HP LaserJet Pro P1102w Wireless Laser Printer (CE658A)

this is a refurbished unit, but you would never know from the looks of the unit. you will know it have been previously setup when you try to set it up wirelessly on your wifi router, however, because the previous users info is there. first the good: after set up, works great. very quick with a 10 sec warmup time. after that prints pretty continuously on multiple page printing. it is just black and white, but that makes it quick and cheap and good for most things. lightweight, pretty small footprint, but the paper tray takes space just like the picture shows. now the cons(kinda): 1. the physical setup was pretty straight forward, but the pictures directions could have used some wording--however this is a multination printer so they took the Ikea route. the software setup for a wireless printer was less that straight forward. i am fairly savvy on consumer electronics and was able to get the printer working in about 20 minutes. i am no I.T. guy, but i like all my electronic toys--smartphones, smart tvs, amazon alexa, wifi cameras, tablets, laptops,desktops(all apple), etc. this printer setup was a bit of a challenge. directions were less that stellar on a macbook(apple laptop). maybe a windows setup was straight forward. basically had to insert CD that comes with, does not start automatically, click on box picture, start download of software, then back out when the pop up box tells you the software already in the printer is newer than what it wants to download from the CD. then go into your printer preferences, look for your new printer, click thru to configuration setup, find the IP address(IpV4 address), type that into you browser, change the router SSID name and password, unplug the printer cable, go back into your printer profiles and add this printer. you ten need to add this printer to your other laptops/desktops and find and enable on your tablets and smartphones. techies i am sure do this is their sleep. i found it a small adventure which i actually appreciate since i am retired and approaching 70. if this sounds too adventuresome, then maybe pass on this computer for an apple setup(again, maybe windows would be very different). or just have the nearest high schooler or college kid do it for you in a flash. overall, i am very happy with the printer so far and a refurb for half the price that looks and preforms as new is a great deal.

After reading all the reviews both pro and con about installing this printer on a MAC I went ahead and bought it anyway. And I did get it to work properly (wireless) the first time on MAC OS 10.7.5. (The USB worked easily also although we no longer use the printer on USB.) Only the first installation was difficult. We have several MACs installed at this location all of which reach their printers over wireless. The other printers all saw the printer and connected flawlessly. So I like this printer for it's cost, size and operating efficiency. Good, low-end B/W laser! Follow these installations instructions which I found on the Apple site. They work! The wireless configuration proccess is the same on Mac OS X 10.7 as for Snow Leopard. Before configuring the wireless connection, make sure to install the latest Software version using USB first. Any previous version will appear differently and will not work on Lion: [...] Follow these steps to change to a wireless network in Mac OS X v10.6 and v10.7. You can view a video demonstration to learn how to set up a wireless connection, or you can follow the written steps listed below the video. The following video demonstrates how to set up a wireless installation on the HP LaserJet P1102w printer on a Macintosh computer. The product in the video might not look exactly like your product, but the steps are the same. If you have trouble viewing the video, or to view the video in a different size, click here to play the video on YouTube. In Finder , click Applications , and then double-click System Preferences . Click Print & Fax (in Mac OS X v10.6) or Print & Scan (in Mac OS X v10.7). Click Open Print Queue , and then click Printer Setup . Click the Utility tab, and then click Open Printer Utility . Click HTMLConfig . Click the Networking tab, and then click Wireless from the list on the left. Under Communication Mode , click Infrastructure , select your network SSID from the Available Network Names (SSID) list, and then click the << button. From the Security Mode pop-up menu under Authentication , click WEP or WPA/WPA2 . Your selection depends on which Wireless Security Protocol your network uses. NOTE:If your network does not have Wireless Security, leave the Security Mode set toOpen System (No Authentication) . Type your WEP/WPA/WPA2 key in the appropriate field, and then click Apply . In the confirmation box, click OK , and then close the HTML Config and Print Queue windows. In the Print & Fax or Print & Scan window, click your HP product from the list of printers, and then click the Minus sign to remove it from the list. NOTE:This action removes the USB Connection from the list so that the only entry for your HP product is the Wireless Connection. Disconnect the USB cable from the product and the computer. Under Printers , click the Plus sign ( ). Select your product name with Bonjour as the Kind , and then click Add . Close the Print & Fax or Print & Scan window. Step two: Delete the USB connected printer, and then add the wireless connected printer Click the Apple icon, and then click System Preferences . Click Print & Fax . Under Printers , click your product, and then click the Minus sign (- ) to remove the product. Click the Plus sign (+ ) to find your product. When you find your product, make sure that the connection type listed under Kind is Bonjour . Click Add to add your wireless connected product.

