Customer Ratings & Reviews

We're in a small office, downsizing from a bigger multi-function unit that was past its prime. Easy setup, connected to our network and all our computers had no problem connecting to it for printing & scanning. Touch screen doesn't scroll easily when trying to change to two-sided scanning, but we're getting the hang of it. Good quality printing for a decent price.

Does everything we need, the only thing so far is the quality of the colored print is not the same as really expensive printers. But for the price, you can’t beat it.

In 2017 I purchased my 1st Canon printer – a MX922 Pixma and while I liked the printing I returned it after just 3 days as its software/interface was just to frustrating to use. Unfortunately, it seems nothing much has changed – this printer suffers from the same non-friendly, unintuitive software/interface as the inkjet. The touch screen is a nightmare - can’t scroll without selecting an unwanted option, cant back out of an option as using the back arrow top left of screen as it just sends you into a “loop”. Paper settings in touchscreen do not match the options in the printer dialogue software so you get an error that has to be accepted to print. But even with all of this (give 2.5 stars for software/interface) I would recommend as the print quality and speed overrides these issues (5 stars) – at least it does for me. Unpacking printer was easy except at almost 50lbs it’s a tad heavy. I could move it myself but be aware you might want to have someone help you. Plug it in and it turned itself on and touchpad walks you thru setup. But due to its sensitivity it was a tad frustrating but I did get it setup to use wireless. It comes with an install disk but I went to Canon website to download and install drivers/software. As far as print quality I printed same 11 x 8 picture on my HP 9025E (normal print using HP photo paper), Brother Color Laser MFC-L3770CDW (using HP Laser 150g 40lb Glossy paper at 1200dpi) and Canon Laser (using same paper and settings used on Brother). The Canon was a little more defined than the HP inkjet and color was 95% as bright, the Brother lagged behind both in color and detail but is several years old in its defense. It took the HP 45 seconds from print button to photo. Brother laser took 3 minutes and Canon took 15 seconds - that’s fast and its quiet. Also, the laser paper is substantially cheaper (and can print on both sides) then inkjet photo paper. Double sided regular paper printing is fast as well whether black/white or color. You can use web interface (Remote UI), using printers ip address, to access a lot of settings instead of using touchscreen. Unfortunately, it appears there is no desktop app for print settings but there are standalone Scan Utility and Toner apps which work well. There is an office store Canon Office Printer Utility, but it just sends you to web page support – not helpful at all. If using a windows computer, depending on what software you are using to print from, you may be able to access the print dialogue – it allows for easy access to print options such as page size, quality, color or black and white, etc. To access dialogue directly, do a search for printers in settings – select Canon printer then select printer preferences and it will open this dialogue. There are a LOT of options but once everything is setup to your liking you can easily save them for later use but once saved, I could not edit them (event though there is an edit button) and wound up deleting and starting over. There is a Canon Business app for phones that allows for decent controls to print. Scanning app worked well but size is limited to 11 x 8 size. Using photo option I scanned an 11 x 8 picture I had printed - it took 8 seconds to scan and the jpg it created was true to the original. There are presets or you can manually set options such as dpi, etc. There is also a “stitch” option that allows you to scan 2 items and then “stich” them together to create 1 item. I did use the “stitch” function and I did get it to work but it takes a little practice. One of the advantages I like about lasers is the cartridges won’t dry up as can occur with inkjet printers. 3-year warranty is excellent. Overall, the printer is fast and efficient, and while it is let down by clunky software I still would recommend it. And let’s hope Canon updates/upgrades it interface(s) soon

