Customer Ratings & Reviews

I have always used inkjet printers. For the common household, it makes sense, they are cheap, print what you need when you need them, and they are usually smaller in size. But there is a caveat, many inkjets aren’t too reliable. I’ve had a couple and what ends up happening to them is the usual ink drying up if the printer sits for too long. Laser printers solve this problem, you won’t have to rely on ink drying up since laser printers use toner cartridges. Furthermore, laser printers have better print quality and printing speeds. I have been using Canon’s M753Cdw laser printer for the past couple of days and in this review, I will lay down my thoughts and my answer to whether you should upgrade from an inkjet to a laser printer. *TLDR at the bottom ========= IN THE BOX/SET-UP: In the box, you get the MF753Cdw laser printer, power cable, telephone cable, DVD-ROM, setup guide, and some paperwork. Note that there is no USB cable included. The printer is heavy so do get some help taking it out of the box if you can. Setup should not take too long if you have set up a printer before. The part that was a bit frustrating was taking off the million pieces of tape on every inch of this printer but if you can get through that, the rest should be a cruise. Canon does give you several options to set up this printer. The options are wired LAN, wireless LAN, and DVD-ROM. I decided to go with the wired LAN option. I plugged my patch cable into the appropriate areas and made sure the printer had an IP address by checking the status monitor located on the screen. I then decided to install the printer manually through Windows “Add Printer” IPP device wizard to avoid the bloated software. But luckily, I later noticed that I didn’t need to do that initially since Canon printers don’t arrive with bloated software in the first place, unlike some other companies... Anyways, as for the drivers, I was able to install some generic ones from the wizard and the printer was successfully set up! ========= PRINTING AND OTHER FEATURES: I want to first say that this printer does have many features, way too many to list here but I will list some of the notable ones. If you are looking for high-quality prints for your word documents, excel sheets, or internet pictures, this printer will provide you with that and along with that, quick printing. I didn’t get to print pages equivalent to an entire thesis but according to Canon, this printer provides up to 36ppm(pages-per-minute) which is certainly quicker than all the printers I have owned. Another notable feature is the ability to print a variety of paper sizes and media. From envelopes, pamphlets, banners, posters, and more. This is seriously useful for those who are in a small office. Scanning is also available with this printer. Scanning can be done from the computer or if you lack a USB cable, it can be done from a USB drive, email, or a shared folder on the network. The printer even can save the file in various file formats like PDFs and JPEGs. One of the nicer features of this printer is the small colored LCD touchscreen. This touchscreen is easy to navigate and anything can be done from here. From making copies, scans, Fax, accessing the file server, tweaking network settings, and general settings. Canon also offers the Remote UI feature which is essentially a remote way to access the printer’s settings from your browser. Remote UI does contain plenty of advanced settings if you need them. I can go on and on about the myriad of features this printer has to offer but I would just bore you. If you are interested in seeing all the features of this laser printer, Canon’s website does offer a user guide. Simply Google the model number followed by the words “user guide.” ========= PRINT QUALITY AND COST: In terms of quality, all I can say is you won’t be disappointed. Everything I printed from documents to pictures were all crisp and clear. This laser printer offers some serious high-quality prints. On the contrary, if you are a photographer and need to print some high-quality photos, I do recommend looking at inkjets. This laser printer does print nice colored pictures, but I did find that my inkjet had better glossy-looking pictures which I found more pleasing to the eye. The toner cartridges should not dry out and will last a while but when they need to be inevitably replaced, the cost can be daunting. The cost of new toner cartridges goes for about $100 for a piece of color toner and a bit less for black toner. The high-capacity toners approach $200. Do the math and you may end up paying between $400 to $800 for toners. Whether it is worth it, in the long run, is up to you, in my opinion, I do think the cost is worth it considering all the pros of laser printers. ========= VERDICT: Overall, this is an excellent colored laser printer. Probably my favorite out of all my previous ones. Not only does it offer high-quality prints, but it offers a myriad of features that may surprisingly be useful to you. Hence, if you are looking to upgrade your inkjet printer, I do recommend you give this Canon model a shot. Of course, I would consider what situation you are in first. If you are someone who prints once a month or so, I do suggest looking at other inkjet alternatives. If you are someone who prints a good amount, do suggest giving some consideration to this model of laser printer. I would look at an overall cost too, this laser printer is pricey along with its toners but is better long-term inkjets are significantly cheaper but are subject to ink drying up rendering them useless. I seriously consider these options before making your next printer purchase.

