HP LaserJet Pro M1212nf Printer (CE841A#BGJ) Reviews
HP LaserJet Pro M1212nf Printer (CE841A#BGJ)
- 150-sheet input tray, 100-sheet face-down bin
- 2-line, 16-character display, menu and navigation buttons
- Standard, 35 sheets automatic document feeder
- Up to 100 sheets output tray
- Hi-Speed USB 2.0 port, 10/100Base-T Ethernet network port, RJ-11
HP LaserJet Pro M1212nf
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List Price: $ 254.00
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HP M2727NF Laserjet Printer
- Multifunction Black-and-white printer that prints, scans, faxes, and copies
- Print Black-and-white 1200 dpi text and graphics as fast as 27 ppm
- Scan in full-color at ultra-high 19,200 dpi resolution
- 250-sheet paper tray, 50-sheet priority tray, 50-sheet ADF
- Network-ready 10/100Base-TX Ethernet connectivity
HP M2727NF Laserjet Printer. Do not waste time waiting for your documents. The HP LaserJet M2727nf MFP features professional print and copy speeds of up to 27 ppm. Other MFPs need time to warm up before printing the first page, but with no wait Instant on Technology your first page will print two times faster than devices without it. And with a stable light source, copy or scan jobs begin in a matter of seconds even first thing in the morning. Your documents always look great with reliable, high quality printing at true 1200 dpi. We design our toner formulas and papers to work with each other and with the devices high speeds so you get crisp and consistent print quality without sacrificing performance. Easily handle even the most demanding jobs with HP PCL and HP postscript level 3 emulation driver support, a powerful 450 MHz processor, and 64 MB RAM, expandable to 320 MB. Fax documents at up to 33.6 kbps and enjoy digital storage for up to 600 pages. Use private receive to securely st
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List Price: $ 754.00
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about 1 year ago
Review by B. D. Herman for HP LaserJet Pro M1212nf Printer (CE841A#BGJ)
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My mom just bought this today and I helped her set it up. I’m already thinking about buying one, even though I already have a laser MFC at home. It’s that good. The setup is easy, the quality is good, and the price is right.
1. Setup on PC, Mac, and network
It was super easy. HP includes the usual install CD, but you don’t need it on PC; they put the files on the machine, and they show up when you connect the USB cable (the same way a USB flash drive would, though this doesn’t work on Mac). Just follow the instructions; everything is straightforward.
If you want to use it over the network (i.e., connect it to your router), you still need to connect it via USB first. Before too long, the installation program tells you to disconnect the USB cable, and you don’t need to connect it via USB any further. (So if you have a USB cable that you can use temporarily, you don’t need to buy another just for the printer to use it over the network.)
If you haven’t yet connected the networking cable from the printer to the router, it’ll tell you when to connect it, and the router and printer should talk to each other without any difficulty. (My mom’s router is a modem/router/wifi hub combo from the Paleozoic Era, issued by a very low-tech rural DSL provider, and it worked just fine.) I expected the networking part to be hard, and it was actually fairly easy. If everything I’ve written so far makes sense, you probably know enough to set this up on the network.
Once it’s set up on one computer and on the network, use the driver CD to install the drivers on any other computers on your network; this is even easier.
Within an hour (half of the time making room for the printer and so forth), we had:
*Installed the drivers on 4 computers (1 Mac and 3 PCs–one is even Vista!)
*Printed test pages from each
*Set up the fax preferences (you can do this on the computer via the device management software, which is WAY easier than navigating the device menus)
*Successfully scanned documents into JPGs and PDFs, via the flatbed and sheetfeeder, over the network (many MFCs print well over the network but make it all but impossible to scan without connecting the USB cable), via Mac and PC
I’ve connected a LOT of devices to a LOT of computers, and for such a complicated device, this was ridiculously easy. Major kudos to HP’s software team.
2. Quality
Print and copy quality are great. That’s a given with a laser printer, I suppose. It’s only black-and-white, but if you don’t need color (e.g., if you print your photos at the pharmacy) or have a separate color printer (e.g., a photo-quality inkjet printer), you’re good.
The scanning quality is also very good. 300×300 pixel black-and-white scans of sheet-fed documents make great PDFs. I also did a 1200×1200 pixel color scan of an old sports card, and it’s quite sharp. I’m not somebody who works with images for a living, but unless you are (or are a very serious hobbyist), this scanner should suit your needs.
I wasn’t able to get the standard Mac software (Image Capture) to operate the scanner (that software is pretty weak anyway), but the HP Director software works well on Mac (genuinely shocked) and PC.
My one complaint about using the HP software for scanning is that it doesn’t let you preview-and-crop. If you need cropping (e.g., if you’re scanning in 4×6 photos), you’ll need to do that with another program. You probably already have something on your computer that will do this, but if not, you can download GIMP (free open source program) or buy something cheap and simple to crop, correct color, etc.
We haven’t tried the fax yet.
3. Value
At the list price, this is a steal. Even lower-quality manufacturers (you know who they are) are charging similar prices for laser MFCs with no networking capability.