Canon has released a new laser printer: Color ImageCLASS MF753Cdw. It has a TON of settings that you might normally see in an office printer and actually performs as good as a bigger and more expensive office printer.The box includes the printer, installation CD, power cord, RJ-11 phone cable, setup guide and other paperwork. The printer comes with a manufacturer's 3-year warranty. PROS: ----------- * Printouts are very crisp, colors are vibrant * There are TOO many options to even list for this printer. It is a serious contender for a great home office printer that can literally do anything. Listing every option in the Remote UI would take pages to explain everything.... which bring me to: * The User Manual. It's only available online. You get a quick setup guide, but if you get into the weeds like I did, you will need the full manual located at the Canon website under the Support section. Even then, you may need support. * Even though it looks tight, you can put a full ream of paper in the main front tray. * Ability to print/scan/fax/copy to whatever medium you need whether it be a USB thumb drive, email, paper, etc. It has all the options. * It will work with Win8.1/10/11 amongst others. * It's ethernet-capable or wifi. If you cable it up, it's simply plug and play. If you use wifi, basic setup is done at the beginning... then a Firmware update was done on mine, restarted, then ready to go. * At 35ppm, that's great for a home printer. My current printer was getting 42ppm and that was the top-end a few years ago. I haven't seen many laser printers this quality/price print this fast. * You can setup your own menus on the touch screen. Put what matters to you where you want so you don't have to search for items embedded on other screens. * Feeding documents into the top feeder worked like a charm for scanning/copying documents. I had no issues of paper getting jammed so far. * If you need to use legal size paper, there is a manual feeder you can use on the front... also great for envelopes and other size paper. CONS: ----------- * Setup can be a slight headache if dealing with networking/SMTP issues if you don't know exactly which options to check. I had to call in a couple of times before getting the correct answer from tech support. If you want to SCAN-to-EMAIL, you need to log into the Remote UI, go to Network Settings, set SMTP TX: to 587 (it defaults to 25). Then go to TX SETTINGS and fill out the SMTP server, email, SMTP email/pw, and ALSO need to check the USE TLS FOR SMTP TX. My issue was that I tried to create my SMTP server with :587 on the end of it (as the port), but the printer setup didn't like that. Once that was changed, SCAN-to-EMAIL worked perfectly. * I like how this Remote UI interface is so advanced; however, I wish there was a better and simpler way of getting into a GUI interface without having to login every time, and eventually it times out. * I do not like that this printer beeps every time it prints. I went into the Sound Volume Control settings, and turned off everything; however, when printing, it still beeps. The printer is loud enough as it is, so I don't need annoying and high pitch beeps each time an item prints. * Along with the beeps when printing, it does make a lot of noise when it awakes or boots up. * The touch display is great, but the touch areas are a little off on my unit. If I want to select something I have to press a little higher than the graphic for it to select correctly. * The menu is a bit cumbersome to learn as there are so many options available. Using the Remote UI is definitely a bit easier to setup and use than the touch screen. OTHER OBSERVATIONS: ----------- * It's heavy-duty and it's heavy, weighing in just under 50 lbs. * I do not have a home phone anymore, so I was unable to use the fax. All other functions worked great. CONCLUSION: ===================== I'm still breaking in many of the vast features this beast has to offer, and there are plenty. I'm impressed with the options available. If you need to print/scan/copy/fax, once setup, everything is pretty seamless. Getting setup isn't the easiest of chores if you're not tech-savvy, especially understanding the Remote UI interface which can use a System Manager mode or a General User Mode. It's great for not allowing people to make changes in err in being a "general user"... but I wish there was a way to bypass the UI login if the user wanted to. Overall, an incredible printer that gives the options for many users to use in whatever way necessary. I have only seen 1 home office printer better than this one from another brand... I like what I see, and I like the fact that is not an inkjet printer. Having said that, this would be at the top of my list of top home printers. Great work Canon.

