Canon Image Class MF247dw Wireless, Multifunction, Duplex Laser Printer

I've had this printer for close to 7 years now, and it is still working flawless. The ink last a long, long time, and is very cheap to replace, unlike other printers where the ink only last a short time, and is expensive to replace. This is the only printer I ever brand I ever plan to buy if I ever have to replace this one.

I bought this Canon multi-function printer as a replacement for an older Canon printer that finally failed due to a small sensor in the paper feeder that would have cost more to repair than the whole printer originally cost. I wanted a wireless printer so all the devices in our house could share it, and the difference between a hard wired and a wireless printer was minimal. Software installation was relatively simple from the CD that was included. The hardest part was tapping in my wireless network's security code through the small touch-sensitive screen on the front of the printer, but I soon got the hang of it. This is normally a one-time task that I have not needed to repeat. Despite having been told by Canon that the printer is not supported on Windows XP, I am successfully printing from XP thru Windows 10 machines. This printer prints, copies, scans and faxes, just as the previous printer did. However, as I said, the wireless function lets multiple devices print to it from anywhere in the house, and I can also control the scanner remotely and have the file sent directly to the device that initiated the scanning. Printing also is much faster than on the prior machine. I have not yet tested the fax function, but I do not expect problems. The only downside from the exchange of printers is that the new printer uses a different ink cartridge than the old one. However, third-party cartridges are available at a reasonable price. I continue to be amazed that such a multifunction printer can be bought as cheaply (~$120) as it is (including free shipping)! I highly recommend this model. This laser printer only prints in black and white, on one or both sides of a sheet of paper. The output is much crisper than most I have seen from color printers, and black and white satisfies 99% of my needs. For the other 1% I take a thumb drive to Staples or Office Depot.

I got so tied of buying inkjet printers time and time again only to have them die after a couple years of use from slew of issues I almost never print out photos so color printing isn't a huge deal to me. So I decided to pony up the cash for a decent toner-based all in one printer. My hope being that I can get away from the constant problems I had with inkjets headers always clogging on me and the ink packs never getting me very far. MAN did I choose well, this printer is great. I can print out a page in 3 secs flat and subsequent pages in 1 sec. That's faster than every inkjet I've ever owned. The print quality is perfect. Very crisp. The double sided printing is fantastic. It doesn't drastically slow down the printing process like most injets. The quickest inkjet I owned did double sided printing at a rate of about 22 sec per sheet. This printer manages about 4 secs per double sided sheet. Setup is stupid easy. You can tell a modest amount of care went into the software and on screen steps of the printer. I was able to connect the printer to my laptop and PC in about 20 mins (60% of which was me getting use to the button controls). One thing that would be nice here is a full qwerty keyboard for entering in wifi passwords. The old school texting style works but hard to get use to. But at the same time that's a lot to manufacture for a tool that's only used once in a blue moon. So I can get that design choice. Scanning is nice and quick too. Very good quality, no complaints there. I'm very happy with this printer. I'll check back in 6 months for an update as to how things are holding up. I'm interested to see if my toner cartridge lives up to the specs!

Despite good price point there a lot of problems which were big enough to return it: - very poor print quality (text looked very faint despite me trying tons of different settings, drivers, etc). Even tried with a different toner - still same results. Canon customer support didn't help either - scan to email or to network never worked for me. - Canon software suite is a collection of independent tiny utilities that one is supposed to run separately to achieve single customization. Utilities look they have been created by interns with basic software skills. No idea why they could not provide a single program to control all settings from one place. I ended up buying HP all in one with all features working out of the box and great printer quality.

