Canon Color imageCLASS LBP622Cdw -Wireless, Mobile Ready, Duplex Laser Printer

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So far I am overly impressed with this printer. I had an HP officejet and an HP envy. I was really disappointed with the print quality and color that these printers had. After researching for a while, I was about to go with brother but then decided to go with this printer. I am so happy with my choice so far. Here is a comparison of a print with my HP envy and this canon. The canon is the picture on the right and the hp is the picture on the left. Wow. If you are looking for a printer with good color matching then this printer is a good choice. I usually never write reviews but I am so happy with the quality, how quickly I got this printer, and the ease of setup.

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Printer works flawlessly but documentation is practically non existent. This laser printer produces crisp black and white especially in 1200 dpi mode and excellent color. Dont expect it to be a photo printer and you wont be disappointed. I got tired of dried out inkjet cartridges in a variety of cheap printers and finally bit the bullet and spent a little more on this Canon. I works perfectly but unless you want to use it strictly in its default mode which consists of 600 dpi color two sided printing, you had better do a little online research to find out how to access the other modes. You wont find it in the supplied or online Canon documentation. Unfortunately, each app seems to have a somewhat differently designed printer module and often some of the printer modes such as BW or single sided printing are hidden behind dropdown menus cryptically called "quality" or "layout" or something competely different. Othewise I love the printer but use a Canon Pro 100 for photo printing since laser printers dont provide the color gradation that inkjets can. Also, if your space is tight beware that the footprint of this printer is a little large than most inkjets. I measures about 16.5" depth and width.

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Just installed and printed my first pages. Couldnt be happier. My family and I dont print much, so after years of abuse from inkjets high cost for ink that dries out before we even got to print more than a couple of pages, we said enough! Time to upgrade to laser. Now I wont have to worry about throwing major money down the drain. Setup was easy. Remove all the tape, connect to wifi, usb or ethernet, insert some paper, install drivers either from the cd or from the canon site, and youre up and running. It is quite alarmingly loud when it first starts up. But, nothing to worry about apparently.

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I have had nothing but frustrations with this printer since day 1. I switch between various documents multiple times a day, from 20 lb. paper to business card stock to postcard stock and this printer requires you to reset the paper type each and every time you change types. Ridiculous!!! Then when the cartridges are at 10% capacity, it stops printing until you change the cartridge, even if you try to override the setting. Not Gonna do it!! Half the time it wont feed the heavier stock and jams. I had an HP laser Jet prior to this piece of frustration and wish I had it back. I used it for 7 years with no issues until it just wore out. Totally frustration free, it was. Not this one....nothing but frustration. Oh, it connected to the network perfectly fine and we can run it from any machine in the building.....but when it comes to print quality and overall operation, it is just not up to what I had known of Canon quality. I will never buy another Canon product again just because of this frustration magnet!!

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Rant Ive got to admit this was a grudge purchase. After nearly 30 years of buying HP printers Ive given up. The reasons are long and varied. Also I decided that if you truly need printing and scanning you are far better off buying a dedicated printer and scanner. All manufacturers lower end (<$500) MFP offerings are a compromise nor do they offer real value. To that end I decided to abandon ink jets and go to an enterprise technology - laser. HP probably makes some decent laser printers but HP is dead to me. As such Canon is an enterprise grade company with product offerings priced toward home and small business users. When I run out of toner from the starter cartridges I may alter my opinion. User Experience Unit comes with toner cartridges in the printer and ready to use. Windows 10 does not have a default printer driver so you have to install one. Evidently Canon is not aware that many home computers dont have a CD drive; certainly my Surface Pro is barren. Going to the Canon website quickly offered several different drivers with confusing descriptions apart from the one titled "Recommended". What additional features they offer remains a mystery. Be careful if you automatically print the manual. The Canon manual is over 600 pages long. I browsed over a few pages that discussed security issues in great detail which would be of great interest to a corporate cybersecurity sleuth but probably has little application to someone whose printer and network are secure. It does reinforce the image that this printer despite is small size and diminutive price is an enterprise device. Once I installed the "Recommended" driver and input the WiFi info the Canon was placed in service. Laser printers are often faster than inkjets but they are page printers. That means that they dont start to print until they receive all the page data. Once received they print very quickly. Inkjets often start printing as soon as data is received giving a false impression of speed. Print quality was better than most inkjets especially photos when printing on good quality plain paper. To often inkjets saturate plain paper when printing photos leaving a smeary image. Using photo paper improves the image quality with both technologies. I was a little disappointed that a bigger paper drawer wasnt offered but it does have a manual page input, a feature that has been dropped from many inkjets. The manual feed is particularly valuable when printing UPS delivery labels. As this is a dedicated laser printer it doesnt have the ADF or the copy platen of MFPs which makes the printer much smaller. My last and forever HP printer with an additional paper tray was almost twice the height of cherished (so far) Canon. Whats Next? While I have developed a hatred for MFPs I do need much of the same functionality they offer. To this end the additional of a scanner would solve most of the problem. When one steps up to high quality scanners they are most often exclusively page fed and have supporting software that has valuable features that will likely never be found on inexpensive MFPs. A pile of papers that would take days trying to be fed into a MFP are scanned in a couple hours with a quality scanner with few if any paper jams and image enhancing features like deskew and despeckle that are performed in real time. Some scanners offer a dedicated button which immediately prints the documents scanned so the copy function is largely retained. Also the high quality scanners can scan a variety of documents including IDs and long receipts. While I have prior experience with enterprise scanners (Documentum implementation) and have researched available scanners although I havent found the courage to spend $429 for the Fujitsu ix500. Conclusion So far the Canon printer has done everything expected. Moreover I have yet to read reports that Canon managers are devil worshipers or find infants to be tasty delicacies. Im not suggesting I have read reports of HP managers eagerly performing such transgressions but if they do surface I wont be surprised.

