HP Laser Jet 3052 All in One Printer/Copy/Scanner (White)

by HP

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 20.5 x 23.4 x 19.4 inches ; 26.5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 25 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000E7LR7E
• Item model number: Laser Jet 3052
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 7, 2004

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description The HP LaserJet 3052 All in One Printer/Copy/Scanner is a revolutionary office machine that prints, copies, and scans. Plus, this system features an intelligent, compact design that fits your desktop. Its versatility, great productivity, fast performance, and legendary HP reliability make it a must for every business.

The HP LaserJet 3052 is a revolutionary office machine that prints, copies, faxes, and scans. View larger.

This system makes high-quality copies and prints at speeds of up to 19 PPM. View larger.

The print cartridge, toner, and imaging drum are integrated into one supply. View larger.

The ports, connectors, memory storage, and switches are located on the rear of the scanner. View larger.

Versatility in a Compact, Flatbed Design
The LaserJet 3052 offers you the convenience of relying on only one product to print, copy, and scan. Featuring built-in support for all popular print languages, including HP PCL5e, HP PCL6, and HP postscript level 3 emulation, this product frees you from worries about compatibility. It's also a snap to share the all-in-one convenience of the LaserJet 3052 because you can easily connect multiple users with standard 10/100 TCP/IP networking and take advantage of simple direct connections with the hi-speed USB 2.0 port.

Professionally Print, Copy, and Scan
The LaserJet 3052 saves you time by delivering fast, high-quality output. With speeds of up to 19 pages per minute, or ppm, you'll get great-looking documents in no time at all. Plus, this product never holds you up thanks to the Instant-on Technology, which offers fast first-page out speeds as low as eight seconds so you won't waste valuable time waiting for the device to be ready. You can pick up your completed job before other products have begun warming up.

Work Smarter and More Simply
To quickly and efficiently handle all your jobs, the LaserJet 3052 comes standard with a 250-sheet input tray, a 10-sheet priority feed slot, and a 50-sheet automatic document feeder (ADF). In addition, thanks to 64 MB RAM and a durable, long-lasting engine, this machine can easily handle the volume demands of small workteams. In addition, the built-in 10/100 Base-T TCP/IP networking with one RJ-45 port allows for trouble-free connectivity. You can also print professional documents with genuine HP print cartridges, which deliver HP's legendary quality and reliability. For added convenience, the print cartridge, toner, and imaging drum are integrated into one supply, so you refresh the entire printing system every time you replace a cartridge. Designed to work together with the printer, the cartridge is critical to achieving consistent, high-quality results. The control panel's intuitive, two-line, 16-character backlit display means the product is easy to use and maintain; no training required.

Specifications and Included Software
The LaserJet 3052 prints up to 19 ppm, has a monthly volume of up to 7,000 pages, and offers up to 1200 x 1200 dpi. The printer also offers duplex printing (printing on both sides of the paper) to help conserve paper. To make sure all your documents are clear and readable, the copier allows you to reduce/enlarge settings from 25 to 400 percent while the scanner offers high resolution of up to 19,200 dpi and 1200 x 1200 dpi.

The LaserJet 3052 comes with a variety of software to ensure smooth, efficient operation. The software package includes: HP ToolboxFX, HP LaserJet Scan, TWAIN 1.9 or WIA scanner drivers, ReadIRIS Pro text recognition software (not installed with other software, separate installation required), printer drivers (HP PCL 6, HP PCL 5e, HP PostScript Level 3 emulation), installer/uninstaller, and, for Macintosh users, HP Director.

The LaserJet 3052 comes with a one year limited warranty.

What's in the Box
HP LaserJet 3052 printer/copy/scanner, power cord, print cartridge, getting started guide, support flyer, CD-ROMs (software and user's guide), control panel faceplate, ReadIRIS Pro text recognition software, 250-sheet media input tray, ADF input support, and output bin support.

