Review on Canon ImageCLASS LBP6030w: Compact Monochrome Wireless Laser Printer (8468B003), White by Mayrando Clark

Looks good. Although a CD was included. Do you remember CDs? They came with computers a very long time ago. They are no longer available on modern computers. There were several sheets of paper. Not exactly a guide, mostly pictures. The only helpful thing was the advice that the Mac driver probably wouldn't work. I tried connecting the printer via USB to the computer I was trying to print from. My computer saw it was there and it was a printer! I was only able to print plain ASCII text and it didn't work. Nothing has ever been printed. I have a very old CD drive. It has USB-A while modern computers have USB-C. On CD only Windows or Mac. So I ended up finding an adapter combo that allowed the Mac to power the CD drive so I could read it! My first trip under the program brought absolutely no results. So I started with another USB-A to USB-C adapter and it worked! I had to download the driver as the manual says. So now I can print from a computer I don't need or don't want to print from. The Ubuntu forums say the drivers exist and can be made to work, but they also say that Canon's drivers have disappeared, so I have no idea if I can get this printer to work directly. I may need to write a script to wrap lpr with an ssh call to print my documents. Overall the printer itself seems good although I only printed a few pages as Amazon only gave me the printer and toner. and not the paper I seem to have ordered, I will receive the paper tomorrow. The actual setup and management of this printer is terrible. Now that it works, I've noticed that it doesn't italicize the capital H very well. Looks ok in PDF, but doesn't print. When I type multiple italic H characters, most of them print. But most of them are actually not good enough. EDIT It took three days but I finally got the printer driver working so I could print. It turns out that the driver installed by Canon does not mark libcupsimage2-dev as a required package. CUPS throws an error about the called driver before the driver throwing the error, which is incredibly misleading. In terms of print quality, it doesn't compare to the HP Laserjet M806 that I usually use at work. But for $97.25 it's more than acceptable. It's also significantly cheaper than the M806.