XeroxB205NI Monochrome Multifunction Printer, White

I've been using color laser printers at home for years. I have used a few multi-functional color laser printers. They are all slow and consumer-product-like, compared to big office printers. I had lately come to realize that I don't need a color printer, ever. Who prints color prints or pictures at home anymore? So I looked for a black-n-white laser printer instead this time. It's the first time I bought a Xerox printer ever. And I regret not having bought Xerox laser printers a decade earlier. This machine makes high-quality prints with blazing speed. No paper feeding issues whatsoever. It just works.The only caveat. This printer is not home-friendly for a naive consumer in at least one area. You need to be aware before you buy it. It's designed to be used in an office apparently. By default, it always prints out a banner page / cover page for every print job, as if one only uses this in an office environment with a few dozen people sharing a printer. You have to explicitly turn the banner off, and it's not something a regular user would be able to figure out. Many reviewers talk about this. You can search online for instructions. Also, to enable physical ethernet port with ipv4, you need a small surgical struggle with its unclear menu options. None of these are real issues for an office environment where someone maintains printers. It just goes to show that this printer is not made for home uses.But if you are not completely tech-naive, this is truly a wonderful printer, and a great bargain. You will not want to use any other brand of printers at home, once you have used this little beast. I should have thought that perhaps "the printer" company would have made a laser printer better than anyone else. What had I been thinking all these years?

This thing is great. Simple enough to set up and works every time with no fuss. I have tried various HP printers over the years due to cost of the printer and they always had difficulty working. Printer errors or app issues, just so many frustrations. My last HP printer took 20 minutes of trouble shooting every single time I tried to print something.Not this thing. This thing worked the first time after I set it up. Print from the computer, no problem. Print from my phone, no problem. Scan to the computer, done. Print after sitting for 2 days, got it bro. Easy. Every single one of those things took so much trouble shooting with my old printers and this thing just works like you want it to. And with the toner that comes with it easily doing 1000 pages, it'll save on operating costs.Its small enough to fit mostly anywhere. Its very reminiscent of big office printers(makes sense because, Xerox) and operates very close to you. Just in a nice home office size package. I love this thing and its taken away so much frustration out of my life.

This printer is a piece of junk. Not easy to set preferences like disable cover page. When you open the tray then close the tray to reinsert the cover page, the light turns red for wifi printing. You have to turn off the printer, then back on to clear the red light. The red light indicates below the exclamation means, the tray is open or not enough paper. It won’t reset its self after you push the tray back in. You go online and check out the settings and no reset pin code to set preferences. The directions book is pointless. Zero stars. Pointless. Throw the whole thing away and start all over again.

I bought this to replace an identical printer made by Samsung which operated well for many years, then started printing 1-4 lines of gibberish on dozens of pages instead of the document I'd sent to it. After many hours attempting to fix this, I gave up and bought the identical printer, now sold by Xerox.Almost immediately the Xerox started to do the same thing. I upgraded drivers. I changed operating systems. I spent hours on the phone with Apple. I finally found Xerox's number and called for tech support.Agent 1: I can't give you tech support. You need to talk to Customer Service to register your printer.Agent 2: Oh, I see you need to register your printer. <Disconnect>I called back.Agent 3: I see your printer is registered with us.Me: Really? The last two agents said I needed to register it.Agent 3: <reads my name and address, and they're correct, and associated with the serial no.>Me: Great! I need tech support. It prints dozens of pages of gibberish.Agent 3: I can't give you tech support. There's a problem with your registration. It doesn't show the warranty.Me: Okay, I'll send you the receipt.Agent 3: You need to fax it.Me: Fax? I haven't had a fax machine since the 80s. Where can I email it?Agent 3: It has to be faxed. You see, it's a legal document, so you can't email it.Me: A legal document? It's a receipt.Agent 3: It's a legal document so it needs to be faxed.Me: I'm a lawyer. I email legal documents all the time.Agent 3: Fax.Me: I don't have a fax. Are you telling me I can't get warranty support for this printer if I don't buy a fax machine first?Agent 3: Fax. Do you want the number?Me: Is this a joke? Or a way for Xerox to avoid servicing its products?Agent 3: Fax.Me: Because I don't have a fax and I won't get one.Agent 3: <disconnect>Me: <reaches for gin>More than an hour with this nonsense and I still have no working printer. But I do have a very large collection of mostly blank pieces of paper with 1-4 lines of gibberish on them. I should get a puppy and use them to house train it.