Once I was able to configure things, I was happy with it. The printer itself was more difficult to configure than a router, which is pretty impressive. I was trying to install to Windows 10, so first off, forget the drivers packaged with the printer itself. Also disregard the setup documentation. I was amazed that there is a button on the printer that NONE of the printed, included documentation explained. I found better install information via a search engine. I mean, do the physical setup stuff: remove package, plastic tabs etc. But when it is time for software? Just go download the drivers from HP.com. Don't download the download assistants. When the installers run, don't even go with the default install. Go with the 'advanced' install that actually asks you questions. It will mean a leaner install, and you won't get hp bloatware. I didn't think hp 'helper' software could appreciably slow my new computer. The printer itself has a pretty small footprint. It is much lighter than the printer it replaced (an old dinosaur HP laserjet 4L). I've not conducted large print trials with it, but it will print quickly and smoothly and clearly. I really like this printer. If the paper-supply were enclosed, and the setup were easier, I'd have given it 5 stars. But as is, the paper sticks out the side, so I have concerns that if it sits a while, the top sheet might get dusty and compromise the interior as the page pulls through. But this hasn't jammed once on me. *** UPDATE June 2024 *** Several years later and the printer is still going strong. I would advise two things. 1) Don't bother with the first party toner cartridges. There are lesser cartridges from third party manufacturers that work just as well, if not for as long. They may generate an error message occasionally, but you can get 4 or more of them for the price of one OEM cartridge. 2) The printer seems to want to take forever when printing over the network. Sometimes it is necessary to do a hard reboot (unplug/replug) to get it to print. Users have said their printer driver update fixes this. Well, it was difficult enough to configure, and I've run driver updates and get the same problem. The Solution? Just go ahead and buy a 10 foot USB-A cable and connect old school if your printer is in your home office. It has saved me a great deal of frustration since going to that.

The printer will print using a USB cable but no amount of effort will allow it to work as a wireless printer. The scan doctor will find it but not talk to it with or without the USB cable installed ..... in short if you want a USB printer then this is fine but as a wireless printer it is a horrible choice. I have requested help from HP and if that solves the problem I will add to this review. If not then it is going home as defective. Herb Follow up: Last week I purchased a HP Laserjet P1102w because it offered wireless printing. It arrived 4 days before it was scheduled and was 100% complete. I immediately started to do the install and I might add, uncustomarily, at least for me, I read the instructions. While the USB connecting installed flawlessly, when I put the CD into the computer and tried to install the wireless feature, the installation would not complete. The instructions said to plug in the USB cable and as it was already plugged in, I unplugged it and repulsed it. Again.... nothing happened. I then called the company I purchased it from and said it was clearly defective because the wireless feature would not work. I was provided with a case number and an 888 number to ring for HP tech support. This morning I called the number, in India, and was told I would have to allow the technician at the other end remote access to both my router and my computer. My question to him was what do you plan to do and why is it necessary to do what he wanted? Where were the instructions for installing the printer? He advised me there were no instructions and that he would have to complete the installation via a remote link that I could not verify. While he did provide me with a list of the items he wanted to investigate, in both my computer and in my router, I had no way of knowing if he would leave additional programs on my computer that would or could not be detected. I also had no way to check if he changed or added anything to my router that might open my system up to nefarious purposes. While the technician provided an acknowledgement that there are no instructions for the installation of the wireless feature, and this was satisfying in as much as it acknowledged that I was not totally stupid. However, it raised the question of why would HP sell a printer that could not be installed by the purchaser? As I noted earlier, I cannot recommend the printer to anyone who wants to use the wireless feature unless you are willing to allow a technician in a foreign country complete access to your computer and your router with no ability to track what has been done or is being done. While it is quite likely that with this intervention that the printer will work using the wireless feature, I remain unhappy that it is necessary to follow this path. In conclusion, and by way of a post script, I have gotten the printer to work wirelessly and with the USB cable. It was not an easy task and it required several hours of researching the path other before me had followed to finally get the set up so it would work. Regrettably, the deviations I took along the way cause me to lose the actual route I took. I was forced to try several different installation packages, all freely available on the net but totally lacking in any useful information regarding their intended purpose. In the end it works but I can not recommend it to anyone who is not both technical and highly determined. While the printer does produce excellent copies and it is what I wanted for a small home office, I can only hope that HP follows up and creates some straightforward methodology for getting it to work without the grief I went through.

