Canon imageRUNNER ADVANCE DX C5760i, the fastest model in the C5700 series, 60ppm for both black-and-white and color, already replaced by the C5860i.
Print speed black-and-white/color both 60ppm, A4 landscape feed. First copy output approximately 2.9 seconds black-and-white, approximately 4.5 seconds color. Print resolution up to 1200 x 1200 dpi, copy resolution 600 x 600 dpi. Processor 1.75GHz dual-core. Storage 16GB standard, expandable to approximately 480GB. Paper capacity up to 6,350 sheets, media weight up to 300gsm, maximum paper size 12" x 18". High capacity expansion requires optional High Capacity Cassette Feeding Unit-A1 or Cabinet Type-N. Maximum power consumption approximately 1,800W, TEC value 0.84kWh, sleep approximately 0.8W, standby approximately 63.1W. ENERGY STAR certified, EPEAT Gold.
Tandem Engine color imaging architecture, CMYK four colors each with independent photoconductor drum, charging roller, developing unit, laser exposure assembly, arranged side by side with all four colors working simultaneously, paper passes through the intermediate transfer belt once to complete all four color layers, black-and-white and color at equal speed.
Consumables GPR-55 toner, black 69,000 pages (5% coverage), color C/M/Y 60,000 pages each, GPR-55L low-capacity color toner also available. Drum single drum rated approximately 480,000 pages black-and-white, 392,000 pages color.
Single-pass duplex auto document feeder, 270ipm duplex at 300dpi, feeder capacity 200 sheets, original weight 50 to 220gsm. McAfee Embedded Control whitelisting protection (requires UFP v3.9 or above), System Verification boot-time integrity check, SIEM log forwarding, hard disk encryption, user authentication PIN/password/IC card. UFP Unified Firmware Platform synchronized updates across the entire series, DCM Device Configuration Manager for batch deployment, uniFLOW Online basic dashboard included as standard. V2 color profile optimized for batch color consistency, low-melt toner reduces fusing temperature and paper curl. Finishing options include up to 100-sheet stapling, saddle stitch up to 25 sheets, hole punch, Z-fold, tri-fold.
That covers everything at the spec sheet level. Most articles about the C5760i online end here. Below is what you cannot find on the spec sheet.
The fuser assembly part number on the C5760i is FM1-N250. Look up this part number in Canon's parts compatibility list and it shows up on the imageRUNNER ADVANCE C5535i, C5540i, C5550i, C5560i as well, spanning Mod I, Mod II, and Mod III across three generations. The C5760i's engine platform has been through at least three rounds of product iteration.
The fuser is the most fragile part in the entire machine. Its job is to bake toner into paper using high heat and high pressure, and every sheet that passes through is another thermal cycling impact. A fuser design that can carry across three generations means Canon's engineering team has mapped out its failure modes thoroughly: which temperature zones are most prone to aging, which rubber components deform first, at how many tens of thousands of pages the pressure roller eccentricity goes out of spec. This kind of data comes from millions of installed units. Service engineers know the FM1-N250 inside out, they have taken it apart and put it back together countless times. Describe symptoms over the phone and they can probably tell you whether it is the fusing film or the pressure roller.
The global third-party parts supply chain follows this part number. OEM, remanufactured, compatible fusing films, compatible pressure rollers for the FM1-N250 are all over the place. Search this part number on eBay and you get a huge number of results, from factory new to refurbished to pulled-from-machine parts, with a very wide price range.
The predecessor to FM1-N250 is FM1-H220, used on the first-generation C5535i/C5540i/C5550i/C5560i machines. FM1-N250 is an improvement over FM1-H220. Canon has not publicly disclosed what exactly was changed, but product descriptions from third-party fusing film suppliers show that the fusing film material in FM1-N250 differs from FM1-H220, and the pressure roller hardness parameters were also adjusted. Canon never publicized this improvement. Fuser part iterations are silent upgrades that never appear in any press release or product launch event. For maintenance purposes this means the fuser on the C5760i is more durable than the one on the original C5560i. If you see a C5760i and a C5560i III (third generation) on the secondhand market at similar prices, pick the C5760i. Same engine, improved fuser.
Regarding fuser replacement cost, there is a Core Exchange system operating within the industry. OEM fusers are expensive. Through the Core Exchange program in the dealer channel you can buy remanufactured units and get a rebate by returning the old fuser core. Core Exchange is standard practice in this industry. Canon's own dealer network does it. You just will never see a single word about it on any product page aimed at end users. If you calculate long-term maintenance costs without knowing this channel exists, your numbers will come out significantly higher than reality.
