Dell C1765nfw MFP Color Laser Printer

Disposable printer, only good for maybe 12-24 months of service, as indicated by the warranty. Only guaranteed for 12 months, after this the printer is out of warranty, and, according to Dell customer service, not worth repairing. You must print thousands of pages within the first year to make the per page cost even close to worth it. For us, each page cost well over $1-$2 each! I can order online for 50 cents a page, with higher quality, full photo prints, this is a terrible deal! Even with the few hundred pages of black and white printed text was $1-$2 each, considering our printer was bricked in less than 24 months, with $240 worth of new toner cartridges now wasted!The wifi on ours went out at month 18, very subtly. Large print jobs would hang the front panel, the dots would stop moving across the panel screen and Windows 8.1 would report lost connectivity to the printer. The only solution was to restart the printer, and print from USB. Only then could full page images or flyers with design elements on the edges be printed. Over faulty wifi we could only print a quarter of the page worth of images before locking up the front panel, necessitating a restart of the printer. Before month 18, printing full page photos at 8.5x11 were brilliant, fast, and easy, all using the same computers, router, and networking setup, all over wifi. All that changed was that large print jobs over wifi started failing 90% of the time at month 18, from 3 different computers.Each official Dell toner cartridge is about $60. We had $240 worth of new toner in the printer before the failed wifi made it a nightmare to use, with 90% of all print jobs making the printer unresponsive until the next restart. With how few months service you'll get, this printer is extremely expensive, considering the cost per print, don't be fooled by it's cheap price. We spent about $600 since 2013 to print out, maybe, 1,000 pages for it's total life, and that's a real stretch. The toner is amazing compared to inkjet cartridges as it is guaranteed to work without use for up to three years, this was the main reason we switched to laser, for extended time between prints!I am giving this printer 2 stars due to how highly unreliable not only the wifi adapter is, but how irreversible firmware update failures are on this model printer. Unless your printer has features going out on it like ours did, diminishing it's value, I would never consider updating the firmware, ever, do not attempt to fix what is not broken. The only fix for a failed attempt is a motherboard replacement, which cost more than the printer retails for, according to Dell customer service. On an HP LaserJet, all you need to do is move a jumper on the board inside the printer to recover the factory provided firmware! Lexmark has USB recovery mode for their firmware failures. With Dell, no recovery is possible, only an expensive motherboard replacement. Due to these flaws, only 2 stars, it just isn't useful for long enough to justify it's high toner and per page printing costs, waste of money. Go get an HP LaserJet, parts are abundant, HP has the most units sold, so repair is an option after 24 months of service, and many computer shops and techs can service them.Our C1765nfw died with error code 024-360, aka, new motherboard required.

We have three networks linked together in our home to serve six people using ipads & a variety of computers... this printer was easily installed and readily available to all devices on all the networks. Dell's mobile app makes quick work of printing from our iphones. Black & gray-scale printing is crisp. Color is correct and beautiful. I cannot tell enough people how pleased we are with this printer. The only advice to be offered is to ditch the installation cd that comes in the box. It has a load of business software that is cumbersome and useless in a home environment. Download the installation file from the Dell website using the service tag. The scanner works great using Paint and the OCR is spot on using Microsoft Document Imaging. The toner seems to last forever. We're on our fifth ream of paper and still going strong - a vast improvement over buying inkjet cartridges twice a month. Excellent printer!

It's a very good printer, many features - we like it. I did not give 5-star because of 2 shortcomings:1. The wireless feature: there are some kinks, did not work all the time when it in sleep mode. So we connect the PC direct to it. On the other hand, I could send the print job to it directly from my Samsung & Android tablet via Dell App - very cool feature.2. It consumes black toner quite fast. It ran out while the color are still in 70% range full. But, we solved it by purchased $10 re-manufactured cartridge, and it works just like before.

Nothing but problems since purchased. Paperfeed doesn't work right, toner cartridge always needs to be reinstalled, on and on. Very unreliable. I just tried less than a year to get warranty because I think it is just a bad printer. Dell tells me it was purchased a year earlier. When I purchased the printer, I supposedly purchased a new print at new printer price. Waiting for reply for seller.

This is a decent printer for color, and the print from tablet or phone sounds nice...but the execution leaves a lot to be desired. First off, the printer goes to sleep after a very short period of time, and the tablet/phone apps will not wake it up to print; they simply will not connect. So you have to go physically to the printer and wake it up, thus defeating the purpose. Also, printing envelopes on this printer sucks HARD. The envelope will jam the printer every single time. A brief look at the roller system shows shoddy construction; I am surprised I didn't get more jams with just paper.In the end, this was a nice, simple printer I let the kids play with, but it in no way works as an office machine. It simply is built too cheaply for what even your typical office worker needs to accomplish.

The printing works well, but the interface for managing the printer is antiquated. It also has a problem that once it goes into power save mode, the only way to get it to wake up is to turn it off and on. Very frustrating that you have to reboot it every time you want to print!The quality of printing and speed of printing work are the one thing that I do like.

Wery good printer. Quality is very good but not good enough for photographs. Prints fast and warms up fast. I will review the ink in an update sinc I just bought it and not sure how long it will last yet. For now I'm very happy with the product.

I like the quality of prints. The only con is that it's slow. I work in the office on regular basis and our office printer is so much faster! I have this Dell C1765 at home and it takes forever to "wake" up to scan and finally print. Sometimes it gets really annoying. Also wifi connection needs to be constantly turned on. It turns off by itself as soon as you are not using it. Then it takes forever to have everything running back again. I am giving 4 stars because the prints come out good and because the description at the time I bought it stated accurately "for not too busy house print work".