Great printer once I figured out how to install it. Without going into detail, here are some installation tips. If you have multiple computers and laptops you must set up one computer and the network first. Don't bother to look at the installation directions provided. They are useless if you have not done it before. Just position the printer temporarily next to the first computer. Insert the installation DVD and follow directions choosing, when you get to the screen, "install and SET UP A NETWORK" or something like that (I'm writing this from memory). This first part uses a hard wire connection between the printer and computer. After setting up computer #1 unplug the cable and put the printer wherever you want to keep it in your house or office. Insert the installation DVD in your other computers wherever they are. From here on you will communicate with the printer by wireless. When you get to the connection screen choose "install onto an EXISTING printer network" or something like that (it's the one you set up in step #1). If your computer does not have a DVD player, use another computer to just copy the entire DVD to a USB or SD card and run the auto execute program from the card to get started. On the connection screen (auto or manual), I found that "auto" worked best. I didn't bother to set up the mobile device link. You can do that later by accessing your printer the way you would access a router by entering the printer IP address in your browser from any computer. To recap: start all installations by using the DVD first. First computer you "set up a network", subsequent computers you "install on an existing network". Oh, one more thing. Use the browser IP address to access your printer settings and choose "printer off" NEVER. Just let it sleep (after 5 min.). Otherwise, you'll have to turn on the printer when you want to use it. All of this worked great on Windows 7 and 10. If the HP 1102w is anything like my ten year old, and still running HP 1020 (it looks the same) you'll get years of perfect, trouble free, cheap laser printing from all of your computers anywhere in your home or office.

We have been a HP laser user for years, our whole office and warehouse operation used the same non color lasers for basic routine printing needs such as invoices, pick lists, etc. We go through 1000s of sheets of paper overall every week and what seems like millions of carts over the lifetime of the printers. Our HP printers just always seemed to work fine and we could use after market toner carts with no issue. I cannot recall ever having to pull a printer out of service and put one of the spares into use. THEN CAME NEW WINDOWS SOFTWARE and NONE of the printers we owned would make the transition to the new OS in spite of so called work arounds, etc. So while we hope HP gets 1000s fleas in their arm pits for that, we were please with their product while it worked. Now to the P1102w. It seems to be same general quality of our previous models, maybe somewhat faster on the time for paper out and print speed. I don't like the black color as it shows dust and dirt more easily compared to a more beige color. Cart loading is easy and quick. The paper tray seems a bit whimsical compared to beefier trays, and there is NO paper tray cover that came with ours. Software installs went fine with no issues. Noise of the paper draw from the tray of this printer is higher than our old ones. In a quiet office it might be objectionable. The printer footprint is smaller than our older models, so it fits the casual desktop user's desk easier than the older models. Will update in 6 months, we will be using these daily and with gusto. A 6 month update from us will be like years of use to the casual user. UPDATE : Sooo, it is later and we have several of these. All work fine. The one in my office goes through about a ream a day. My only gripe is that it only holds about 160 pages in the paper tray, I would be far happier if it held more, perhaps 200+ or so. We use the Green Box AzTechSupplies reman'ed toner carts and they work fine. We DON"T use Vinc due to previous issues and issues in this printer. We also had to place a spacer under the printed sheet tray extension to make it point up a bit more, our paper curled slightly and it would push it off on the floor. Put a 1/8"+ spacer by the extension hinge and it is all good.