Warning: This thing is unexpectedly huge and heavy. If you’re picking this up in store, make sure you have room to house the retail box itself. And, make sure you have an extra set of hands to carry it in. It is heavy and it’s safer to have two people to carry the unit in. I am excited to check out this multifunction printer from Canon. It handles all the office-type tasks you can think of. It scans, copies, prints, and even has a USB port for flash drives to print from. While it also has fax functionality, I highly doubt anyone would use it with email being easier to handle than fax. Also, as a forewarning, it does NOT come with an Ethernet network cable so you will need to have one on hand if you’re connecting it via this method. So, let’s get down to the gritty details. Setting up was quite easy. I used an Ethernet cable for its networking consistency and reliability. After all, a multifunction printer like this is likely to be connected using a network connection anyway. Strangely, once I plugged in the power cable, the printer came alive immediately. I believe that devices should only turn on once you explicitly press the power button. It is a minor thing, but I expected better for a home/small office device like this. The printer goes through its first-time startup sequence and walks you through the setup process. It does require some tech (computer and/or networking) knowledge to properly set it up. So, if you have the information on hand prior to starting the setup, it should be easy to get it up and running. During the setup, it will ask you something about auto replenishment service, which is Canon’s auto-delivery of ink/toner service. Unlike a certain two-letter company, this does not require a recurring periodical fee. Instead, you’re paying for the ink/toner itself and nothing more. I will give my opinion on that later on. My testing platforms are Windows 10 Home and 11 Pro. The process of adding the printer to Windows was simple and straightforward. It only involves going into Settings and adding the printer device. There doesn’t seem to be any additional software installed on either versions of Windows. This is a good thing as it reduces the dependency on additional software for printing. Scanning, however, is a different story. Scanning needs a scanner driver and software (MF Scan Utility) in order to work. Thankfully, the driver installation package, which has printer, fax, and scanner drivers, allows us to install the scanner driver alone. Printing quality is as what one expects from a laser printer. Text is crisp and sharp and colors are nice. As an experiment, I tested printing a photo, which laser printers do not excel at. And, just as I thought, print quality for photos isn’t exactly great. It’s okay, but I would not use it to print photos (nor should anyone). The printer supports 2-sided printing, which is such a nice thing to have when printing several pages of documents. On scanning, I made a quick scan of a manga cover on hand. The image came out nice and detailed (at 300dpi scanning resolution). MF Scan Utility provides enough options to allow a decent amount of flexibility, including being able to save the scan as a PNG file for lossless quality and editing. Setting system or device preferences is mostly done on the printer’s screen panel. There is an internal web host to change settings there but is very limited overall. In general, you’ll be at the printer itself tapping through the settings. I personally do not like having to do all preferences and settings from the printer’s screen panel, but this is how Canon designed it. Okay, so it does all this and it all sounds good, right? Well, toners don’t last forever and will need to be replaced. And that’s where Canon’s Ink and Toner Auto Replenishment Service come into play. While I did not enroll into their service, I am glad to see, from what I have researched (at the time of drafting), that the cost is simply the toners themselves. There’s no monthly subscription involved. And, shipping is free as well. At the time of drafting this review, I can only find black toner cartridges at Canon’s online store. This will make it tricky to determine if signing up for Canon’s service is worth it (as opposed to finding it in other stores – ie. Amazon, Staples, etc.). But, it is many times better than a certain two-letter company with a convoluted subscription service. Overall I am happy with this multi-function printer. It does what it does. It’s a shame I cannot test the fax capability. Yet at the same time and as hinted before, faxing is a shrinking and dying feature to have on a multi-function printer. But if you do need it, at least this printer will fulfill that role. Verdict: Buy The Good: Laser printing, color printing, scans, copy, USB port for direct print or saving scans The Bad: photo print quality not good (obviously), all device settings/preferences done at printer’s screen panel, Ethernet cable not included, heavy (at 64lbs/48.5lbs) The Ugly: the thought of a single person trying to carry the box unit into a home office

I’m using this printer at the office and its very fast and the colors are vibrant! I scan from this printer to any computer on the network and its very quick and easy. The only downside is toner cost…

Great print ! FAST for printing and scanning !! Dual Side on pass scan--EXCELLENT !!! Ability to set "custom" operations, very nice feature Software install, tricky--definitely NOT plug and play

We have a small office and needed a reliable printer/scanner. This one checked all the boxes and was very easy to get up and running. Quality printing and scanning when we need it!

Love the printer. I bought it as a main printer for our office. The wireless connection was pretty easy for the printer but the scanner needed the CD to work correctly. When we moved the printer to the office, we tried to connect it as a network printer. This was not easy and required both IT and Canon support. Four hours later, the printer works great but the scanner will not connect. We uninstalled and re-installed the software at lease 8 different times but still no scanner. I assume I need the CD again. Canon Support was nice but could not get it fixed. Overall, I love the printer. The Quality is good. Paper sizes are somewhat limited. When the scanner did connect, it was good. I do not use the fax function.

very solid printer for a small business. The toner it came with surprisingly lasted longer than i thought. Fax and copy work flawlessly and has many other features like e mailing a scanned copy of a document directly from the printer. Also setting it up wirelessly with my mac was a breeze

Bought it to replace an oversized office copy / printer. Relatively easy to set up and color is good, although I wouldn't use it for color proofing. Don't need the fax but scanning + printing have been great so far.

This printer is a rockstar! Scanning, printing, remote printing copying all is stellar, fax im needing to figure out voip

Love the printer! Basic functions were very easy to set. Scan to email did take some research but easily found how. It even scans my index cards.!

Best printer I ever bought. Runs flawlessly and scanner works great also, which I needed for my business. Canon is the best!

I've had this for a little over a month and use it for a small business. Upgraded from a HP as I needed duplex scanning, in addition to my other requirements of a color laser MFP that has ADF. To be honest, I dislike this unit. It eats up Avery label and jams every so often. Plus the user interface is clunky and having to go online to manage features brings me back to the early 90's. Not sure how much longer I will stick with this printer. My suggestion - look elsewhere.

This is great product scans well print are great Fax state of the art and the top feeds the paper smooth

Canon is a good product. Like the way the prints come out and the scanning is easy.