Pros Fast warmup, scanning, and printing Compact Quiet Excellent print quality Excellent scanning quality Easy access to toner Easy to use screen once configured Touchscreen very customizable Can be expanded with larger paper tray Paper tray smaller sizes than most Works with Android and iPhone for Printing Scanner is used to calibrate color Cons Setup system is antiquated Sometimes fails to connect when asleep Touchscreen is slow and detects a swipe as a tap Configuration via “RemoteUI” is tedious Drivers won’t install on Windows 11 MF Scan couldn’t detect the printer on MacOS Small paper tray for printing speed The Canon MF753Cdw is marketed as a compact, easy to use solution for offices and is so simple it doesn’t need IT staff to set up. For a printer with this feature set, it is very compact. The footprint is barely any more than just a laser printer. As for setup and use so easy you don’t need IT staff, that is more questionable. It does have support for mobile printing on both iPhone and Android but there is no indication if scanning works on mobile as well. Setup The most basic setup isn’t too difficult. You choose how you are connecting hardwired or wireless. If you are connecting wirelessly then you just choose your Wi-Fi name and enter your password. Strangely, the printer doesn’t understand modern mesh Wi-Fi. Instead of just showing the Wi-Fi it shows every access point separately which can be confusing. Considering this is a business printer and mesh Wi-Fi is common in business networks this is a bit strange and might even explain why the printer occasionally shows offline. After adding it to the network you have two routes you can take. You can either use the default drivers and utilities included with Windows or MacOS or install the drivers and software from Canons’ website. A CD-rom is also included if your system still has one. Installing via the built in options in Windows and MacOS was painless. You just search for the printer, and if found, it set it up for you with the basic drivers. There is no Windows Store app available so you just get the basic functions. If you want to use the drivers provided by Canon for more functionality, things get more finicky and technical. First of all, on Windows 11 the printer driver installed and could see the printer but couldn’t install it. This prevented MF Scan from working as it needs the printer drivers. The entire process feels antiquated including software installation. If you have seen driver installers from Windows XP, this process would feel very familiar. MacOS worked a little better and installed but then had trouble finding the printer. Once it was able to find the printer the MF Scan Utility worked without issues, but MF Toolbox could never find the scanner. It really seems like if you want the simplest option then you are better off skipping installing the Canon drivers and utilities and instead just using the built in ones from your OS of choice. The front screen comes with default options. You can adjust many things directly from the touchscreen, but it is easier to do this via what Canon calls RemoteUI. This is not only because many features are only configurable in RemoteUI, but also because the touchscreen is slow and tends to interpret scrolling or swiping as taps. RemoteUI is just the printers built in website for changing settings the same as printers have been for years. While functional, this isn’t exactly easy to configure for the non-technical person. Setting up Cloud services similarly isn’t the most straightforward process. First, it must be done through RemoteUI in the Application Library which is only visible in System Manager Mode and it isn’t as simple as connecting to a cloud service and you make a choice on the printer afterwards. You must configure buttons for each action you would like to perform specifically. For example, you need to create a button to do a singled sided scan and save it to your Google Drive. If you want to be able to do a double-sided scan or even change the format or resolution, you must create more buttons. For each option you would like to perform with your cloud service you also have to give a unique button group name, which is not used, and reconnect to the same cloud service which was used for the previous button. While the process works, it could do with some streamlining. Usage and Performance While setup is not as user friendly as marketing would lead you to believe, daily usage is the opposite. Occasionally the printer doesn’t wake from sleep and shows offline on the first try, but this is a minor nuisance. Most of the time, when you choose to print it wakes up extremely fast and the pages start coming out within a handful of seconds. Print quality is very good as well. Text and pictures have a slight gloss with good color uniformity making prints look more professional instead of dull and flat like some laser printers. This is likely also because as part of the setup process the printer creates a calibration page which you scan in ensuring prints are as color accurate as possible. The main issue you might run into is needing to refill the paper tray because it prints so fast. Scanning produces sharp results. Scans come out clean and remove most creases and noise without sacrificing sharpness. If you have spent time configuring the touchscreen buttons, the process is very easy. You can load up what you want to scan, tap the cloud account you want to upload to, and you are done. If you have your options set up, the process is seamless. Another nice feature is how the scanner, output tray, toner, and paper drawer all face the same direction. Also, changing toner doesn’t require opening half the printer either. All you do is open and door and pull out a tray. If you have ever dealt with changing toner by opening a hinge that lifts half the printer ready to fall back down, you can imagine how much simpler a toner tray is. Final Thoughts While calling the MF753Cdw simple enough to set up without technical knowledge is a bit of a stretch, once setup up the results produced are hard to beat. There are areas where the process could use refinement and simplification but if you are in the market for a compact laser printer that produces very good results quickly the MF753Cdw is worth a look.

