Color All-in-One 2-series (MC3224dwe)

We were looking for a good color laser printer that had scan/copy capabilities because, well, COVID means that working and schooling from home result in not being able to use the work copier for the occasional paper-related tasks that seem to come up a handful of times a year. So how did it go? Here is what we found: - Stupid simple to set up. Plugged it to Ethernet and turned it on, and our two Windows 10 computers just saw it and configured it for use. No drivers, no programs, no installation. - AirPrint functionality worked without doing anything. We can now print right from our iPhones and iPads; the printer just magically shows up in the printer list. - Scanning to computers also works without any programs, drivers, or anything. The touchscreen on the printer gives you the option to "Scan to COMPUTERNAME" for each computer on your network. Doing so does a scan and sends it to your default scanning app on your computer, such as Windows Fax and Scan which just popped up and worked. Did I mention no configuration required? - Scan to email works great as well, although we did have to configure the outbound email settings to get them to come through. So like five minutes of effort here, but you can set up shortcut profiles for each person receiving a scan which include image settings, subject line, etc. Now, it is stupid simple to quickly scan to email for myself, my wife, or both of us at the same time. - Copying works reasonably well. The ID card mode helps add more detail when necessary, but my standard for what I need with a copier is pretty low. - WiFi Direct works nicely if you have guests and don't want to have them join your WiFi, but they still want to bum some print jobs off of you. While this is a nice addition, hard to see where this would be used if you are using the other connectivity options. - The web interface for configuring the device is intuitive and very full featured. You could easily use this in a true office environment and have it scan to a network drive if you wanted. - The device is silent when not in use, and it is a bit louder than say a tiny LaserJet. That being said, it spits out your print job and quiets down again VERY fast. Not like other printers that would be loud and do an extended clean cycle after every other print. - Print jobs get sent over very fast. Device spools up immediately on sending print, and the job is complete and you have your print after about 7 seconds. Paper comes out pretty fast! - Duplex works very well. Paper sheet will come mostly out of the printer before it gets sucked back in again to print on the reverse side. We are expecting very light use so this is not an issue. Again, the printer is really haulin' as it is moving the paper around like it knows it has a purpose. We were comparing this to similar HP and Brother models with similar featuresets of laser printing, color, duplex printing, and scanning. Although an auto document feeder (ADF) would be nice, we will never have the kind of volume or usage where having it is any kind of necessity. This AIO device meets all of those needs at a price point $150 to $250 less than the HP and Brother units. And I am staying the heck away from Canon printers given their recent quality issues, so that is out of the question. Overall, insanely impressed with this device! Go Lexmark!

For the price it didn’t even work well. From the first month I purchased it I’ve always had problems with it. I am a teacher and I use my printer everyday and there wasn’t one day where something wasn’t wrong with it. Doesn’t have great wireless connection either. Paper Jams, my papers come out sideways, the printer doesn’t show up on my computer. Over all not worth the money.

When I got this printer in early October, I was pretty excited. I got a great deal and the specs seemed what I was looking for. I don't do a ton of printing but when I print I want it to be quality looking. Unboxing, set up/connecting and printing a test page were done within 30 minutes and all was good in my world. But I held on to the box and packing materials just in case. Fast forward to today, 10/25/2020. I had to print out a UPS label and figured I'd do it from my Chomebook. I got an error that said the printer is not connected. I went in the other room to wake it up thinking that maybe the WiFi wasn't talking and pressed the power but nothing. So I logged into my Windows laptop, opened the shipping label PDF and attempted to print and it said no printer installed even though it's there. OK so I uninstalled and reinstalled and during the reinstall I got an error that said no drivers. Frustrated, I repeated the process 3 more times. Getting more annoyed. So I went to the Lexmark site and see that there's a new driver dated 10/19/2020. OK easy enough I thought. I download it and think it's going to install. But no. Inside the downloaded zip file there's a read me text file. I open that and said you have to go to a Lexmark portal to install the driver. WHAT? OK so I go to that site and following the instructions and then get an error that the portal needs to install a plug in to my browsers for the driver install. So I download that and it installs with no issues. Go back to the Lexmark Portal and when the portal is locating the printer, an error pops up that says that same plug is needed. OK, 3 more tries of reinstalling that and still the error and no printer connection and no printed pages. It's a nice machine. It was a good price. And that one test print page was really nice. But 1.5 hours of my time to print a shipping label and to still not have the print out means that I'll be clicking the RETURN item button as soon as I finish this review. All that said, this is really the first negative review I've given on Amazon and to a major company. LEXMARK: PRINTING SHOULD NOT BE THIS HARD!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have not had the printer very long and have not done a lot of printing. But the setup was very straight forward. I had no problem connecting the printer to my Wi-Fi. I used the enclosed CD to install the printer on my windows 11 PC, no issues. My wife uses a Mac. I simply opened printers (via system preference) clicked to add a printer, and there it was. Did the install and printed, no problem. I never tried to scan from the Mac but scanning from my PC works just fine. The printer also automatically showed up and prints on my android phone and my wife's iphone15 max. I also like that the printer has an Ethernet port. I currently am connecting via wifi but like having the Ethernet option. What little printing I have done has been crisp and sharp and very nice. I was a little hesitant to purchase the printer because some reviews mentioned it was hard to set up and kept losing connectivity. But so far I have not experienced any of those issues.

I purchased this printer after returning a Brother 2500. It seemed like a good printer but was very awkward to print using hand feed. It also tracked crooked. Brother support was next to useless so I returned it. I then ordered the Lexmark based on reviews and wow, what a difference. Not only is this the first affordable colour laser printer I have seen but also s breeze to set up and use. Hand feeding is simple and tracking is perfect. It takes all kinds of media stock printing out labels with no aggrivation. Quality of print is excellent. The machine is quiet and print speed while not blazing is not slow. A perfect home printer. The only down side is that due to having cartridges for colour, the black toner is small and fairly pricey. I will deal with toner cost though as the rest of the printer is so good.

Solo no tiene el feeder para el scan

Es una linda impresora, pero cuando se te acaba el toner estas en un problema son muy difíciles de conseguir y valen más de lo que pagaste por la impresora, si pudiera devolverla lo haría sin pensarlo.

only thing that I missed was the fact there was no autofeed .. otherwise all good, installed okay .. one thing that mfg have to remember is that many PC's no longer have a DVD drive on them.

Acheté pour une amie et elle est très satisfaite et impressionné par la qualité d'impression de ce petit multifonction!