PANTUM P2502W Wireless Laser Printer Home Office Use, Black and White Printer with Mobile Printing (V8V77B)

This printer sets itself up as a temporary hotspot, you connect to it, login, enter your wifi info and it immediately switches over to that. Mine worked first time so I don’t know how it handles things if you mistype something and it can’t connect to your network.After unpacking and preparing the toner cart and plugging it in, loading some paper and turning it on:1. Press the Wifi button on the printer to print out the wifi info1. On your iphone look for and join a new wireless network by the name printed on the sheet you just printed, it is the name of the wifi hotspot that the printer creates. Mine was named ‘DIRECT-15-Pantum P2500 Series’. The wifi password is also on that sheet you printed, mine was 12345678. You (must be within range of the printer) NOTE: your phone might fall back onto LTE because it detects that this hotspot does not connect to the internet. I had to disable Cellular in the phone settings.2. Open a browser and in the address line type “192.168.223.1”. That is the address of the printer in it’s role of pretending to be a hotspot router. Hit enter, you should see a web page appear.3. Select Login from the task bar on top of the page4. The user name is ‘admin’ and the password is ‘000000’. Note: THAT IS SIX ZEROS NOT EIGHT5. You should now be logged in as the administrator of the printer, click the settings tab6. Click wireless settings and then click on your network name in the list that should appear. Enter the wifi password and voila - you lose the temporary hotspot connection and the printer is now on your wifi network. Go switch back to your normal network and print something.I tested it from my iphone by printing a pdf. During printing my inverter crowbar’d and I had to switch to a bigger inverter (600w sinewave didn’t handle it, 1500w did fine). When it powered back up it had an attention light lit, I pressed continue and the print job I had been attempting then restarted but I was out of paper, I got another attention light, loaded more paper, hit the continue button and the job completed no problem. I am impressed.

Coming back over a year later to confirm this is the best printer of my life. And I work in IT! I have not had to buy anything but paper and I print probably a page a day, or so. I will never buy anything but a pantum from now on.I bought this bc of the reviews and they were correct!!! All i ever have are issues w home printers. They usually last 6 months and then something goes wrong that no one can fix. Well, I was tired of how expensive ink was so this is my first laser printer. I WILL NEVER GO BACK! I learned that in the long run, THIS is cheaper! I don’t need color or photos, just a printer for documents. This printer is SO FAST! Documents are always good quality and easy! I print a lot from my phone, so it was important for me to have wireless printing. I used my MacBook to set up the printer, but since I didn’t have a CD drive, I just got the driver online. It was easy, painless, and pretty quick. I have to say, my HP ink printers were idiot proof to set up, so by comparison this took about 30 min and I had to attach it to my computer… but in the long run it was worth it. Usually I have issues bc I use apple products & software, but not this time! With HP I always had to switch my wireless connection manually to the printer in order to print, but pantum does it by itself! So easy and printing life is so much better! I’ll never go back to ink printers.

1 year review:I use this printer exclusively for making wire labels using Brady label sheets (LAT-58-361) for my day job as an ISP hub engineer. I've also printed on plain paper a few times for various reasons. After 1 full year of use I've decided to leave a review.- For some odd reason the ink prints good and dark in the center of the page but gets lighter at the left and right sides. So ink looks good in the center 3 inches but the left and right sides look like Im running low on toner. Text looks grey instead of black. It started doing this after about a month of use. I've still got 75% toner after 1 year so I know it's not because of low toner. Somehow it's just not getting distributed properly.- Text doesnt print accurately onto the page. When printing on plain paper you'd probably never notice it. But with label sheets you notice when text is off by 4mm causing your text to bleed over the boundary of your labels. I also have a Brother printer and that one doesnt have this issue. I believe the Pantum isnt keeping the paper aligned straight when it gets sucked into the feeder so all text is off by 4mm. I have to manually adjust all my label text in the software Im using so text is printed center on my label sheets.- I'm always using this with a USB cable so I cant attest to the WIFI capabilities.Summary:It doesnt print ink clearly and it doesnt print accurately on the page. Those are kind of basic requirements for any printer so I'm giving this 1 star. I'll be looking for a replacement printer soon because this one kind of sucks.