The Canon MF753Cdw is a sizeable color laser printer. Despite only having one 250-sheet capacity paper tray by default, (a 500-sheet second tray is optional), it rivals the size of my large, dual-tray multi-function inkjet printer. Despite the large size, it does not take up an enormous footprint, due to most of the size being height rather than width. Despite the large size, the MF753Cdw is both Energy Star and EPEAT Silver compliant. The printer was easy to set up out of the box and ships with the toner cartridges pre-installed. I was able to easily connect to WiFi using the touchscreen panel. Connectivity options include WiFi, ethernet, WiFi-direct and USB. Features include a large 5” color touchscreen panel, automatic document feeder, scan/copy/fax/print, 3-year warranty, 35 ppm print speed, auto-duplexing, and USB port for USB direct printing. Another enormously useful feature is secure print. It stores a print job in memory where it can only be retrieved and printed by entering a PIN. This allows safely sending print jobs containing private or sensitive data to areas with other people around without the fear of anyone seeing it other than the PIN holder. If using Windows, this feature is enhanced even further by encrypting the print job with an alpha-numeric password for stronger security and to prevent interception during transport. Performance has been solid. Print speeds are good and the printer has maintained a reliable WiFi connection so far. I have yet to encounter the dreaded “printer offline” message like I experienced with a few previous printers, including the more expensive business class inkjet this replaced. Print quality is also good with nice crisp graphics with straight, clean lines. Black text is excellent but color printing, images and photos in particular, are mediocre. It isn’t terrible but it’s not all that great either. I was offered the option to use color correction during the initial setup. However, assuming it would use a lot of toner to configure and considering that the printer ships with starter color cartridges, I declined. I doubt it would be much help for print quality anyhow because it only seems applicable to color copies. I’m hoping color quality improves after the machine has had a longer break-in period. The MF753Cdw is compatible with the Canon Print Business app, which offers remote printing and scanning among other capabilities. The MF753Cdw can also be configured for automatic toner replenishment but the service must be set up beforehand before it can be managed through the printer. The only negative I encountered besides the mediocre color quality is the control panel, which isn’t the best. The touchscreen soft buttons are occasionally glitchy and unresponsive and navigating through sub-menus can be clumsy and non-intuitive at times. The controls are my only disliked feature of the MF753Cdw. Other than the controls, it is a solid performer. Even with the mediocre color graphics and photos, it still prints quite well overall and is sufficient for most usage scenarios. Besides, I’ve found color print quality to be hit or miss among several different branded color laser printers, so it is not limited to this specific device.

The Canon imageClass printer/scanner/faxer does a lot of things right but falls just short of perfection. To start out with the good this machine is absolutely perfect for a small business where everyone has to print things constantly. It does an amazing job with color prints and is crazy fast when it comes to black and white or color. I didn't have any hiccups or issues once the printer was on the same network as my multiple PC. It actually felt like the wifi connection was just as good as being hard wired in when it came to the computers recognizing a printer was there and what it could do. Secure print worked flawlessly since its handled on the PC side and you can configure it from there. The fit and feel of the imageCLASS is nice and solid and being able to add an extra trey make it that much more of a must have for business. The imageCLASS also does a great job with copying document (color/black white) the colors are an exact match and there is no streaking or waiting for anything to dry. Airprint for Macs worked great and the printer was seen by all 4 different Mac devices. One of the biggest selling points that Canon doesn't seem to showcase is the touchscreen on the imageCLASS MF753Cdw it is amazing and something you have to use, the precision of the touch screen almost makes it feel like a modern smartphone touch screen. Now to come to the side where canon can make improvements.....the software. The software is not user friendly at all, even when downloading the setup software from Canon it is just a pain to get everything working. The imageCLASS also only has wifi 4 which makes downloading updates slow (the printer took 17 mins to download 242 MB and im on a GB connection) With a wireless printer all setup should be easy to do wireless and that isn't the case here. You almost need to have a spare print/usb wire laying around to get full use of the product. I would like to think that the issues with the software can be fixed by Canon's software team and that is the only thing keeping this All in one laser printer being a must have for all small businesses.

