HP M2727NF Laserjet Printer

by HP

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 19.7 x 16 x 18 inches ; 37.9 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 48 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000X4P166
• Item model number: M2727NF
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #30 in Electronics > Computers & Add-Ons > Printers > All-In-One Printers > Laser All-In-One Printers
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 12, 2007

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

From the Manufacturer Want reliable, high-volume business printing? Then you need an HP LaserJet. Print professional-quality documents fast thanks to Instant-on Technology, plus save money because there are fewer parts to replace compared to other laser printers⁽¹⁾.

SPECIFICATIONS: Print Speed: Up to 27 ppm; first page out in less than 10 seconds Fax: Up to 600-page fax memory, up to 120 speed dial numbers Scan: Resolution up to 1200-dpi optical; maximum scan size 8.5" x 14" Copy: Reduce/enlarge 25%–400% Paper Handling: 3" x 5" to 8.5" x 14"; up to 15,000 pages per month FEATURES: Built-in Wireless Printing Built-in Wired Networking Two-sided Printing Memory Card Slots Color LCD Screen Expandable Memory High-capacity Paper Tray Auto Document Feeder INCLUDED NOT INCLUDED DO MORE IN LESS TIME • Save up to 25% in paper costs with automatic two-sided printing and copying • Save time with default copy collation • Share your printer using built-in networking • Manage your printer using the text display, numeric keypad and one-touch buttons • Receive faxes even if your printer runs out of paper or toner • Keep faxes secure until you’re ready to print them • Reduce interruptions: print up to 250 pages without reloading the paper tray • Print on special paper using the additional 50-sheet multipurpose tray • Automatically fax, scan and copy up to 50 pages at a time BOOST YOUR BUSINESS IMAGE • Create professional-quality documents right in your office • Print the exact quantities you need to save money and paper • Produce documents on the spot to avoid having outdated or extra copies For business templates and tips on growing and marketing your business, visit the HP Creative Studio at www.hp.com/print. SAVE ENERGY • HP LaserJet printers with Instant-on Technology have saved enough carbon emissions to equal taking 1.1 million cars off the road for one year(2) REMEMBER COMPATIBLE TONER, PAPER AND ACCESSORIES • HP, the #1 brand in toner is the #1 value • Produce bold, crisp text and sharp images using Original HP print cartridges • Save money: choose the optional "X" high-capacity print cartridge(3) • Over 25% of the pages inspected from the tested remanufactured cartridges were not good enough for distribution outside of the office(4) • Print professional-quality business documents using a variety of Original HP paper • Connect your PC to this HP printer easily using a USB cable See all the compatible toner and recommended papers here RECYCLE • Recycle your print cartridges for free: visit www.hp.com/recycle for details In 2006, HP recycled more than 164 million pounds of hardware and print cartridges—the same weight as 600 jumbo jets. (1) Based on the manufacturer’s published product specifications for replacement parts (excluding print cartridges). Pricing is per manufacturer’s website as of March 15, 2008. Actual prices may vary. (2) The tons of CO2 avoided is based on power plant emissions that otherwise would occur to generate the electricity saved; cars removed is based on annual emissions from cars burning gasoline. (3) Not included; please purchase separately. (4) QualityLogic 2009 study compared Original HP Color LaserJet cartridges with remanufactured cartridges sold in North America for the HP Color LaserJet CP3505. For details, see www.qualitylogic.com/colortonertest.pdf

Product Description

HP M2727NF Laserjet Printer. Do not waste time waiting for your documents. The HP LaserJet M2727nf MFP features professional print and copy speeds of up to 27 ppm. Other MFPs need time to warm up before printing the first page, but with no wait Instant on Technology your first page will print two times faster than devices without it. And with a stable light source, copy or scan jobs begin in a matter of seconds even first thing in the morning. Your documents always look great with reliable, high quality printing at true 1200 dpi. We design our toner formulas and papers to work with each other and with the devices high speeds so you get crisp and consistent print quality without sacrificing performance. Easily handle even the most demanding jobs with HP PCL and HP postscript level 3 emulation driver support, a powerful 450 MHz processor, and 64 MB RAM, expandable to 320 MB. Fax documents at up to 33.6 kbps and enjoy digital storage for up to 600 pages. Use private receive to securely store faxes on the device until you are ready to print them. And with Fax/Tel, your MFP will determine if the call is a voice or a fax call. Get the job done faster with the paper handling features your business needs. The MFPs maximum input capacity of up to 300 sheets, expandable to up to 550 sheets helps you maintain your momentum. Count on default copy collation and standard two sided printing and copying to conserve paper. And with the devices multi tasking capabilities, if one person is printing or copying, you can still receive faxes. Your workteam can share resources easily, efficiently, and securely with fast, value featured networking. Experience worry free operation and continually refresh your MFP with Original HP print cartridges. They comprise 70 percent of the imaging system and communicate with the MFP to automatically optimize print quality, provide alerts when supplies run low, and facilitate convenient supplies reordering.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

74 of 75 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Home use good, office so so, February 17, 2008

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Stephen Holland (Naperville, IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HP M2727NF Laserjet Printer (Office Product)

This review is based on usage in a small business where the device is at a satellite office.

