HP LaserJet Pro MFP M28W A4 Mono Laser Multifunction Printer - DISCONTINUED

I would recommend this printer, especially for those printing basic documents - no good for photos as isn’t a colour printer. Fast. Quiet. Efficient. Downside is the placement of the paper tray.

Given this is a modern printer, I had high hopes that technology had advanced in line with my expectations but sadly, I feel this printer isn't all that special. The positives : Very compact and lightweight. Packaging and unboxing was quite a pleasant experience without styrofoam bits everywhere! Quick print speeds and software setup on a PC/MAC is pretty straight forward. Prints were good quality - I tried some photos and the quality isn't amazing - it's pretty good but artefacts and DPI resolution isn't high enough for you to stick your prints on the wall. Not so great: The WiFi setup via the App doesn't work. After spending 30 minutes, it just wouldn't finalise setup on my Android phone and I ended up looking for a trusty old USB cable, and doing it the old school way - which went without a hitch. It's 2018 - a Wifi printer shouldn't need to resort to a cable. This printer is also not Google Print compatible...again it's 2018 and modern technology needs to be supported. I wasn't keen on the idea of having to load the paper into the paper tray whenever I need to print as opposed to holding a stack of paper internally. I guess that's the compromise with having such a small footprint but personally, I don't like having to feed the paper in everytime I want to print. My final issue is with the noise of this thing - it's not quiet and fairly loud when it gets going. Overall - It's a basic all round printer for those who need to print the occasional thing but the price is too high for the features it's offering. If the RRP of this was around £60, then ok but better options are available at the RRP price point of this

First impressions of the machine are very good. It comes packaged with clear instructions, but you don't really need them - it is very simple to install, even where there are a variety of machines - it worked just as well with my mac as my PC. It isn't the first wireless HP printer I have had and I can say that wireless connectivity does seem good and strong - it reached parts of my house that its predecessor couldn't do. Printing speed is plenty fast enough for a home office, and I found copying worked pretty well too. I was rather frustrated though that scanning was rather slow, and that was made worse by there being no sheet feeder - I guess that is the price you pay for such a small unit. The quality of printing that this little unit produces is for the most part very good, nice and crisp. On occasion however the output is more grey than black - I am still using the delivery toner and, although I am pleased with how long it is lasting, I do wonder if the output would be darker with a new cartridge. Overall, this is a very nice little machine. It would suit most people in a home office and would be good for a student. For my use, I think the lack of a sheet feeder for the scanner will prove to be too much of an issue for it to replace my existing machine, but as a backup it is certainly a well priced and very viable option.First impressions of the machine are very good. It comes packaged with clear instructions, but you don't really need them - it is very simple to install, even where there are a variety of machines - it worked just as well with my mac as my PC. It isn't the first wireless HP printer I have had and I can say that wireless connectivity does seem good and strong - it reached parts of my house that its predecessor couldn't do. Printing speed is plenty fast enough for a home office, and I found copying worked pretty well too. I was rather frustrated though that scanning was rather slow, and that was made worse by there being no sheet feeder - I guess that is the price you pay for such a small unit. The quality of printing that this little unit produces is for the most part very good, nice and crisp. On occasion however the output is more grey than black - I am still using the delivery toner and, although I am pleased with how long it is lasting, I do wonder if the output would be darker with a new cartridge. Overall, this is a very nice little machine. It would suit most people in a home office and would be good for a student. For my use, I think the lack of a sheet feeder for the scanner will prove to be too much of an issue for it to replace my existing machine, but as a backup it is certainly a well priced and very viable option.