Product Description

LaserJet 3052 All-in-One delivers outstanding performance from an intelligent, compact design. Prints 19 letter-size pages per minute with up to 1200 x 1200 dpi. Instant-on Technology delivers fast first page out speeds - as low as 8 seconds. Copies up to 99 copies with 600 x 600 dpi. Flatbed, sheet-fed scanner with 24-bit depth offers an enhanced scan resolution of up to 19200 dpi and a hardware scan resolution of up to 1200 x 1200 dpi. Features built-in support for all popular print languages, including HP PCL5e, HP PCL6, and HP postscript level 3 emulation. Easily connect multiple users with standard 10/100 TCP/IP networking and take advantage of simple direct connections with the Hi-Speed USB 2.0 port. Offers 64MB internal memory and a durable, long-lasting engine. Control panel's intuitive, two-line, 16-character backlit display makes it easy to use and maintain. Comes standard with a 250-sheet input tray, a 10-sheet priority feed slot, and a 50-sheet automatic document feeder.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars LOVE it! Fast, quiet, does it all!, October 26, 2006

By 

Hebron H. Mak (Castro Valley, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HP Laser Jet 3052 All in One Printer/Copy/Scanner (White) (Office Product)

This is definitely the best laser AIO machine that I've ever used. It is quick, robust, feature-rich, and networkable. Let me break it up to the different areas and give you my impression of each:

Printer - From the printer's sleep mode to the time first page is printed is only around 4 seconds, which is just simply amazing. One small thing to complain about the printing aspect is the print driver. I have a couple other computers on my network that I want to set up to be able to print to this printer, but won't need the scanning feature. Well, the software that came with the printer is 250mb! The "minimum" installation is still 150mb. I figured there had to be a "driver only" option. After talking to HP, they showed me a 10mb executable that installs a wizard onto your computer to help you set up the network printer. After it is done setting it up, I can safely uninstall the wizard. They really should have included this wizard along with the installation disk, so minus 1/2 a star for that.

Copier - This copier has all the features of an office copier, like auto document feed, priority paper feed tray, enlargement/reduction, dark/light, and of course number of pages. The ADF feature is awesome and fast, as it can quickly scan all your pages into memory before printing. One down side (same "problem" as the scanner feature) is that it takes a few seconds for the bulb to warm up (about 20 seconds). Once the bulb is warmed up, it can continue without any delay. I wish this part is faster, but it's understandable, so no star deduction here.

Scanner - Works great. You can set it up so that by pressing the "Scan to" button on the scanner, it will automatically scan and optionally bring up the scanner program on your computer, which will allow you to do many things, such as cropping, adjusting color/saturation, resolution, and many others. The bad part about this is that it takes a bit of playing around before I can find the option of bringing up this program. By default, the scanner will only scan and allow you to save the results to a file or send in an email. However, I discovered you can add a new target, and that can give you the option to bring up the scanner program.

Of course this printer has no fax. However, aside from that, it is the identical printer as the one with fax (3055). That printer is highly praised as well.

One more thing I like about this printer... actually, this is so for all HP and Canon printers. The printer cartridge contains both the toner as well as the drum. When you replace the one cartridge, you are replacing both units. If you buy non-OEM cartridges, the price is only around thirty-something. With other brands, you will need to change the toner when it runs out and then change the drum separately roughly around ever three toner changes. The price of this can certainly add up, as it is an additional component. Traditionally, drums are fairly expensive, so be sure to calculate that cost when trying to decide between brands. As for me, I think I have found a winner. Very happy.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Great printer but unreliable, April 22, 2007

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Doug W (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: HP Laser Jet 3052 All in One Printer/Copy/Scanner (White) (Office Product)

I bought this printer after my HP 2100TN started needing us to press the button on the printer every time we queued a print job. At first the 3052 seemed the answer to our needs. It was very easy to set up for our home office and kids machines. It printed and copied fast and sharp. That lasted for about 100 pages and then it started producing a huge white area down the middle of the page. Removing and shaking the cartridge would fix this for a a few pages and then that stopped working. Faced with a long and frustrating time on the phone with support I decided to just get a new cartridge. This did the trick for about 200 pages and then it started missing the whole center section of the page again. Shaking the cartridge fixes it temporarily. Of course, it always does it when we are in a panic with a customer proposal or homework due that day. I am using genuine HP cartridges which are $55 each. My advice is to look at the competition. Great idea but it doesn't print!

