Customer Reviews

Hewlett Packard LaserJet 2100xi Printer

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

My IT people bought me the HP 2100 for use as a personal printer in my university office. I liked it so much that I bought one for my home office to replace an old HP 4L. It has been an excellent purchase and I highly recommend this printer. When working at home, I now have the print speed to download and print out legal decisions from the web or Lexis, which was too painful to contemplate with the slow speeds of the HP 4L. I get 8-10 pages per minute regardless of whether the printer is set for draft or top quality modes. So only the longest legal decisions take more than a couple of minutes. Of course, as a law professor, I'm not often printing out graphics intensive files. Charts and figures do slow down the print speed some, so a more graphics intensive user might want to look at alternatives. I'm also not using it in a network environment at home and, at work, I don't share it with other users. So, again, your mileage may vary.

Both of my HP 2100 have been extremely reliable. They are quiet, the paper never jams, they have a reasonably large main paper tray, handle single sheet feeds fine. I've generated several camera ready texts on my HP 2100 using the top quality print settings and had no complaints from readers or publishers, So for a low-volume, mostly text setting, this seems like an ideal printer.

The last reviewer who gave this one star has no idea what he's talking about. This is a spectacular printer, head and shoulders above a LaserJet 4. Quality is MUCH better, speed is much improved AND it's smaller overall. All the software worked perfectly out of the box. I just plugged it in and Windows2000 did it all. All I do is click "print" in Word and it's perfect.

I bought this printer to replace an HP Laserjet 4. We print a lot of pictures of houses as we are real estate brokers & appraisers. The printer would not print the pictures in the 1200 x 1200 mode. The tech blamed it on the software. The printer also does not have paper recognition for the two available trays, so when you print out something in say MS word, you have to go tell it what tray to use everytime. We didn't have to do that with the HP Laserjet 4, the right tray was choosen automatically. This printer has a long way to go. We sent it back

I too wonder about the first reviewer's problems with this printer. It was simple to set up, the software installed well on several different computers and connections via both the local port and over our network were made without problems.

Our company uses many programs (wordprocessing, database management, three different GIS) on a daily basis and we haven't had a problem printing from any of them. Since we've received shipment we've printed graphics from scanned photographs to digitally created images in several formats. It's also doing a beautiful job with very detailed tables, maps and charts.

I'd definitely recommend this printer.

This was our first laser printer for our home office. We opted to get the non networked version and add the faster tbase100 network card which we found online for 1/4 of HP's price. Amazone had lowest price on this printer and free shipping to boot (I see price has gone up a little since we bought it) Contrary to some of the rewiews here fan only runs when it is printing so it is not a distraction. Warmup time is not too bad about 15 sec. It really shines on large printing jobs pumping them out very fast. I really like the 4 pages per sheet mode for printing archives althought this slows it way down, we are adding memory...to overcome this. B&W pictures are very clean. Overall we are very satisfied with this printer. Only improvement would be to include a fast network card instead of the T10 card that comes in the 2100TN (No card comes in this reviewed model) Well done HP!