A Solid Workgroup Printer
345086
My organization purchased 2 of these printers and have now been using them for approx. 6 months. So far we have had very good results from these printers. They seem to be fast, responsive, and they haven't been using toner nearly as quickly as the 10 year old units they replaced. The printers are used in a retail environment for printing invoices and pick lists, with an average ink coverage of approx. 2%. Time to first page and the quickness of subsequent pages has helped us increase customer service quality and cut down on maintenance costs. Also, 6 months in and not a single paper jam to speak of. Overall, I'm quite satisfied with these units and would recommend them to any small to mid-sized business.
4212634
I bought this printer for photo printing and it does a very good job - good enough for prefessional work and gallery displays as long as you don't need super punchy colors. The prints are archival if you use HP inks and paper (which are both very goood and reasonably priced). The set-up in Vista was easy, and I dug up a printer profile online that I easily loaded into Elements and Lightroom. If you calibrate your monitor and use the printer profile, the print match to the monitor is quite good, usually requiring minimal tweaking. The printer looks great just sitting there (looks like an Apple design), but is noisy and clunky while printing. My ink consumption has been reasonable, using much less ink than my previous Epson and Lexmark printers, and the cost of the 564XL cartridges are reasonable given their capacity (the XLs are the only way to go). Do not use Ultra Gamut inks in this printer! I tried them and they were a nightmare. Horrendous color, clogged heads, deceptive customer service, the works. HP inks aren't that expensive, especially when purchased using the Staple rewards program and cartridge recycling program, and they give consistent results and I have yet to use the head cleaning routine while using them (even after the printer has sat unused for a couple of weeks - refreshing reliability after my experiences with endlessly clogging Epson printers). Print quality is excellent, up to a point: if you need really punchy, highly saturated reds, yellows and oranges, you might be disappointed. You quickly hit a maximum saturation with these colors that is below what other printers, like the higher end HPs and Canons, can deliver. This isn't a problem with greens, blues and cyans on this printer, they pop. The bottom line is that this is a really good printer that yields really good, big prints for a great price up front when purchasing it, and down the road when purchasing consumables.
369104
This is a sizable package in the home office but, to date, provides trouble-free, quick performance and excellent output.  At $90, this was a bargain.  Caveats: this is a B&W unit (which was clearly stated), there is no sheet feeder and it is not wireless.  Set up instructions could be a bit clearer, but that is one time issue.  The capabilities of the machine are many so the instruction set is a bit complicated and, to me, not intuitive - but that can be mastered.  The performance/cost relationship is appealing and I generally have confidence in Canon's imaging products.
3701786
I have owned this printer for two years since I started my graduate work and needed to print a lot of aritcles at home. The setup was a bit annoying for the wireless capability, but once you get it recongized by your home wireless network, adding computers is pretty easy.  As a matter of fact, I just got two new computers this fall and setting up the printer on them (Windows 7 64-bit) was just as easy as it had been with my older computers running Windows Vista 32-bit.  The toner life is very good, and it's easy to track down replacements for it.  As a matter of fact, a national office-supply chain in the next town carries them in its store.  At first I was worried that I would miss color or photo printing, but then I realized I used those functions very, very rarely.  If you're thinking about replacing an inkjet that is becoming too costly to maintain with ink, replacing another laser printer that's too big and requires a cabled connection, or just looking for your first printer, look no further.  This printer is inexpensive, but performs far beyond its cost. I'm very pleased with it and would recommend it without hesitation.
3323368
I like this printer. It is aimed at small business, home business, etc. Doesn't mean you can't use it for a home power user. The 2 paper trays are nice. I put plain paper in one, and can use the other for envelopes, card stock, photo paper, etc.

The printer is fast, and prints sharp clear sheets. It's not a photo printer, but color charts, graphs, logos all look sharp and neat. Photo printers have 2 extra colors to make the prints pop. This doesn't use 6 colors, but prints decent enough photos when you need to.

