HP LaserJet Pro 400 color Printer (M451nw)

Product Description

Produce professional quality color documents with ease and fast speed. Seamlessly integrate into your office or wireless home network. HP features help you save paper and energy, and print from virtually anywhere with HP ePrint

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Product Details

• Brand: HP
• Model: M451nw
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 12.70" h x 15.90" w x 17.90" l, 50.10 pounds
• Display size: 3.5

Features

• Print Speed1: Up to 21 ppm black (letter), Up to 21 ppm color (letter)
• Print Resolution: Up to 600 x 600 dpi Print Technology Resolution: HP ImageREt 3600
• Monthly Volume (Duty Cycle): Up to 40,000 pages

Customer Reviews

Most helpful customer reviews

32 of 35 people found the following review helpful.
A really great printer for home or office!
By SeaGoddess2403
I recently talked my employer into purchasing this printer for me to replace a very old, very slow HP LaserJet that was seemingly first made when dinosaurs roamed the earth (circa 2005 AD). I used the online ratings to choose it, and I'm so glad I did!

So far, it has been great. It is very fast; the first sheet prints out in less than 10 seconds. The color is beautiful... photos print out rich and life-like. There is a setting to lessen paper curl, which was a real problem with my old printer. It easily handles manual feeds for labels, envelopes and the like (load face up and top forward). And, best of all, it features automatic two-sided duplexing (important for printing double sided newsletters or other marketing materials). In summary, it's everything I wanted in my new printer!

That being said, there is one thing to note, however... it was a complete BEAR to install. Initially, I called my IT company to install the driver from the website (yes, there was a disc provided, but I didn't want the inevitable accompanying bloatware). First of all, the printer was not a plug and play; it didn't really detect the printer as a device when plugged in, but rather showed up as a program. That aside, everytime the IT tech went to install it from the downloaded driver, right at 99%, the printer failed to install and the computer (also an HP) needed to be restarted. He tried this 3 seperate times, and each cycle took about 35-40 minutes. When he was unable to install it that way, he had me try inserting the disc. That did not work either - another fatal error, another re-start. So my IT technician was forced to call HP Tech Support for assitance. The first thing asked by HP was if my USB cord was longer than 6 feet (it wasn't). They said that cables longer than 6' long could cause install issues (? not sure how). Since that wasn't the case, we were then told that there were known issues with setting this printer up using the default SmartInstall feature and it had to be manually disabled from the printer itself. HP gave me the step by step directions to disable it via the printer's menu and sure enough, it then quickly installed.

To anyone who is having trouble installing this printer, try going through the menu to disable SmartInstall. That should solve any problems you have.

Aside from the 4 hour install problem, I really do love my new printer and recommend it readily.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Great Printer for ePrint and Apple AirPrint
By AJ iEverything Guy
I was recently introduced to the function of AirPrinting with our iPads and iPhones. As soon as I saw how easy and functional it was, I had to have a printer that was capable of performing. After some extensive research and checking out many different models, I made the plunge to get this printer. We use both Macs and PC's in our home and found that it was a little difficult to get the printer setup initially with the Mac but once we set it up with the PC, it took about 15 minutes. There's also a really easy to use "ePrint" app that you can get from the Apple Store which allows you to print anything remotely from your phone. Finally, you can even setup an email address where anyone can print to your printer if they send an attachment to your email address setup for printing.

All in all, a good printer. I would have given it 5 stars if I could have set it up with the Mac and saved 30 minutes but all in all, a good experience.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
Be careful
By CJ Heiser
This printer worked great, except it wasn't what I expected. The other review on this product talks about auto duplexing. THIS PRINTER DOES NOT AUTO DUPLEX. You're looking for the DW model if you want the auto duplexing.

Other than that, it's a solid printer that prints fast and easily connects to a wireless network. Be sure to look around online for installing instructions of the software though - you need to disable the auto-install feature of the printer because the pre-installed software on the printer itself is corrupted from what I understand.

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