This is a good Printer/MF device, it excels at everything it does, I gave it 5 stars for what it does. If there were 1/2 stars I would have given it 4.5 for some minor omissions.Your choice depends on what features you want/need. Canon based lasers (hp still uses their engines) last forever because when you discard the Toner cartridge you are discarding the drum and other parts that are likely to fail. Then again when you buy a printer for around $100 this does not matter as much as when they used to cost $1000s or at least many hundreds of dollars.This is a very small well made printer. 10x10x14. In my case this was one of the deciding factors. My wife wanted something as small as possible. Most other printers/MF devices are closer to 20x20x20.Canon themselves make a D420 which has better specs and is currently selling for a few dollars less, but is much larger.Silly Canon did not include the USB Cable. I had one. But unless you buy them from Amazon or monoprice you end up paying silly prices for them (should only be a few dollars). The manual is HTML you can pull up out of a browser. On the PC it installs as a program. As the manual is HTML mac users can copy the manual folder to there computer and open it in their web browser of your choice. I tried firefox first, worked well. Mac Drivers and current pc drivers are on line. The HTML manual is much clearer then the nicely printed setup and quick instructions that are bit to brief for many.Because this MF/printer is so small it good live on almost any desk or near by spot without taking over. If you want wireless printing capability you need to plug the printer into a router, airport express, etc. that supports turning USB devices into wireless network printers. I had routers with the capability so this did not bother me. Scanning always has to be done locally anyway. But network scanning is not an option even with a router that makes the printing functionality wireless (that true for all devices jacked into routers). Really though scanning has to be done locally anyway to feed the scanner.Most of you already know low end laser only come with starter toner cartridges that print in the 400-800 page range. This one is no different.Controls. I would have preferred better controls. Making a copy is a one button affair. But if you want to change settings you have to do a little studying. The buttons are nice and large, there just not enough of them. There functionality toggles. The printers display is a single large bright one character alpha/number display that tells you what your doing. What was really needed was display with at least 10-15 characters and a few more buttons to make the other functionality easier until your familiar.Be careful unpacking its fully assembled but with all the plastic tabs that have to be removed. You have take out the toner cartridge and remove the tabs gently from the printer and then replace the toner cartridge to get the protective tabs out.Over all this is a really good printer and a great value. Some things like the lack of an Auto Document feeder will make the scanner more reliable. Choose this printer if you want a really good compact reliable MF device. I also should point out if you look at reviews this is one of the consistently highest rated device. The only neg review came from someone who had a driver issue on a mac resolved it and never updated his or her rating. There are plenty of mac and cross platform users are using it with out issue. The person that had the issue came before Canon updated their printer drivers.