The ink is a little expensive as most printer mfg ink is. It's a new model, so at the time I write this I haven't seen 'generic' ink for it yet, but when it's available, the cost per page will go down dramatically, and lower cost is always a good thing.
4492264
These are first impressions--I just received the printer.

What I liked--
A nice-looking, sturdy, and compact printer.
Super easy to set up, with clear helpful directions. The touchscreen is simple to use.  You quickly navigate to the feature you want and it is "intuitive" as advertised--really the best in this regard that I've seen.
Prints quickly at speeds advertised.
Prints in landscape--i.e., the paper comes out sideways--which means it takes up less room on a table or desk.
Colors while not perfect are quite good (to be specific, one shade of red I tried to print kept coming out a little off; other colors are fine).  It is certainly better than less expensive color printers I've had.
Works fine as a copier and as a scanner.
Starter ink is supplied in the box with the printer and it is easily installed.  The reference to additional purchase required refers to replacements (I imagine these will become necessary pretty quickly but the way it was phrased on the Product Description I wondered if they were required immediately)

What I didn't like :

As I mentioned, not all the colors are perfect.

A couple of qualifications--
I print mostly manuscripts (black and white) and for this still prefer my Brother laser printer (I particularly wanted this new printer because I have had good luck with this brand).  For an inkjet printer the quality of black and white manuscript printing is better than some others I've seen, probably fine for most purposes.  But a professional writer would still probably find a laser printer is less expensive in terms of the cost of ink cartridges and gives a slightly more professional appearance.
I haven't used the fax or the wireless features, can't comment on them--I linked the printer to my PC with a USB cable.

My experience with Brother printers over a number of years has been very good.  Overall, for my color printing needs I like this printer a lot.
425490
I know the early reviews for this printer weren't great, but I took a chance anyway because I needed a new stand-alone printer that could print up to 11" x 17" paper to replace my old Epson Workforce that died after 4 years of heavy use.  This is a very large unit compared to my old printer, but overall, I'm very pleased with its performance.  There are 2 trays that accommodate all sorts of paper sizes, including envelopes.  Plus there's a direct feed port in the back for printing thicker items like card stock.  I had no problem hooking up the printer; I'm using it via ethernet.  It is able to select which cassette to use automatically.  I'm thrilled with how easy it is to print envelopes compared to earlier printers I've owned.  I also like the new inks that don't smear.  And I'm happy to say that so far it's handled card stock without any problems.  After a few weeks of all sorts of printing, I don't have any complaints, except, of course, the price of the ink tanks!
384073
This is an initial review. I bought this to upgrade from a Xerox Phaser 3260. I have a micro business (consulting and healthcare practice) with a home office, a lot of work on the road, and I also maintain a second location. I do not have very high printing needs - I print maybe 100-200 sheets per month or less, with occasional spikes into the 200-500 range. To explain why I bought this, one of my lines of work involves substantial document review, and some of my customers provide documents in print. I also generate paper documents, and my goal is to use a "scan and can" approach, scanning everything and then having it shredded. The cost of this was competitive to buying a high quality scanner that could do duplex ADF of >50 pages per run, and so I bought this as an upgrade to the Xerox to get color laser printing at home, but basically for the scanner.

First impression is very positive. This is heavy, it is definitely a two person job to move or install it. Removing the packaging takes 10-15 minutes. From there, connecting to Wifi is very easy from the touchscreen. Connecting to OneDrive for Business uses a computer (one grants the connection from a web browser and then enters a numeric code onto the printer), and from there, it can scan directly to a folder on the OneDrive (or other consumer or business cloud services, SharePoint, etc) with ease. Others have noted that there is a substantial wait between scanning the document to the device's memory (which is fast) and uploading it - 70 page documents take about 10 minutes to upload for me. The device cannot do other scanning jobs during this, but will respond to print requests. An unexpected bonus is that it does OCR straight from the device, so an additional step of running it through OCR on the PC side is not needed. This is the thing I wanted most and it does this very nicely. Overall, this itself is well worth the purchase cost, because on a Saturday afternoon while getting some work done, I am working through hundreds of pages of documents that are clogging up my home office.

