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We have collected 2 reviews of the HP LaserJet Pro 100 M175nw. Experts rate HP LaserJet Pro 100 M175nw 5/10. Reviewsor.com helps you find reviews, best prices, user reviews of the HP LaserJet Pro 100 M175nw and HP Laser printers.
Laser printers offer three key advantages over the more common inkjet: high print speeds, cheap running costs and stellar text quality. Unfortunately, HP's LaserJet Pro 100 Color MFP M175nw printer, scanner and copier fails to excel in any of these areas. It's far from fast. Our 20-page test document took over five minutes to print – a poor result considering a HP Officejet inkjet printer can manage it in less than two. Nor is it cheap to run. With 1,200-page black toner costing £55 per cartridge and its three 1,000- sheet colour cartridges £59 each, a text printing costs almost 4.6p per page and colour prints over 20p. This is expensive for a laser printer. We've no complaints about the quality of its text printing, but it's nothing you couldn't achieve with an Officejet or a Canon pigment-black inkjet. It isn't suitable for photo printing either. Setup can be problematic. The installer software used to connect it to your Wi-Fi network doesn't run in Lion and is flaky in Snow Leopard. Chances are you'll have to do it manually, which isn't easy if you're not used to Wi-Fi networking. It also lacks a card reader, has only manual Duplex and a two-line mono LCD screen.
If the HP LaserJet Pro 100 Color MFP M175nw ($349.99 direct) had nothing else going for it, it would be interesting just for its price, which lowers the entry-level cost for a color laser multifunction printer (MFP) by just a bit. The really good news, though, is that it has more to offer, including suitably high-quality output across the board for business use, support for both wired and WiFi network connections, and support for printing wirelessly through both HP ePrint and Apple AirPrint. The combination, along with a relatively small size, makes it a more than reasonable choice for a home office or as a personal printer in any size office. The M175nw is built around the same printer engine as the HP LaserJet Pro CP1025nw Color Printer ($229 direct, 3.5 stars), which effectively makes it the MFP version of the CP1025nw. In particular, it shares the same claimed speed, at 17 pages per minute (ppm) for printing in monochrome and 4 ppm for color, and it shares similar output quality across the board. Even better, it turned in faster times than the CP1025nw on our tests. However, it also shares the same limited paper handling, which is one of two main issues that make it a good choice for light-duty printing only—the other is cost per page.
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HP LaserJet Pro 100 Color M175nw Wireless Multifunction Laser Printer | $308.22 | See it |
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HP LaserJet Pro 100 color MFP M175nw | $349.99 | See it |
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HP LaserJet Pro 100 M175NW Color Laser Multifunction Printer, Wireless | $355.63 | See it |