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Summary: Fantastic Printer
Review: I just upgraded from an HP-1200 series to this HP-1300 printer, and I'm extremely pleased. I loved my 1200 series printer, but HP actually managed to make some improvements with this machine. Specifically, it's slightly quicker and runs even quieter. I use my printer a great deal to print long manuscripts, so I really need one with these qualities. The only possible debit is that the printer is slightly larger than the 1200 series - I keep bumping my chair into it, but I think that's a small issue! For the price and quality, you really cannot beat this printer.
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Summary: Fantastic Printer
Review: I just upgraded from an HP-1200 series to this HP-1300 printer, and I'm extremely pleased. I loved my 1200 series printer, but HP actually managed to make some improvements with this machine. Specifically, it's slightly quicker and runs even quieter. I use my printer a great deal to print long manuscripts, so I really need one with these qualities. The only possible debit is that the printer is slightly larger than the 1200 series - I keep bumping my chair into it, but I think that's a small issue! For the price and quality, you really cannot beat this printer.
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Summary: I wish I could have kept it.
Review: I liked this printer alot, but I couldn't keep it. It printed fine on "normal" paper, but anything with a little texture and I had the toner fusing problems mentioned in another of the reviews. I don't have that problem with the other HP LaserJets I have used (at work) with the same paper. I did everything I could to try and tweak it to work. No go.As far as printing on regular paper I was certainly happy. It was super quick even though I am using Mac OS X. I have gotten used to the fact that printers and the like don't seem to work up to their full advertised potential under OS X... but this was certainly not the case here. It was nice and responsive and printed everything I asked it to. My wife's business' letterhead is on rougher than average paper, and the toner just didn't like it. So, regretfully, back it went.
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Summary: Good quality IF you can get it to work
Review: I purchased this as a second printer because a coworker said it was, and I quote, "the best printer I've ever had." Unfortunately, I did not form the same opinion. I took me several tries before the thing would even install properly on my computer (XP). When it finally did, I have to admit, the print quality was great, and it was super fast. HOWEVER, upon starting my computer up the next morning, to my surprise, neither of my printers was recognized by my computer any longer. I tried and tried to get them to reinstall, but apparently, something about the 1300 did not get along with my computer. I got continuous error messages no matter what program I tried to run. I ended up having to reinstall windows just to get rid of the error messages. I returned the 1300 and got the much smaller, much cheaper 1012 instead, and it works perfectly, only only a little bit slower. So, to sum it up... if you have the money to spare and want to take a chance, get the 1300, as it does print nicely and quickly. However, if you don't want to have serious computer malfunctions or you just want to spend a bit less money and get comparable quality, get the 1012.
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Summary: poor quality type
Review: I'm not sure what other people use their printer for, but I need top quality-looking manuscripts. I had a 4L for ten years and it gave better quality. The problem is that it prints too light. Otherwise, its a nice machine. But I'm returning mine.
good luck.
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Summary: Pretty Good For The Home Office User
Review: I've had this printer for about a year and have been pleased with it. It's a good little printer that rarely jams or causes any sort of trouble. The one big negative is the manual feeder on this printer is terrible. You can waste three sheets of labels just to get one decent one printed out that isn't crooked. That's a big drawback if you print any sort of label sheet or index sheet regularly.
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Summary: LaserJet 1300 has been a Great Printer!!
Review: I've owned this printer for 14 Months Now, and I've got to say it's a gem!
To those who say it prints too light... Turn off Economode!!
Bottom Line: I've printed 2004 Pages and have only had two paper jams. Thats a total of 665 Jobs! I'm still using the original toner cartridge and it's at 47% Full Now.
Pros:
The 1300 is very fast!
The Straight Through Option Works well with thick paper.
The Manual Two Sided Printing Option Works Really Well.
I've used envelopes, thin paper, thick paper, resume paper, and even the paper with pre-punched holes on the side... they all look great!
I've printed booklets with a variety of bindings, and I've never had a problem.
There is a built in webserver that allows you to check the status of the machine, including the toner fill, the number of jobs, the serial number.
Comes with software that allows you to enable error reporting or low toner reporting.
Has optional USB or Parallel Port..
Upgradeable to 16+64 MB of RAM
Upgradeable to Network Ready
Optional 250 Sheet Paper Tray
Cons:
Will not print on WIDE sheets of Paper/Manilla Envelopes.
Does not automatically print double sided (you have to take the half-finished job, put it in a paper tray, and press the button on the front of the printer)
By the way, I've got this printer hooked up to the Wireless 54G Print Server made by Linksys, and it works great!
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Summary: Prints Crooked
Review: I've purchased and returned three laserjet 1300's due to crooked print. The text rises about 1/8" from left to right. This is not acceptable. Unless I purchased three lemons, I'd recommend not purchasing this product.
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Summary: LaserJet 1300 Disappointing on Mac OS X
Review: I've used dozens of different types of printers and have owned several HP printers. I switched to Macintosh a year ago, and got the LaserJet 1300 several months ago. I've decided to give the printer away, and will probably replace it with the Brother 5070. My first gripe with the 1300 is its minimal documentation. There is also no help and the tech support information online is weak. My second gripe is unreliability. The printer doesn't have a display to name errors. It has three indicator lights. The printer frequently stops working, and all three lights come on. The manual says that when this happens, I should turn the printer off, leave it off for a bit, and then start up and try again. This usually does little to help. The manual also says that if this continues, I should call for tech support. So I called for tech support. My first call was apparently to the wrong group. The technician insisted on collecting all of my contact information at the start of the call, promising that he would give me support after we went through the full, long, contact survey. And then he did. He told me I called the wrong department and gave me the phone number for the right department. The second technician walked me through loading a new driver onto the Mac and doing a hard reset of the printer. The manual doesn't tell me how to do a full reset of the printer (restoring it to factory state) and I didn't realize this was going on (the tech would tell me what to do next, but not what we were doing at the more global level, maybe she didn't know) until we were fairly far along. So I still don't know how to do this, and don't know how to find out short of calling HP for support again. The printer worked OK for a few months, locking up occasionally but not so often that the machine was unusable. But now it's back up to its old tricks. 3 lights, printing stops, and power off only lets me get a few more pages done before I get 3 lights again. I spent several hours one night troubleshooting this, and three hours (clocked) a few nights ago troubleshooting this, and finally gave up. The HP web site provides no useful information, or at least none that I could find. The website did provide access to drivers to download. I can either download the OS X driver from September 2003 (I think I'm using that one) or I can order (and pay money for). That disk is dated April 2004. I can't tell whether the driver on the April 2004 disk is more recent than the September 2003 driver or not. I also can't tell what the driver version number is for my printer. (The About information for the printer doesn't have it and did I mention there is no help under the help menu?) My impression is that this is a driver problem, not a hardware problem. Maybe I can clean it up, for a while, with a full reset of the printer and a reload of the latest driver. But at some point, the time I lose is more valuable than the cost of a replacement printer. I passed the threshold a few nights ago. We've had some driver problems (I have a lab at school) with some HP multifunction printers and the Macintosh. Not as bad as the 1300, but for the first time in 20 years, I'm going to buy a laser printer that is not a Hewlett-Packard.
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Summary: WARNING
Review: If this printer is anything like the 1200N, avoid this at all costs. My 1200N is dead after about 1000 pages and almost exactly one month after the warranty expired. HP just laughed at me when I called. Their quality stinks. At least get a long extended warranty....you''ll need it!
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