The other initial impression is that it is zero-configuration on Windows 10 (1803) - it just showed right up in my list of printers and I could print to it without having to install or do anything.

Update #1: In addition to the "easy" stacks of 8.5x11 records I wanted to scan in, I have some workbook kinds of documents that I also want to scan. This is a mix of paper stock, with some booklets that I cut in half with a paper cutter, about 30-50 sheets double sided. After separating all of this into individual sheets, of all the varying content, the ADF handles it with aplomb except one item that is made of a very thin front sheet separated from a cardstock thickness back - this single document is not handled by the ADF so I have to take it out and use the flatbed scanner on this (or another scanner). The device really shines here. When scanned to searchable document, it auto rotates individual pages inside the PDF. The one downside is that a home page shortcut can be made, but this suppresses some feature choices (so skip blank pages is not an option). One other note that I hadn't encountered with the "easier" ADF scans is that if a scan jams midway, the device behavior is confusing - it continues to sheet feed through the rest of the pages, but then it does not upload anything.

I'm very happy with this, overall - I'm still focusing on the scanning capabilities, but I didn't see as much review content about that so I wanted to share my experience.
772302
Full disclosure, I have been a fan of Brother printers for years. I use them in my small business, so they don't see industrial strength workloads, but they have never failed me. Installation is simple, and the cost of use (toner) is reasonable. The only downside is that the printer is not really small enough to fit on a desk, so a stand is necessary, and it is pretty heavy (about 35 pounds). Installation is pretty simple, though a USB cable is needed for the initial wireless set-up, and that cable is not provided. With the USB cable the wireless set-up was very easy. There is a method described in the manual for setting the printer up without the cable, but it looked pretty complicated to me, so I didn't try it. (It really should include the USB cable). The duplex printing works fine, and the color is as good as could be expected from a color laser in this price range, just don't expect photo quality color prints.
537542
I purchased 11 of these printers and I have 10 up and running.  I could never get one of the boards to work, so the last one will just be for spare parts.  These printers are fairly simple to assemble.  I really had no electronics / assembly experience before tackling this job and I was able to get them all assembled after a more-experienced friend showed me how to put one together.  Getting them tuned takes a bit of patience, but they are pretty solid printers for the money once they are up and going.  I have definitely noticed some variance in the ideal settings from machine to machine as one temperature is perfect with one machine, but not so good for the next using the exact same filament.

I did have many of the stepper driver chips that were bad and instead of waiting for Anycubic to send replacements, I just bought some off of Amazon.  These little chips can be tricky.  Some read fine on the multi-meter, but still didn't work.  This made for some tricky troubleshooting at times!

All said and done, I'm happy with the purchases.  I would've given 5 stars if not for the defective stepper driver chips and the bad board.  I wouldn't recommend these to print very wide objects, however.  The print space is slightly smaller than the specs say.
2946862
Hard to imagine that a $150-175 printer can be hooked up to your network on the first floor and scan multi-page documents to your Mac upstairs, either from the scanner, or from the Mac.

Print quality and scan quality are more than adequate. I won't say "excellent" only because I haven't pushed it that hard. The photos we printed out look great though. The ADF duplex scanner is bonus.

Printing with the Mac over the network was trivial; its supported nicely and transparently, once set up.

There is some trickiness with the new Mac application-keyed firewall in 10.5, but it works great if you manually accept the scan app connection. Its a minor thing and if I wasn't so security ana -- oops, conscious, I'd just turn off the firewall when I wanted to scan.

Works great under WinXP and Vista both.

