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HP LaserJet 1020 Printer (Q5911A#ABA) Reviews

Customer Rating:
Summary: So good we now buy Brother
Comment: Installing one of these printers is always a miserable experience. The install program constantly tries to load USB printing support FOR WINDOWS 98, leading to an "unrecognized object". The only way to get a working install on the first try is if you have already installed some other kind -any kind- of USB printer in the past.
Doesn't work well with network print servers or USB switches.

Extremely finicky as to which USB cable it will work with, need to have 2 or 3 cables on hand to find one it will accept. Of course HP doesn't provide one.

I don't have time for this kind of nonsense every time one of my users needs a new printer, and have switched to Brother.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Fanstic unless you are using Linux!
Comment: I picked up the HP Laserjet when I started working full time from home. I am not sure what is up with the Amazon pricing, I picked my up brand new for around $120 from Best Buy on special, brand new in July 2007. The printer is a basic no-frills lazer printer that does a fantastic job.

At home it is working well with my Windows 2000, and Windows XP machines. I managed to get the drivers installed on Vista and that is fine although there do seem to be some glitchy incompatibilities. If I run out of paper when I am printing for example the popup that the printer driver sends up is not a regular window and comes with a Vista warning but other than that it works no problems - things seem fine with Vista SP1 as well. I have not been able to get this working with my Mac or CentOS -- drivers for Linux for this particular model seem to be hard to come buy however I have not looked very hard for the last year or so. The 1022 on the other hand seemed to be widely supported!

As it is the printer is setup as a shared network printer running from my vista box and my wife and I are having no problems with it at all. I understand you can find drivers online but I don't actually need to print from my Mac and its no big deal to print from Windows if I need to get an OpenOffice doc printed that I prepared on Linux.

Drivers aside once the printer is running it is great. The quality of the output is outstanding and it does what it is supposed to do.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: HP LaserJet 1020 printer
Comment: I have had this printer for about a year. It is a great printer and I think it is a bargain considering the quality of the printing and the reliability of the machine. There are no negatives. Even if you have an inkjet printer it pays to get one of these just to do work that doesn't need color. The original cartridge lasts for a long time if you use the economical printing mode.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Little SOHO Printer
Comment: We got this printer last year and have really liked it because it works pretty fast and we wanted something to print just text so we wouldn't have to keep replacing inkjet carts. We also got a NETGEAR PS121 USB 2.0 Mini Print Server and it has all worked on our home network pretty well together, including with a PC that runs Win 98se (which had, much to my suprise, a usb port which was mandatory to set up the print server).

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Customer Rating:
Summary: A great workhorse
Comment: I couldn't be happier with this printer. I'm a writer and a writer who doesn't particularly like reading off a computer screen. I can't see the flow, and make easy notes, or get an overall vibe of the thing while reading off a screen.

Plus, I'm also starting a PhD program in the next month and so printing is a necessity.

I don't need the absolute fastest, and I don't need the absolute best quality. What I need is a solid, laser printer that fits into my decidedly narrow budget.

This fit perfectly and it works perfectly as well.

I'm very pleased.

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