Canon imageCLASS MF229dw Black and White Multifunction Laser Printer

This is almost a perfect printer for both wired and wireless. The setup is very easy if you know what you are doing. The printer is connected to the router with Ethernet cable for faster speed, also turn on wireless access. I didn't even bother to use the installation disk, all computers which use Windows 10 whether wired or wireless can identify the printer and install the driver immediately.The next is to setup all phones and tablets. All it required was to download a Canon Business printer app. The app can find the printer automatically. Up until then, I've almost 80% done with the setup. The next is to fine tune the printer. There are quite a few ways to do those, either using Remote UI from mobile devices, or using the installation disk which is quite good. I did install the software in one of the machines so that I can access the printer easily. What you need is the IP address of the printer so that you pin the machine from your browser. Once done, the setup is completed, and yes, I did not even bother to use the menu screen on the printer.The print quality is quite good better than my previous Canon. The only problem that I had is that the printer can only connect to 2.4GHz network, which is not favorable, and the toner is really a starter, which can only print for about 200 pages. I replace the starter toner immediately after I opened the box with the one which I ordered from Amazon with lift time warranty. Other than those, it is a great printer and the price is wonderful.Update: This printer works flawlessly. Never experiencing any signal drops. If anyone would like to explore all the functionality of what this printer can do, it would be necessary to install the software from the disk, "tool box" and "driver" at the minimum. It makes big differences. After having this printer for more than a month, I am very pleased to have this one in my office. The best part is that I can scan, copy, or even print to a file folder into a network sever in PDF format. It is a very nice feature if you don't need a hard copy but rather immediately e-mail the doc out. All those features will require the installation of drivers and tool box from the disk inside of the package.

I picked this printer up because I needed something that would save me a bit of money on printing shipping labels vs my inkjet. Well, you get what you pay for. I had such high hopes, but they were dashed. Print quality is poor for every type of print job except for straight sheets of copy paper. If you want labels, never mind. Once you affix the label to the item you want it on, the print flakes off. Want to print on card stock? Forget it. The print is either smeared across the paper or your type is duplicated across the sheet. (See photo.)I really don't know what the issue is, but the toner doesn't end up where it is supposed to be. Next time, I'll spend a bit more and find something that has better print quality. By the way, I'm back to using my old ink jet. The print quality is a million times better and the print is where it want it, not all over the paper. (By the way, both of these issues happened before and after I replaced the toner.) My advice? Buy something else...

My review is about the printing and scanning functions. I have not used the Fax function:The Good: The price is decent compared to other brands. I have been using it for about 7 months for work. I use it every day for all my printing and scanning needs. I have been a rather heavy user during those 7 months. I have gone through 3 cartridges. I have it plugged into my USB directly so i don't have a lot of comments about the Wi-Fi capabilities. I have installed software to print from my Android phone and it does work through the Wi-Fi. I did not buy it for that purpose so i have no real critique of that other than it works. I didn't have any issues setting up the software or the printer and that was a plus.The Bad: The scanner feed is terrible. 100% of everything you feed will be as askew. I try to place it ever so carefully in the tray. I move the guides as close to the page as close as i can and all the pages are still off. Fortunately my needs for scanning do not require the scan to be perfect so it hasn't been a big issue. When i have to scan something and i want it to be perfect, i need to place it on the glass and feed it page by page. The results are perfect when using the glass. I can only assume you would have the same exact situation when dealing with the fax machine function.The Ugly: About 10 percent of the time when i'm feeding a document, it gets jammed. I pull the sheet out and have no idea why the page was rejected. You then have to put the sheets back together and try again from the beginning. Never fails that i put in a stack of 20 things to scan and on page 18 it jams and makes you start all over. This happens entirely too frequent for my liking. If it isn't the jamming, it is the frequent crashing of the MFToolbox while scanning that causes headaches. It goes through 18 pages and then you are hit with the dreaded "MFToolbox has stopped responding." Again, you get to start over from the beginning after clicking all the error messages, cancelling the job and restarting the software.In summary, i may have to look for a more robust scanner and use this for printing only. While it isn't an issue to have a bunch of documents slightly askew, it just isn't very professional. If this were a car, i would be excited to trade it in. One more tip for anyone buying this printer: If you can afford it, buy the original toner. I purchased a toner that was about 4 times cheaper and the type is lighter and thinner. I have tried monkeying with the settings to make it darker with no success.