A lot of the organizations purchasing equipment at the C5760i's level are not buying it for printing. Print volumes are going down, scan volumes are going up. Contracts need archiving, invoices need digitizing, audit materials need to be retained, historical paper records need to go digital.
The gap between single-pass duplex and traditional reversing duplex becomes obvious the first time you run a large batch scan. The reversing method adds one mechanical flip action per sheet, one more chance for a jam, and thin paper or mixed-size originals are prone to problems. The C5760i's single-pass design has one set of sensors above and one below the feed path, capturing both sides in a single pass, cutting the paper path in half. 270ipm translates to real-world speed like this: a stack of 200 double-sided pages scans in about a minute and a half.
The built-in OCR can output searchable PDFs. Recognition accuracy falls short of dedicated software like ABBYY FineReader, and the recognition rate for Japanese and Traditional Chinese is even lower. If OCR accuracy is a strict requirement, the more realistic approach is to use the C5760i for high-speed image capture and send files to backend professional OCR software for processing.
This section gets expanded treatment because imagePASS-P2 is the most severely overlooked dimension of the C5760i.
imagePASS-P2 is an external RIP server based on EFI Fiery technology. Optional accessory. A standalone box that connects to the C5760i via cable and takes over the entire print data processing pipeline. Once installed, the C5760i's print path no longer goes through the built-in 1.75GHz dual-core processor for RIP. It runs through Fiery's hardware and software stack instead.
Fiery's position in the digital printing industry is roughly comparable to Adobe's position in the design industry.
A very large proportion of mid-to-high-end digital presses worldwide run Fiery RIP. Xerox, Konica Minolta, Ricoh, Canon's production devices, many of them offer Fiery as an option. imagePASS-P2 plugs this office-grade device into the Fiery ecosystem.
Functions available after installing P2:
Fiery Command WorkStation. A desktop application, installed on a computer, connected to imagePASS-P2 over the network. In Command WorkStation you can see all queued print jobs, drag and drop to reorder them, open any job for preview, modify print parameters, adjust color, change imposition. This is an entirely different level of job management compared to clicking the print button in Word. If you have ever managed a print center handling dozens of jobs a day, you know how much it matters to be able to see all queued jobs on screen and adjust priorities on the fly. Without P2, print jobs entering the C5760i's built-in queue can only come out in the order they arrived. Wanting to jump the queue means canceling the jobs ahead of it.
Fiery Spot-On. Spot color matching tool. Select a Pantone color number in the interface, Spot-On calculates what ratio of CMYK toner the C5760i should mix to get as close as possible to that spot color. Print a color swatch to visually confirm, manually fine-tune the CMYK values if not satisfied, save the mapping. From then on, all files containing that Pantone color number will automatically use this mapping when printed. For organizations that need to output corporate VI materials, the VI manual specifies brand colors by Pantone number, and the color coming out of a standard print driver visibly deviates from the Pantone swatch. After calibration with Spot-On the gap shrinks significantly.
Fiery FreeForm. Variable data printing. A typical use case is producing ID badges, personalized invitations, numbered certificates: the fixed layout template is RIPped once and stored in Fiery, then variable fields like names, departments, numbers, photos are read from an Excel file or database and overlaid onto the template for output. The fixed portion of each sheet does not need to be re-RIPped, only the variable fields are RIPped, so it is fast. Without FreeForm, the same job can only be done through mail merge in InDesign or Word, where every page of the entire file has to go through a complete RIP pass. Over several hundred sheets the speed difference is enormous.
imagePASS-P2 itself does not include licenses for Fiery Compose and Fiery Impose. Compose handles document assembly: merging files from different sources into a single print job, inserting tab pages, blank pages, chapter dividers in between. Impose handles imposition: rearranging pages onto large sheets according to binding method requirements, handling creep compensation for saddle stitch, bleed and signature layout for perfect binding. These two are separately sold software licenses, not cheap. When dealers quote the imagePASS-P2 price, some quote hardware only without mentioning Compose and Impose.
If none of these Fiery capabilities are needed, the C5760i's built-in RIP handles everyday office documents with plenty of headroom. P2 is for organizations that genuinely have color management, spot color matching, or variable data printing requirements.
