Customer Reviews

HP LaserJet Pro M175nw 100 Colour Multifunction Printer

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Having read previous reports for this printer I decided to replace my Samsung CLP 325W rather than spend the cash on new cartridges. The Samsung had done well and I had no complaints. However this HP appealed and has not disappointed me. I must be quite honest and say that I have not tested it on a wireless connection as it stands within inches of the PC. My wife's and my computer are both connected to the Home network via Ethernet connections to the router, and this makes it easily accessible to both of us. The printer is a pleasure to use. Copying, scanning and printing from the PC are easy and give good quality prints. It is faster than the Samsung and more pleasant to the eye. It is strongly made and was well packaged on receipt. The actual set-up was a piece of cake, and I had it working in next to no time. All in all I like it very much, and would recommend it to any home user who wants a second printer to supplement a dedicated photo-printer, This will give very good results for those documents that you want in black and white or colour on a general basis.

Where to start. At the beginning. Installation:
Easy to set up, plug it in via usb and there it is. No worries. Great. Now try and configure the wireless to work on your wireless network. No, I couldn't either. It defaults to having "smart wifi" enabled, which means *any*one in wifi range can print to it. No thanks.

Print quality: It's very average, prints come out darker than I expected. It's not dreadful, but I expected better. Worse, there is no Duplex option which is a scandal on a device like this.

Scanner: Actually not bad. Sheet feeder works. No duplex again, but it actually worked as expected. Nothing to see here to justify the price so far.

The one redeeming feature is you can buy third party toner carts. The idea of spending 200quid for a full set of HP ones for such a poor printer is frankly disgusting.

I had wanted a laser for some time, more because the text prints were a lot better than inkjets - not that ink baser printers are inferior, but for my needs it looks more professional with the waxed finish. I opted for colour because i do like the odd print to have bold images, and this printer does that rather well.

I did think i would miss my inkjet, but to be fair i am not missing it too much right now. My main uses for the inkjet were photos and every now and then CD/DVD prints, but both came to a slow and CD/DVD printing stopped. I would still like to print my own photos, but decided i didnt print enough to require a photo printer - besides with so many companies now offering prints at cheap prices for those i would need printing i could always upload them to an online printing service.

That said the prints from this printer, on plain paper do still look really good, and if printed on matt card instead of photo glossy paper, i am sure would still be very striking when behind a frame. You can still tell this has been printed on a laser and not an ink printer, but given the printers 600x600 dpi print resolution this does a great job.

I have not required changing the toner - mostly because i don't print as often as i once did, but the toners are quite expensive in comparision to ink cartridges - i am not yet able to compare if this will be a whole lot different, but my guess is, if it does work out more expensive i still have a great printer.

Price wise i found this printer to be a good deal, even more so when HP were offering �60 cashback with each purchase.

One thing i would have liked to have seen, if not on this model, or as an optional extra for a little bit extra would have been the addition of a duplexer, but still the printer is great.

One last thing, for those interested - like i was, the printer will prinr on photo glossy paper, but do be careful, remember the rollers and fuser unit heat the paper in order to bond the powder to the paper and wax it, this heat cases the paper/gloss to be warmer than normal paper.

I would recommend anyone trying this (and please, do so at your own risk, i am not reponsible in any way for how you use your decice), use heavyweight gloss and only print 1-2 images at a time, then leave the unit 20-30 minutes to cool down if you plan to print more.

Having said that, results on glossy paper, are no better than on a heavy Matt card - which i would now opt for if printing any colour or photo images out - behind a glass frame the matt will look better.

I received this printer faster than its due date, which was a pleasant surprise. Unpacking was easy and exciting, it took me 5 minutes to unpack it. The installation CDs and guide book was there and helped a lot. The installation for Mac didn't really work out when i put the CD in, so i became a bit upset. Then i tried my brother's PC and installed it there in 5 min, and it was very easy to do and it worked perfectly! Later in a day i tried printing from my mac just to see, and it worked! It didn't need any installation or so, i have done it through wireless. It also worked through my iPhone. I am very pleased with the product and it works just great! I read a lot of bad reviews, but i loved the product! The scanner also works just great! Very recommend for people who need small, wireless, laser, colour, multifunctional printer! :)

Bought this yesterday (from Argos for the same price - I was being impatient) to replace an ageing Samsung all in one. I don't print a great deal but sometimes need too and often scan letters and receipts and store them on Google Drive. My Samsung CLX-2160 was still on the original toner cartridges and had plenty left according to the report it produced, but the paper feed was appalling and the software very out of date for my OSX and Windows 8 machines.

Anyway back to the HP. Well packaged and easy to set up - toner etc already installed. It was also nice to see the USB cable supplied. One of the added advantages for me is the inclusion of WiFi.

Setting up the Wifi is a bit messy in my opinion - I use Apple devices (Airport Extreme) for my Wifi and they have a menu option that is supposed to work the WPS - most routers have a push button for this. I couldn't get it to work at all so had to resort to connecting via USB and setting up the wireless on the printer via the cable. There is no way to manually enter settings on the front panel which is disappointing. Once configured via the cable it works fine for printing and scanning and there are even several iOS apps to control and print. You can also send documents to the ePrint service and they appear on your printer, and link it to Google's Cloudprint service - just about everything you need really!

The software seems OK so far and works well over wifi for both printing and scanning. Nice to get a document feeder for the scanner too.

Anyway it's highly recommended for a relatively cheap printer/scanner for home / small business use.

Bought this to replace an HP Printer that died, that used the same toner cartridges. Did not really want or need the copy/scan facility. But I am delighited with the ease of set up, the ease with which I was able to share it on our network, and the scanner is now my favourite bit of kit in the Office. Fast easy scanning & copying & great printing. Higly recommended.

Really good printer for the price; scanner works well; printer works great too. Totally recommend for anyone like me who doesn't want to print hundreds of pages a day but just wants a good quality colour printer comb that reliable.

I bought this multifunction device due to the failure of a previous colour laser and an old scanner not compatible with Win7. I'd been converted to the virtues of laser printing, even in low volumes, some years ago.
This is the easiest printer to setup I've ever come across, you just connect the USB, even if using the network like I am. It auto runs the install, finds the network and asks you to disconnect the USB. All the toners and fusing unit are installed on arrival, so just remove the transit tapes and cardboard, easy.
I didn't buy this for photographs, just normal day to day home domestic printing and scanning, which it does very well. The ability to copy from a single button push is a useful feature, rather than scanning then printing via the PC.

My previous laser (Dell 1320CN) failed after 3years and only 2500 copies, so let's see how this performs.

Really happy with the printer! I've got it connected via a LAN cable and it communicates fine.

The printing is good but a little slow to load. Once loaded it prints quickly.

The scanner is good.

Overall it's a great printer.

Does printing quite well, good scanner, can scan upto 35 pages. As mentioned earlier this is just for home/small office, I would say with printing volumes upto 50 pages per day. If you need to print more - definitely consider something else. If you print in batches, I would not send documents with more than 10- 20 pages at once due to overheating and slow pronting speeds, especially with colour printing. Occasional use, 1-3 pages, to print some google maps/tickets - it would suit perfectly. Nice and clear colours as well.
A hint - if you wish to use wirelessly consider assigning static IP to avoid lost connections and other surprizes