After my old inkjet finally gave up the ghost (and after spending way too much on replacement cartridges over the years), I decided to make the jump to laser. Did a bunch of research and landed on this HP Color Laserjet Pro - honestly, wish I'd made the switch sooner. Setup was pretty straightforward, though the wireless connection took a couple tries to get right. Nothing too frustrating, just had to restart my router once. The HP Smart app walked me through most of it. Once it was connected, printing from my laptop and phone has been seamless. The print quality is really impressive - colors are vibrant without being oversaturated, and text is crisp. I mainly use it for client presentations and occasional family photos, and both look great. The speed is a huge upgrade from my old printer too. What used to take forever now prints in seconds. Scanner works well for documents, though the photo scanning is just okay - not amazing but gets the job done for basic stuff. Copy function is handy for quick duplicates without having to mess with my computer. Only minor complaints: it's definitely bigger than my old printer, so make sure you have the desk space. Also runs a bit warm when printing a lot of pages, but that seems normal for laser printers. The toner cartridges aren't cheap, but they last way longer than inkjet cartridges did. Overall really happy with this purchase. It's been reliable for about 6 months now with zero paper jams or connection issues. Would definitely recommend if you're looking for a dependable color laser for home office use. Read more
I’ve been using laser printers since they first became available, both black-and-white and color. For the first time since Apple stopped making laser printers—a long time ago, I’ll grant you—I’ve found a printer at this price point that delivers print quality worthy of much larger machines. I tested it on both text and images, and it could almost be described as a *graphics-grade laser printer*: the colors are highly accurate, and the print quality is remarkably sharp. Among the positives is the initial setup, which features a very nice color display and a simple, step-by-step guided installation process. macOS users will find the HP Easy Scan app in the App Store, which allows you to import documents directly to your Mac. That’s also where you’ll find the app used to manage the printer itself (HP Print & Support). The only real downside is the price of the toner cartridges, which is frankly excessive for this type of printer. That said, it may be the trade-off for achieving such high print quality—because with laser printers, the technology matters, but so does the fineness of the toner powder. Read more
The reality is, if you use this printer for homeschooling (or you just print things fairly often), you're going to need a rich husband (or a rich wife, I don't discriminate 😉). I didn't try to print entire books or anything, just a few pages every day or so for normal homework assignments. I also tried printing out a couple pictures, but nothing major. It took 3 months for the printer to say that all 4 cartridges were "beyond low". Buying the real HP cartridges costs ~$400 for all 4. Those cartridges are good for about 1200 pages. Or...go buy an EcoTank 4950 and get 7500+ pages and it costs less than $100 to replace all 4 colors of ink. It literally costs less to buy a nice EcoTank printer than it does to replace the toner in this HP printer. 😔🤦♂️ But, since it took 3 months, we're past the return window. I'm out almost $600 on a printer that I can't afford to use. HP, if you're reading this, please let me return this! Aside from the toner, the printer works great. My only complaint was that it was really hard to scan one page in a book because the LCD screen doesn't fold out of the way. So, where the book would normally just hang out of the scanner while you scanned one page, there wasn't really room for that. Definitely a design flaw. P.S. If you're thinking "I'll just go buy off-brand toner and save a ton of money; no big deal", then think again! HP has specifically put chips in their OEM cartridges to prevent this, and you'll have to disable all firmware updates, wait for the latest "fake" cartridges to come out, then buy that (with firmware updates off forever) to use an off-brand. It's a pain, and the quality of the off-brand cartridges isn't great anyway. You end up with weirdness in your prints pretty frequently. All in all, this isn't a printer for the average or even above average family. It's clearly aimed at milking businesses for toner fees over time. Just buy an EcoTank. You have been warned. Read more
Ordered to replace my old hp laser jet. I wanted to be able to print from my apple phone and to scan documents to my computer. Works great. There was the problem with the starter toners. Order replacements when you by this unit cartridge doesn’t long. But as long as you know up front it is still worth buying. I ordered the extended cartridge when I bought. Read more
