Canon imageCLASS MF3010 Laser Multifunction Printer (5252B001AA)

This is a good Printer/MF device, it excels at everything it does, I gave it 5 stars for what it does. If there were 1/2 stars I would have given it 4.5 for some minor omissions.Your choice depends on what features you want/need. Canon based lasers (hp still uses their engines) last forever because when you discard the Toner cartridge you are discarding the drum and other parts that are likely to fail. Then again when you buy a printer for around $100 this does not matter as much as when they used to cost $1000s or at least many hundreds of dollars.This is a very small well made printer. 10x10x14. In my case this was one of the deciding factors. My wife wanted something as small as possible. Most other printers/MF devices are closer to 20x20x20.Canon themselves make a D420 which has better specs and is currently selling for a few dollars less, but is much larger.Silly Canon did not include the USB Cable. I had one. But unless you buy them from Amazon or monoprice you end up paying silly prices for them (should only be a few dollars). The manual is HTML you can pull up out of a browser. On the PC it installs as a program. As the manual is HTML mac users can copy the manual folder to there computer and open it in their web browser of your choice. I tried firefox first, worked well. Mac Drivers and current pc drivers are on line. The HTML manual is much clearer then the nicely printed setup and quick instructions that are bit to brief for many.Because this MF/printer is so small it good live on almost any desk or near by spot without taking over. If you want wireless printing capability you need to plug the printer into a router, airport express, etc. that supports turning USB devices into wireless network printers. I had routers with the capability so this did not bother me. Scanning always has to be done locally anyway. But network scanning is not an option even with a router that makes the printing functionality wireless (that true for all devices jacked into routers). Really though scanning has to be done locally anyway to feed the scanner.Most of you already know low end laser only come with starter toner cartridges that print in the 400-800 page range. This one is no different.Controls. I would have preferred better controls. Making a copy is a one button affair. But if you want to change settings you have to do a little studying. The buttons are nice and large, there just not enough of them. There functionality toggles. The printers display is a single large bright one character alpha/number display that tells you what your doing. What was really needed was display with at least 10-15 characters and a few more buttons to make the other functionality easier until your familiar.Be careful unpacking its fully assembled but with all the plastic tabs that have to be removed. You have take out the toner cartridge and remove the tabs gently from the printer and then replace the toner cartridge to get the protective tabs out.Over all this is a really good printer and a great value. Some things like the lack of an Auto Document feeder will make the scanner more reliable. Choose this printer if you want a really good compact reliable MF device. I also should point out if you look at reviews this is one of the consistently highest rated device. The only neg review came from someone who had a driver issue on a mac resolved it and never updated his or her rating. There are plenty of mac and cross platform users are using it with out issue. The person that had the issue came before Canon updated their printer drivers.

This printer is, in one word, amazing. It's really small in terms of a laser all-in-one, and it easily fits onto my shelf. This printer is really budget friendly and fits the need for those who need occasional (or even frequent) printing and copying but don't need a full sized printer. In fact, I will call this a great substitute for a home-level all-in-one inkjet!Pros:-Tiny footprint. Takes up very little space. I literally places it in my bookshelf and has no problem using it.-Super fast printing. This printer actually is faster than the HP Laserjet used in my office, especially on the first two pages. It's very efficient for people like me who usually prints less than 3-4 pages. The speed cannot be compared to inkjet printers (a.k.a "home/small office printers") since it's laser.-Easy operation. In fact, you don't need to read the manual to use the basic features of this machine. Pretty much plug and play. Printing and scanning both work out of the box. Copying is easier: just slip in the original, and press start. That's it, no menus to go through, no options to ponder around. The image comes out crisp and clear.-Useful features for personal users. Basic copier functions like zooming and darkness are right on the front panel. There are even other helpful tools like page merging and ID copying (front-and-back on one sheet). Great for those occasions when you need copies of your ID or passport for paperwork.-Toner volume. Although the printer comes with a reduced volume toner, it still can print a whole lot before running out. Moreover, this is one of those printers that does not give you the annoying "low toner" warning, which means it won't bother you with fake warnings nor will it have problems with refilled/compatible cartridges.-Never dries out. After breaking several inkjet all-in-ones, I feel this printer is the perfect one if you don't print that much altogether. Almost all inkjets are designed cheap for really basic use, but once you open up the cartridge, the liquid ink will start drying out if you don't use it often. Once it jams the nozzle, you'll have to replace the cartridge (sometimes with a nozzle sold separately) - almost half the price of another printer. And you will only know it's jammed when you start printing and get no output. This laser printer totally solves the problem since it uses dry ink; when the print is uneven, all you have to do is take the cart out and shake it, and voila.Cons: (the details won't hurt that much, though)-Noise level. I know all printers are noisy when they print, but this one sounds louder than the inkjets and more like a commercial printer. Maybe this is due to its small size, and there's little noise apprehension built in it?-No duplex. I don't mind not having duplex since I can always manually print double sided. However, this printer makes the whole process painful because the only paper tray acts like the "manual feed" tray in most other printers - it prints on the "top" side that the paper was fed in, and outputs them face down, first one on bottom. This is perfect if you want to staple them right after because they are already in the right order (as oppose to inkjets which mostly stacks paper in reverse order, unless you print in reverse). The printer's driver does not support a "reverse order" option, so unless the software I'm using (no, MS Word depends on the printer driver to do it) supports it natively, I'll have to manually reverse the order of the paper before feeding them back in to do the other side. This was really annoying when I had to print a few copies of a large document.-Rough paper handling. Most laser printers will cause a little bend in the printed paper, which is fine. However, this printer seems to run on a thin stripe of transport that the printed paper bend as much as a salad bowl. When printing double sided manually, the printed page would be VERY hard to feed back in the tray, since the sides are bending up. Also, it's hard to hole punch a freshly printed document because of the bending; It's just really hard to get it in there.-Flimsy tray. The paper "holder" is actually only 2 inches wide and really thin when fully extended. If it's placed at a bodily height, I would definitely expect someone to bump into it, get a bruise, and break the holder in half. Luckily I stow mine on the high end of a bookcase, so it shouldn't matter. Plus, you can always remember to tuck it back in after use.In essence, this printer is good enough for home and personal use. Don't get this if you are, say, a designer or just picture maniac because it doesn't print colors, and the grayscale are not that great if you're printing colors "as is". However, it's more than enough for most people, who use their printer once in a while, and especially students. Most importantly, it won't break the bank - You don't have to keep buying new cartridges each time the old ones dry out, and each one can theoretically print at least a few thousand pages.

Great printer, fast, fairly quiet, good looking pages. My only problem is that it sometimes doesn't want to wake up after it goes to sleep. Most of the time it will wake up and print after a warmup period, but every once in a while, it won't and I'll have to have a program print again. Minor annoyance, but an annoyance nonetheless.

I was excited to get this printer installed as I had been looking for a small multi function laser printer for a while. I tried installing this on my windows 7 desktop. Everything seemed ok, then I tried to print....nothing. Scanner worked but wouldnt print at all. Tried it on my windows 7 netbook...same result. Wouldnt print at all. Tried it on my girlfriend's windows 8 laptop...everything works fine.Called Canon tech support and was told that something "weird was wrong with my computers" and they couldnt help at all.Now I just tried using it to scan some tax docs on the working Windows 8 laptop....computer doesn't see that the printer is even plugged in. Tried it on the other computers...at least before they recognized that it was plugged in....still get nothing. Now apparently Amazon's return policy ends today (Feb 2) but they must use Eastern time b/c it says I can no longer return it even though it is still Feb 2. Now I'm stuck with a piece of junk printer that nobody can seem to get to work.