I've only been using the HP LaserJet Pro P1102w for a few days now, but it confirmed my suspicion that a laser printer would be better than an inkjet. I realize that isn't a revelation to most people, but having always used inkjet printers, I wasn't entirely sold on the concept of having a laser in my home. First: This printer is so silent! The first test page that I printed came out so quickly and quietly, I didn't believe it had actually printed anything. I snatched the paper from the tray, expecting it to be as blank as when I first loaded it, but lo and behold, it had printed the entire page lightning fast and silently! After years of listening to a cheap inkjet print page after page in its slow, clunky method, the laser printer was a breath of fresh air. Second: This printer is surprisingly compact. Since the loading tray is on the bottom, I was able to fit it on a shelf whose low overhead wouldn't allow my inkjet printer. The trays all collapse, of course, adding to its boxy compactness. Third: The printing itself is high quality. The ink remains consistent throughout the page, even on images. Since I've only been using it for a few days, I'm not sure how long the cartridge will last before needing replacement, but it does a good job. The printer comes with an ink cartridge ready to be loaded, so you don't have to worry about purchasing one on top of the cost of the printer. Assembly is a breeze. There are a few contact sheets to be removed and the ink cartridge needs to be prepped. Then it's basically good to go. Be aware: although the power cable is long, the USB cable is actually very short, so you'll want your printer to be located very near your computer, unless you choose to utilize the wireless capabilities (I have not yet).

I did a lot of research for a laserjet that would work for my mothers ipad. It had to be simple and reliable. It needs to be fairly small as she travels to her winter home often. I could not find one that definitely fit this based on descriptions. I purchased this one based on some weak indications it would work. I can report it works quite well for iOS devices. It has a couple of ways to print, direct printing via wireless when on the same wifi network, and eprint. Eprint is a free service HP offers which gives you a customizable email address to send an email to. The server auto sends the email to the printer when on and connected to a wifi network. This is very handy when out and about and you want to print something for later review. The server will hold emails for 30 days before discarding. Installation was very simple, the enclosed cd was not needed. Once the unit was powered up and USB plugged into a computer it started to auto install. Based on some reviews I read I selected the first option to have it installed for wireless operation. Once install is complete I printed out the settings sheet. This is important as it has the IP address of the printer. You need it to change settings. It can be printed later if needed however. Unplug the printer and test the computers wireless printing capability. Once installation is complete it will ask to set up an eprint account. I recommend it. It is useful. Put the IP address into a web browser and go to settings. Here you can make any adjustments you need and change the eprint email address. Once set up you can test the iOS printing capability. Any app that has a printer option in the action menu should see the printer. Again you can email anything to the printer if no printer ability exists. If you have trouble with inkjet printers clogging from non use or are tired of paying $7000/gallon for ink. This little printer seems to be a very good solution.

I purchased this printer to replace my inkjet. I got tired of paying way too much for ink so, when the print head needed replacing, I junked it and purchased the HP from Amazon. It was delivered on time with no hassles. Setup was uneventful. The picture instructions are easy to understand and follow. When I connected the USB cable and powered up, it connected itself. I'm not using the wireless connection because it's sitting right next to my computer and a simple USB cable is foolproof. The only irritating thing is the 'auto off' feature. After 4 hours of non-use, the printer switches itself all the way off. Not just sleeping, all the way off. So, when I want to print something, I have to push the switch to turn it on. It comes to life in about ten seconds and re-connects to the USB port in another five. I suppose it's saving me electricity but, if I forget to hit the button, my printing stalls without some popup to tell me why. Not a big deal, but a quirk. So far I've printed about a hundred pages without a hitch. This is a good, economical printer which gives me excellent hardcopy for a good price.

La mejor opción, cuando lo que buscas es un trabajo de impresión sencillo pero profesional, la configuración simple, los consumibles económicos y la calidad muy buena.

Realiza muy bien su trabajo, imprime rápido y puedes conseguir los cartuchos de tóner compatibles, lo que hace que puedas ahorrar en impresiones. Su tamaño es compacto, por lo que ajusta en cualquier lugar. La función de impresión inalámbrica facilita mucho las cosas, y por su costo se vuelve ideal si buscas algo práctico y funcional.

Have a couple around our office, great little printers.

I'm a computer expert and have no difficulty setting up computer stuff and figuring out how things work. This specific garbage has wasted my time more than 20 hours! HP does not support its products. Since I bought this printer in 2015 HP has changed the WiFi connection so many times. And now the apps just works some times, and you can not count on it. So, I am practically printing with a USB cable! Like 10-15 years ago. Recently one of my friends bought a WiFi printer from another leading brand, Then I saw how it is done! hassle free!