This unit replaces a Canon 4370dn which was about a decade old. Had to replace because ADF was wildly distorting images, the feeder started "stuttering" which resulted in often times illegible copies. Also, it started throwing off "data errors" from larger print jobs so it was clearly time to go. I like the feature/technology improvements that have been made with wireless access, lcd touch menu, speed. However, the unit build quality in terms of "sturdiness" is not what it used to be, the build quality does not seem as "robust" as my prior generation of machine. The first one that was delivered to me would not allow me to open the toner cartridge area due to what could not have been a more than flimsy 39 cent piece of plastic that had sheared off in transit. There is a white plastic "post" that juts out from the top right hand side of the machine right in front of the platen glass, and if that post is not held down by the ADF cover the "hood" of the copier will not allow access. I wasted 90 minutes trying to figure out how opening a printer was so difficult, and kind of stumbled on the solution by accident. In any event, how Canon designed a printer that "hinged" (no pun intended) a cheap, tiny piece of plastic being intact to simply lift the toner cover is beyond me, IMO that is an incredible design flaw. At a minimum, they could have made the plastic piece much thicker and stronger to prevent it from shearing off. Anyway, other than that, I'm happy with the performance so far, although it did take forever and a day to load the drivers and software from the included DVD, it hesitated several times and I thought it had stopped the install process but it did eventually finish. It looks like Canon has cut a few corners to keep their prices down, unfortunately. In any event, I don't expect I'll be getting 10 years of service out of this machine. That last machine was a workhorse that I did get my moneysworth from and then some. 4/22 update - ADF works ok, but has what I guess I'm going to start calling the "Canon tilt". The top margin of all copies are "slanted, or tilted" about 10% to the right. My old Canon all in one machine also did this, and to be honest I'm shocked that this has not been addressed in 10 years. It's unbelievable to me that nobody ever took the time to fix this, obviously it is something that has to be known to Canon at this point. As the copies I make this way are for my files only, I can "live" with it, but that is shoddy build quality on Canon's part and again hard to believe it's never been addressed. 4/24 Update: As many other users have reported, the fax will not receive faxes "automatically" no matter what setting you put it on. I experienced that, too, until I changed the mode to "answering machine", and after I did that I was able to get it to pick up "automatically". As it were, I do have an "old school" answering machine attached to my phone line, and apparently the Canon "prefers" that the fax setting is to "answering machine" only, not to "auto", or "fax/tel" when this is the case. The way my mind works, the "answering machine" setting is counter intuitive to how one would set up a fax if you wanted it doing auto pick ups, but not so. You are basically telling the fax that yes, I do have an answering machine set up on the line and you are to "ignore" it when a fax comes in. So, if you are one of those people who thought it wouldn't auto pick up, maybe you just need to reset the fax "mode" to "answering machine".

Everyone, Hello!! What hard set up are you all talking about? I am not a computer geek at all, but this printer set up took less than 3 minutes. Literally. If your router has a SWP button, ok ok, let's put it this way, a button that has a sign, a picture where two errows are circling around one after another. If you have that, Congratulations.! I have that type of router too. So first what you should do is go to Canon support page, dowload Recommended drivers, software, firmware for this particular model of printer. Second and the last step is to go to your printer, turn it on, set it up and choose wireless set up on the display. The printer will start searching for the router. Go to your router and press that magic button, hold the button until your printer finds the router.. It can take a minute or so. Done. You are good to print wirelessly from your laptop. That is the first thing I just did. Update 9/22/2017^ Second - Idk what I did exactly, but my printer started printing from my smartphone right away. The prints were coming out blurred though. I fixed that by downloading a Canon print plugin App from Google Play. Done. As for Scan to Email set up.. omg.. this is my second day I am sweating over it. It's time to call customer support.

We owned another Canon ImageClass multifunction printer that we used for over seven years. It never died, but we wanted something faster that also had the Wi-Fi networking capability, so bought this MF247dw. This model prints fine and speedily so. Print quality is good. However, shortly after it went out of warranty, the automatic document feeder started acting up, producing slanted printed copies and scanned images. We have cleaned the rollers and positioned the paper in all sorts of ways but not been able to eliminate the crooked printing and scanning (this problem does not occur if printing/scanning is done without the ADF). Our old ImageClass MF4150 in more than seven years never developed this kind of issue, so we have not been impressed that the newer MF247dw did after only a little over one year of service. It is now two years old and may already face a replacement because of this (likely with a non-Canon model). We have used a variety of Canon products over the years and been quite happy about them, but this MFP is an exception. It has not lived up to the expectations we have come to have for Canon. One last thing: Canon USA's tech support is middling at best and downright frustrating at other times. It takes an inordinate amount of time and efforts to get official Canon answers, and the company appears to largely let the community forums take care of the customers (help supplied by at-large community members rather than Canon's own tech support reps).