This is a good piece of Hardware by HP, but as is typical of HP scanners the software is weak. The printer makes excellent images. The machine is fast from the time you click on print to when the page starts printing, and the printing is fast. This is the highlight of the machine. Two sided copying is excellent. The automatic document feature works well for copy and fax, but the scannning software is a problem.

The first machine I got had a defective fax board, but the store I bought it from let me return it for a new unit. Setup of the machine worked well. You can configure it using a built in web server. You might have trouble finding the machine on the nework, though. Unfortunately it does not respond to ping broadcast packets. You can go to the front panel and go through the menus to print a network report to see what IP address it selected. From there the web access works best to set up the machine. Setting a manual IP address is easy enough from the front panel so you know what IP address to connect to. You can get an optional second paper tray.

While setup of the machine via the web access works well it is limited in that the fax cannot be set up through the web interface. This is unfortunate, since the fax settings are tedious to enter from the front panel. You can use the web interface for the address book, but setting fax settings like address, speed, report settings, and everything else are not changeable except through the front panel.

As far as scanning goes, this is not a push scan device. (A push scan device is one where the scanner does the scan, then transfers to another computer by a network protocol like FTP or SMB). There is a button on the machine to scan, but that just starts up the program you have to install on your computer. The HP scan software is difficult to use and unintuitive. Definitely NOT production environment. It is also bloatwear. Over a thousand files get installed on the computer that serves as the scanning control computer. Also, whenever you scan the document comes out at 17 inches on the computer. The workaround in my setting is to fax to our fax server, which takes the calls and keeps the faxes. In this way I have a push scan option at the cost of a phone call for each scan. But if you have a business you do not want to use this as the document scanner using the HP softwear. I do not know if VueScan works with this device.

If you just need a postscript printer then this will work out of the box. For the advanced features that the printer supports you need to install the postscript driver. It may be possible to install the postscript driver without the scan softwear, which would be best if you have several computers that need to use the printer. I specifically did not install the scan softwear at the satellite location where I use the printer and it works fine as a generic postscript printer. (I installed the bloated HP scanning softwear at the main office where I did the initial configuration)

The printer is the same engine as in the HP LaserJet P2015dn Printer (HP LaserJet P2015dn Printer (CB368A#ABA)). Review there are good for understanding more about the printing function. The cartridge, an HP 53, is shared between this multifunction device and the P2015dn. In a small office having the same cartridge used by different printers simplifies inventory issues.

So, for home use and occasional scanning this is a nice machine, fast to print with very high quality printing. For an office environment it is good as a printer and copier, but the scanning software would choke anyone who needed to do document scanning as part of the business workflow.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent for mac os x 10.5, August 2, 2008

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Patrick (edgewood, NM, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HP M2727NF Laserjet Printer (Office Product)

This is one of the best printers I have owned. The set up was easy and works quickly and prints, scans, faxes and copies well.
Booklet and double side printing make this really useful.
Downside - I cannot scan from Preview and it is noisy.
It works well with iMac and 10.5, some features for Windows are not available but these are minor. Well worth buying. Good for home or small office.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Very slow and unreliable fax functionality, July 30, 2008

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Leon Fan "Arcmark" (Schaumburg, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HP M2727NF Laserjet Printer (Office Product)

I purchased this machine as a replacement unit for a small size company. We have a lot of incoming and outgoing fax. For outgoing fax, this unit will feed the first page then feed about 1/3 of the second page then wait for dialing. It will not scan the whole set into memory first before dialing. Also, we got a lot of fax communication error pages. Many docs are either received or sent incomplete. I downloaded and upgraded the firmware and it still has fax problem. I contacted HP support using online chat and changed error correction and speed settings and I still have fax problem. Ordered and added 256MB memory and still no improvement. Will return this unit for a different brand.

Other notes: the scan is acceptable but slow and too light. Printing/copy function is ok.