HP Laserjet P1505

HP 1505

This a great little laser printer for a good price. The only drawback I see is that it tends to eat toner, but cartridges can be found fairly inexpensively online. However, it gets the job done fast-and that is what counts for me!

Not for use with a Mac despite claims on box

Thought I would update this thread-- the printer and its new drivers still do not work with Mac (10.5.8) as of 8/24/2009. Apparently any impending hp driver fix has dropped off of their "to do" list. Mac users shouldn't buy this printer.

Great for low-volume printing

This printer was purchased for occasional home printing. I was unhappy with ink-jets and the constant clogging of the jets from using the printer only once or twice a week. The HP P1505 prints great-looking crisp B&W documents. It duplexes for double-sided documents. It can sit for weeks and it starts right up and prints beautifully. The price point was excellent. I am very happy with it.

It is being used on Ubuntu linux. I did have some difficulty getting the correct driver. After I found out about and installed HPLIP, it was a breeze. [...]

Ink Hog

Nice printer in most respects (we have three in our offices) but it uses a whole lot of ink. The toner cartridges are supposed to be good for 2000 pages, but we get nowhere near that...
We like HP, but don't recommend this model.

WORSE PRINTER EVER BOUGHT

if you want to spend a lot of your valuable time talking to hp call center. Do not think it twice, buy this product

Bouhgt it, it did not work. HP changed it, worked for two month. Failed. Changed it again, and came a defective product again. They are in the process of changing it again. I am praying to the printer godess...

By the way, UPS service is fine

Slow printer

We purchased this printer as it was supposed to be comparable to another printer that had been discontinued. This takes a long time to start printing. From the moment you press the print button to when you have your printed document almost seems like an eternity. It also seems to have trouble picking up the paper through the paper tray. We are not at all impressed with this printer.

Replacement laser printer

The printer worked fine and was a cinch to install. Time will tell how well it holds up to light home use. My previous Samsung printer was also good until it c&^%$#-out.

So far, so good

I just bought an HP P1505 yesterday and hooked it up to my Lenovo T61 notebook. The install was a bit time consuming, I thought & requires both a CD/ROM & an internet hookup. Par for the course, these days, I guess. But all went well and the first time I tried to print a doc from the internet, it happened & there were no glitches.

There is no paper manual supplied; the manual is on the CD/ROM.

I have not yet tried to print a range of pages from a WordPerfect .doc (I don't have Word).

I bought this from a Canadian electronics big box store in Vancouver for about HALF the USA Amazon price (doorcrasher?) so they tried to upsell me their overpriced USB cable, paper, & replacement cartridge without success. They let me walk out the door with just the printer.

I haven't used a laser for a while except on a network so I was amazed at how FAST it is!

I MIGHT have given it five stars except I have not yet tried out with WordPerfect.

Update: Almost a year and 1000 pages later, & I'm still very happy with this printer. It has given me no problems yet, despite being carried around (in it's original box & packing) in the back of my van for many thousands of miles. I'm sure that HP did not intend the P1505 to be used as a portable printer but it works OK that way for me.

It works fine with WordPerfect X4, too.

I'm just about ready for a new print cartridge, which I think I'll buy from Amazon. The cartridge that comes with the printer is a "mini" 1000 page one. The replacement cartridge is good for 2000 pages, they say.

"Nother update: After almost two years, this printer is still performing flawlessly and has given me zero grief. It is the best printer I have ever had since I got my first computer printer in 1985. I'm on my second toner cartridge which is about used up, I reckon. This printer rides around, in it's original box, in the back of my van, in all weathers, when I'm not printing with it. No problem, so far.

Today, from H-P's website, I downloaded the drivers I need for my new netbook, running Windows 7 32 bit. The P1505 also works fine on that platform, printing .docs created with Sun's Open Office word processor. The driver download & install is a bit time consuming (better allow the better part of an hour) but was smooth and straightforward. Make sure you "save" the download (don't "run" it) and then let the install wizard pop up & do its job.

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Do NOT buy this printer to use with a Mac, unless you're in the market for a lot of frustration!

HP claims this printer is compatible with Mac OSX. Don't believe it. There are major problems printing from Word on a Mac, a problem of which HP is fully aware but claims that downloading the latest version of the driver from their website will fix it. In my recent and very frustrating experience (3 calls so far to HP Tech Support), it does not. My Laserjet is still not performing consistently (sometimes it prints, sometimes it doesn't, and sometimes it print horizontal lines instead of text), &, having exhausted all the "fixes" HP is able to provide, I'm about to ship it back to Amazon.

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.