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Panasonic DP-C354 Review

Overview:

In the advent of fast reliable multifunction devices, Panasonic always impress the crowd out with its C3 series of multifunction devices and one of which is the DP-C354. It resembles exactly as any C3 series multifunction device of Panasonic that combines the power of four separate office productivity devices with its print, copy, scan and fax capabilities. The main reason why it belonged to the elite class of “C” is its full color functionality as a printer, copier and scanner that delivers exceptional quality endured day after day of heavy document processing jobs. It certainly is a smart choice for businesses of demanding demands so as to cope with the evolution of colored output needs of today. It as well presents a wide array of helpful features to leverage document processing while ensuring that critical documents will always be confidential with the enhanced security system. All functionality and versatility are contained in its box appearance that’s relatively large and is revamped in cream color with a prominent panel in gray at the top. The design is simple yet compelling and should look aesthetically pleasing everywhere and anywhere in an office environment. It is coupled with several simple yet smart-looking lines which add up in enhancing its individuality. A prominent panel in gray at the top, that’s tilted in a way that should be readily visible even at a distant, is as well prominent with the embedded useful highlights. These highlights include a large colored touch-sensitive LCD display positioned at the center and an array of several buttons for controls placed side by side of the LCD display. Also at the front just directly beside the control panel is a slot for SD and PC cards integrated to deliver the convenience of printing even without a PC at hand.

Pros:

Put your amazement to the next level as with the leveled up digital copy speed at 35 CPM (copies per minute) for black & white and up to 26 CPM for color. It isn’t time-consuming as it leaps into action real quick at a warm-up time of only about 15 seconds that then delivers the first copy at approximately 6.2 seconds (letter size) for black & white and approximately 10.3 seconds (letter size) for color. Zooming can be done within 25% to 400% in increments of 1% in an exposure control of text, photo or text-photo mode. Multiple copying is enabled for up 999 copies that then automatically resets to 1 and the sorting memory is non-expandable but is definitely sufficient for efficient and smoother sorting standard at 2 GB.

Print system inherited the versatility of the copy system with printing speed of up to 35 PPM (pages per minute) for black & white and up to 26 PPM for color. With the 1200 x 1200 DPI and 600 x 600 DPI printing resolutions, it provides clean and sharp prints that are of crisp details. Both the printer memory and spool memory are non-expandable but is sufficient at 512 MB and 2 GB respectively. It offers 10Base-T/100BaseTX Ethernet interface to leverage the network printing capability and has drivers for various platforms and emulations.

Digitize your documents for a more effective editing and management with DP-C354’s impressive scanning speed of up to 35 OPM (originals per minute) for black & white and up to 31 OPM for color. Maximum scanning size is at 11” x 17” and quality control and enhancement is delivered by the four different options for resolutions: 200 x 200 DPI, 300 x 300 DPI, 400 x 400 DPI and 600 x 600 DPI. Scanned documents that can be saved in TIFF or PDF file formats for black & white and JPEG, PDF or Compressed PDF file formats for color, is shareable as easy as 1-2-3. The Scan-to-PC feature allows it to be sent directly to a networked PC, Scan-to-FTP feature allows it to be transferred instantly to an FTP server and the Scan-to-Email feature is for easy emailing of the scanned documents.

Fax system is G3 compatible of 33.6 Kbps modem speed with automatic fallback. It scans your documents at approximately 0.7 seconds that then transmits it real quick at about 2.9 seconds transmission speed. Effective scanning width is at 11.5” but quality scans are still endured for other sizes with the help of four different resolutions 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. It can take up to 180 pages in its memory which is correspondingly equal to 3 MB. If this does not satisfy your needs, this standard memory is expandable for up to 64 MB or with the insertion of an SD card, is up to 1 GB.

Panasonic DP-C354 is fit for your medium-volume paper handling needs with its paper capacity standard at 1150 paper sheets. This is given by the dual 550-sheet paper tray and a 50-sheet multipurpose tray perfect handling prints/copies onto special media types such as transparencies and envelopes. If this still sounds insufficient, the 1,150 standard paper capacity is expandable for up to a maximum capacity of 2,250 paper sheets from different paper feeders. It completes the job all throughout being a significant aid from start to finish with the optional finishers which can automatically perform your choice of variety of binding options from stapling and hole punching to saddle stitching.

Flexibility and functionality is even heightened with the convenience of SD card printing thanks to the available SD card slot. This capability directly prints MS Word, PowerPoint and PDF documents or JPEG and TIFF images from cameras right from the SD card. SD card can also be used as a handy storage for the scanned documents. For various removable media, PC card slot is as well provided.

It as well integrated an enhanced graphical user interface with the large VGA full color LCD display at the control panel that provides quick access to many functions that help in simplifying various complicated tasks. Optional Document Distribution System software is as well available for an efficient management, organization and distribution of all documents including scanned document images, inbound faxes, etc.

Cons:

Panasonic DP-C354 is ridiculously large which requires a considerable amount of space for it to be accommodated with it standing at dimensions of 25.8” x 32.5” x 36.7” (W x D x H). Such large dimensions corresponded to a heavy weight at 164 kg which implies mobility is a hassle. And operating system compatibility is also a problem as by default, it is incompatible to newer operating systems namely Windows Vista and 7 since its compatibility in terms of Windows OS is only until Windows XP 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 to be compatible with these newer versions.