Canon ImageCLASS MF465dw Wireless Laser Printer

For our small business, I have owned 2 Brother laser printers – one was monochrome and had good print quality but did poorly with photo type printing and it used to blow arc-fault circuit breakers when it woke up to print. Then I had a color Brother laser printer and it was slow, used up color cartridges even if I only printed in monochrome (!!). It’s color performance was fine for graphics but poor for photo type printing. i finally gave up on Brother and bought the Canon MF465dw monochrome printer instead … and all I can say is wow! Clearly the BEST print quality that I’ve had (pardon the pun!) … crisp and clear text, and very nice photo type printing even when the source document had a color image in it! And fast? Super fast – even though all of our printing is duplex (2-sided) printing! Very happy with this printer! Another, not as minor as you’d think, feature that I love with this Canon printer is that it has anti-static static discharge gizmos in it … if you print a large document and have to shuffle the pages to square things up … it is very easy to do … no static cling! (Can’t say that about the other laser printers that I’ve owned). Our office is now completely a Canon printer office … a G8700 for larger format 11×17 prints, a G7000 for beautiful color printing, and now the MF465dw for high-speed monochrome duplex printing! Only 4 stars instead of 5 because I don’t yet know how hard it is to replace the cartridge and I don’t know if the printer will remain clean, no ‘trails’ of toner on printed pages, after longer term usage (and how hard it may be to clean what needs to be cleaned). Definitely do recommend this printer to others!

This printer is amazing, and super fast at printing. The touch screen is responsive, and makes setup and use a breeze. The build quality is light years ahead of my HP and Brother lasers. My big question going into this was, “Will I need to install drivers, manually?” The answer is “No!” Windows 11 detects the printer on the network and installs the appropriate drivers automatically, complete with duplex-printing support.

After reading many, many printer reviews I ordered this printer with some trepidation. The reviews often seemed to feature non Apple devices driving them. However my wife and print from our iPads and iPhones. It works great with those. We have had it 3 months now and no problems. Setup is easy for Apple AirPrint which is inside the printers OS. It is kinda worrisome when you read printer reviews as there is always many negative reviews of every brand and model. But this Canon has been a pleasure so far !

I received it today to replace an HP laserjet printer that was being inconsistent in printing wirelessly. I finally got tired of the hassle and decided to get a new printer. I found the set up for the Canon printer quick and effortless, and it connected to my wireless network easily. (Note, if you’re having trouble initially getting it to connect, restart your router.) The printer prints fast and the print quality is very good. I did find all the acknowledgement beeps the printer makes to be annoying, but there’s a button on the side of the control panel where you can turn all the volume settings to off, and this solved that issue. So far I like this printer a lot.