Color imageCLASS MF743Cdw - All-in-One, Wireless, Mobile-Ready, Duplex Laser Printer with NFC (Near Field Communication) and 3 Year Warranty

I have been printing professionally with low and high end printers for over 3 decades. I deal extensively with documents, graphics, brochures, photographs, etc., and knowing what inkjet, laser and expensive print shop commercial printers are capable of, and getting the max quality from them is something I'm really expert at. I recently began to need a low cost printer primarily for printing high quality wine labels on custom, die cut 8.5 x 11, soft gloss, specialty label paper. This Canon MF743Cdw was the 5th printer I tried, and it literally blew me away. The Old Mill photo I posted here is a photo of how the Canon printed that image on 8.5 x 11, ordinary, cheap copy paper. The print out is brilliant, great contrast, beautiful color repro and super hi rez. The photo I uploaded here doesn't do justice to the actual Canon printout, but I hope you can at least see the fantastic detail in the tree leaves, and the Canon print quality was just as outstanding on every paper type I tried printing on. And that's only the beginning: Print and scan speeds are excellent, it will print and scan double sided, really well and really simple, it will handle thick and other special papers perfectly, does both letter & legal size, everyday document prints look especially crisp and professional (with 600 dpi minimum print quality), you front feed special papers rather than back feed like many other printers, it will print booklets and collate them, other reviewers report success with 3rd party toner cartridges, initial set up went well, and all for only $404! I have a $10,000 commercial grade laser printer that doesn't work quite this well. The cons: A very minor issue is that the MF743Cdw won't do borderless printing. That is, it won't print a graphic or a background color all the way to the 4 edges of the paper, though I have other printers that will and that isn't much of a problem anyway, and (2) the printing function set up is very complicated because there are literally a hundred or more options to choose from. There are a great many different things the printer can do that many other low end printers can't or don't address, but man! is it complex. So this "con" is both a curse if your needs are simple and a blessing if you have some really special printout combo. Even though it's complex, once you get whatever basic set up you will primarily use, you're done and don't have to deal with it ongoing. As for tech support, I didn't need any, so that rates 5 stars too. I did not experience a single negative that other reviewers reported, maybe because I'm more accustomed to getting printers set up and solving their problems. Take it from an expert with printing and printers: Buy this machine, you won't regret it.

This printer is very difficult to set-up, and even after it's set-up it often will still not print when you send it a job, leaving you to surf through its control panel to figure out why it's unhappy this time. You can usually get the job to eventually print after enough messing around with it, but it's a hassle for something that should be easy. The set-up instructions are not written for a home user. Every second sentence seems to include the clause that you should "contract your system administrator" to solve an issue. So you go to Google and after a couple of hours, some YouTube videos, and trail and error, you figure out what you need to do. But then even after you have the printer set-up, it still refuses to print sometimes. It often seems confused about which tray it should printer from, even though you have tried to tell it to print from the main tray, which is loaded with paper, and not attempt to print from the auxiliary tray, which is closed. But to get your printout, you'll open the auxiliary tray and put a sheet of paper in it. But then the next time you print it does pull from the main tray - with no changes in any print settings. I'm writing this review now because the printer, or the printer driver - all the same to me - doesn't seem to want to send files to the printer. It tells me that there's an error when I look up the job in the print queue, though no clue as to what the error is. Interestingly, there wasn't an error when I printed from the same computer three days ago, but now for some reason there is. And if you Google all of this you will find lots of other folks going through the same thing. If you can get it to print, the print quality is fine. Maybe this is Canon's solution to extend the life of the partially filled toner cartridges that the printer ships with. Overall though, find another printer to buy. The set-up, driver reliability, and overall user interface is so bad that there's got to be something better.

Excellent product. Good connectivity. Quality of print not as good as I expect but works better than others that I've tried before.

Es mi segunda impresora Canon MF. La primero tiene 15 años trabajando. Ésta es de la misma calidad a la viejita pero a color. La usaré poco hasta que los cartuchos genéricos estén a precio razonable.

Perfect

I have had this printer for almost 2 years and I wish I returned it from day one, it never works correctly and drops Wi Fi connection everyday. What a waste of space and money in my house.

Set-up of printer drivers on computers using the printer is slow and difficult, fails often and only succeeds in downloading on some of the networked machines. Despite having an optic fibre network connection, this is slow and troublesome. I gave up on several machines. The print quality is good, but odd documents come out very faint on the black ink, not the colours.