Customer Ratings & Reviews

This is a useful printer, that is good value for money. I would purchase this model again and would recommend it to friends and colleagues.

Using this as home/office laser printer and it does exactly what we need it to do. Using legal paper will cause the paper tray to remain partially exposed outside the cabinet.

I purchased this printer because I started working from home because of the COVID-19. It was a good choice because I could also use it to copy and scan.

As far as copying and printing, it does a great job. Just having some issues with the scanning aspect. We're still working out the bugs as to why sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

Excellent machine ,,,, Great buy & fast shipping .... Would definitely recommend.

We have purchased 3 of these in the last few months. Definitely a great purchase.

I have always been an HP fan and so there was no question that I was going to get another one. This time I got a Laser Printer. Love it

Good value for our small church office. We got rid of the Xerox rental and this has been handling our print jobs just fine.

I bought this for my home office. It’s been great to have during the pandemic with everything we had to print for our kid’s “virtual learning.”

Very Happy with the printer. The experience went very well at the Best Buy Store that I went to. Gary

Great printer excellent functions . I thought it would be too large but it's not as big as I thought . It's fits nicely on a small table .

great printer, just too expensive, glad that HP makes them, too bad all toner cartridge were not exactly the same in a series of printers

HP Printers are the best. Have used different ones over the years for personal and business. This one basically does it all.

Easy set up love how user friendly it is and not a big as I thought it would be. Buisnees office quality copies.

Been using it for a year now. Printing is great and no issues. Direct connect with mobile device is glitchy and need to use manufacturers servers to print from phone.

I had been using an older Canon MP30 printer/scanner in my home office and decided to upgrade to this LaserJet. Looking at the photos, I assumed it would be pretty large. However, I was pleasantly surprised that it didn't really take up any more counter space than the old printer. It's about 50% taller, but that works just fine for me. What impressed me the most with this printer is all of the regular business features packed into the smaller size. Many printers take advantage of wireless now days, of course, but this printer has features I'm used to having at work like being able to send it an email to print; sending scans directly to my email address; and having the ability to require a login to print out your job, which is very useful in a shared work environment. The color LCD touch display is intuitive and very responsive. It seems like a lot of smaller systems using touch screens can have a maddening bit of lag to them. But this one is very snappy and not the least bit frustrating. Another thing I like about this printer is that it's surprisingly quiet. I'm pretty sure it's quieter when printing than my older Canon inkjet. The eco settings also let it go dormant (and completely silent) when it's not in use. It also blanks out the screen fairly quickly which is nice in a room at night. The one downside that I can see with this is the expense when it comes time to replace the toner cartridges. It has a black cartridge then separate cyan, yellow, and magenta color cartridges. They come in small or large models (414A or 414X) which vary in price and performance. Right now, it looks like the A/X black cartridges are about $85/$175 but they say you can expect to print about 2,400/7,500 pages with those respectively. The color ones are $110/$235 and they estimate 2,100/6,000 pages from each type.