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Im a relic from an ancient time that (was) still using an HP 990 series; an inkjet that took a black cart and a 3-color cart. I had all kinds of refill kits, high quality inks, and tools to keep the replacement cartridge cost down. I scrounged dozens of black and color carts off eBay to keep the old beast going. You know what? I hate inkjets with a passion; and may they burn in the hell that spawned them! I spent so much time, trying to get a color cartridge working, just so I could print a ticket to a concert, or the Amtrak pass I needed for the next morning. If there was an important document I needed to print in the last couple years, I could almost count on the color cartridge to crap out. A full-color page takes 10-minutes, and the red would fail part-way so the top 1/4 of a color document would have pink streaks. Grrr... :( It was time to join the laser world. I havent printed much color in a while since it was always a losing fight with my old inkjet in the ring. Researching printers, I read that a color laser would be "medium quality" compared to an inkjet; so from my perspective... simply having fast printing, sharp text / blacks, and color that would print at all would be a massive upgrade for me. OK, I like my Canon cameras, I know they make good printers and papers, so I settled on the LBP612CDW which would also fit on my old computer desk (the shelves are big enough as its from the CRT monitor days). Prime delivered it a day early (thanks Amazon!). Unbox; plug in power / USB; install drivers; and it was ready to go. The first picture I printed didnt take 10-minutes, I think it took 10-seconds. It didnt smear at all either, from the tear that ran down my cheek at how amazingly sharp, smooth, and more colorful it was than what my old inkjet could do. I was shocked at the quality of the prints I got out of it. I didnt know that color lasers had improved so much... wow! I wont have to stick toner carts in hot water just to get the yellow working again like I had to do so many times with my cursed inkjet. Last night I tossed the old printer and the carts / ink / tools in a dumpster; I would have heaved them in a nuclear fire if it was possible. Canon... thank you!

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I really wanted to love this printer but its a useless $200 lump. Im a student and cannot afford to A) not have a printer, B) spend any money on a printer, let alone over $200 on one that will not work! Given how easy its been to install and connect all my other devices -- including my Echo -- to my wifi access point, this is a nightmare. Ive worked on this for over 12 hours to get it to connect properly. The way my apartment is configured, connecting the printer to the access point means running a 25 USB cable! Ridiculous. I shouldnt have to pay an installer to get the wifi connection to work.

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Love this printer!! At first I thought I made a mistake since the toner cartridge refills are more expensive than Brothers ones, but I like the fact that it allows me to keep printing way past the “toner low” stage and still hasn’t forced me to change the cartridge although it’s been recommending it. It tells me that “Tinernis low and quality can’t be guaranteed” but asks if I’d like to continue anyway. I press yes and I can keep on printing. The printing quality is amazing. Now that it’s low on toner it isn’t as “crisp” but still does the job for my needs. I’ve been able to print hundreds more pages still. Once I need to print my super crisp color projects again, I’ll finally replace the cartridge. For now, my sister still gets use printing study notes on it and I can keep printing invoices.

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Worst printer ever. It took me several hours to connect it to WiFi and I’m a network engineer. When I finally did connect it, I’ve been having various problems with the firmware. It takes me forever to print a page normally. I’ve only used it to print a few pages and the print is very faded. I’ve spent hours upon hours trying to use this worthless POS. Save your money and buy a better printer.

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Terrible product - never worked and Cannon would only replace the unit with a refurbished unit. I hate dealing with companies that dont stand behind their products when they dont work.

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