HP Color LaserJet Pro M255dw Wireless Laser Printer, Remote Mobile Print, Duplex Printing, Works with Alexa (7KW64A), White

I ordered the HP 3201 DW and so far it has met my expectations. I upgraded to a laser printer for my home office needs and after reading the pros and cons, I took a chance on this model and after a week, I have to say things are going well. The colors are vibrant, the printing is quick and relatively quiet. I have an IMac so the setup was instant and easy. I plugged it in, my wife hit a few buttons and wah-lah .. wifi printing. No HP downloads and it even works with Samsung. I print directly from my Samsung cell phone with no challenges at all. I am pleased with the delivery, ease of use, quality, size, price and appearance. This is supposedly the "newer" version and I did purchase the extended warranty just in case.

Laser printers have a reputation for being bulky beasts, which is true for most professional models and those designed for photography and graphic work.This one, however, is a personal or small office printer that prints at 24 ppm, fully compatible with the latest Apple technologies, very easy to set up, and delivered with ready-to-use toner cartridges—just plug it in, and it's good to go.The print quality is excellent, and you can find compatible toners that will cost you less than what you typically spend on an inkjet printer.Having used all kinds of laser printers in my life—the first one being an Apple—I’m accustomed to high-end graphic laser printers. Yet, the HP Color LaserJet Pro 3201dw impressed me greatly, despite being designed purely for office use.The only issue I encountered was getting it recognized on the Ethernet network. I initially set it up via Wi-Fi, then forced a firmware update, after which it became visible on the Ethernet network.In conclusion, this is a very good color laser printer, seemingly reliable.

It is borderline unusable over wifi.Easy to setup, easy to use, print quality is fine as well. Plug it in, connect it to wifi, add it to your laptop or phone, print. Easy. Everything works fine the first time.However next time you try to print anything from the laptop or the phone nothing will work. It will say "printer is offline" and after that, no matter what you do to it, there is no reliable way to refresh its status and force it to print anything. Reboot the printer - doesn't matter, says "offline", reboot the laptop - doesn't matter, "offline". Re-connect the printer to wifi, doesn't matter - "offline".The stupidest thing is that when you open the HP app on the same laptop the app does see the printer and recognizes it as online. Shows you the status, the toner level. But you can't print anything, print queue and print dialogs say it's offline.Then randomly after a few minutes (or a lot of minutes, it's random) it would get recognized as online again and you would be able to print. Until you pause for some period and it becomes offline again. Repeat.There are "troubleshooting" steps like making a default printer, some other similar suggestions. They help maybe once, after the period of inactivity you will be back at square one, everything will say it's offline. And at that point it's already a default printer and all troubleshooting steps performed. Nothing helps.Same when printing from the phone. Trying to add it from the print dialog works the first time. Next times it would say offline. Sometimes it would randomly recognize it as online after a few minutes of staring at the print dialog. But sometimes it wouldn't. When you try to add it over wifi direct it would work the first time. But then again, next time it's offline. And if you remove and attempt to add it again - good luck, the phone would find it but you won't be able to install it.Or you can install HP smart app and whatever other apps it requires to print from the phone. It won't see the printer. But then after you lose the patience and go back to the print dialog, it would be available in the dialog using the HP plugin. What is going on.....Doesn't matter the OS either. MacOS, Windows, Android - same things. Doesn't matter the wifi quality, gone through multiple routers, different bands, through other different settings, and currently sitting right next to it on the same network, unable to print anything but able to do everything else over the same wifi.I dread the next time I need to print anything, I will need to go over all possible combinations of random actions that I think are related. I feel like I am following a cargo cult, where I need to perform some weird dance and press random things in hope that the pinter gods will allow me to send the PDF over and I would get it on a paper by some magic.How hard it is to implement a reliable working wifi printer driver?

Does the job for a competitive price considering the brand. Very compact and perfect for the space I have it in. I wouldn’t consider myself a tech person, but set up was not difficult at all. Prints fine wirelessly, clean prints, and vibrant colors. I bought it for our small business so the speed is good for its purpose. I haven’t experienced cartridge changing yet but I’ll update here if I run into any issues.

This HP 3201dw prints beautifully once you figure out how to coax it into doing its job. Color is vivid, text is sharp, and the speed is impressive. It's well-built, reliable, and clearly designed for small business needs. But wow… setup was a test of patience.No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get it to print in color—or from Microsoft Publisher—until I downloaded HP’s full driver package from their website. The instructions don’t make this clear at all. I thought I had a defective unit and was this close to boxing it up and sending it back with a strongly worded sigh. Might be a Windows thing.Also, the user interface? Let’s just say it works, but feels like it was designed by someone who last printed a document in 2009. Functional, yes. Friendly, not so much.All that said, once it’s up and running, it delivers on quality and performance. Just be prepared to go through a few setup hurdles first. And maybe keep the return label handy—just in case.