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Summary: An excellent personal or light duty enterprise printer.
Review: Having been fed up with inkjets, I finally decided to purchase a laser printer for my household. The 2100M slots neatly between the 1100 and 4000 series machines. It is compatible with Apple's featuring localtalk modem port, and PC's with Parallel ports. There is a communication slot designed for either a USB card, or ethernet card to turn the unit into a print server.While the 2100M is nearly double the price of the 1100, it has much more to offer. Featuring 1200x1200 dpi, text and corporate logos appear flawless. In addition the second paper tray is great when you need to print envelopes, or print on different types of paper without having to remove the paper tray. The IR port has proved indispensable on numerous occassions. It is of the 4mb IrDA compatible and proves very fast. I often type on my laptop and normally, I would have to either plug the printer into the back of my laptop which in itself is a tedious process and then print. However with Infra red port, I simply align the back of the laptop with the unit within a 3ft radius, and print, voila! Laser Printers require time to warm up before printing. This one has proved extremely quick. If I leave it on in standby mode, it takes no longer than 5 seconds from the time i hit print from Microsoft Word to the when a page starts printing. When the unit is off, it takes no more than 15 seconds for the unit to warm up! The HP 2100M is PostScript compatible and in my opinion, this is a must have option! Documents printed in PostScript form have absolutely stellar print quality. PostScript is a font technology developed by Adobe. PostScript is the defacto standard in font technology today. There are a few drawbacks. There is no built in standard USB printer port. While USB for the most part is still considered a consumer technology and not really for enterprise, still the inclusion of a built in USB port would guarantee standard compability with newer Macintosh Computers that do not feature legacy ports.
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Summary: Could this be the IBM Correcting Selectric of the 90s?
Review: I bought this printer originally because it is one of the very few B&W laser printers that is compatible with the iMac that also neither costs a fortune nor requires 100 odd adaptors to make it work. With the iMac, it ran slow, but printed OK. It seemed to have to process the entire document before it would start printing (and I am not a computer novice, so it was not a matter of settings). When I bought a "real" Windows 98-based computer for work and delegated my iMac to more menial tasks, I gave this printer to the Dell and bought a little ink jet printer for the iMac. And now this printer sings! It's fast, quiet, sturdy -- a workhorse, not a showhorse. Our print shop hates me, I think, because I've practically quit taking B&W docs to him for reproduction. As long as the print run doesn't exceed 1000, I don't worry about this printer overheating. It handles gray scale beautifully (actually, better than the printer at the print shop). I wish it came with a larger paper tray -- that is its greatest shortcoming. Followed only by its inability to efficiently handle 60 lb paper. But those are minor. This printer is a very good buy.
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Summary: A great printer for a small business
Review: I have had this printer for year now and it performs flawlessly. It does not print as fast as higher end, networked printers but its speed is satisfactory for a one person operation or even for a small group of people. The ony thing that I added was additional memory and I have to admit, it did not speed up the printing that much for documents with large file sized illustrations. If you buy memory, get the better brands. I recommend this printer to others.
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Summary: It Beats the Inkjet Anyday
Review: I've owned this printer for two years and have never had to replace the toner cartridge, which is good because those cost around $100.00. The 2100M is a fast, reliable machine that has jammed only once. I've used it to print 500+ page manuscripts (which took an hour to print out on my inkjet), envelopes, labels, and index cards. The only major problem I had was printing out a banner. The file size was too much for the printer to handle. So, I wound up rebooting. Everything was fine after that. This is an excellent printer for the money. It works with PCs as well as Macs (including my obsolete Performa).
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Summary: It Beats the Inkjet Anyday
Review: I've owned this printer for two years and have never had to replace the toner cartridge, which is good because those cost around $100.00. The 2100M is a fast, reliable machine that has jammed only once. I've used it to print 500+ page manuscripts (which took an hour to print out on my inkjet), envelopes, labels, and index cards. The only major problem I had was printing out a banner. The file size was too much for the printer to handle. So, I wound up rebooting. Everything was fine after that. This is an excellent printer for the money. It works with PCs as well as Macs (including my obsolete Performa).
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Summary: Ideal home/small office printer
Review: 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. The variant I bought for home use is the HP 2100M, which has significantly greater paper capacity. Arguably, in a one user environment like mine the extra capacity isn't all that necessary. In a shared environment, however, it would probably come in handy. 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.
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