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If you need a printer that produces high quality black & white copies I would recommend this one. Laser printers are dirt cheap these days and produce much better results than their inkjet rivals. This one is compact and fast. Replacement toners compare well with colour inkjets (£40 from Amazon). My only gripes are that HP don't include a USB cable (how tight is that?) and the installation instructions provided in the box are written by mime artists. I recommend going to the HP website and download the instruction manual as a pdf file.

Excellent printer, good value for money.

Simple installation - the instructions are all given in clear pictures, with no text at all, which even I could follow.

The printer provides very good quality laser printing with good print speed. It also handles duplex (double sided) printing. The duplex process is manual but dead easy: it prints all the pages to go on one side first, then stops and gives you a prompt. You take the whole sheaf from the out tray and put it back on the top of the in tray (no need to turn over or re-orient, so you can't get confused) then press "Go" and the job completes.

Lastly, the printer is small and lightweight - easy to stow away when not in use.

Can't fault it!

After the mixed reviews, I was a bit hesitant to buy it, but then went for it. No regrets - under XP Pro, the printer happily installed itself for me and printed out a test page, while I was still looking for the software disk (to clarify, it did come with one, I just managed to lose it!).

Inserting toner and the like was dead easy too, and despite the 'mime instructions' mentioned earlier which are actually really easy to follow.

My advice, put together printer, turn on PC, connect printer, and let your computer install it for you, if you are using XP.

I took delivery of this printer three days ago. Setting it up for use with my iMac was very straightforward - as was sharing it with PC's on the home/office network with Bonjour. It's very quick to churn out the pages - certainly much faster than the HP colour inkjet - and hopefully more economical per page. One thing though - and this has been mentioned earlier - check your paper media. If like me you use recycled paper and for whatever reason it has a high moisture content, the paper will 'smoke' as it leaves the printer and the paper will curl a bit - making it difficult to comb-bind. I'm having to experiment with paper types - maybe an HP recycled product will do the trick. I could also move to a less damp house...

I bought this printer specifically to print training manuals of some 300 pages each.

The printer was very easy to set up.

I printed 100 pages at a time and was pleasantly suprised by the speed of the first page and the speed at which the pages were printed. I had read some reviews saying it was very noisy but I didn't find this to be so.

At under £100 I consider this to be excellent value for money.