If you’ve never bought a laser printer, the toner cost (currently on the HP website at $68 for a cartridge that yields about 1600 pages) might be a turnoff, but on a per-page basis, it’s probably somewhat-to-much cheaper than the inkjet you’re using or considering. The overall build quality and durability of laser printers is also much better, so your “total cost of ownership” (cost of printer + ink/toner, divided by pages printed before the device dies) is likely much lower.
In short, this printer is a winner, at least based on initial quality.
about 1 year ago
Review by Stephen Holland for HP M2727NF Laserjet Printer
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This review is based on usage in a small business where the device is at a satellite office.
This is a good piece of Hardware by HP, but as is typical of HP scanners the software is weak. The printer makes excellent images. The machine is fast from the time you click on print to when the page starts printing, and the printing is fast. This is the highlight of the machine. Two sided copying is excellent. The automatic document feature works well for copy and fax, but the scannning software is a problem.
The first machine I got had a defective fax board, but the store I bought it from let me return it for a new unit. Setup of the machine worked well. You can configure it using a built in web server. You might have trouble finding the machine on the nework, though. Unfortunately it does not respond to ping broadcast packets. You can go to the front panel and go through the menus to print a network report to see what IP address it selected. From there the web access works best to set up the machine. Setting a manual IP address is easy enough from the front panel so you know what IP address to connect to. You can get an optional second paper tray.
While setup of the machine via the web access works well it is limited in that the fax cannot be set up through the web interface. This is unfortunate, since the fax settings are tedious to enter from the front panel. You can use the web interface for the address book, but setting fax settings like address, speed, report settings, and everything else are not changeable except through the front panel.
As far as scanning goes, this is not a push scan device. (A push scan device is one where the scanner does the scan, then transfers to another computer by a network protocol like FTP or SMB). There is a button on the machine to scan, but that just starts up the program you have to install on your computer. The HP scan software is difficult to use and unintuitive. Definitely NOT production environment. It is also bloatwear. Over a thousand files get installed on the computer that serves as the scanning control computer. Also, whenever you scan the document comes out at 17 inches on the computer. The workaround in my setting is to fax to our fax server, which takes the calls and keeps the faxes. In this way I have a push scan option at the cost of a phone call for each scan. But if you have a business you do not want to use this as the document scanner using the HP softwear. I do not know if VueScan works with this device.
If you just need a postscript printer then this will work out of the box. For the advanced features that the printer supports you need to install the postscript driver. It may be possible to install the postscript driver without the scan softwear, which would be best if you have several computers that need to use the printer. I specifically did not install the scan softwear at the satellite location where I use the printer and it works fine as a generic postscript printer. (I installed the bloated HP scanning softwear at the main office where I did the initial configuration)
The printer is the same engine as in the HP LaserJet P2015dn Printer (HP LaserJet P2015dn Printer (CB368A#ABA)). Review there are good for understanding more about the printing function. The cartridge, an HP 53, is shared between this multifunction device and the P2015dn. In a small office having the same cartridge used by different printers simplifies inventory issues.
So, for home use and occasional scanning this is a nice machine, fast to print with very high quality printing. For an office environment it is good as a printer and copier, but the scanning software would choke anyone who needed to do document scanning as part of the business workflow.
about 1 year ago
Review by C. Berger for HP M2727NF Laserjet Printer
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We have a small business and just purchased the LaserJet M2727nf. The device was extremely easy to setup. We just plugged the Ethernet cable into the printer, installed the software for both Vista and XP systems, and the printer was automatically discovered. Setting up the fax and scan was also just as easy. All the functions – print, scan, copy, and fax work great. I was especially impressed with the ease-of-use of the scan and fax software.
about 1 year ago
Review by Patrick Hudson for HP M2727NF Laserjet Printer
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This is one of the best printers I have owned. The set up was easy and works quickly and prints, scans, faxes and copies well.
Booklet and double side printing make this really useful.
Downside – I cannot scan from Preview and it is noisy.
It works well with iMac and 10.5, some features for Windows are not available but these are minor. Well worth buying. Good for home or small office.
about 1 year ago
Review by Leon Fan for HP M2727NF Laserjet Printer
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I purchased this machine as a replacement unit for a small size company. We have a lot of incoming and outgoing fax. For outgoing fax, this unit will feed the first page then feed about 1/3 of the second page then wait for dialing. It will not scan the whole set into memory first before dialing. Also, we got a lot of fax communication error pages. Many docs are either received or sent incomplete. I downloaded and upgraded the firmware and it still has fax problem. I contacted HP support using online chat and changed error correction and speed settings and I still have fax problem. Ordered and added 256MB memory and still no improvement. Will return this unit for a different brand.
Other notes: the scan is acceptable but slow and too light. Printing/copy function is ok.
about 1 year ago
Review by Kenneth Freer for HP M2727NF Laserjet Printer
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I have had the printer almost a year. It works great as a printer, scanner, and fax. I have had a few jams at the document feed, but it cleared easily. The software is a nice feature allowing you to scan and attach PDF, JPEG, or other formats to e-mails.
about 1 year ago
What a pathetic excuse for a laser/fax printer is the HP1212NF….first one had to be returned as fax didnt work and had a memory supply error. The second one keeps cutting out and refaxing 3 or 4 times so now getting expensive faxing interstate my phone bill has doubled – thanks HP for a really lousy product…last time I purchase anything HP brand.