TOSHIBA E-STUDIO 207 TONER CARTRIDGE

Toshiba e-Studio 207 Review

Overview:

Several factors are to be considered for an office to be successful and exemplary document processing is one. Toshiba look upon this factor and come up with a 4-in-1 multifunction device that shall take great role in boosting business workflow, the Toshiba e-Studio 207. If you’ve known Toshiba with its every release of e-Studio line of devices, then e-Studio 207 can be better yet described as a sister multifunction device of e-Studio 167 and e-Studio 237 which is the second fastest in terms of output speed among the three (e-Studio 167 is the slowest and e-Studio 237 is the fastest among the three). It resembles like a large standing rectangular box covered with cream color relieved by some panels in gray and styled with a few simple lines that are smart-looking which just heightened its individuality. At the front most part in the top panel are useful highlights embedded in a gray panel. These highlights include an LCD display and an array of buttons for controls including the three larger ones in yellow, orange and green color used for some basic functions such as for starting and stopping print, copy and scan actions.

Pros:

To maximize the benefits from its functionality, Toshiba integrated essential management and monitoring applications. One of which is TopAccess that monitors different statuses in e-Studio 207 providing instant alerts to network computers if paper reloading or toner replenishment is needed. There’s also the Toshiba Viewer that enables both standard GDI printing and TWAIN compatible scanning and the e-Bridge Viewer that makes access of needed documents easy with it enabling broad searching among all selected data stored in a PC in which search can be narrowed by certain identified criteria.

A multifunction device of components that can only take moderate or light printing/copying jobs does not even describe e-Studio 207 because its components notably its developer and drum unit boasts up to 90,000 impressions plus the toner cartridge integrated by 100% recycling toner system guarantees up to 24,000 impressions. A substantial paper capacity fits this performance which is standard at 350 paper sheets given by the 250-sheet paper drawer and a 100-sheet multipurpose tray perfect when using special media types such as transparencies and envelopes. This paper capacity is expandable for up to 1,700 paper sheets if still insufficient for your needs.

Among three models earlier specified, e-Studio 207 stand out to be second fastest delivering your copy and print needs at 20 PPM (pages per minute) at a resolution of 2,400 x 600 DPI with smoothing technology and the same speed and resolution can be said for the network printing capability of e-Studio 207. Standard copier memory is non-expandable but is sufficient at 112 MB. Toshiba e-Studio 207 does not make you wait long for it to leap into action with its warm-up time of around 25 seconds that then delivers the first copy at approximately 7.7 seconds or less. Image density control can be either in text, text-photo or photo mode in which reproduction ratio ranges from 25% to 200% also allowing multiple copying of up to 999 copies.

The standard scanning feature is TWAIN compatible giving you two options for resolution, 300 x 300 DPI and 600 x 600 DPI. For network scanning, scan resolution can be 150 DPI, 200 DPI, 300 DPI, 400 DPI and 600 DPI and scan speed is excellent at 20 scans per minute (letter size at 600 DPI). Scanned documents can be of TIFF or PDF format and it provides scan types including scan-to-email, scan-to-file (SMB or FTP) and scan-to-TWAIN. And fax system is Super G3 compatible of 33.6 Kbps modem speed which allows duplex transmission.

Cons:

Benefiting the same features and functionality, e-Studio 237, a sister e-Studio multifunction device of e-Studio 207, is a better choice since it has a relatively faster output speed which outranks e-Studio 207’s performance in boosting office workflow. It is as well bulky with its dimensions of 23.62”W x 25.31”D x 18.21”H and mobility is a bit hassle with its weight at 70.1 lbs. 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 are on operating systems prior to its release or in the case 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.