The Fiery option for the C5860i generation has been upgraded to imagePASS-R1, based on the FS400 platform.
MEAP (Multifunctional Embedded Application Platform), a Java application framework running on the copier hardware. Authorized Send runs on it, providing enterprise-grade authentication and routing for scanned document distribution, interfacing with LDAP directory services, controlling document send destinations by user permissions. Direct Print & Scan for Mobile is also a MEAP application. MEAP works with CDS (Content Delivery System) for remote automatic firmware and application update deployment. MEAP has open development interfaces. A machine installed in 2021 and a machine installed in 2024, if both have firmware and MEAP applications kept up to date, have identical software-level capabilities.
MEAP's development ecosystem is far less vibrant than the impression marketing gives. Most organizations will only use the handful of MEAP applications Canon itself provides, like Authorized Send and mobile printing. Custom development for vertical industries requires finding a systems integrator with MEAP development capability, and there are not many of those.
This issue warrants separate mention. The V2 color profile performs well when processing CMYK files. When processing RGB input, though, such as printing directly from PowerPoint, web pages, or images that have not gone through color conversion, the RGB-to-CMYK conversion accuracy is mediocre. Deviation in blue and green areas is visible to the naked eye. If a significant portion of your organization's color output comes from Office documents, and the printout does not match what you see on screen, V2's RGB conversion is most likely the cause. Installing imagePASS-P2 improves this because Fiery has more refined RGB-to-CMYK conversion management.
C5860i maintains 60ppm, lighter body, lower noise, better energy efficiency, improved thermal management so A5 printing no longer slows down, Fiery option upgraded to imagePASS-R1 (FS400 platform). New purchases should look at the C5860i first. The C5760i is available at much lower prices in secondhand and lease-return channels, with nearly identical core engine capability, and the two generations share the UFP and uniFLOW ecosystem.
This section affects how much you end up spending more than the C5760i's hardware specs do.
Devices at the C5760i's level usually come with a full-service contract covering on-site repair, parts replacement, scheduled maintenance, billed per page with separate rates for black-and-white and color. Color page rates are typically five to eight times the black-and-white rate.
First, the definition of "color page." Some contracts define a "color page" as "any page containing any non-black toner." A footer with a small gray logo, if that gray uses a tiny amount of cyan toner, the entire sheet gets billed as a color page. If your document templates include colored headers, footers, or watermarks, a large number of pages that are essentially black-and-white content will be counted as color pages. Some organizations only discovered this after signing the contract and had to go back and remove all colored elements from their templates. Clarify the billing trigger for "color page" before signing.
Next, minimum volume clauses. Some dealers include a minimum monthly volume guarantee in the contract. For example a guaranteed minimum of 5,000 pages per month means if you only printed 2,000 pages that month, you still pay for 5,000. This clause is usually printed in small type near the rate table in the contract document. If your monthly volume fluctuates significantly (schools during summer and winter breaks, seasonal business peaks and troughs), the minimum volume clause will have you paying for several months of idle capacity during slow periods.
Before signing a contract you must know your own black-and-white to color output ratio. If you have no historical data, spend at least one month tracking on your current equipment before signing. Signing a service contract blind is one of the areas where end users in this industry waste the most money.
In many full-service contracts, drums and toner are included in the per-page rate, and fusers too. Paper is not included, staples are not included. If the contract states "all consumables included in the per-page rate," ask exactly what "all" covers. Staple consumption in environments that heavily use the stapling function can be staggering.
Contract terms are usually three to five years. When a three-year contract comes up for renewal, that is a good time to negotiate. The dealer knows you could switch brands or switch suppliers, so there is more room to negotiate than when signing a new contract. Even if you are satisfied with the current service, take competitor quotes to the table. You can usually squeeze 10% to 20% off the per-page rate.
The C5760i's optional accessory lineup also needs attention. The base unit price is just the starting point. High-capacity paper cassettes, finishing staple modules, fax board (Super G3 FAX Board-AS2), imagePASS-P2 plus Fiery software licenses, fully configured the total can exceed double the base unit price. Have the dealer produce a total price sheet covering all options matching your complete requirements.
Monthly volume of 20,000 to 60,000 pages, mid-to-large workgroups or centralized print centers are a good fit for the C5760i. Monthly volume under 10,000 pages, look at the C5740i or C5735i. Over 80,000 pages, look at the imagePRESS series.
Signing a service contract blind is one of the areas where end users in this industry waste the most money.