

Fax system is G3 compatible of 33.6 Kbps modem speed with automatic fallback. It first scans your document at approximately 0.7 seconds that then transmits it real quick at about less than 2.7 seconds transmission speed. Effective scanning width is at 10.7” but this should not bother you about quality scans for other sizes as it has four different resolutions to enhance digitization of documents namely the standard mode at 203 DPI x 98 LPI, fine mode at 203 DPI x 196 LPI, super fine mode at 406 DPI x 391 LPI and the 600 DPI mode at 600 x 600 DPI.

Look no further if you’re looking for a multifunction device that can take up all your abusive print or copy jobs with its exceptional high-volume paper handling capacity. Standard paper capacity is given by three different paper feeders. First is the extra-large 1,550-sheet letter-size paper cassette that can handle most of the high-volume copying needs, the standard 550-sheet paper tray and the 50-sheet bypass tray great for handling copies onto special media types such as envelopes and transparencies. If this still sounds insufficient for your ridiculously large paper handling needs, the 2,150 overall paper sheet capacity is expandable for up to a maximum capacity of 6,250 paper sheets. It completes the job all throughout being a significant aid from start to finish with the optional finisher which can automatically perform your choice of variety of binding selections from stapling and hole punching to saddle stitching.

As with any WORKiO DP MFPs, ease of use and management is utmost prioritized that Panasonic assured to incorporate a comprehensive and improved user interface. Panasonic as well ensured that such versatile MFP is available for use even for those of disability. To prove this are the Braille indicators that help in paper drawer identification for the visually impaired.

Sharing same security features as that of the previous DP-8035, critical documents of businesses will always be confidential and secured with the enhanced security features in DP-8045. The Hard Disk Data erasing closes any potential leak by overwriting image data of each completed copy and print job. Administration can also be protected by a uniform username and password to enable usage restrictions which is helpful in minimizing the cost of non-permitted print or copy actions. Or say if you’re detaching the Hard Drive and want it secured, then you’ll need the optional Data Security Kit that works exactly like the BitLocker of Windows 7. It locks the Hard Drive and will always be locked not unless the set password is entered.

Cons:

It seems that MFPs of Panasonic WORKiO DP line that are of enhanced output speeds or to be exact, MFPs that of 45 CPM/PPM/OPM output speeds (just like for instance DP-4510 as well) seemingly made the warm-up time suffer at about 3 minutes which is disappointing when compared to other multifunction devices of only less than a minute or better yet less than half a minute warm-up time for a few.

The incorporation of several versatile features and functionalities to DP-8045 seemingly affected its size making Panasonic come up with such relatively monstrous multifunctional device. At dimensions of approximately 23.6” x 29.8” x 35.4” (W x D x H) makes it considerably bulky and this size is accompanied as well by a heavy weight at 138 kg approximate leaving mobility a great problem and hassle. Operating system compatibility is also a problem as by default, it is incompatible with Windows 7 and the 64-bit version of Windows Vista since its compatibility for Windows is only until Windows Vista (32-bit) and so driver/s (if available, which may be found directly in the official manufacturer’s site) is/are needed to be downloaded and installed just to be compatible with Windows Vista 64-bit and Windows 7.