20 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Warning! Buyer Beware!, January 25, 2007

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Jason Crawford (Rochester, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: HP Laser Jet 3052 All in One Printer/Copy/Scanner (White) (Office Product)

I just shipped my HP 3052 back off to where it came from. I either have to really like something or really hate something to write a review on it, and I really hate this printer. I purchased the HP 3052 after reading some reviews on the HP 3055, and deciding that I didn't need the fax capabilities of the 3055 which didn't seem to work well for most people anyhow. Apparently, it's not just the fax feature that is faulty, but the scanning and copying leaves a lot to be desired as well. I purchased this to replace my aging, but still working, 10 year old NEC SuperScript 860 laser printer. I needed something to make decent copies, and to scan in documents. Well forget it with this! You WILL REGRET buying this electronic "Made in China" garbage if you are planning on using this for anything other than a printer. This has changed my opinion on HP, as it will yours if you buy it.

When I first power on the unit, I tried copying the Vonage advertisement that came with it by running it through the auto document feeder. The first thing I notices was that the ADF was loud. This was fine since noise isn't too much of a concern, just as long is it functions well, and there isn't anyone else around to be disturbed by it. After examining the copy, I realized the Vonage letters were stretched out about 1/8" about 3/4 down from the top of the letters. To make things worse, there was a 1 1/2" oval shape on the Vonage ad, which this printer distorted one entire side of, almost as if someone had tried to trace it with a pen. I tried several copies through the ADF with the same results over and over. I thought that maybe the stretched letters were due to a problem with the auto document feeder, so I tried copying the Vonage brochure on the flat bed. I did not see a problem with the Vonage letters being stretched when copying on the flat bed, but there was still distortion on the oval shape again. Next, I tried copying other documents with similar bad results. Copying bar codes revealed that when printing lines close together, the black bleeds between them! Edges on copied fonts were a rough as well.

Next I tried connecting the 3052 to my PC with USB 2.0. I ended up with an installation failed message on my first attempt at installing the software. Looking in device manager, I found a problem with installing the driver for "Generic IEEE 1284.4 printing support." I tried uninstalling and installing the drivers several times to no avail. I then tried a 400MB full download of the latest full driver release from HP, and had the same problem. Next, I tried a smaller 40MB driver release on HP's site. This time I kept getting prompted to locate files that the installation could not find. After performing a search on my hard drive, I located them in c:\temp, where the installer must have extracted them to. I had to keep navigating the installer to this directory numerous times during this install. Much to my amazement, this install attempt actually ended up working.

Now I wanted to test the scanning functionality. The included scanning software is very basic. It does allow you to setup custom profiles for scanning resolution, destination, and paper type. I first tested scanning with the included Vonage advertisement again. The results were to say the list, shocking and very disappointing. First, the color scans were washed out. Second, the black on white text had extreme orange and blue halos around the edges, almost like looking at a 3d movie, without the 3d glasses. Third, there were some visual artifices, scanning inaccuracies, and scanned objects appeared wavy. Fourth, I got the same results as above when using the ADF for copying as I did scanning. I wish I could include a sample image so you could see the atrociousness for yourselves. Lastly, scans are slow, and I found that when scanning in 8 1/2 x 11 documents, they would often be scanned in skewed, no matter what paper the originals were on or how I adjusted the auto document feeder guides. Furthermore, when I scanned documents with print on both sides, the print on the opposite side would bleed through. From my experience with photo technology, my hunch would be that the cheap imager in this needs an enormous amount of light to scan, so that images on the opposite side of the page bleed through.

I really don't want to say anything good about this printer, but I will say that printing looked very good, and it gets 1 star for this. Printing was crisp and clear, even with small fonts. B/W photo printing was on the other hand was mediocre, but who uses a B/W laser printer for photos anyhow?

My advice would be to look elsewhere for your scanning and copying needs. This might do for a cheap printer/scanner/copier for your kids, but not for a professional environment. I might purchase the Dell 1815dn as it has received good reviews, purchase a separate printer and scanner, or hold out until something better comes along. I hope this review has been helpful, and can save you from the hassle and expense of a return!