imageCLASS MF445dw - All-in-One, Wireless, Mobile-Ready Laser Printer with 3 Year Warranty

It has 3 years warranty. The cartridge that is included is not some "starter" type. It's full-featured, 3100 pages cartridge. So it's like at least 2 extra cartridges is included in the price if you compare with any of the competitors. It's unbelievably fast. It has duplex multi page scanning - it's when you give it stack of paper - it automatically scans both sides of each page and nicely places it into a PDF file, for example. It's silent in the sleep mode, unlike many HP competitors that have high-pitched noise while in the sleep mode. This printer is too good to be true. In fact, it's so good, that you'll get greedy. You would whine that "if only it could print in color". (and then your life-time quest of finding a perfect printer will be over). When I compared the true black document printed on this printer and on a very good inkjet (with print price per page about 10x) - I didn't know which one is better and at some point I confused the two copies. I couldn't figure out what printer printed what copy. And then... the greed. When you print PDFs, some of the colors are not pure black. Meaning your prints will be somewhat "pixelated". However, it gets perhaps much better if you play with the "quality" settings. It's capable of 1200 dpi, but then it has some modes like "photo" or "publication" or "high-definition text" - you need to play with those. This is in NO WAY "the fault" of the printer!!! You are buying monochrome. This is the nature of it. The toner is black or no black. There is no even gradation of the gray. Meaning that even gray has to be simulated from the black or absence of black. It has to be said that inkjets prints are also pixelated. But perhaps because pure black is also pixelated - you care less about the not pure black ones. Laser printer gives you so much sharpness for the pure blacks that you start noticing pixelation on the not pure black colors.

I am using this printer for basic home needs. Basic printing a few times a month, but also scanning all my incoming paper documents to archive them and go paperless, so I scan almost daily : invoices, IRS documents, pay stubs, contracts, everything. This is the cheapest printer I could find with a duplex single-pass scanner, so I went ahead and ordered it. I am impressed by this printer because it comes with 2 features I did not expect : - Internal OCR capability. When it scans to PDF, it can make them searchable, which is awesome. - Customizable interface with a LOT of options (but you have to be tech-savvy). I customized the front screen to add 4 quick-scan buttons. When I press one of them, it scans with the proper settings, and the scanned PDF lands directly on my computer (I used FTP but you can use Windows file sharing too, SMB). This is really convenient ! I just put the documents in the ADF, press the correct button, and it's done. I then just have to rename the file and file it on my storage. The attached photo shows my customized home screen. The printing works well and does duplex too, which is a must have to save paper and trees. Very happy with this purchase !

Print quality is wonderful, it does everything I need. Out of the box, scan to pc, copy, print, etc, all work very easily. However, a word of caution. I am a well-compensated systems engineer by trade. I definitely know IT/networking, systems administration, and even some code. However, it even took me an hour to get this darn thing to scan to an email using encrypted SMTP given it didn't like my email provider's (Optimum/Altice) TLS certificate for SMTP. So, I wasted nearly 45 minutes trying to interpret error codes and troubleshooting that after spending about 15 minutes finding the settings pages I needed in the first place to start even putting the config in correctly. (IE: Why did the documentation point me first to this useless/terrible legacy website that you can't even access in the UI without directly navigating by URL, when I should have gone to other pages? Then, why is the smtp port number on a different page than the email stuff? Also goodness gracious, this is some serious granular control over permitted PKI Algorithms for TLS on this other page, etc). FYI, SSL/TLS does work for encrypted smtp on this device, just not for optimum.net email for some reason. I was able to get outlook.com email working instead using an app password as for them, I am set up with 2FA. I think it may have something to do with optimum demanding the use of specific ciphers with their certificate and not using STARTTLS, but I could be wrong--I didn't troubleshoot further and just decided to use a different email for SMTP. In summary, the web (they call it "remote") UI is very unintuitive and closely related options are unfortunately in menus scattered throughout the machine in very different places. The documentation is also scattered everywhere. If you plan on doing anything other than the basics, you're going to want to know your stuff like I do or get their tech support. Otherwise, this thing is feature packed, and in my opinion, more so than a comparable Brother printer. This one is far sleeker and more modern looking too than a comparable brother, plus it's really quiet :D.

According to the Product Desc - Fast, Single-Pass Duplex Scanning The imageCLASS MF445dw leverages a single-pass document feeder for two-sided scanning at up to 70 images per minute (ipm) in black and white or up to 26 ipm in color. Scanned files can be converted into multiple file formats, including Hi-Compression PDF and Searchable PDF (OCR). So far, not able to perform 2 sided scanning as adverstised. Tried scanning thru feeder but only 1 side is scanned. This setting is missing on the MF Scan Utility. Installed both versions (one from CD, and the latest v12.02 from Canon) but no success. One star for now. Will review it again if this get resolved. Might have buy something else if this does not get resolved. Update to 5 stars. Contact Canon support - they were able to provide the correct driver and software. After reinstall the new driver and Scan Utility. The 2-sided scanning feature is available. Everything is working as expected now!

Me gustó mucho el servicio pero no me gustó que me hicieron cargos extras por la diferencia de país y que nadie me haya advertido...

PRODUCTO EXTRAORDINARIO, SUPERA POR MUCHO LA EXPECTATIVA. LES RECOMIENDO AMPLIAMENTE ESTE PRODUCTO DE EXCELENTE CALIDAD Y EXTRAORDINARIO FUNCIONAMIENTO ADEMAS DE QUE ES PRACTICAMENTE AUTO-CONFIGURABLE.

This printer is probably a little more than I need, but the price was right for me. The built in apps can be helpful, eg scanning something and being able to email it to yourself. The settings were a little tricky, but I’m enjoying this feature. I saw some me the screen being unresponsive. Compared to smart phone, for sure, but it’s easy enough to type in emails. The screen is larger and far more responsive than the 7 year old unit this is replacing. I didn’t know I could print on both sides until I saw the setting show up in the print menu. This is another great feature.

Imprimante très efficace mais pas très facile à configurer