HP LaserJet 1100

Here I am with another printer opinion to help inform purchasing decisions. Thank you in advance for reading and I look forward to any comments you may leave. Firstly, my history of this product. I have been responsible for two of these printers on a network for about five years now. Our experience with each has been different and this puts a unique perspective on this opinion that I hope will encourage thought about purchasing printers for network usage. First, a technical outline. The printer is supplied with 2Mb of internal memory as standard. In both cases, we upgraded to 8Mb internal ... more

To make things easier (hopefully), I've broken down my review into some main points to help emphasize what I feel is important. Printing Speed and Quality This little guy can really fly through the print jobs. I think that the speed of the HP Laserjet 1100a is the main selling point since it can throw out about 15 pages per minute! It doesn't quite reach this speed on normal or best mode printing, but it will still beat just about any other laser printer in it's class (especially at this price!). The quality of text and graphics are also quite impressive. In best mode, the LJ1100a can put out ... more

In the space of one year I have been given two of these marvellous machines. As a freebie I can't really complain at the job it does. There are however reasons for the recieval of two free printers of this same type. The Pickup Rollers. These are unfortunately the first thing to go on these printers. Usually after about 30,000 prints but it can be more or less depending on how intense the usage is. On the one I got, they had gone after 16,000. (It is only about 4 months old) Which shows how much they pumped through it. The pickup rollers are about £5-£10 and will take you five minutes to fix ... more

Although the 1100 has all the usual HP features and print quality, it really falls down on it's paper handling capabilities. Having purchased a dozen or so of these printers we found within a very short space of time that the printer was feeding several pages at once and consequently jamming. We tried all the usual methods to stop this such as changing the paper supplier and ensuring the paper was separated before loading. After having spoken to HP they sent out a small rubber coated part which made no difference whatsoever. As this fault occurs on all our 1100's I assume HP know of this fault ... more

I got one of these printers recently for nothing if I fixed it, so dutifully (and rather eagerly too) I set about fixing it. Once fixed the printer was raring to go and even with it's low amount of memory it rarely has trouble processing pictures and general things that get thrown through it. The output is fast and the first page usually prints in under a minute even from a full page scanned image. I have yet to fully asses this printers worth, but as far as laser printers go it seems to be light and durable enough for my purposes as a student. It also seems to be a good printer to have around ... more