Canon imageCLASS LBP6030w

Until recently I was using a canon inkjet printer with all of the typical cartridge issues and costs. After it finally died I decided to give up color printing and replace with a simple laser printer. This canon fits the bill. Print well and page rate is fast. Works fine with wifi, although an ethernet option would have been nice. I only just received the unit but it works well and am hopeful it'll work better than inkjet. Now the semi-bad. The install manual is a waste of space. It's not hard to setup but it should be clearer. First step is a hard connect to your computer using the USB. You'll need to go to the Canon USA website and search support for printer name. Download the driver package for your operating system (mine was win11). There's a tab on the support site with WIFI guidance. It should be pretty straightforward after that. It's a bit disappointing the drivers didn't download directly from microsoft and the software is a bit old-fashioned. I used the network setting tool first and then to the ufrii directory to install the driver. However, I suspect you can just run setup in the bootup directory in one step rather than two.

No idea why some people said the setup was difficult! Other than learning how to unpackage and remove all of the orange tabs and stuff, the initial setup was really easy! I followed a video on YouTube to see how to properly unpack the printer as that part was a little confusing at first. This printer definitely saves on ink usage. The tray holds a lot of paper too, which is great! I just recommend to not use the CD when setting up the drivers for the product (I didn't even open it), I just downloaded the updated drivers from the Canon website instead. I was able to quickly set up the printer through my iPhone and also on my Windows 11 computer, with no issues at all! Very awesome product, printing quality is wonderful and VERY FAST and reliable!

It looks nice. It came with a CD though. Do you remember CDs? They used to come with computers a really long time ago. Modern computers don't have them anymore. It came with a few sheets of paper. Not really a manual, mostly pictures. The only useful thing it was the advice that the mac driver probably wouldn't work. I tried plugging the printer into the computer I wanted to print from via USB. My computer saw that it was there, and that it was a printer! I could only print plain ascii text, and it didn't work. Nothing ever printed. I do have a really old CD drive. It has USB-A, and modern computers have USB-C. The CD is only Windows or Mac. So I eventually found an adapter combination that would let the mac power the CD drive so that I could read it! My first trip through the software produced absolutely no results. So I started over with a different USB-A to USB-C adapter and got it to work! I had to download a driver like the manual said. So now I can print...from a computer I don't need or want to print from. The ubuntu forums say that drivers exist, and it can be made to work, but they also say that the driver are gone from canon, so I have no idea if I'll be able to get this printer working directly. I might have to write a script to wrap lpr with a call to ssh to print my documents. All in all, the printer itself seems nice, though I have only printed a few pages so far as amazon only gave me the printer and the toner and not the paper I ordered, apparently I get paper tomorrow. The actual setup and administration of this printer is terrible. Now that it is working, I notice that it isn't very good at printing the letter capital H in italics. It looks fine in the PDF, but won't print. Actually, if I put multiple italic H characters in, most of them print. But most isn't really good enough... EDIT It took three days, but I finally got the print driver to work so that I can print. It turns out the driver installed from canon neglects to mark libcupsimage2-dev as a required package. CUPS prints an error about the driver called before the driver that errors out which is incredibly misleading. As for print quality, it doesn't compare to the HP Laserjet M806 that I usually use at work. But for $97.25 it is more than acceptable. It is also noticeably cheaper than an M806.

Very good price for a laser printer. And so far it works well, and I like the fact that it works with Wi-Fi so I don't have to have it wired to the computer. However I am only giving it four stars because of two things: When you get the ready printer for use, there are protective styrofoam and plastic pieces inside the printer that have to be removed. And the instructions ostensibly show you how to do that, but in my opinion the instructions are not clear, and that made hooking the printer up very stressful, because I was afraid I wasn't doing that right, because the instructions were not clear enough. Although I got it right, I imagine that many people might not. The problem is they just used drawings instead of photographs, and what they really need is a video on YouTube or on their own website to show you exactly how to prepare the printer for printing. Furthermore, the printer was not plug and play like the last three printers I bought were. When I went through the process of setting it up with the software, it didn't work and I had to call Canon. The Windows computer just was not finding the printer even though I followed the instructions, and the fact that I followed the instructions was confirmed by the tech support guy on the phone. So he had to troubleshoot it and he found the problem and we got it to work. Whoever, in my opinion, one shouldn't have to call tech support to hook up a standard device like this. Basically Canon failed to make the software work as "Plug and Play” as every other printer I've ever had did. So while it seems to be a very nice printer and a good price, can it needs to work on its software and instruction pages.

