HP LaserJet Professional P1102w Printer (CE657A#BGJ)
- a hundred and fifty-sheet input tray
- Manual Duplex Printing
- Hi-Velocity USB two. port WiFi 802.eleven b/g
- three LED indicator lights 2 buttons
- a hundred-sheet face-down bin, a hundred sheets output tray
The reasonably priced HP LaserJet P1102W delivers the dependability, good quality, and economic climate of monochrome laser printing to your residence office. The P1102W connects to your personal computer through high-pace USB 2., and prints up to nineteen webpages per minute of bold, crisp texts. With WiFi 802.11b/g assistance, you can print wirelessly from everywhere in your home or workplace. The P1102W’s one hundred fifty-sheet paper tray and one-sheet feeder let you to print on letter, legal, government, postcard sized paper, and envelopes. The a hundred-sheet output tray keeps your print work neatly stacked until you happen to be ready to pick it up. The compact LaserJet P1102W suits effortlessly on your desk or shelf and is an affordable remedy for consumers who print tons of text paperwork!
List Cost: $ 203.80
Price tag: $ 125.99
Quick, Reliable, Compatible,
I purchased this printer through a local retailer and was debating between the HP and a similarly priced wireless printer from Brother. The replacement toner cartridges are a bit more for the HP, but then again, they come with the drum assembly built in. This greatly reduces maintenance and potential hardware failures.
Setup:
As for setup, under Windows it’s a snap. Put the CD in and follow the directions.
Under Linux (I’m using Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)) the install was easy. I visited [...] web site and downloaded the drivers. From there, I just followed the directions on the web page and it works like a charm.
I’ve not used it with a Mac, but I did note that OSX is listed on the box.
Printer quality:
As for the printer itself. It has a very small footprint on the desk when the paper trays are not extended, and a small one when they are. It has excellent monochrome print quality and is very fast. As with all laser printers, the ink is waterproof once it’s on the paper. I’d recommend it any day of the week.
The printer’s body feels solid when you handle it. The input trays are similarly solid. The output tray feels a bit light, but as long as you aren’t abusing the tray, it’ll be more than sufficient.
HP Experience:
For me, HP printers are generally very reliable and always has good driver support both under Windows and Linux.
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|Printing on Both Sides,
Although this printer has many laudable features, it has a significant problem that potential purchasers should be aware of.
I purchased this printer for school. I often print papers of 40-90 pages in length. I thought I would be able to use the printer’s manual duplexing feature to help me save paper by printing on both sides. The HP software makes this easy. It will first print the even-numbered pages, then you just put the pages back in the paper bin, and it prints the odd-numbered pages on the reverse side. And you use only half the paper. Unfortunately, with the longer papers, something goes wrong when it pulls in the paper to print the odd-numbered pages. The pages stick together, and I end up with a paper where the pages are badly out of order. So much so that the document is unusable. So, it ends up wasting a lot of paper and toner. And it seems the longer the document, the more likely it is to be a problem.
And it’s really too bad because the product is pretty good in every other respect. The first page comes out unbelievably fast, even when the printer is asleep. The speed of the printer is good. And, strangely, the paper handling in the first six months I’ve had it — aside from the duplexing problem — is good. It hasn’t jammed. The print quality is also just what you expect from a printer. On Windows 7, setup was easy. I use the wireless feature, and have had 0 problems with that.
The toner is more expensive than I would like. But maybe that’s just the way all printers are these days. The starter toner cartridge really is quite small, and I needed a replacement very soon after I purchased the printer.
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|Here’s How to Set it Up for a Mac (If Needed),
At my house in the country my deskjet printers got so little use that they were dried up when I did need them, so when I saw this Laserjet for $99 I jumped on it. The toner cartridges can be pricey at $65 or so, but it’s cheaper than replacing dried up deskjet cartridges for me, and I don’t need to print color.
Considering that in the early 1990s when the first home laserjet from HP sold for just under $1,100, and business models sold for about $3,500, this still seems like a bargain to me.
It also works well (and better than my wireless Lexmark printer that lasted all of two months, and that wouldn’t print anything if any of the cartridges were empty (if one color was gone, you couldn’t even print black).
Here’s how to install the printer on a Mac with OS X (10.6) (if needed):
1. Click Finder on the Dock
2. Click APPLICATIONS under PLACES
3. Click SYSTEM PREFERENCES
4. Click PRINT & FAX
5. Click OPEN PRINT QUEUE
6. Click PRINTER SETUP
7. Click the UTILITY tab
8. Click OPEN PRINTER UTILITY
9. Click the HTML CONFIG button
10. Click the NETWORKING tab
11. Click WIRELESS
12. Click INFRASTRUCTURE
13. Select your wireless network under AVAILABLE NETWORK NAMES (SSID)
14. Click the << button (to the left of the network names list)
15. Scroll down to AUTHENTICATION and click the choices after SECURITY MODE
16. Choose the type of security you’re using (WEP or WPA/WPA2)
17. Under the AUTHENTICATION heading above this, click in the box following WEP KEY 1 and enter your network password
18. Click the green APPLY button
19. In the information box that appears and says, “Changes have been made …” click the green OK button
20. Close the HTML CONFIG UTILITY window by clicking the red button at the top left
21. Click the OK button in the HP LASERJECT PROFESSIONAL P1102W box
22. Close the HP LASERJET PROFESSIONAL P1102W box by clicking the red button at the top left
23. In the PRINT & FAX box click the choice for the HP Laserjet PP102W
24. Press the minus sign to delete the printer
25. Press the DELETE PRINTER confirmation button
26. Click the plus sign button to re-add the printer
27. Scroll through the list and click on the printer name HP LASERJET PROFESSIONAL P1102W for which KIND (in the next column) says BONJOUR
28. Click the ADD button
That’s it. Simple and reliable. And without the Lexmark issues.
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