Rumor has it that it can print under CUPS with cups-bnjp and "recently, Louis has also worked on adding BJNP support to the Sane pixma backend ..." so Linux users shouldn't be left out by this one either.
1403121
I had two main purposes  for wanting this printer - to be able to print on 11 x 17 paper, and to print directly onto cd/dvd's.  I have other printers which print onto cd's, including epson, but this one makes it so easy. There is some very easy software to use, and you can even copy directly from another cd, just by placing it directly anywhere on the document glass.  This is a major improvement over previous versions.  The cd tray feeds easily and prints quickly.  (Previous versions were very finicky.)  I also tested the wide format printing, and it worked like a charm, although you can only feed one sheet through at a time through the rear feeder.  I am connected directly to a pc through a USB cable, and installation was a breeze, no problems.  Regular printing of black and white and color documents is quick and good quality.  There are printers with higher resolution, but this is sufficient for my use.  A couple of other nice features, the output paper tray slides in when not in use, creating a smaller footprint.  The cover for the document glass has the ability to fold, which makes it easier to copy / scan thicker objects like books.  This printer is very low profile - with the back tray closed, it is less than 6 inches tall, a great improvement over older model printers.  One drawback is that there is no auto document feeder for copying or scanning large jobs - something to consider if this will be your only printer.  I don't use this wirelessly, so I haven't tested that capability.  All in all, a quality item with the main draw being the ability to print wide format documents.  I'll add to this review as I eventually test wireless printing and scanning.  I'm happy with the features I've tested.
2374786
We have been happy with our IP4300 at home so when the time came, we got each of our daughters an ip4500 for general purpose desktop printing for college. I like the front paper tray and flat top so it can be put on a shelf with only front access and stuff can be stacked on top. This makes a nice footprint when you only have limited space. It is very reliable as I don't think we have ever needed to manually realign the heads or clean the print nozzles (like our previous printer) since we got them. I like the 5 separate ink tanks because I feel I'm not wasting as much ink that way. It is easy to produce excellent photographs and we do that a lot. I'm not a fan of the all-in-one combo printers so I still think this would be my first choice (or maybe the ip4600 when it is available) if I would need a new desktop printer today. The only nit I have is the power switch isn't quite as "positive" as on the ip4300 but its no big deal.
1662616
I've had this printer in my home office for a few weeks now, and I concur with the generally positive reviews of this device - it is a competent monochrome MF printer with duplex scan, fax, and print and wireless. The scanner however is full color and the scans are excellent. All features work well, and it is quick and quiet. I give it four stars due a generally cheap feel, no enclosed paper tray, and I did have some needless difficulty getting the drivers installed (Windows 7). There is one feature that I still haven't got to work right - scanning from the device directly to my computer.  I can only get scanning to work by initiating the scan from the scan utility on the computer, which is more of a hassle.
4008197
Printout is better than expected for an under $200.00 printer.  Setup was fast and easy for six computers on a LAN.  All functions worked even without downloading updated drivers.  Automatic document feeder works flawlessly.
4678590
We bought this printer new almost 7 years ago.  We use it networked with an external JetDirect device and we added the duplex option.  This All-in-one is a workhorse.  We have printed countless double-sided PDF technical manuals, photos, documents, etc.  Our PCs have moved across Windows versions 97, 2000, and to XP and the only incompatibility issue we had was that network drivers for XP were slow to release, but the USB driver was ready early on.  I was surprised a reviewer said it didn't work with 2000 because we had one machine already on 2000 when we bought this and it was no trouble at all.

I will admit the software for the scanning/fax is a little quirky, but with a little trial and error it has worked just fine.  Print quality is great, nothing but praise for the hundreds of pages of faxing and copying.  As it ages though, the scanner is becoming an issue as it is so much slower than the new models for complicated images in higher resolutions.
1707728
This has been an excellent printer so far. I have used it to make dozens of photos for a memorial service, and used it for scanning documents, printing color and black and white, used it wirelessly, etc etc. It is pretty bulky and heavy but I think that makes it less prone to break down as it is a robust design. For the price this is unbeatable.