Canon imageCLASS MF229dw Black and White Multifunction Laser Printer

This printer was easy for me to set up, without plugging it into my PC or using an ethernet cable. I set it up using my wireless network. It's a great printer for the price point and I love the duplex printing. It's quick, quiet and even has a eco-mode so that it goes to sleep when not being used. The toner is easily changed and the paper is easily loaded. One thing to note that those not familiar with networks might not realize is that most home internet services do not come with a static (non-changing) IP, which means the printer will not have a static IP. When the printer is connected to a wireless network, it's automatically given an IP address. When your modem, router or this printer are rebooted, a different IP address could be assigned to it. If that happens, you cann't print until you find the new IP address (from the network settings on the LCD display on the printer itself) & update the printer settings on the computer you're trying to print from with this new address(For Windows: Devices & Printers>Printer Properties>Ports tab>AddPort>Canon MFNP Port, then enter the new IP address of the printer>Next>Finish). It's an easy fix, by going thru the menu and pressing a few buttons, then doing the same on your computer and is easily explained in the manual, but it's something that a lot of people would not realize happens. It does work with Airprint, so if you set it up, you can print directly from your Apple products such as your iPhone or iPad also. You can also set it up to print directly from google docs, although, I have had issues with it losing it's connectivity to both services. All in all, this is a great laser printer for a home office and services the needs of most home offices. The toner lasts a long time, print quality is great and the replacement toner cartridges are inexpensive.

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.

This is an update after having this for almost a year. Still love it. No problems at all. Faxing works great too.original review follows - I've only had this a couple of days but so far, it works great and is easy to use. Had a bit of trouble hooking it up to my iMac but once I updated the OS to Yosemite it worked fine. The Scanning works. The copying and printing (including double sided) is good and very quick. I haven't had a chance to try the fax yet but no reason to think that won't work fine. Way better than our old Canon ink jet colour all-in-one. It's way faster and we don't need colour printing so don't have to keep buying those expensive colour cartridges that seemed to run out so quickly.

I did my research for quite a while before settling on this product. Overall I am I pleased with my purchase, but if I had known the tough screen would be so small and unresponsive I likely would have selected a different model. Print quality is as good as can be expected and set up and usage was very easy.

Exelance for that I need for home use , very fast printer

Does not work well with Mac; Does not work well over Wifi; It was printing 5 mins ago and 5 mins later, it just decided not to print;

Easy to set up, works great. This is my second Canon laser printer in a row, it has become my preferred brand!