I received this product as part of a review program in return for an unbiased review. I have used inkjet and laserjet printers before, both from HP and other manufacturers, so was curious as to what this printer would offer, apart from a compact footprint. It is indeed small, at 198x360x264mm and weighing 5.4kg. The only ports are the power socket and a USB-B and it has a minimal display. Getting it out the box was not easy. I understand they are packed to avoid damage, but the packaging was so snug, I had to turn it upside down and gently shake to get the printer out! The toner was easy to install and setup was easy enough to follow, but you do wave to set it up with the USB cable – you can't set it up on Wifi, which seemed a shame. The Wifi is only single channel at 2.4GHz and supports b/g/n. Printing is easy enough through the PC and the HP Smart app was easy to install and use. However, you cannot select double sided printing on the app, only via PC. The print quality is excellent (like most laserjets) with text clear and photos of a good resolution. It is very quiet when printing and fairly fast, although not that much faster than my inkjet printer. In fact, I compared it with two other printers: my Epson inkjet and a HP inkjet. There isn't that much difference between the Epson, but it is markedly faster than the HP inkjet. Copying and scanning, again, are simple and can be done via the app, PC or on the front panel. The quality is slightly reduced from the original, but no worse than other printers. The three main drawbacks with this printer are: a) There is no feeder, so copying and scanning have to be done one page at a time, on the scanner bed. b) Although it will support double sided printing, you have to print one side and then turn the pages over and feed them back through for the other side. c) It is only black and white. I understand these choices are to keep the size of the printer down, but it led me to the question I kept coming back to; To whom is this aimed at? It seems that if you are a small office or home user, you would really want something with colour and if you were a big office user, you would want a printer that had the feeder and auto double sided printing. Other than that I would say it currently costs £80-£120 for the printer and £50 for the toner, but to be honest, unless you want the clarity, stick with an inkjet. Overall, the more I used this printer, the less impressed I was with it.

I have used 10+ different HP Laser Jet Printers in my professional life so far. This is the one I like the most. It took me less than15 minutes (including the time needed to install its drivers) to set it up. I tried out the printing and scanning functionalities, and they worked great! Printing is fast and quiet. Scanning is surprisingly quick and in high quality. I used to spend tens of seconds to scan one page with my other scanner, and this MFP only took 2 seconds! Wow! I also tried out WiFi printing from my iPhone/iPad, as well as from my iMac and MacBook Pro, and this printer just worked! The web interface is easy to use and very robust with tons of features. Must have for someone looking to scan their documents to a network share.

Its a nice compact printer and scanner, print quality is good but i had an issue where when printing large volumns it over heats and has to constantly stop and cool down before printing can restart

I was surprised at how easy this was to set up. There really isn't much to do physically, just insert the toner and add paper. I was expecting to fight with Settings and wireless networks and USB cables but it wasn't to be. Toner was very easy to insert and the actual setup was painless, even on wifi and within a few minutes I was printing from my computer and phone. Other wireless printers I have owned always seem to fail when the computer has been off or sleeping but the HP Laser Jet Pro M28w worked each and every time I tried, regardless of which device I was printing from. The actual print quality is excellent. As advised, I had saved a few things I wanted to print so I could go mad when this arrived. I obviously had to be selective as this is not a colour model but I had a lot of reports and some manuals I used to test with, along with lots of colouring pages for the kids. Printing is quick and the quality is perfect. The only downside I encountered was the alignment would often go off-skew, not by a huge amount but enough to annoy me. This doesn't happen with any of the tray fed machines in work so I can only assume it's due to the standard paper feeder. I also got the Orange Light appear to indicate that I had to wait as the printer was too hot to continue printing - this was after printing a 20 page document and trying to print another 25 page document. This seemed odd for a laser printer and I was initially confused by the light but a quick web search revealed the issue and it resolved itself pretty quickly. I had hoped I could have introduced this machine into our workplace but if it got too hot after 20 pages then it would be no good there, even for a small workforce. Would like to have native duplex for 2 sided printing but not a deal breaker. The toner seems to be holding out well and the AirPrint functionality really won me over. Overall, I would certainly recommend this product for home use or small home office. I didn't use the scanner at all but the copier function did a good job.

I've now been playing with the printer for a few days, and have a couple of thoughts. Things I love: The look of it - it's fairly minimalist, clean lines with just a couple of indicator lights. The functionality - Scanning is great, printing spot on. Google Cloud Print - which means I can print stuff on the road and read it when I get home. The scanner is great, and once set up it just works. Software install was not without hiccoughs, but we got there in the end. Overall, an excellent piece of kit.

Fantastic printer. I am really impressed with it. It prints so quickly and clearly. It was really easy to set up from unboxing, inserting the toner cartridge and connecting wirelessly to my laptop. Also has a useful scanning function. The only downsides for me about this printer are that it isn’t colour which I didn’t realise ( it also has a colour icon on the box which is a bit confusing) and the price of the toner cartridges is quite high.

I was very impressed with how high quality and sharp the print was; this printer and the laser cartridge performed far better than any inkjet and I was sure I would get professional standard prints every time which is a huge benefit. I am used to my printer not performing how I would want it and with this printer its fantastic. I would highly recommend it!

