HPColor Laserjet Pro 3201dw Wireless Color Laser Printer, Office Printer, Duplex, Best-for-Office (499Q9F)

Excellent home or small office printer, all the options, and great assortment of ways to connect. HP quality printing, duplex and both color or B/W. Replacement toners a bit $$$.

First, I only buy HP Laser printers because of quality and reliability. This printer has wireless and ethernet options but it's one or the other not both by design. I have it connected to a network, and it prints sometimes, not very reliable. Other printers on my network are fine, it's just this one. Overall, it has very little features and display is monochrome, and very slow from the time I hit print it can take several minutes until the printer starts processing. The quality is Ok, would not recommend for a network because the IP connection will drop when idle. Microsoft troubleshooting says it needs to be the default printer to keep the connection up so the job will go to the printer. Weird the print queue will just hold the job if it's not the default printer (even though it was selected for the print job). My previous HP 522 printer worked well in the same environment. This was to be a replacement after the 522 became expensive to fix, but I cannot recommend this to anyone using a home network. I can get the printer working but come back tomorrow and I am running pings and reinstalling the driver again. It will work each time I install the driver for a day. Very poor product for a printer with the HP name on it. I am using Windows 10 Pro on Notebook and Desktop. Would gladly pay double for a reliable printer that does not require an IT Admin to keep it printing. Users in small office driving me crazy - guess what is about to be tossed out.

Laser printers have a reputation for being bulky beasts, which is true for most professional models and those designed for photography and graphic work.This one, however, is a personal or small office printer that prints at 24 ppm, fully compatible with the latest Apple technologies, very easy to set up, and delivered with ready-to-use toner cartridges—just plug it in, and it's good to go.The print quality is excellent, and you can find compatible toners that will cost you less than what you typically spend on an inkjet printer.Having used all kinds of laser printers in my life—the first one being an Apple—I’m accustomed to high-end graphic laser printers. Yet, the HP Color LaserJet Pro 3201dw impressed me greatly, despite being designed purely for office use.The only issue I encountered was getting it recognized on the Ethernet network. I initially set it up via Wi-Fi, then forced a firmware update, after which it became visible on the Ethernet network.In conclusion, this is a very good color laser printer, seemingly reliable.

The first month or so of owning this printer, I would’ve given it 5 stars. The starter cartridges it came with put out AMAZING prints. Then one day, they run out and I’ve only ever replaced them with the same HP brand 218a cartridges. The first time i bought the XL version of each cartridge totaling somewhere around $500). After replacing, prints came out terrible and I mean AWFUL! Colors were way off half the page was faded to blank , unlegible even. I figured, hmm, I must’ve gotten a bad cartridge (or cartridges) even though they were unopened/sealed from HP. Nonetheless, I threw them all out, then bought a new set of the regular 218a HP brand cartridges (totaling $300-400). Installed them in the printer, and wouldn’t u know the prints still came just as bad as they were before. So in total I’ve spent well over $1,000 on this printer to not even use it anymore. I’ve tried trouble shooting every possibility every trick in the book, to no avail. I think it’s shady of HP that CLEARLY the starter cartridges the printer came with are of far better quality than those they provide as replacements, leading you to believe you have a great printer until u replace the ink. By that point, it’s too late to return, I’ve wasted over $1,000 over this garbage printer & toners, and still am unable to print one single page of a properly colored print out.. I was a fan of HP printers all my life but this purchase/experience may have just added them to my blacklist of “will never buy again” if it’s got the “HP” logo on it. They’re theirs and clearly have some deviant practices going on, from my experience. So in conclusion, my message would be to avoid this printer at all costs. Don’t trust Amazon’s “preferred choice” logo that I fell for and trusted. I wish someone would have informed me these issues before I bought this thing - i would’ve saved over a grand that’s been stolen from me, along with all the headaches.

This printer is just a printer not a scanner or a copier. It works well and I finally have a printer in which the ink isn't constantly drying up or running out after one or two pages printed. The cons of this machine is that it turns itself on in the middle of the night-midnight, 2 am, 3 am, it is not predictable but it will wake up anyone in a bedroom near by and just when you think it has quited down it starts again. A bright light shines out of it and it makes a tremendous amount of noise. We tried to remedy this by turning it off when not in use, but when you do that you have to reregister it and install drivers the next time you want to use it.

Thought it would be more basic than it was for the price, really nice printer for lower volume color printing without sacrificing quality. Had an inkjet but got tired of the refill game, plus just wasn't printing often enough to keep the inkjets from clogging from time to time. Quite happy with this purchase. Wifi didn't connect on first trial, but about 15 mins of troubleshooting on my own fixed the problem (don't quite remember what, but I think I deleted the device from System Manager and reinstalled the drivers). Recommend.