Customer Reviews

HP CM1017 Color Laserjet All in One Printer

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This HP Color LaserJet CM1017 is great. It is actually weighs less then my old Black and White Canon D780. What makes this printer great for me is the ability to copy and the ability to print color reliable. It's a excellent printer and now I don't have to worry about here are my thoughts so far.

Installation, dirt simple. Unpacked it, plugged it in to network, and turned it on. The LCD screen is easy to navagate and it prints out a nice sheet on the current network connection status. It quickly found my DHCP, I went to the IP and did some basic setup. Then popped in the CD, added a printer, pointed Windows XP to the CD's driver folder and I was in business. Very easy. Setting up my Mac was also easy.

After using my PrintFixPro color calibration the prints were very nice. Mostly I plan on printing out Google directions and invoices but this is a great printer.

Over all everything about the printer is good, so it would take too long to list them. But there are a couple issues. People complain about the lack of Fax features, but I don't miss that at all. Use eFax! It's way better then a standard Fax machine.

So, the only issue I have, is that the Duplexing is "manual" which to mean's it doesn't have duplexing. This doesn't matter too much to me but it's pretty lame. The sibling HP printer all support duplexing, and I think this printer should too. Oh well. It does have software duplexing build into the driver which is sorta handy, but I think real duplexing would have been better.

Oh well... still it's a great printer, and it's great for mix environments like ours. Finding a good MFP for Macs and PC's is hard.

First off - Amazon's description of this printer is wrong - it does not fax. I wish it did; but it doesn't. See HP site for more accurate description.

Ok, the main reason I bought this printer was because i was getting frustrated with my inkjets. For the last 9 years, it was always a roll of the dice if what i printed would come out ok or not. Now that the laser printers have come down in price (I was able to get this printer for under $600), I thought it might be worth it..

Although the real test will be a year from now, so far so good. The quality has been great. I have 4 computers at home, so the networking feature works wonderful for me. And I love the fact that I can stick my sony memory sticks directly into the printer and print without the PC. Speed is probably slower than average for a laser (compared to those that I've seen at work) but still ok when compared to my old inkjets. Really, the only issue i had with this printer was the price.. but if it lasts me the next few years with no hassle, then that would make up for the cost. Minor issues were the lack of a fax, and the size - it is pretty big - but that is to be expected with color lasers.

Overall I am quite pleased with the product..

Now, with that said, I can see how this printer isnt for everyone. I wont print a lot.. in fact i print very little.. so little that my inkjets would dry out due to lack of use. People with higher volume needs may not like the printer - as the number of pages that the toners are stated to last for is 2000pages- not sure if thats just the out-of-box toners-but i can imagine that not being much for a small office printer.

Also, its not a true photo quality printer. You can print photos with it.. and the quality is still pretty good..(good enough for me) but, if thats the main reason for your purchase, i would stick with a cheaper photo inkjet printer.

Anyway, hope this info helps.

Beware of HP CHEAP LASER PRINTERS. Specifically the CM1015 and 1017. HP laser printers are expiring the toner cartridges regardless of the actual toner used. I printed 8000 pages of pure Black and White with all color turned off in the driver. I had to replace $240 in color toner cartridges to use the printer even thought we printed NO color. Went to Cartridge world to have them opened, and sure enough they were completely full. If I would have know this, no way would I have purchased a CHEAP HP laser printer. I smell a class action in the making.

We purchased this printer to replace our Lexmark Laser and Canon Injet. The Lexmark toner lasts around 2000 pages and fades almost immediately with costs of $79 if you agree to send the old one back to Lexmark.

From the second we set this printer up we have been pleased with it. It is much lighter than similar printers and the footprint is much smaller than the 2800 series printers.

Installation was incredible easy in Vista (note you have to download the Vista software from HP which took abot 5 mins over broadband. The software required very little input and upon selecting network install, the software discovered the printer in under a minute.

Operation is seamless. I know a lot of people have complained about the noise from the 2800 series printers but the 1017 is quieter than our old Lexmark even when printing in color. This printer also comes with a ScanTo function where after set up on the computer via the HP Solution software, enables you to stand at the printer and scan directly to any location on the network that has been enabled to receive scans. Extremely easy to set up and will scan in multiple formats including PDF, JPG, PNG, TIFF...etc.

As for toner costs, we really haven't noticed any difference in costs between toner costs on the 1017 verses any other printer except on the color modules. Unless you are always priting in color, you will want to change the default setting on your print driver to Grayscale to minimize any chance of wasting color toner for no reason.

The only complaints I have (minimal) are the lack of automatic duplex priting and the unavailability of a Scanner ADF for multiple pages. Other than that this is perhaps one of the better printers I have used from HP in years.

I bought this like 7 or 8 months ago and I could not be happier about it! its an awesome little color laser MFC:
even though HP stopped producing them, I see you can still get them on the internet for a very reasonable price!
interface for pc and mac is easy to use.
the printer itself is very easy to maintain.....
and the network port is definitely one of the most welcomed feature on this
I really dont have any complain about it!

There are four toner cartridges in this expensive piece of junk. When one of them craps out, try to guess which one!

It will cost you over $400 to replace the toner cartridges.

I bought this a year ago. First let me say, I fully regret not getting a built in fax. My biggest complaint about this junkpile is that it does not scan to the network. I tried multiple times to set it up and cannot get it to work. Let me also state, that I'm an IT Manager and deal with setting up printers and servers all the time. I just found this one too frustrating. Maybe it was defective, but it was too late to call tech support and now I'm just a disgruntled HP printer owner. However, after I sell this boat anchor on Craigslist, I will be purchasing the HP1415 which scans to USB drive - that I can handle.

HP should:
Fix scanning
Put 800 Support # ON THE DARN PRINTER!!!!!!!!!!!
Not sell without Fax.

Thats my 2 cents. Thanks.

I've thoroughly enjoyed this product...great quality, no fuss, no muss, UNTIL I upgraded to Windows 7. Scanner is DOA. HP can't make it work...and there's no expectation that they will even write the software to support this product in the Windows 7 environment. What a shame. It will print using a generic PCL6 driver, but no scanner functions. I want my money back!