HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP 4301fdw Wireless All-in-One Color Laser Printer, Scanner, Copier, Fax, Best-for-Office

This printer functions perfectly thus far for a small business/home office application. It is easy to setup, reliable, intuitive, high quality printing. I had two Canon Image Class printers that cost considerably more, and they were plagued from the first day with refusal to print, failure to recognize connections, unstable drivers, unresolvable and erroneous out of paper or jam messages, and overall extreme unreliability. I spent many many hours in technical support, uninstalling and reinstalling drivers, usually with mostly futile outcomes. In contrast, this HP printer, and I now have one for each of my offices, is exceptionally reliable and hassle free. Setup was extremely easy and error free and the printer works equally well over wireless and wired connections.

I have had a lot of printers over the years (IBM, Epson, HP, Canon, Lexmark, etc.), and had kind of gone away from HP a bit due to their software/driver problems (when they off-shored the development/support, the quality slipped quite a bit). However, when printing Christmas cards, my Canon died, and I had been impressed with this HP model when I was helping my sister sort out hers, so I bought one (MFP M479fdw). Software seems to work reliably so far, so I think HP has addressed that somewhat, granted it is a bit rough and crude in places, but it works. And it works from both Windows 10 and macOS 11 (Big Sur), as well as from mobile (iOS). The printer hardware seems to be very good, output arrives quite fast. One of the problems you run into with cheaper printers (including some lower end HPs) is that they do not put much horsepower into the printer CPUs, and cost-reduce the hardware to the point that they are slow and do not hold up, but this version seems well designed and made. Ratings from PC Magazine, Wirecutter, etc. generally have this printer at or towards the top, I would say that is accurate. Print quality on text is excellent, graphics from web pages and similar also excellent, scans are very good (a custom flat-bed would be a tad better, but this is for an all-in-one amongst the best I have seen). For printing high-quality pictures, you probably still want a Canon or Epson InkJet printer, but this one prints OK for a laser. HP does not ship this printer with full duty cycle cartridges, but the ones they ship with will still do a decent number of pages. Control screen is touch and good sized, gets the job done. Unit is fairly heavy and large, so if you are using this on a desk, check the dimensions some. The printer is not cheap, but it has excellent print quality and appears to be very well built, so HP has come back to where it once was, at the top.

Final updated Review (10-1-24). The printer has once again given us the "paper jam" error code when there is in fact no paper jam. After a little over a year of barely using the printer, It is going in the garbage. We are not wasting anymore time on this printer and we are just going to replace it.Another updated Review. I will keep coming back to update this review each time I have an issue with the printer. I have had this printer for slightly over a year and I 100% have buyers remorse. There is a known issue with an electrical part and the only way to fix it is to have HP send you a refurb or have a tech come out and replace it with a refurb part. The tech that replaced the broken part used an old and dirty replacement part that now leaves all of my printing pages with giant streaks that we cannot figure out how to get rid of. In addition, today it has started making this god awful screeching noise when it prints. I purchased this printer when it was still at full price it has been the worse purchase of my life.Updated Review: DO NOT BUY THIS PRINTER. This printer is absolute garbage. In the 40 years I have lived on this Earth, this purchase has been one of my biggest regrets. And that's saying something because I've made a lot of stupid financial mistakes in my life. I have had the printer for less then a year and now it is unusable. I had a paper jam in the printer so I cleared everything. The printer is stuck thinking it has a paper jam when there is not. An HP tech came out to inspect and the tech informed me there is a part that is known to fail in these printers and the only solution is to replace it with a refurb. I got the refurb in and I made two copies on it. By the 3rd copy the paper jammed and guess what....it no longer works. I will have to start the entire warranty claim all over again and wait to get another tech out to have it swapped with another refurb. At this point we are just SOL in getting any sort of refund for the printer or the toner we just purchased. I repeat. DO NOT BUY THIS PRINTER.Old Review: The printer itself is a vast improvement from my old printer in terms of quality and performance. It runs smooth, quiet, and its pretty damn fast. The software however makes me want to launch this thing into the sun. It more or less does what it wants regardless of what settings you have in place. Does it print double sided? Absolutely. Does it print double sided when you ask it to? Who knows, maybe it will, maybe it won't. Does it scan front and back? You bet it does! However it will only scan front and back in document mode and it cuts off half the page. And I know what you are thinking "oh that's an easy fix, just change the settings!" Guess again because changing the settings don't matter. If you have the patience of a saint, this printer will do the job. If you aren't tech savvy or if you have the little to no patience, you might want to try another model. Or get someone in IT to set it up for you....maybe a priest.TLDR: Do not buy this printer. Has known issues that are reoccurring. Buy something else.