The HP M479fdw is a mid-high end color laser printer that is really geared to a small-to-medium business and high end small office/home office use. It offers pretty high end features in a really compact chassis (compact for the features it offers, it’s still a big laser). I boasts connectivity that’s both user friendly, and admin friendly. Despite a few quirks, it seems to be a great device. The first thing to note about any SOHO/SMB laser printer is: make sure you have space for it. In most office scenarios this won’t be a problem, but in a home office, the stout proportions leave it pushing the boundaries of desk tops. The printer comes well packaged in a box, and it may take 2 people to safely remove it. It comes with a USB cable, power cable, and phone cable for the integrated fax. Unfortunately I haven’t had a landline to fax with in my SOHO ever, so I cannot comment on the fax feature, but I have to assume based on previous experience with HP integrated faxes in these MFP that it will work swimmingly. Connectivity is available multiple ways. You get the ye-ol USB connection, which I didn’t even try, dual-band WiFi (yay!), and gigabit wired ethernet (I am not sure how a printer could ever saturate gigabit, but hey more bandwidth!). 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 WiFi at all. Getting connected initially was as easy as following a few steps on the printer, and putting in the WiFi password. Obviously wired was even easier setup. Of course AirPrint and CloudPrint are offered as modern mobile connectivity options. Cloud print takes just a few steps to setup, but AirPrint ‘just works’. The advantage cloud print brings is that you can print from anywhere in the world, which sounds silly, but if I’m out and about with a contact and I need to print something I can do it then, and the paper is waiting ready for me at home. You also get WiFi direct, IPP, WS-Discovery/WSD and bonjour which make connecting to this printer from any OS, at any time as fluid as possible. Couple that with HP’s Web Services, which allow you to simply email a document for printing, it’s hard to imagine a scenario where you couldn’t print your document. Helpfully, the printer will give you it’s IP/URL to the integrated web server for configuration. Sanely, many options are disabled when you visit the ‘HTTP’ URL, and you must upgrade to HTTPS for scanning options and anything that takes a password. This is great to see as device manufacturers start to take actual device security seriously. The interface actually lets you setup your companies own trusted certificate if you want users to not get the certificate warning during the HTTPS upgrade. The integrated web server is really the true access to configuration, allowing you to tap into the true swiss army knife of functionality the printer offers. Of course anyone on your network can configure the printer by default, so you if you’re in a larger business you may want to set a password. I’ll give HP credit that you can even setup IP whitelists and firewall rules for access, so there is a distinct and advanced software set here. The printer allows multiple users, separation of certain printer functions and roles. You can even configure LDAP or Active Directory authentication for use. It’s obvious that HP has honed the UI and capabilities of the printer to a fine blade. The almost embarrassingly deep feature set means that whatever your use case, you can probably get value from it. Want to save your faxes to a network folder and send an email instead of printing them? Just a few clicks away. Want to setup multiple profiles for scan to network folder? Easy peasy. Want to print your Google Drive documents? Piece of cake. Want to scan to a PDF from the web browser - instant. Need to print your ticket for a local concert from your iPhone - tap, tap done. And all this without even touching the printer. Of course little of this matters without talk of capability and quality. The M479fdw offers not only double sided printing, but also double sided copying when using the ADF. Color duplex printing and scanning is a pretty high end feature set, so seeing it so well executed at this price point and size is great. Generally speaking print quality is excellent. Text is REALLY excellent, like go get a jewel’s glasses and look for any imperfections. You won’t find any. Color printing is excellent too for a laser. Most will appreciate the resolution and consistency of the image. Laser’s don’t bleed ink, so for some the non-smudging nature and general flatness of the image will be perks. You won’t be printing photos for the photo frames, as lasers don’t have that pop and contrast like inkjet, but for day to day printing quality is amazing. For presentations, cover sheets, or anything the M479 won’t let you down quality wise. As with any laser, a medium higher weight paper with a decent brightness produces excellent results. Scanning is a bit of a mixed bag. I scanned a few documents, and copied a few more. Copying went well from the ADF, producing great black results and good color results - with contrast and detail being lost on the lightest of elements. The ADF successfully did double sided copying with ease. Scanning to a network share produced a PDF that was tilted significantly (5-7deg). Changing the quality from medium to high seemed to solve some of that, but it was definitely surprising to see, especially after a near perfect copy. I have to think some software correct is being improperly applied, so hopefully this will get better. Overall the speed of scanning and quality were more than sufficient for my use cases. On the high quality setting, I would feel comfortable just digitizing any paper bills/documents. If scanning lots of documents to digital is a big use case, caveat emptor. The paper tray is located in the bottom and holds 250 sheets. You can pull out the front panel and feed special paper or envelopes. Pushing a button on the left side will release the toner, which slides out on a handy dandy tray. Toner is super easy to remove/replace and takes only seconds to figure out. Around back there is access to the mechanism for that fateful day when you get a paper jam. Overall design is understated but details abound that speak to the engineering experience of HP. For instance, there is a slight bow in the printer output tray that keeps paper from wantering as it gets ejected from the ADF/printer, meaning you pick up a neatly stacked set of pages without any effort. Included with the printer is a starter set of toner. You get a 2400 page black and 1200 page color set, which is relatively generous. My first laser’s retail toner offered a 2500 page capacity for reference. Long term, the toner is pricey. Retail replacement toner for high yield capacities is an eye watering $900 for a full set. Of course standard toner is cheaper coming in just over $400. Keep in mind that HP does have toner chips with page limits hard built in them, as well as authentication to ensure HP genuine toner is used. Essentially this means your toner options are limited to HP new toner cartridges. For a SOHO printer that means you have to think long and hard about that replacement set of toner. This is normal for the printer world, but it does increase the eventual cost associated with ownership. There are 414A third part cartridges, but HP warns they may not work or may be disabled and even those aren’t cheap. Ostensible this is for security and intellectual property reasons. The included touch screen controls make it easy to do common functions. Copying and scanning top the list of big easy to hit buttons which will please any office worker. The interface is sometimes clunky, and perhaps not as pretty as competitors, but it’s quite usable. The interface will feel at home for any Android user, with touch buttons for back and home. The HP also has a helpful ‘help’ button that links to on board help and documentation. This printer can show you how to clear a paper jam, change toner, or practically any common function, with a video - no kidding. HP printers have long been known as the gold standard of quality and reliability. The M479fdw continues that heritage while offering the total package for a SOHO/SMB printer. It’s a flexible office tool, which has been honed like a katana for generations now. It has legacy, but it also has cutting edge features (as far as printing goes). It’s the epitome of an office tool and can scale from a single office user all the way up to a bustling office. For home use it may be overkill, but if you need paper for your job, even just occasionally, this MFD should be on your short list.

Still trying out my new laser printer so far so good, a bit bulky and wanted a black one which I could not find so had to settle for this one but all-in-all works fine.

Great Printer... All-in-One and well worth it... So many different features and Love the large LCD screen. HP has been good to me :).

Love this. The inknis expensive to order, but we buy generic ink online. Love the large paper tray and that it prints double sided.