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HP Color LaserJet

3owners with an opinion
67%of verdicts positive
1/1positive/negative since 2024
5 yrslongest happy owner
1happy after 3+ years

Praised for reliability and value; criticized for display.

What people wrote

Likes itOwned 12 yearsStill going
My 12 year old cheap HP Color LaserJet printer I paid 99€ for is still going strong, on original toners... Just tells how much I actually use it. The colour printing is slightly off, but I never do much of that anyway. And it printed the shipping labels today acceptably. Not perfect, but good enough. Amazing actually... Bit earlier, I thought it finally broke as I failed to print, but USB cable was not connected...
Recommends itOwned 5 yearsStill going
I've been a fan of HP Laser printers connected via Ethernet. Every device I've tried connects and loads the drivers without issue (including a macbook). Aside, I really wish Google hadn't removed the Print options from Android/Chrome. Being able to buy tickets and send them to my printer from my phone was awesome... having to save/share links and go to my desktop to print something, less so. I know I can often show a code on my phone, but there are times and places where wifi and mobile connections aren't reliable. Not really in favor of HP over other mfg's, only that I've had far fewer issues with them than any other mfg for laser printers at least. Been using a color laser (m451nw) for about 5 years now. I don't really print that often, a couple pages a month, and always had issues with ink printers gumming up when I'd go a couple months without printing anything.
Doesn’t like it
I tried to get Copilot to port the Linux drivers for my HP CP1025 to macOS, but it failed. Even modern Linux can’t print to it any more, I had to put an older distribution on a RasPi and now I’m printing at reduced quality. It was crazy how the LLM held on to outdated information. It suggested so many things that might have worked on an older macOS but very obviously wouldn’t nowadays. It also tried to port from Linux for a while until it eventually discovered that cups on Linux didn’t support that printer either.