Canon D570 Mono Laser Printer, Scanner

I bought this printer because I was tired of having to save files to a flash drive to take to a store to print. I prefer to print on demand but was also don’t like having to replace ink cartridges every time. My printing frequency is such that expensive ink cartridges is a hassle but so is having to take time to run to a store. Have an all in one that allows for fast prints on demand without having to worry if the printer has ink is a convenient alternative.

I also find the printer easy to use for home use. The set up was not all that complicated and works very well on my wireless home network. It is easy to print from both my tablet and laptop.

Update: It’s been over a month and everything is still working great. I’ve used the unit a few times for printing, scanning, and copying stuff since and it’s all good, even double sided prints are great. We had a power outage too and it did not affect the printer any.

It’s been a week since I received this item so I wanted to take the time to review it because I’ve been living with an HP inkjet printer/copier/scanner combo for the past decade and in the recent years, I find that I am using it less and less, but there’s always some need for it once every couple of months or so and I’ll find that the ink has always gone dry and so I end up buying new ink for it every time I need to use the printer.

Frustrated with that, I started searching for a good laser printer/copier/scanner combo for the past few months, but everyone just recommends Brother and their cheapest combo model runs twice the price of this printer and nearly 3x the price of my inkjet. After further research, I found that some people run into an issue with laser printer using a lot of power and potentially setting off the breaker. This unit in comparison appears to run with less power (for a laser printer) and I’m happy to report that I haven’t had any issues with it tripping the breaker or any issues with it waking up instantly from sleep mode when I need to print off the network.

First, I did check the reviews here and note some people having issues with the wi-fi, so I skipped all that and got myself an ethernet cable along with the printer. I set up the printer near the router and just plugged my printer directly to it via the ethernet cable. Then, I went to their website and downloaded the recommended driver. Run it and it should scan and detect your printer. If it doesn’t, make sure your printer is on and is plugged in to router. Additionally, someone here said to use a static IP so I set that up on my router as well for this printer, even though the driver installation had no issues finding the printer even without that step, but I figure if I can skip a possible issue down the line, why not?

The last thing you need to know is that after installing the driver on any PCs you want to connect it to, you will want to run or look in the system tray for Canon MF Network Scanner Selector and make sure it is checked ok and running in the system tray. This will allow the machine to detect your PC and you can scan directly to any PC where you have this set up. Otherwise you will need to trigger the scan from the PC which is less convenient if the PC is not next to the printer.

The whole setup took less than 10 minutes, I’m not sure why so many people had issues or claim that the setup is super complicated when it is no more complicated than any other printer on the market. Most of the time was spent on removing the tape from the machine itself and plugging it in. Just make sure you follow the directions to remove the orange plastic pieces on the toner.

After setting it up, I tested printing from a PC, copying an ID card directly on the machine without any PC involved (great feature by the way, you can print both sides of the ID on one page). I also tested scanning the ID card to my PC and it worked with no issues. The print/copy also came out great without any special tweaking on the printer itself. The machine has a lot of options, but you can leave most of it on default and it does the job fine. Then, I let it sleep and tried printing on another machine the following day to see if it is able to wake up ok after sleeping overnight and I found that it printed almost instantly, taking almost no time to wake up. I tested again a week later (today), and printed 14 pages double-sided and it perfectly printed both sides to 7 pieces of paper perfectly without any extra intervention from me.

I also really appreciate the understated features such as being able to tilt the panel to make it easier to see if you are taller like me and the cleverly designed multi-piece cover that covers the entirety of the paper tray so that the paper won’t catch any dust sitting there for months. Also, the scanner top also allows you to pull up a bit to scan thicker objects like a textbook for example without leaving the top up.

I’m really happy with the purchase so far and I’m so glad that I found this laser printer combo for this price. I will be sure to update if my experience changes

Excelente producto. La mejor impresora que he tenido. Mucha calidad y muy buen funcionamiento

I have worked in the IT field for years, so I am not inexperienced, but this printer does not print (or copy) dark enough for business needs, even when set to the maximum settings. The settings are not intuitive and user guide is useless for advanced users. Default settings don’t print darkly enough and were difficult to set resulting in a call for guidance from the Canon help desk. After they walked me through how to set the defaults for the toner density, so that I did not need to change the setting for each print/copy, the text was still too light. I struggled with this for weeks, then gave up and bought a Brother printer which was “plug and play”. I did not even bother to try to set the printer up in wireless mode; it was difficult enough to use while tethered. If I could have given this review zero stars, I still would have given it a one-star because it does scan and print, and MIGHT be good enough for someone that does not need high quality printing for their business documents.

This printer is quiet, fast and a good value. Easy to use after completing a non-intuitive installation, for which the on-line user manual might better be called useless, although a call to customer service solved the connectivity problem. Print density is easily adjusted from Home Screen but cannot be made as dark as one might like. Paper jams are infrequent and manageable, unlike the Brother ink jet printer this Canon replaced.