This is an excellent printer when used as it is intended

Every year we rotate out about 250 printers of a total around 700 printers. That means we are on a three year rotation schedule. The batch going out this year is some pitiful Brother printers that are only one and one-half to two years old. The ones we are keeping past their rotation time are some HP1012 and 1022 printers that have performed flawlessly. Their replacements are these 1505s.



These printers are simply well-suited to their jobs. They are shared at every installation where we use them. They have been fault free so far and most likely will be if they mirror our experience over the last 20 years with HP printers. They are not network printers or meant for heavy production use. For that you have to expect to spend a few more dollars.



Based on our experience here with these printers I bought one for home and it is performing flawlessly.



I would recommend this printer to anyone who needs an everyday reliable easy on the combustibles printer.More detail ...

Excellent printer - download the latest firmware set the printer to Quiet Mode & create a new default printing shortcut

Update: If your printer hangs on some print jobs as mine did go to the HP website and download the March 2010 version of the firmware (or a more recent version if available). The new firmware seems to have solved this problem. Also it's now possible to buy 3rd party refilled cartridges. On two occasions I have bought the cheapest cartridge I could find on the Internet and both have worked fine with quality indistinguishable from HP's expensive cartridges. Finally since I never print graphics my comments apply to text-only printing.



When I switched to a new computer running Vista x64 I was forced to replace my HP Laserjet 5P because HP failed to provide a driver that worked competently with the 64-bit operating system. Based on the second comment to this review HP apparently subsequently fixed the nonfunctional 5P x64 driver after Vista had been out for more than a year.



I chose the P2055dn because of auto-duplexing and the standard 128MB of RAM. I was initially disappointed by the poor print quality and noise of the printer with the factory default settings. After digging into the clunky digital-only manual and much trial and error I created new HP Printing Shortcuts for 1-sided and 2-sided documents with ProRes quality instead of the default FastRes quality and I set the default Printing Shortcut to be my new 1-sided definition.



I also set the printer to Quiet Mode. To set the Quiet Mode press the down arrow on the printer several times until you reach System Setup. Push the OK button then toggle down to Quiet Mode with the down arrow. Press OK twice then press the carriage return key to go back to Ready.



After these changes the printer runs slower but the print quality is excellent and the noise level is similar to that of the 5P. I also turned off the aggravating low toner reminders that are worse than spam email.More detail ...

Great printer

This is a great little printer. First page out in 7-8 seconds and after that a page every two seconds. It is loud but only while printing. After that a fan runs for about 30 seconds and then shuts down (I returned a Brother 2170 because the fan would run for 15-30 minutes after printing a single page). Installation was a snap. The printer also comes with a regular toner cartridge rather than a "starter" cartridge. Highly recommended.More detail ...

First day with the 1102 running wireless

While I am a MechEng I am an old one. Was apprehesive to find out how hard it would be to set up a wireless network and a wireless printer in one day.



Wellll I did it in an hour before work! And so far the printer is working PERFECT. Will post an updated review in a week.More detail ...