Im reviewing the Laser Jet Pro M28W This is a very capable printer that has a scanner built in. The setup was for me a little tricky and for some reason i cannot get it to print from my main computer but it prints fine from my laptops and tablets. The speed and quality of the prints are great but this is a mono printer Therefore its only black and white images but they are reproduced well. there could be a better way to hold the paper in the printer but this is due to the relatively small footprint that the printer takes up, Its very compact therefore there has to be a sacrifice made. but on the whole this is a good printer if your after a black and white Mono printer and you cannot go wrong with a HP laser Jet Pro M28w.

The product was easy to unbox and set up, didn't really need to consult the paperwork inside. I was able to connect it simply to my HP spectre laptop and get things set up. The only minor issue I have had is that my laptop kept trying to download HP Smart whenever I connect the printer, but it looks like due to a window 10 compatibility issue, I can't actually download the HP Smart app. Despite this, I was able to get it working anyway and could print both from my laptop and from my phone with ease. I do often work at home, and also do Ebay a lot and so I tried printing some Ebay postal labels with and it was really easy to do (and quick!). I also tried printing a short report on it using the double-sided feature, and again this was easy to do (once you know how!) I think I got it wrong the first time and it is easy to do now. I like the fact that it prints so many pages per toner pack , this will keep me going for some time - and actually I am glad its not colour as I don't really have need for a colour printer - and if I did want to print in colour I would get photographs printed separately using an online service. Overall, this is a great addition to our home office, it is very nice looking, compact in size and easy to use and set up. I haven’t used it to scan yet, but this feature will also come in very handy indeed. Thankyou!

Firstly this was really easy to set up straight from the box. The instructions were really clear and it only took about 5-6 minutes. It looks really neat and being small doesn't take up much room at all which is ideal in my small office space. It is really quiet whilst printing and the scanning is really quick. I think you can scan direct to an email although I've not tried that yet. After what seemed like I'd printed off the entire copy of War & Peace the cartridge eventually ran out. Changing the cartridge was really easy too. All in all, this printer is ideal for the home office and would definitely recommend it.

Upon receiving the printer it was very easy to set up and whilst it is a shame it's only a black ink one image quality of documents printed is great and very clear. It can be a bit noisy but then so can most so it didn't bother me. I also liked that it didn't take up too much space so could easily fit anywhere I needed it too. Overall I would recommend this printer however for my needs I need a colour one.

So, this machine and I have taken some getting used to. The setup seemed quite easy. Now that I've had to redo the set up twice, I am a total pro at it. Weirdly, it got my wifi password from my laptop the first time (which was great, no running down to the router) but the second and third time it didn't transfer the password over. This machine can handle some very big printing jobs in quick time (way quicker than my 10 year old other machine). It also copies very quickly and clearly. After 2 successive jobs of about 100 pages, it needed to take a break and have some “cooling down” time before carrying on. The app is quite helpful at telling you what is going on. I don't know if that's because of the warm weather. For some reason the scanner didn't want to work on its first setup. This was quite annoying, because I of course only discovered it once I really needed to scan something. I was ready to send it back – if it doesn't scan, its not much use to me! After a complete reboot (removing it from my computer, unplug, turn it on and off again, then re-connect it to my machine) then it decided to work. It does scan very clearly, and in colour or monochrome, so that's a definite bonus. The HP website tells you to download the HP Scan and Capture App which you should not, as it doesn't actually work for this model. Again, more time wasted. It is quite annoying that they cannot tailor the website to give instructions for this actual model. The HP User Guide is the Instruction Manual. It doesn't come with the machine, you have to download it from the web. Maybe I've been a bit unlucky, but twice now I've struggled to get it to work after its gone into hibernate mode. I feel like I need to study the power saving options to get it to work in a more user friendly way. The instruction manual doesn't seem to say how to get it back up and running again after it's in low power mode. The printer comes with a very short cable. I've had to connect it via an extension lead to get it to power up. I've found that quite annoying, not everyone has power points within 1 metre of their desk. I probably sound like a complete technophobe, which I am not. I do like the machine, its quick and its wireless, and the HP Smart app (again, the manual gives you the wrong name for it) works nicely. I'm on the fence about whether I am keeping it. I want to like it, its just been quite glitchy for me.

