As part of Canon's new series of small-biz printers, the Canon Maxify MB2320 Wireless Inkjet Small Office All-in-One Printer ($199.99) has a good set of features for small or home offices. The MB2320's ($298.00 at Amazon) voluminous paper capacity, low running costs, and sharp text should put it in good stead with small-business owners looking for a color multifunction printer (MFP).

While Canon's Pixma line has features geared to both household and home-office use, the Maxify models are focused on business, with its products targeted at full-time home offices, sole proprietorships, and offices with a few employees. The Maxify line lacks some consumer-friendly features, such as a media-card reader or a dedicated tray for printing photos, but adds fax capabilities and other business features.

Design
The MB2320 prints, copies, scans, and faxes. It can print from or scan to a USB thumb drive. It measures 12.6 by 18.3 by 18.1 inches (HWD), and weighs 26.3 pounds. Paper capacity is a generous 500 sheets, split between two 250-sheet trays that hold up to legal-size paper. It includes an automatic duplexer for two-sided printing. On top of the printer is the letter-sized flatbed, plus a 50-sheet automatic document feeder (ADF) from which you can scan at up to legal size.

The 3-inch, color touch-screen LCD provides easy access to MFP features. Controls include an On/Off button, a Home button, a Back button with, buttons with a diamond icon for black-and-white and color scanning, and a Stop button.

Mobile Printing Features
The MB2320 is AirPrint-compatible, and also provides access to Maxify Cloud Link, an interface that lets you access cloud-bases services directly from your printer's screen. You can print pictures from online photo albums, office templates, and more, even without a computer, and upload scanned documents directly to Evernote, DropBox, Google Drive, and OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive). The MB2320 also supports Google Cloud Print, which lets you send documents to your printer from any Web-connected computer, smart phone, or smart device. You can also print and scan photos or documents from an iOS, Android, or Windows RT mobile device with the Maxify Printing Solutions app installed on it.

The MB2320 can connect to a network via Ethernet or Wi-Fi, and directly to a computer via USB. I tested it over an Ethernet connection with drivers installed on a PC running Windows Vista.

Print Speed
The MB2320 printed out our business applications suite (as timed with QualityLogic's hardware and software) at 4.7 pages per minute (ppm), fairly typical for an inkjet at its price. That's a bit short of two Editors' Choice models, the Epson WorkForce WF-3640 ($214.99 at Amazon) (5.4ppm), and the Brother MFC-J4610DW ($998.00 at Amazon) (5.6ppm). It did edge out the Canon Maxify MB2020 Wireless Inkjet Small Office All-in-One Printer ($109.99 at Canon) (4.2ppm), and beat the HP Officejet Pro 6830 e-All-in-One Printer ( at Amazon) (3.5ppm).

Output Quality
Overall output quality for the MB2320 is average for an inkjet, but uneven, with above-par text, sub-par graphics, and average photos. Text quality should be fine for any business use, other than documents requiring very small fonts. With graphics, most backgrounds in our test images showed banding (a regular pattern of striations). Thin lines were all but lost in two illustrations. Graphics are fine for most internal business uses, though I'd hesitate to use them for handouts going to people I was trying to impress or for formal reports.

Most of the photos I printed with the MB2320 are about the quality you'd expect from drugstore prints. A monochrome photo was tinted, for instance.

Running costs, based on Canon's price and yield figures for its cartridges, are 2.7 cents per monochrome page and 8 cents per color page. They are low for an inkjet at its price, particularly the color cost.

The MB2320 is a step up from the Canon Maxify MB2020, the low-end model in the Maxify line. It doubles the latter's paper capacity, and adds a touch screen and Ethernet connectivity. The MB2320's higher-rated speed was borne out in our testing. It has double the paper capacity of the Canon Maxify MB5020 Wireless Inkjet Small Office All-in-One Printer, but is built for lighter use (with a maximum monthly duty cycle of 15,000 pages, to the Canon MB5020's 30,000 pages). The MB2320's running costs are higher, especially for monochrome printing, as its ink tanks have a lower yield than those of the Canon MB5020.

It does have lower running costs than the Editors' Choice Epson WorkForce WF-3640 (3.2 cents per monochrome page and 11.4 cents per color page). The Epson WF-3640 is faster, supports Wi-Fi Direct, and has a duplexing automatic document feeder (ADF), letting you copy, scan, and fax two-sided documents.

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The MB2320 doesn't offer tabloid-size (11-by-17-inch) printing, which you can get with several Brother inkjet MFPs, including the Editors' Choice Brother MFC-J4610DW. That model also offers strong speed, low running cost, and good paper capacity (though its 400-sheet standard capacity is still short of that of the MB2320).

If you don't need to print at tabloid size, the Canon Maxify MB2320 is a worthy pick as a SOHO MFP. Its running costs are higher than some of its Maxify kin, in particular the models built for higher-volume printing. But if your printing needs are moderate at most, the MB2030 may be a better choice.

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