Customer Reviews

HP LaserJet 1200N Network Printer

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Our home network consists of a router/hub, a dual-boot PC (Windows Me/Mandrake Linux) and a Mac (OS 9). The printer plugged straight into the hub, and was able to be set up using DHCP (our IP address strategy using our hub) as it came out of the box.

The instructions were very clear, and the printer worked properly for all of our setups. The print quality (when econo-mode is turned off) is fantastic, and in general, we're very pleased with the printer.

If your network has static IP addresses, or some other way of set-up than DHCP, it may be harder to configure the printer than it was for me (the other post I see here indicates that this is apparently something to be somewhat concerned about).

I love the printer and recommend it for a multiple-platform environment where you need high-quality black and white printing over a network at a reasonable cost.

Hands down HP laserjet is synonymous with quality printers. The print quality is clean and crisp, and the printer is very fast, especially coming from someone used to bubble jet and ink jet printers. However, the network setup was a pain when high speed internet items are used that have a static IP address. I was spent quite a bit of time on the phone to setup what should have been a simple find the device and go type of install. I suppose a direct connection would be simple, but why spend the extra $$$ on the network version. Once the initial setup was over, a breeze to use and no problems.

I do not know about the later versions of the LJ1200, but I have a 1200, and I 've been sorry that I bought it since the first day I've had it. This printer is complete garbage. It is cheaply made, does not even print straight, and has trouble with anything other than a Windows PC. I have using HP Laserjets since the "HP LaserJet" was the current model, and this printer does not have *any* of the qualities that I used to associate with HP laser printers. Maybe this is HP's way of punishing us for not buying inkjets, I don't know. But you should certainly avoid this printer like the plague.

I use this for home/small business. It prints very quickly with great quality. I never have problems with paper jams. memory overloads, or error messages. It is worth every penny.

I've had three printers in the last 12 years (An HP540 Laser-jet, HP 900CSE, and this one;HP 1200 Laser-jet).

This is by-far my favorite one. For one, it's a laser printer which produces, clean, crisp, non-smudged, black and white prints. And, two, it never jams. I've had this printer for 18 months and it's worked flawlessly.

I used to be a "bubble-jet" consumer. But now, I've made the jump to laser and I'm glad I did. The prints are just much more consistent. It's not noisy like the HP900 (bubble-jet) was. That one was slow and loud (shook from side to side when it printed). This one warms up with a humming sound and then prints out nice clean letters. You can adjust the print quality if you like too, but that also means that you will need to replace the cartridge sooner. I've only had ONE cartridge so far, and it's about due to be replaced. I print out about 150-200 pages per month. So, it's not like I run a "print shop" or anything. But considering that I've had this for over 18 months and not one jam, that's saying something. I'm quite happy with this printer.

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Perhaps this printer is useful at home but for a "small workgroup" as advertised, the printer is useless. Prints hundreds of pages of garbage from Explorer or Netscape, from Windows or Mac, has no "off" button to reset when it freezes (which is several times a day at this point) and when you unplug the thing to reset it, it loses its network identity. The printer utility's preferences file must then be trashed before setting the printer up again or it crashes the computer. In addition, the extra [$$$] for the network version does not get you an internal ethernet port, but rather a flimsy external USB to ethernet adapter. This printer is garbage, our small workgroup is back to using our 5 year old 5 ppm printer with a broken cassette.