The Canon Color ImageClass MF753cdw is a solid office printer that’s equally at home in a SOHO as it is a small business. It features your standard affair of upper mid-range laser printer features, including duplex printing and scanning. It offers pretty high end features in a fairly compact chassis (compact for a color laser that is, it’s still big). SOHO may be a stretch for some here, as its footprint is pretty large at 17”x17”x17” and 48lbs. That said, in that packaging you get an auto document feeder (ADF) with duplex scanning, a flatbed scanner, duplex printing, WiFi and wired networking, and multiple USB ports (host and client). It comes with a power cable, and phone cable for the integrated fax. Unfortunately I haven’t had a landline to fax with so I cannot comment on the fax feature. Connectivity is available multiple ways. You get the ye-ol USB connection, which I didn’t even try, WiFi, and gigabit wired ethernet. I used the WiFi connectivity primarily because I felt like it’s the most common use case, but I did have good luck with the gigabit adapter as well. Frankly, if you can use a wired network with a printer like this, you should, but I had no problems via WiFil. Getting connected initially was as easy as following a few steps on the printer, and putting in the WiFi password. The touchscreen on board helps walk you through setup. I found the touchscreen to be a resistive sort, which felt imprecise when using my fingers. A stylus would be better, but who keeps a stylus for a printer. Setup was relatively easy. The interface is tabbed and highly configurable. You can edit which functions and ‘apps’ are accessible from the touchscreen. The home screen gives you access to the real normal features you’d access from the device: scanning, and copying. AirPrint worked right out of the box. My iPhone and iPad saw the printer immediately and printed successfully. Windows 11 found the printer instantly and set it up successfully. The same was true of MacOS. Duplex printing worked like a charm in all these scenarios and printing was flawless on all these platforms. I went a step further and downloaded the Windows 11 drivers for the printer. This opened up some more advanced settings buried in legacy printer driver panels. But the real extra settings are found in the System Manager Remote UI which is accessible via web browser. You need to first configure an access pin on the touchscreen ([Management Settings] [License/Other] [Remote UI Settings] [Restrict Access]). Here you can see toner levels, printer status, configure advanced settings, LDAP integration, all sorts of business settings. This also provides a nifty drag and drop interface for customizing the tabs and screens on the touchscreen. Overall there was a lot of thought put into this firmware to manage the more advanced pieces. So how is print quality? In general for a laser, pretty good. Text is crisp, but certain fonts don’t print quite as well as others. This is in the default quality that 35ppm is rated at. If you adjust the quality a bit, you get better results, but it is slightly slower. Images are crisp, but slightly duller than their source. Laser’s aren’t known to be photo printers, so don’t expect to print framed photos. Art projects for school or other assignments, this printer will wow however. The key to the Canon is fast and solid images. First page is rated out at 7 seconds, which is pretty accurate. Duplex printing is quick with a page taking about 5 seconds to fully spit out. Speed printing at 35ppm will eat up your paper tray in a few minutes, as it only holds 250 sheets. The included toner is a standard 069 cartridge toner. This is good for about 2000 pages give or take. Each toner is about $100, so like most laser printers, you’ll be in for about $400-500 for a full set of toner. The good new is you get lots of pages, and great standby time. So if you find your needs are printing in spirts, the laser doesn’t care if it’s been sitting for 4 months. The toner doesn’t dry out like inkjets. I’ve gotten great life out of color lasers, and I’m sure the Canon is going to serve me for quite a while. Overall I'd recommend the MF753Cdw. It prints, scans, and copies quite well and is very accessible. It isn't quite as user friendly as a Brother, or honed quite as well as an HP, but it offers all the same features at a compelling price with affordable toner.

