However, its compact and considered styling will also appeal to home workers, like myself.
It feels well made and is reassuringly heavy at 22.6kg.
Its a 3-in-one machine, so that means it can print, scan and copy.
If you need a fax modem, you should be looking at the otherwise identical step-up Canon i-SENSYS MF657Cdw.
It also has a 50-sheet ADF for copying a stack of documents.
Its processing power and internal memory are average at 800MHz x 2 and 1GB respectively.
In short, the Canon i-SENSYS MF655Cdw ticks all the feature boxes for a small office printer.
How dangerous can a printer be?
The 21.7cm LCD provides a sensitive touchscreen interface, so scrolling through the four-page menu system is easy enough.
you could also download Canons companion app called simply Canon PRINT to operate the printer via a smart machine.
Canon i-SENSYS MF655Cdw: Performance
The Canon i-SENSYS MF655Cdw prints smoothly and quietly enough at around 50dB.
I clocked the print speed at around 21ppm for simplex pages in standard quality mode.
Switch back to Normal quality and black text looks perfectly crisp and consistent on plain paper.
Photographs did not fare so well because the somewhat muted colors give a rather flat finish on plain paper.
They did look satisfyingly sharp though.
Certainly sharp enough for a laser printer.
Its a pity this model cannot copy both sides of each document automatically.
Single-pass dual scanning is reserved for the more expensive Canon imageCLASS MF656.
It prints quickly, quietly and consistently, while Canons optional high-yield toner cartridges keep the cost-per-page competitive.
Thanks to the tilting touchscreen and front-loading multimedia tray, its also very easy to use.
