Canon imageCLASS LBP6030w Driver Download

Canon imageCLASS LBP6030w Driver Download- The Canon imageClass LBP6030w is a laser printer belongs to the same broad category of personal monochrome lasers as the Canon imageClass LPB6200d.

The LBP6030w‘s most obvious competition is not limited to Canon’s printers. The Samsung Xpress M2625D, our Editors’ Choice for a personal monochrome laser, comes at a lower price and slower speed.

The LBP6030w’s Wi-Fi capabilities make it a potential choice as a light-duty co-printer in a micro office. That makes it competitive with the Samsung Xpress M2825DW, our Editors’ Choice for an affordable micro-office co-printer.

Compared to both Samsung models and the Canon LPB6200d, the LBP6030w offers significantly lower paper handling capabilities, with a capacity of 150 sheets instead of 250 sheets, and there is no duplexer available even as an option.

That’s enough for most personal printer uses, but if you’re considering using it as a shared printer, it’s a bit of a stretch, even by micro office standards. That said, it should suffice if your office prints less than 30 pages daily on average.

imageCLASS LBP6030w Setup, Speed, and Output Quality

I installed the LBP6030w driver on a Windows Vista system for my testing. Setup, using a USB connection, is standard fare.

Canon rates the printer at 19 pages per minute (ppm), which is the speed you should look for text documents or other files that require little or no processing. In our suite of business applications (using QualityLogic’s(Opens in new window)hardware and software for timing), the printer came in at 10.1 ppm, which is essentially tied to the Samsung M2625D and Samsung M2825DW. It’s also slightly slower than the 11.1 ppm speed for the Canon LPB6200d in default duplex mode and significantly slower than the 14.5 ppm I measured for the Canon LPB6200d in simplex mode.

The LBP6030w’s output quality is slightly subpar for text and subpar for the graphics and photo categories. Fortunately, even the worst monochrome laser text output is pretty good on an absolute scale. That makes the LBP6030w text good enough for almost any business need. However, most people won’t find it good enough for a desktop publishing application.

For graphics, being on the lower end of what is typical for a personal monochrome laser means it’s good enough for any internal business need. Depending on your perfectionist, you might also find them good enough for PowerPoint handouts. The photo output is adequate for printing recognizable images from Web pages and the like, with photos generally of roughly the same quality as black and white photos in newspapers.

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One final issue worth mentioning is the operating cost of the printer, which is 4.4 cents per page. In comparison, the running costs for the Samsung 2625D and Samsung M2825DW are only 3 cents per page.

So unless you find the LBP6030w at a really good price, it will likely cost more to buy than one of those Editors’ Choice printers and also more expensive to use.

Based on the total cost of ownership and capability, there is little reason to choose the Canon imageClass LBP6030w over other Samsung models, with higher paper capacities and duplex capabilities.

If you want to connect with a USB cable, the Samsung 2625D is a much better value. And for connecting to a network, the Samsung 2825D offers Ethernet and Wi-Fi. The Canon imageClass LBP6030w’s small size can be attractive. If your printing needs are very light, and you don’t want to waste a lot of desk space, that makes it a reasonable, if not a very attractive, option.