HP LaserJet 1160 Monochrome Printer

Average customer rating: 3.5

Nice Workhorse Printer
Worse quality than your old HP LJ1000
Tray
Died young
great laser printer

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HP LaserJet 1160 Monochrome Printer

Manufacturer: Hewlett Packard
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B0002UM0P6

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Product Description

HP LaserJet 1160 printer Q5933A Laser Printer - Priced for your home, this laser printer is has the speed and power to serve a small business. Add an optional print-server and it can be used with a LAN network. HP LaserJet 1160's instant-on technology produces the first page of each print job in less than 10 seconds. Thanks to a 133MHz processor and 16MB of RAM, the 1160 accommodates the demands of your personal or shared printing needs. This translates into high quality black and white text printing at 1200 effective dpi resolution. 16MB RAM (maximum) Manual Duplex printing (driver support provided) Network ready - Requires Optional Print Server Up to 10,000 pages per month HP printer software on CD-ROM includes HP installer/uninstaller, drivers, HP Toolbox for diagnostic status and configuration, control panel simulator, help, documentationThe LaserJet 1160's easy setup means you begin printing in minutes. Just connect the printer using a USB or parallel port and you are ready to go. Plus, the 1160 comes with a 250-sheet standard paper input capacity and a 1-sheet multi-purpose input slot.

Customer Reviews:

Nice Workhorse Printer.......2006-07-13

When it came time to replace my low-end Epsom color printer, the one received free with my computer, I decided to upgrade to midlevel monochrome printer. So far, a month into my purchase, I am pleased. It is a 3.5 star printer.

Important factors in a home printer, as a writer and occasional designer, I needed speed and quiet. With the LaserJet 1160, I found both. However, it is not a perfect machine. Although the price is economical, I expected better image quality.

I use it presently on a Sony Vaio, XP system, printing from Word and InDesign, and occasionally Photoshop and Illustrator.

The drivers were easy to install. I popped in the CD, and went along clicking as I was told. Once I got online, it updated itself, ensuring all related software was up-to-date. I like not having to think about this.

The 1160 has been around for a few years, so most of the average bugs have been ironed out.

So far, I have only pushed printing text. The few times I have printed images, I have been disappointed with the resolution and screen quality. Text resolution has been good. I printed one page with a giant Times New Roman 'O' in blue, which came off nicely in gray.

Startup is quick, and shutdown is quicker. The fan hums louder than I hoped, but during down times (after around five minutes of nonuse), it shuts down.

As I only print 8.5" x 11", I will not miss the multipage custom sheet feeder. The tray for regular will extend into legal size, and holds 250 pp., enough for my daily needs.

It is a decent printer from which I expect to use for the next five years for basic word processing printing.

Anthony Trendl
editor, HungarianBookstore.com

Worse quality than your old HP LJ1000.......2006-04-05

I have a small business, and already have other 3 HP Laserjet printers. I was so far happy, and recently bought a LJ1160. I'm very worried about it. It's very fast (20ppm), and really prints very well vectorial graphics and text, but it has a very bad quality for rasterized images (BMP,GIF,JPEG,etc). It doesn't have a setting specifically for image printing, and the driver has some bugs. You can't even read some parts of scanned documents (for example, old datasheets of electronic devices).
I really don't know why it does so, but the same image printed on any of my other Laserjet printers is readable. On LJ1160 is not!
I've tried so far every driver option but couldn't make it better.
I'll try to install the driver of a older HP printer to see if it works... But it's unaceptable that, when you buy a upgraded version of a product, it's worse than your older one.
I also had before 2 old Xerox laser printers (300dpi) and never saw such a poor quality of image printing. So, i'm really disapointed.
I was a happy HP user, so I bought without any further concern about the product have any lack of performance, but i'll have think twice before buying another printer from HP...

Tray.......2006-01-09

The manual feed is a pain, it's one paper feed at a time and it difficult to feed the paper since it's not a try but a slot - I am also having difficulty printer to tray two, for some reason it keep referring to manual feed even if everything is set to print from (auto feed or even tray 2). I have three in the office and I will no purchase another one just for this reason.

Died young.......2005-09-26

Bought this laser printer based on HP reliability and fact that it could print MS-Dos software (pcl5e). It did just fine for 17 months, then it died. Printer had printed 13000 pages, plain paper nothing fancy ! Hp online help failed to respond in any way to printer malfunction since off warranty. Problem analyzed as fuser assembly, repair cost est. was $230 at shop in town; we trashed the printer and bought an Okidata.
I would not buy this printer again unless purchaseing a 3 or 4 yr extended warranty.

great laser printer.......2005-09-12

This laser printer was purchased for use at an auto dealership in the service dept. We use it to print warranty and vehicle recall information. It's used daily and often. No problems so far, it's speedy and the quality is there if we need to print wiring diagrams and such. Would recommend it to anyone who needs a laser printer and doesn't require color printing.

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