Note that I am using a MacBook Pro M2 system when writing this review. It's a newer machine with questionable compatibility with various software but everything worked out fine. Overall, I'd say this All-In-One machine is easy to install, physically. Getting it up and running over wifi is incredibly straight forward. Initial printer set up is easy enough as it prints out a calibration page first that you scan into the itself to adjust accordingly. Firmware updates was all automatic and maybe took all of 10 minutes. My computer (running MacOS Venture 13) was able to find the printer with all the appropriate settings like double-sided printing, scaling, etc. The reason for the 4/5 star rating is that the "Remote UI" settings are incredibly NOT user friendly. There are several YouTube videos and Canon has some sites dedicated to getting this set up but I wish there was an easy desktop application I could launch to control this system. Unfortunately, Remote UI requires you to locate the IP address, set up an online account, and adjust settings through your web browser. This is easy enough for the average tech-savvy person but the general population will most certainly have difficulty managing these settings. A user-friendly desktop app or mobile app to accompany this machine would have been incredibly helpful. All that being said, this imageCLASS system works incredibly well. Having the 5" touch screen ON the system itself is very helpful to navigate the settings. Size-wise, this system sits underneath my desk (about 30" ground clearance) with plenty of space for the top lid to open for scanning.

Good price for a laser printer, workig great just like my old ones size jest like old printer so far no problems

Wanted to have a non inkjet that’s capable of doing everything a home office needs. Very fast and high quality printing. Not worry about ink drying. Fast and easy faxing. Like it better than the HP i had previously.

Printer seems to perform very well, once set up. But the set up instructions and documentation are far from ideal. It took forever to figure out how to connect this thing to Wifi. Some of that was that my home Wifi was messed up and I didn't realize it. But even after that, they have a very cursory setup guide, which does not really explain the terms they are using or what they mean. So still, I do not know if I have it set up properly, only that I managed to get it to work. There is something about color calibration, and no explanation whatsoever about what that means or how you do it. There are many different screens, with options. But again, little to tell you what they mean or how to use them. The actual manual is some online thing that is extremely cumbersome to use, with links going here, there, and everywhere, and there is never an idea of where you are in the maze of confusing instructions. Usually you wind up back to the same page again in trying to search for something. How about just a regular, page-by-page manual that covers everything, like in the old days? Managed to get it to copy pretty quickly. The Wifi connection from computer took a long time. Still have not attempted to scan to computer, for fear of getting into another hours-long maze. I expect the scanning to work fine once configured. They have lots of security and user-interface-from-computer features, but good luck in figuring it all out. Some video tutorials would really help. But all they have, at some places, are some really simple sketches of things, I guess sort-of in the sense of the "international" symbols used in newer cars - great if you can figure out what they mean, but otherwise not useful.

Excellent speed easy to set up. Scanning and duplex work way better than my previous HP printer. I took off one star due to my HP actually printed color docs with more sharpness.

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

Print quality, & scanning function are really good. Only complain is the software for printing is kind of confusing. There is no instruction how to set up printing from Multi-Purpose Tray, how to delete printing profile, etc.

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.

I bought this to replace an old Brother. The price was essentially the cost of the ink cartridges included. Its printing quality and speed are excellent. I find the touch screen panel confusing, and I have not mastered it. Its preset scanning quality is too light, and I cannot seem to change the default. So, I have to set the exposure manually each time. Also, to scan directly to the computer requires action on the computer. I cannot figure out how to simply scan to computer directly from the printer's screen. For all these shortfalls, I give it a 4.

Like most people have mentioned AirPrint is very flaky and it still remains to be the case even on the latest firmware. Other then that, there is an issue with the quality of text content, for some reason no matter what the setting the text does seem to have some wonky bordering when looked closely, in no means its unacceptable but just something to keep in mind. Overall solid sturdy built, printer, scanner both works solid. Canon software on Windows as well as phone is definitely weak and needs work if you compare it to Hp’s. Overall the hardware is solid but software in all terms not so much.

Overall it's been a great printer so far. There are minor issues I've had with the top scanner feeder, you can load more then 20 pages at a time or so if not it jams. Also the ink replacements are expensive.

This is a nice printer. Works flawlessly. User interface on the small printer screen is frustrating as it does not have the needed options for that operation (copy/scan). You have to try finding those options in the archaic menu system or set them on your PC in the driver software you need to install. I love the 2-sided scan direct to a 2-sided print-what a time saver! Not looking forward to buying new toner cartridges but the starters have lasted more pages than stated so happy about that.