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113 of 114 persons found the following review helpful.
Great for the price
By Retired Early
Having grown tired of finding my 2 inkjet printers dead because of dried up ink, I purchased one of these from the HPStore.com for the same $239 it is a Amazon today. I received it yesterday and so far so good.
69 of 70 humans found the following review helpful.
Very Impressed
By Mike from Michigan
When Office Max had it for $240 Thanksgiving weekend, I just had to replace my 9 year old HP 1200 monochrome laser printer. The old HP ran like a champ, but I could not pass up the prospect to move to color.
Setup was a breeze over my ethernet using my old Mac running Leopard. I rated the documentation as good, as I only applied the quick set up guide and did not dig into the details, but the manual looks comprehensive. I did (and suggest) to skip the enclosed driver CD and go right to HP.com and get the latest drivers and firmware. This made the printer work with Apple’s new airprint. I may print from my iPad and iPhone thru my home wireless network. I didn’t even have to set up the wireless printing on the printer. This is fine because my home network has a more outstanding range in the house than the printer.
Print quality is great: “dang near photo” quality. I would still send my 4×6 prints to Walgreens to be printed on nice shiny paper.
Each toner in the old laser lasted for years. I hope the same is true for the color printer. Yes, the introductory toner carts are only in regards to one-third full. Office Max has good prices on toner and Amazon prices are good if you may wait. The nice part is that you may tell the printer to use just black if one or more of the color toners gets low.
62 of 63 people found the following review helpful.
Simply amazing
By C. Vogel
I’m an IT consultant with 23 years of experience, 6 years on the Mac and Microsoft and Apple certified. My ~10 year old Epson inkjet in the long run had sufficient so I went to hp.com to find a highly ranked color laser. Wasn’t even looking for ePrint, even though I knew it was not long ago freed and would be great for the future and my iOS devices.
After coming all over this new model, I was enjoyably amazed at the price of $239 ($60/20% off list). Online reviews were mixed as frequent – I paid no attention to the negative reviews, warnings with regards to using it with a Mac or that ePrint doesn’t work yet – as they say, “your mileage may vary”. Prices at HP, Amazon and syndication were all the same so after finding out it was in stock at my local Staples, I went out and got one.
Now I’m a big fan of HP and commend their printers to all my clients. This machine again shows me why. Simple setup and installation (used Ethernet), amazing quality AND ePRINT! I’ve installed the printer on (3) Macs, (2) XP schemes and Windows Server. The only glitch was a conflict with an older installation of HP software on my MacBook. Once that was unistalled, this new software installed cleanly. Also, this latest installation interface and routine is vastly superior to former incarnations of network laserjet install kits.
Now for ePrint – installed the modified firmware and after a couple of days of not successful connections – BOOM! – up and running. Once this is working, it is genuinely as awful as it seems. Printed from my iPhone, iPad and email. Just add the email address the printer gets assigned to your address book and print from anywhere. Insanely cool.
This machine gets 5 stars for quality, performance, features and ease-of-use. Well done HP.
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