July 2024 update: A sudden power drop/surge apparently damaged the wireless in this printer. It has been a great printer up to now with absolutely no problems. I have ordered a replacement at a good price, because of its otherwise excellent performance. Addendum: Starter cartridge printed poorly. Replacing with new made a hyuuge difference ;-) Just received and setup this printer a couple hours ago, so this very early review is of course subject to later update for any problems that may occur over the next few weeks, months. I setup this printer using the installation video available at the Amazon site where the printer is sold. Setup without a hitch using the USB cable connected to a laptop. My desktop PC which is located in my LR, well away from the printer. So setting that to print wireless was a quandary since their was no further instruction for setting other devices in the house up to print. I am not quite sure what I did to setup my desktop because using the same instructions as before still requires connecting a USB cable, so setting up using the router WPS button instead seems to have worked since I accomplished the task and my desktop is now printing wireless. Still I did not immediately see my printer in devices and printers at first glance but then it showed up. I know this sounds stupid and confusing but I have to say it felt kinda stupid and confusing. All is well that ends well though and both of my devices are now printing wireless. This printer is replacing it's exact mate (LBP6000) only that printer was not wireless. My previous WIFI 5 router had a print server so I've been printing wireless to that printer for years. Now no WIFI 6 router that I can find has printer server to their USB ports. Crazy stupid IMO since I've been using Netgear routers for decades. No more. My new TPLink WIFI6 is a very good router and more than competitive with other manufactures in terms of value, quality and performance. And now I can print wireless again. Anybody need a really good LBP6000. ;-)

Depending upon your application, this is either an amazing printer or a horrible one. I've purchased 3 of these for a couple of different businesses over the last 9? years. For more bulk printing (shipping labels, orders, etc) this is great. For printing small labels it is not; it does not pull the paper through straight enough to be exact for small "address" sized labels. No amount of fidgeting, over-adjusting or re-adjusting helps the problem. Love that it is small and refills are super affordable.

After destroying my last two inkjet printers trying to clear clogged printheads, I decided to go with a cheap laser as I rarely print color at home. Setup was not as easy as I hoped. The included disk never started the install program even when I ran the .exe file myself. I downloaded the Windows 10 installation file from Canon and ran it, this created a folder with the needed files. After connecting with the included USB cable I ran the program to set the wireless system on the printer and to my surprise it never asked me for the WIFI password, it got it from my WIFI connected computer. Installing the drivers on Windows 10 was a headache. I followed the instructions to the letter several times and the printer was listed as installed and working but the computer could not connect. I deleted the printer and reinstalled it from the Windows wizard instead of the Canon software, a few seconds later I was printing. The default "General" print quality is really draft. Switching to "Publications" quality results in very high quality text and graphics at a much lower speed and increased toner use. This is too slow for a busy office but acceptable for low volume printing. There is no feed tray for envelopes or special paper, this may be a nuisance for an office but for home it is not a problem. Overall I am very satisfied with this printer, at the rate I print it should last years and with no nozzles to clog it is a better alternative to inkjets if color printing is not important. Update on installation on Windows 10 I tried to install this on a second computer and the Windows wizard failed. However the downloaded software worked this time even though it failed on the first computer. This is therefore my suggested approach to installation: 1. Download the installation file from Canon and run it, it will create a folder with the needed files. If you are setting it up for wireless use, open the Network Setting Tool folder, run the CNAN1STK.exe file and follow the prompts. 2. Go to the UFRII folder, find the setup.exe file and run it. It installs the software and the printer shows up in Windows. If the printer works then you are done. 3. If the printer does not work after step 2 then go to Devices and Printers, delete the printer then click on "Add a printer". If the wireless settings are properly configured or you are using a USB cable, the printer should be listed as available, follow the prompts. Hope this helps those who cannot get it to work.

I had one of these before but it was fried during a power surge. I re-purchased it and it works fine and prints with quality. Just turn it off in case of your not using it (so much for surge protectors).

El producto cumple y es de excelente calidad, pero mi ignoracia por la falta de investigacion me hizo ver que los toner son carisimos, asi que mi instinto mexicano me obliga a revenderla ya que al ser de importacion el regresarla no es una opcion viable, se que existen genericos pero es una impresora de apoyo y el tenerla guardada la pondra triste y si algo me enseño toy story, es que no puedes hacer a un lado algo o alguien por algo mas nuevo.

Good printer, good price

Não atendeu minhas expectativas pois não tem interface nativa com o IOS.

working just fine. No issues. But it was slightly costlier on Amazon than another platform which I noticed a while after. Delivery period was also too irritating. Really disappointed about the latency in delivery.

You can only download with a CD and laptop which is not identifiable on the Amazon site. Then they want you to pay for shipping to send it back!