This is my first WiFi-enabled printer, and they don’t tend to have a good reputation, so I was a little uncertain about how easy this would be to set up. The documentation is a little on the light side, but surprisingly, it’s fairly hassle-free. Holding the WiFi button makes the printer find your router, and from then on, it only took one or two tries to connect devices to it. Laptops and desktop Windows PCs were able to find the printer automatically, and after downloading the drivers, worked well. Android phones and tablets sometimes were a little slower to connect, but WiFi-direct got there in a minute or so, and I was able to print out emails and PDF documents very easily, and with good quality. After initial connection, all of the devices I’ve connected have been able to print without further problem. The quality of prints is very good, as you’d expect from a modern laser printer – black text is crisp and well-defined, and greyscale graphics are well-rendered and clear. I’ve yet to use the scan facility, but so far, so good!

The printer is easy to unbox, untab (yes there are a few tabs to remove) and the set up instructions are simple and easy to follow. The difficulty comes when you press your WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup) button on your wireless router and press the wifi button on the printer and the 2 don't pair up! Then you could be in a world of hurt. After an 1.5 hours of following all the trouble shooting guides and the HP help page, I finally managed to find a good video on YouTube (good old YouTube) that should me how to set up the printer by connecting it to my PC using the USB cable, then attaching the printer to my wifi network. Finally connected via wireless, I printed page after page seamlessly and with good strong quality black ink. The printer is an excellent size, compact an unobtrusive. However, the build quality is a tad flimsy is certain areas - the in tray is a half-tray and the A4 paper hangs out the back. Knock past them and the pages are all on the floor. The out-tray is actually a flap that if you accidentally catch the wrong way then you could easily break it. In summary, a nice compact mono-printer that prints excellent quality black pages. However, I think it's a tad overpriced and the build quality lacks in certain areas.

Compact and handy little printer. Not the simplest to setup for use by multiple machines or on a network if you don't have WPS,but once there, its a swift and good quality laser printer, with the added scanning ability. Tiny footprint is IDEAL for a small / home office where space is an important factor. I can't tell how many times I've had to rely on poor quality inkjet printers simply because I didn't have room for a laser at home. This is smaller than my last Inkjet MFP! The toner seems to be lasting well and certainly not doign the usual inkjet trick of lasting for a fortnight then running out of black. Of course this is a monochrome printer, but I find most of my home / office prints don't require colour anyway. Overall very impressed - particularly by the fact a number of Linux users in our office managed to install / print to this machine faster than anyone connecting from a Windows machine managed. This time, they've got it just right which I found frequently to be troublesome from Linux workstations - in fact it just about removes the only weakness from running Linux machines!

The HP Laserjet Pro was very easy to set up straight from the box. Instructions are very clear and it took no time at all to upload the set up on the computer and connect via wifi. Printing has been very clear and no problems with the quality of the print.

Unboxing and assembly This took very little ‘assembling’ once unpacked from the box. The instructions are fairly clear and once you’ve unpacked the toner, it’s really very easy to set up. Following the instructions for setup is simple. From opening to first print was probably about 8 minutes so you can be up and running very quickly. Appearance I like the look of the LaserJet Pro, it’s compact, neat and I think it would fit well in any home or office. I haven’t owned a LaserJet for years and remember them to be bulky, clunky and not particularly attractive. The Pro sets itself apart from the rest by being easy on the eye and is incredibly user friendly, this version was white which worked well in my office setup. Printing capabilities I really haven’t put this under too much pressure as it boasts to be able to print 18/19ppm. I have however reeled off all my accounts paperwork, scanned in documents and photocopied paperwork with ease and no ‘paper jams’ or error messages. App The app is very user friendly, it’s nice to be able to use multiple avenues to print from; ie via documents saved in google drive, emails, photos etc. The app shows the ink levels, it’s personally a little vague for my liking - it would be nice to have a percentage, even if it wasn’t fantastically accurate just as a guide, especially if you were mass printing. Best Bits I particularly like the sleep function, I hadn’t realised just how frustrated I used to get at having to go into my study to turn the printer on each time I wanted to print, sometimes forgetting to print straight away if I was distracted and realising my printer had turned itself off in the meantime. The Pro is constantly ready to spring into action at a moments notice and this is a real positive for me. Overall I’ve really enjoyed using this printer, it’s just what I would need for day to day printing and much more, far excelling my current inkjet and my previous laser jets! Wouldn’t hesitate to recommend this to other users.