I've had this monochrome laser printer all-in-one for about a month and, so far, it's been exactly what I was expecting. I had no trouble setting it up, however, I used a USB connection and did not try to set up a wireless connection. My only (minor) issue was a poorly written and diagrammed installation guide. It wasn't that tough though. It's very fast for two-sided printing and even faster for one-sided. Initially, I thought the printed pages seemed a bit light, but I don't feel that way anymore. For me, the big plus was that it prints in black, but scans and faxes in color. It's fairly compact and holds quite a bit more paper than the inkjets I have used in the past. It shuts down not long after each print job (saving power), but comes back to life instantly when the next job starts. Call me very happy so far!

Well quite the set up...took some doing but likely just the operator...moi lol! Hmmm😏Instructions were a bit too heavy I'd say-so I guess I was over thinking things perhaps. Thou you do have to set up w an Ethernet compatible/standard cable from the machine to pc it seems @ first (I happened to save mine from a previous owned printer/fax machine that eventually went kaputz..) nice thing w this is it can handle bigger jobs/which I didn't really need, so hoping the ink lasts years w/o drying out...idk⁉ (whereas w an inkjet it didn't take much use before having to change the cartridges which got expensive & messy...) No colour copying here...will take a bit more use to navigate it proficiently...the menu is quite in depth. Must be careful taking out dummy protection sheet from cartridge area/like why do they even do that⁉it tore a small corner off so idk but doesn't seem to interfere w anything. 🤞 professional machine seemingly so far, bulky though...might have earned 5 stars otherwise all the little peeves... Update ~2 years later: yes as another reviewer noted the printer often loses contact w wifi for some reason & air printing is undiscoverable, but usually remedies by turning off then on again or a lot of fiddling & relearning has caused a lot of stress as it’s a pia, and takes patience to reset/remedy.(could be because I had BELL Wifi Internet until recently though!!! And all of the headaches & heartaches of dealing w them-so far I haven’t had any issues w Teksavvy...) it only prints 2 sided copies via wifi/air printing otherwise you’d have to manually flip each page when trying to double side print pages from the machine itself/so not a true 2 sided copier. The MF249dw model I believe does true 2 sided copying... Edit…still going strong in 2023 as a fax/printer and once you get used to it, is a breeze and convenient. Accepts other toner cartridges as well as genuine Canon.

I have had 3 different models of canon printers. I never wore any out I just keep buying newer ones over the years. Simple priced well and you get exactly what you are looking for. Great buy.

For the price, this is a solid Multi Function Unit. The wireless set-up was simple and the speed/ ease of use of the machine is fairly straight forward. At times it feels like there might be too many sub menus, but overall this is a minor thing. If this machine is priced at $100 less than the HP equivalent, I really can't see why you would op for HP over this for the price.

As a printer/scanner, it is excellent (and we do not need a fax). However, the box does not contain a USB cable (to provide a wired link to a computer). I don't know why all new printers come with a "starter" toner cartridge. Price according, but give the buyer a toner cartridge of "normal" capacity. Finally, maybe it would be simple for a technologically competent person, to set the printer up as a wireless printer. Even with external support, it was near impossible and still does not work. Hence the comment about the USB cable.

I have many problems with the HP printers because the input paper tray for most of the ink jet and even small laser printers does not have any cover. So when small object fell on the input paper tray, they will get move into the printer and cause paper jam. That's not an issue with the Canon printer at all! I notice the Canon toner cartridge is a bit more expensive than a HP 85A, but the yield is also higher (prints more pages).