Worked straight out of the box...

I was very pleased with this printer.[...]

This machine worked straight out of the box. The only hiccup was having to download the Windows 64-bit drivers from the website, but I was anticipating that and had downloaded them in advance.

The print quality is excellent - the ability to produce A3 size photo prints to frame is why I bought this in the first place, and I have not been disappointed.

An excellent printer at a reasonable price.

Generally OK (but... )

After five months this has proven to be reliable - including the duplex option (which I've used plenty of times and had no misfeeds). However the collection tray for printed pages can't cope with paper curl (caused by the heating unit) so after about a dozen pages it pushes everything on the floor. This is a real problem if you're printing multi-page documents that you want to stay collated! Some papers are worse than others - but different brands of `cheapo' 80 gsm white have proven to be consistently problematical. Higher-price papers curl less so are usually OK.

Apart from that only one grumble and that is the printers are shipped with a 'sample size' toner cartridge which is rated at 2000 copies (but packed up after 1500 for me!). Worse still the printer decides when the toner pack is dead and then refuses to print - not like the good old days when you could give the toner pack a shake and get a few hundred extra copies out. Unless you only intend to use this occasionally (and who buys a laser unless they want to produce lots of copies??) make sure you also buy the larger ('7000 copies') toner pack (ref TN-3170) straight away otherwise you will find yourself out of toner and with a (temporarily) 'dead' printer much sooner than you would reasonably expect.

good but should be better

Picked this printer after doing the research
Having used it myself I have found
The amount of ink in the black cartridge is not enough and it uses loads, much more than the Epsom it replaced.
The cartridges are expensive [cheapest Amazon]
The ink also smudges if you touch it
It is very noisy in use, clunks and whirs all the time when in use
The print quality and speed is very good hence the 3 stars

Cheap to run

I will say what a great printer, mostly im printing from blutooth phone results are amazing. Setting up connection with bluetooth takes only a minute most important thing ink is very cheap one carrtage last nearly 65 prints on standred photo setting. Also it has a built in multi memory card reader too.

awesome

the quality of the prints from this printer is absolutely brilliant, crystal clear printing on 4x6 prints. the only problem that I've had is if printing from my computer, rather than a memory card, is there have been white strips on the sides of the print, so not really borderless, but that may correctable by changing the print settings.

If you consider that, through Amazon, you pay less than 16 gbp for a pack that will do 108 prints, once you've done a few prints, the price per print becomes very competitive.

well worth the money!!