Design

The Olivetti MF222 Plus measures 615 mm x 685 mm x 779 mm and weighs 85 kg. It has an attractive cream and black two-tone finish to suit a plethora of office décor types. Paper handling has been improved from previous iterations to allow for paper weights up to 256 g/m2 and paper sizes up to SRA3. It has an impressive maximum box memory of up to 3,000 documents. There is also high-speed scanning capable of outputting 80 images per minute. Integrated print control makes it easy to complete tasks with Office Open XML, XPS, PCL6 and PS3.

Advantages

Olivetti’s latest generation of printers all now have nine-inch capacitive operator panels so that users can experience tech used in modern smartphones and tablets to navigate an intuitive interface without scores of confusing sub-menus. The addition of a real-time preview also offers edit and delete functions prior to printing. Security has also been improved. Scanned-in PDFs now offer different levels of encryption to ensure the safe sending of sensitive data to clients or customers, which is often a more expensive add-on with competitor models. Overall, it’s incredibly powerful with support for numerous file formats, including PDF and JPEG.

Disadvantages

The MF222 Plus outputs at 22 pages per minute for A4 copy and print, which is less than Olivetti’s higher-end MF282 Plus (28 ppm) and MF362 Plus (36 ppm) models. The new navigation may also be confusing for those well versed in more traditional offline printing models.