The MF743Cdw made color scans at 600 dpi quickly, generating a JPEG file in 25 seconds - much faster than the average of 34.7 seconds. Making two-sided copies of text documents was similarly fast, at 13.1 ppm. That's twice the speed of 6.5 ppm when copying a single page on the scanner glass. (The Editor's Choice HP M277dw took 12.7 seconds to make the same copy.) Using the ADF, however, the MF743Cdw copied a five-page text document in just 20.2 seconds, or 14.9 ppm. The Canon made a black-and-white copy in 9.3 seconds, faster than the average of 10 seconds. The MF743Cdw has a recommended monthly page volume of up to 4,000 pages. The Editor's Choice HP Color LaserJet Pro M277dw did so in 15.2 seconds. The MF743Cdw made a color copy in 13 seconds.

Canon ImageClass MF743Cdw review: Copy and scan speed Printing the same photo in color took 24.1 seconds. The MF743Cdw printed a full-page grayscale photo on plain paper in 20 seconds (the average was 17.1 seconds). It took 2 minutes and 34 seconds to print a 10-page text document, and 1 minute and 33 seconds to print a six-page PDF with text and color graphics. The MF743Cdw turned in a pokey speed of 3.9 ppm when using its duplexer, regardless of the document type. Making two-sided prints was somewhat slow, however. Making the same single-sided print from an Android phone took 1 minute and 12 seconds, using the Canon Business Print app.

Printing the same PDF in color hardly slowed the speedy MF743Cdw, taking just 29.6 seconds, or 12.2 ppm. Using its speedy duplexer, the MF743Cdw made a two-sided print faster than our Editor's Choice HP LaserJet Pro M277dw made a single-sided print of the same six-page PDF in grayscale: The Canon did so in 43.7 seconds, versus 51.8 seconds for the HP. (The average was a much slower 41.5 seconds, or 8.7 ppm). It made a grayscale print of a six-page PDF in 26.8 seconds, or 13.4 ppm. The Canon was significantly faster than average at printing mixed text and graphics.

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