HP Color Laserjet Pro MFP 3301fdw Wireless All-in-One Color Laser Printer, Office Printer, Scanner, Copier, Fax, ADF, Duplex, Best-for-Office (499Q5F)

I really like this color laser. It was easy to install and configure. I was up and running in approximately an hour. My only real issue was that the scanner defaulted to WIA when TWAIN is what my File Center software uses. Not a problem. This color laser supports both and HP had the driver I needed. Jut went out to their well organized support site and there it was.Printing from my iPhone and iPad was easy. As this is replacing an old Brother that didn’t have that capability, this is a big step up for me. I’m not getting rid of the Brother as it still works well, but it will mainly do black&white from here on.The print image is sharp. I needed to print some landscape designs that were made for large format printing and I easily read all but the smallest detail. For the super small detail, with the help of a magnifying glass, that print info was also very sharp. Maybe if I had my eyes from 40 years ago I could have seen it.The printer is quiet. In a room full of equipment that is important.Probably my only critique is removing printed pages. The holding surface needs a little dip to make it easier for those of us with sausage fingers. I got used to it quick enough but would have liked a little dip in the surface to make it easier.The printer comes with very old software and I tested both the wireless printing as well as the email to the printer option. As always, HP has a bunch of available forms and crafts. With land line phones almost obsolete, the mobile fax option is important. For me, it is important only one time per year.Overall this a a very solid color laser for home office use.

So I did some research and this HP Color LaserJet Pro looked nice and compact, it had some good reviews, and the price was right. I checked it out on some YouTube videos for setup and replacing toner cartridges and everything was so simple to do. I only use Macs and the Color LaserJet Pro was supposedly compatible with macOS. So, I took the printer out of the box, ran the initial setup, checked the toner cartridges, put in some paper, ran the print demo, connected to my 2.4 GHz WiFi Network, and printed a one-page PDF file from my 2015 MacBook Pro in another room. I didn't need to install any HP drivers or anything else. The printer was instantly recognized on my network and was ready to go after a minute or so of initialization. Now the LaserJet Pro connects and prints instantly whenever I turn it on.I have to say this printer puts out some beautiful print and it will likely be the last printer I will ever need. I was blown away by the color-print demo. I don't know why I waited so long to buy a decent laser printer. I don't think this printer is expensive at all and as long as the toner cartridges stay working, I don't mind paying the price of genuine HP toner cartridges. It will probably take me years to use up the toner in those cartridges and I even bought a spare black toner cartridge just in case. I am honestly pleased with this Color LaserJet Pro and I highly recommend it for basic print jobs. Printing from my Mac running Mojave OS was a breeze. I don't think printing gets any easier than this. I'm going to play around with it a bit, such as printing from my smartphone or my other Macs. I basically use my MacBook Pro laptop daily to do everything, so that's all I need to print from. I really didn't need a color laser printer, but now I have one if I ever need to print something in color. For me, it's totally worth it if I'm going to use it for years. The printer came in handy right away, as I need to return a corrupted PNY SSD to Amazon, so I printed the return shipment code to give to the UPS store. I had to give this printer a 5-star rating. I don't see any cons for the short-term. If it keeps on working as it is, then it's perfect.I bought this Color LaserJet Pro as a replacement printer for some older crappy, multi-function HP Color-Jet printer I had been using over the past few years. I rarely print anything, so on occasion (every few months), whenever I needed to print or copy something important, the ink-jet cartridge was either partially clogged or dried out. That's even after I removed the ink-jet cartridges, used the nozzle cover, and placed them in plastic ZipLoc bags. It drove me bonkers and so I decided to trash that freaking ink-jet printer. No more ink-jets for me. I wasn't trying to save money. It's just that I rarely printed documents and didn't realize there was a problem with those crappy ink-jet cartridges always getting clogged no matter how carefully I treated them. My advice is... Stay away from ink-jet printers for document printing unless you're going to use them every day.

Had a couple of older Brother all-in-one machines that did a pretty good job for me at home and at my shop. Wanted to upgrade to machines with a scanner feed, so went this direction based on reviews. Now, I'm not a network engineer, and not an IT pro, but I've had no problems setting up both work and home networks and maintained them for years. At the shop I typically have 15 devices on, and at home between 30-40 depending on day and time. All devices happy, chatting with each other and the outside world, everything just works.Then comes the printer switch, and my whole world comes crashing down. This has been the most maddening, awful experience, with both printers, that I have had with a network device since WiFi was in its infancy. I truly want to go full Office Space on both of them. Today's incident sealed it. Wife home doing school finals. I'm at my shop. After 2 solid weeks of no problems, no drop-offs, no changes in our infrastructure at all, can't print or scan. Scanning is a must because she has to show work. I get home and despite seeing the printer on our local network using the Eero app, and seeing wife's PC on the same network, both connected to the same Eero, neither can see each other. I literally typed the IP address into the URL field, nope, doesn't exist. Fine, let me find one of those weird printer-only USB cables just to get her out of the woods. Connected printer to Carbon X1, scan app sees the printer, scan commences, then errors out at the end.Thousand bucks down the drain for 2 of these garbage paperweights. Now dreading getting on the phone with tech support only to likely hear "did you plug it in until it clicks?"Update: updated my Eero setup to include WPA3 authentication, and it worked! For 4 whole days. Tried to print this morning, "printer offline". Printer confirmed to be on. Checked all devices on the network. Both of our laptops, and this pile of garbage "printer" showing on the network, and both even connected to the same Eero. I type in the IP address into a browser, and the printer page comes up with all of the settings. But, can I print? Nope. Full Eero network reboot, unplug printer, plug it back in, and we can print again...from only one of our laptops. I normally have to reboot the network *maybe* 2x/year. I'll keep adding to this as needed.Again, DO NOT BUY THIS PILE OF JUNK.6/4/21 - good news, we made it almost 7 days without having to reboot our whole world! But today, customers lined up, ready to cash out, can't print. Can't scan. Nothing changed in our infrastructure. Ten minutes rebooting our world, and everything works again. Seriously, this is probably the worst piece of tech on the market right now.7/7/21 - just got the alert that my printer is low on all toner. I bought this printer on 4/15 for $488. It is now 7/7, and just added 4 genuine HP toner cartridges to my cart here. Total will be $432. This is the type of thing that inspires movies like Falling Down. Oh, and if I click on the handy window that shows up every damn time I print that says "ORDER SUPPLIES!", it takes me to the HP store, where all but black toner is sold out. So soon, I'll be writing again about a printer that I won't be able to use at all. Awesome.11/13/21 - Yet another reminder of why HP might be the worst company on the face of the earth. Remember when I had to spend $432 on toner 4 months ago? So, like Kramer and the used car salesman trying to see how far they could get on the low fuel light, I kept dismissing the "Critically low" messages every time we'd print at my shop. We print roughly 15-20 pages per day. Yeah, I have yet to replace the toner, and the pages still look fine.1/12/22 - still printing just fine. Toner message screaming at me every time I print.3/30/22 - ditto the last update.8/15/24 - still falls off network (both at home and at my shop), still need to reinstall software, still the worst piles of crap in the printer universe.12/21/24 - home printer offline yet again. At home, I usually have 40+ devices connected to my Eero 6 mesh network. This is still the only device that disappears for no reason. Then some combination of unplugging it, plugging it back in, then finding the local IP address using the Eero app, then punching that into a browser window, and tweaking some settings there brings it back online. However, I have to do it differently each time. Junk. I can't wait to go full Office Space on this worthless waste of space.