Canon imageCLASS LBP6230dw

The near perfect home laser (so far). Our inkjet decided to kill itself by eating 25+ sheets of paper at once, so I figured I'd give laser a shot since we rarely need color printing and (in general,) the running costs are much lower on laser. Setup was very easy. Followed the little getting started card and removed all the shipping tape, foam, etc. After plugging it into power, I simply downloaded the newest driver and utility from Canon's site as the disc included has a driver not supported by Mac OS 10.10 Mavericks. Although you really should be getting the newest driver no matter what. After installation you simply fire up the utility, set your wireless info (if you're using wifi) and select the printer on your computer. Had zero issues finding it on multiple Macs around the house with the driver installed. WPA2 is supported despite me reading a spec page somewhere not listing it. Text quality is sharp and clean. Images look, well, like they were done on a laser printer - as expected. Printing is very fast (for a home printer) - I thought it was still warming up and it had already spit out a page. The whole thing is very compact and folds up quite nicely if you don't keep paper in it. Even with all the trays out it is still very small. Takes up less space than my multifunction inkjet (since this has no scanner). So far, the only minor annoyance is the stupid "I am connected to the network" blue LED on the front. Why do I need an LED on for that? I haven't found a way to disable it in software yet. From what I can tell, it stays on during low power mode as well.

Holy cannoli, Batman! I've only had inkjet printers. OK there was a dot matrix Canon in college, but that's dating me to a point that nobody will get...so. I needed a printer. Covid screwed the supply and jacked up prices, so it wasn't an easy time. I finally found this model, and hesitated. It doesn't scan or do photos, and it doesn't do color. But the majority of the time, I don't need the extra features. It prints so frickin fast that I kinda have a thrill every time I use it. My friend has the same model and said it goes forever on a cartridge. The quality of the print is just fine, and I've never needed to try out anything other than basic text so far. My only issue with this model was it not connecting to my wifi network. I have issues with network all the time here, so I can't blame the printer. Or maybe I can, but I am not bothering with a long investigation. It works just fine with the included cable, and I had a free port on the desktop for it. I don't need it plugged in all the time, and even when I turn it on after a few weeks of not using it, it still acts the same as when I have had it plugged in. It's reliable and fast, and I prefer the shallower profile for my space needs. My previous printer was an all-in-one HP from about 2014. That thing took up too much space. We found a printer for the house AFTER I bought this Canon--another Canon that does the scanning and color photos, so we have options here if we need. For 90% of the household needs, a fast b&w printout is perfect. I can fold up the paper access area so the cat doesn't try and pull out the paper in the tray, so that feature is pretty helpful. I'll get a cover eventually too. I'm not sorry that supply and demand made me buy this model. It wasn't what I set out to get, but it makes me happy.

Hi, I'm a Mac. And my husband's a PC. And we both use this printer wirelessly. This may not sound like a big achievement, but we have a Canon wireless inkjet printer as well that my husband could never get to work with his laptop wirelessly, but we both got this one set up with our laptops and can both print from it without a wired connection. In fact, I haven't even tried printing wired, because why would I? The downside is that it took each of us about an hour to get the printer configured with our systems. I ended up having to use the included CD Rom AND also to download a driver from the Canon website. My husband was eventually able to directly download all the software he needed, which is good because his laptop doesn't have a CD drive and we haven't purchased an external one yet. While our other Canon printer works with AirPrint from iPhone and iPad, this printer doesn't. You will need an app called Canon Print. However, it hasn't been that much more of a hassle to print from that app; you just have to share your document with the app first before printing, which you can do from the same menu that you would normally select AirPrint on. However, I do wish that the Canon Print app (and AirPrint, to be honest) had a few more settings that you could change, the main one being the setting for heavy paper. I sell some things online, so I need to print shipping labels. I noticed that the toner flaked off my labels when I printed them on this printer. I looked online to see if there were any fixes, and I found that you can set the paper to heavy, which increases the heat and sticks the toner better to thicker paper such as label paper. But, I can't do this from the Canon Print app, only from my laptop. I guess that is more of a comment about the app than the printer itself, though. The printer is pretty quick and automatically prints double-sided unless you turn off double-sided printing. That's convenient for saving paper. The print quality is good, and use is pretty straightforward after the initial setup. It was also a great price, so I recommend it for the quality and convenience.

Great printer. I had the starter toner for three years. I just bought a replacement toner and its is stupid easy to replace. The software doesn't come with bloat. Love the crisp print that I get. I will never go back to ink again.