Overall, recommended. For a laser printer, this does a reasonably good job of reproducing photographs or printing color graphics. It has a lot of functions on the menu that are not intuitive, so read your owner's manual. It's the best color printer I have been able to find currently, although it isn't quite as good, or nearly as fast, as an Oki I purchased nearly 20 years ago. Unfortunately, it's getting harder to find supplies for my old Oki, and since Oki has exited the US market, I can't buy new, so this has to do.
For a business class "duplex" printer not having 2-sided scanning seems ridiculous, but I will put that on me for not reading carefully enough. The constant messages to clean and to subscribe to their toner replacement are annoying and frankly once I tell it to keep printing with a low toner, the warning should go away until the level drops again, or like my old Canon (that I loved) let me decided when to pop back up (50 or 100 pages, etc)
However, the paper feed is by far the worst problem. Trying to get it to switch between the drawer and manual feed is a joke. I frequently switch between 3 hole and not (both Ltr size) and Legal and Envelopes. I put a single sheet in the Manual Feed, change my selection in Word to Manual and it prints from the drawer. I put several sheets of Legal in the Manual Feed, tell the printer the size of paper is LGL, print my Legal Size docs from Word, switch to a PDF and print a page that is set for Letter, the printer options are set for Letter and for Automatic and it prints on the LGL from the Manual... , it should be smart enough to know that the paper sizes don't match.
It took me long enough after purchase to figure out it wasn't me, the printer just doesn't make sense and since it was an order, no store to take it back to, and I can't even imagine trying to rebox it to ship back so I am just going to live with it, but wish I had done more shopping around. I loved my old Canon so much, it was a workhorse that worked just the way I expected, so I had my heart set on replacing it with a new Canon, but don't feel like this was a good choice.
Still setting this up but so far so good .. There IS a VOLUME CONTROL!
on August 18, 2022
Posted by: Sea Wolf
from Yarmouth, Mass
Arrived in perfect shape. Should be moved around by two people but so far managing alone. Recommend you set this up so you can easily get at the back because you will need to open the back to clear paper jams. In a tight space, I am putting it on a turntable to prevent damage to the machine. Paperwork included is not very detailed about the machine and parts. Look here https://oip.manual.canon/USRMA-3547-zz-SSM-740-enUS/contents/devu-basicope-name_func.html
The printer cartridges cost a fortune but the toner lasts very few pages and then gives continuous messages. "Press Volume Key to continue" but there is no volume key. I wish I had never purchased this stupid printer.
Easy to set up and to operate - excellent office printer with lots of great options - this is my second Color imageClass MF - Canon is "heads-and shoulders" above HP