Hewlett Packard LaserJet 4m plus Printer

The pros: This is a workhorse printer, it will handle a small office or home very well, not real noisy like some printers. The stock memory will work but for heavy printing 20-50 pages at a time upgrade the memory. Toner is a cost saver, you can buy toner for around $24-$35 on Ebay. The cons: Not real fast at 12ppm and no color but for general printing its a very good printer. It is built better than most of the newer laser printers out today.

What a differnce between inkjet and laser. I will never buy another inkjet again. I don't print every day so my inkjets wouldn't work when I wanted them too. I would have the spend about 10 minutes cleaning the heads before I could print a document. This printer is always ready, I just turn it on, and in about a minute, it's warm enough to be able to print. It is so quiet too. If you are thinking of a laser printer don't hesitate. I will be looking to get a color laser now.

I needed to find this almost 20 year old printer for a project for a client. The printer arrived in OK condition (apart from being set to print in A4 format with no toner cartridge, printer cable or power cord)! Once I had found/bought all the missing parts it printed OK - the old paper jams every now and again but otherwise it's an old, chunky, clunky workhorse!

I was looking for what I thought would be a reliable monotone printer. I have a MacBook Pro. After receiving the HPLJ4M+ printer, I tried to find a user's manual to show how to hook it up (availability on internet stated by seller). Could not locate. The printer has a serial port and a parallell port, on the Jet Direct card it has an AUI port and a BNC port.

I 1st tried a Serial Port to USB cable - nothing. I then tried a Parallel port to USB cable - could get it to print once - print almost inlegible. it then would not print again and showed a code with a number and the word "micros". Next I tried a external HP Jet Direct card (J2591A) that went Parallel port to card that fed the ethernet port on the computer. It printed a "PCL Configuration Page" that was more readable but covered with a gray haze. It would not print anything else.

I have not been able to find a AUI to RJ45 Ethernet cable to try the internal Jet Direct Card. I have been advised to forget the BNC connection as if it would work it would be too slow.

I am happy with the printer.
I don't know why it took 13 days to
arrive, considering I paid $35.00
for shipping.