Comments on: HP 1100D Review

By: Nick Eckhardt

Nick Eckhardt — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:02:45 +0000

We have used ours for about 5 years, since my wife was teaching and printing her own handouts. Yes, the ink and print heads are expensive. We have been refilling our own for years. Now using “Refill Friendly” cartridges from Ink Supply, that last up to two years and for about $80 come with a lot of ink.

Since we shifted recently to Vista, I tried the HP1200 driver and are now trying the HP OfficeJet Pro K550 driver. Not sure yet, but the printer works somewhat under both, and we are still trying out if features (such as double sided printing) work with the 550 driver.

By: John Hill

John Hill — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:23:54 +0000

Even though HP claims not to support it under Vista, I found that it works to some extent. The toolbox doesn’t come up, and some graphics lines don’t print, but for basic black-and-white printing it still functions OK. A half-full glass. If anyone finds drivers that make it fully operational, lemme know.

By: Joe Smith

Joe Smith — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 22:20:13 +0000

I read that this 3-year old BUSINESS printer will never have a VISTA driver. I guess HP figures businesses will just buy another one or stay on Windows XP. Or, they didn’t sell a big enough volume to justify making the driver. They’re not in the printer business anyway…. they’re in the ink reselling busines.

By: Jor

Jor — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 21:00:06 +0000

I just tried to install a new HP Pro L7580 and after a 7-hour marathon with the HP support, they offered me a refurbished printer as a good deal. HP do not have it Vista compatible yet and the download obviously does not work. Printer is back in Circuit City and my money is in the bank.

By: Mary

Mary — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 03:35:35 +0000

The printing was great while it lasted, but the cartridges are quite expensive. I may as well buy a new one with comparable, if not better technology/features.

By: dwstocke

dwstocke — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 17:08:16 +0000

1 month ago I would have given this printer a 10 now a 4 due to HP wisdom
of not trusting anyone. All 4 of my printers ink cartridges stopped working due to a expiration chip that timed out, this cost me the price of a new printer. I’m very upset at the lack of trust HP has towards it consumers and I would advise staying away from this product. So do yourself a favor and run a search on the web about the chips found in the ink cartridges and the pitfalls that others have ran across if I would have read about them prior to buying the printer from HP I would have gone with another brand.

By: MaryAnne

MaryAnne — Mon, 22 May 2006 21:20:50 +0000

Being an HP believer, I purchased this printer and no extended warranty. If I believed it was going to break, I wouldn’t have bought it. The printer works great, but after installing a defective ink cartridge, I am stuck with $200.00 worth of ink and a printer that doesn’t work.

By: David

David — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 06:54:59 +0000

I am an architecture student, and I got fed up with spending a ton of money on ink for my personal printer while at the same time waiting forever for moderate quality prints. I tried a couple Lexmark and an Epson before I decided to do my homework, and I came across this great machine. The upfront costs are more than most personal printers, but the long term costs end up being much less. The printing costs per page are remarkably inexpensive, the speed is great – on par with some laser, and quality is really quite good. The size of the machine is close to twice the size of the other printers I tried, but the quality and speed greatly out-way the price of the extra space taken up. I would highly recommend this printer to anyone, either small business or personal, who prints a moderate amount.

By: SPearce

SPearce — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 20:02:59 +0000

It handles color quite well and I am very pleased with its text output and paper handling. I really bought this printer because I was tired of buring up “consumer inkjets”. My previoius logic was that I would buy printers that I can easily refil (Canon). The cartridges for the 1100 are easy to refil and twice the capacity. And if you burn out a print head (which has not happend yet) you can replace each one individually – so you don’t have to go shopping for a new printer! I was unsure of the duplex feature at first, but I have found it works very well – it is slower, but if you are printing both sides on this printer it does not like to feed through paper that was just printed – so it forces you to use the duplex option if you want printing on both sides.

By: S Zaklow

S Zaklow — Sun, 30 May 2004 18:45:16 +0000

Very fast. Noisy printer. Good quality output BUT black ink transfers to adjacent sheet when letter is sent through Post Office equipment and whenever else pressure is put upon it.

By: huan

huan — Thu, 22 Jan 2004 20:55:35 +0000

I am using this printer for about two months.

Fast and VERY economical. Ink cartridges are very cheap (price / ml ratio)

By: K. Bell

K. Bell — Mon, 19 Jan 2004 03:17:28 +0000

You get the best of both worlds, graphics performance and home office publishing capability. I’ve used an HP 540 Deskjet printer for 7yrs. So for me the HP brand is a no brainer – it’s HP’s method of paper handling technology, I believe that makes them superior to any other brand – now if only it did borderless prints…hmmm.