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   Jim Crosson on September 5, 2015 at 3:04 pm

   79 of 81 people found the following review helpful

   
   I love it, September 16, 2013

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   Jim Crosson (Chandler, AZ USA) –

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   I had to retire my 12 year old Lexmark. It was still working, even with over 250,000 prints, but the plastic case was falling apart. Thank goodness for duct tape. I was use to getting 15,000 prints from one $80 toner cartridge so cost per print was one of criteria for a new printer. The other was it had to be “Airprint” compliant because I had just moved to an iphone. The HP Laserjet pro 400 series fit all my demands. The M401dne had the features I wanted, was priced right and the aftermarket toner cartridges could be had for less that $25 for the 80X version (6700 prints). Upon arrival, I unpacked it and set it up. I could have missed something, but I could not find the drivers on the enclosed CD, so I just down loaded what I needed from the HP website. The iphone went right to it like magic. The duplex feature on mine was a surprise. Have you ever printed an email that was 2 pages, but only had one or two lines on the second page? This thing prints that second page on the back. Since I would normally toss the second page, this is a big paper saving. Like a lot of thing you have had and enjoyed for years, (cars, boats, wives, laser printers) you wonder if the new one will be as good as the last. Well, so far, this printer is better. Smaller footprint, faster, more features, I am happy.

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   JohnDoe155 on September 5, 2015 at 3:36 pm

   42 of 43 people found the following review helpful

   
   Excellent printer, especially if you get it when it is on sale., December 5, 2013

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   JohnDoe155 –

   My old LJ 2100 started giving me troubles – multiple sheets fed at once, or sheet just stops in the middle of being pulled through the printer. I was somewhat frustrated because even though it was old (~15 years) I only printed about 5,000 pages over these years. I bought one of these printer refurbishment kits sold on eBay for $20-$40. Installing it was not that simple, and after installation front feed stopped working altogether (could be something I did wrong) and problem with page stopping in the middle remained. So I figured it is time for a new printer.

   After doing some research I settled on this one (M401dne). I got it for 230 plus sales tax at my local office supply store that price matched it to another office supply store.

   This printer is in the middle of Pro 400 family. The one below it is lacking duplexer and has half as much memory (128MB vs 256MB). The one above it adds touch-screen and direct Wi-Fi printing. They all support Ethernet connectivity and the same printer languages in hardware (PCL 6, PCL 5e, PostScript). If you ask me – for a little price premium you owe it to yourself to have real duplexer. However, I consider touch screen and direct Wi-Fi to be gimmicks and not worth it.

   I haven’t printed a lot yet but so far it works great. Speed for text documents (or Word/PDF files with mostly text) is as advertised. I also scanned one page as 1200 DPI grayscale and printer printed it fine even though it did take long. Spooled file reached 400-something megabytes if I am not mistaken.

   One reviewer for the lower end model mentioned that on large jobs pages come out so hot that he/she burned his/her hand (exact words were something like “as if pages were fused in the Earth core” 😀 ). I haven’t done any large jobs yet but it is good to know.

   Toner is expensive, especially high capacity 6900 page cartridge. It almost gets to the point of inkjets where the price of one cartridge is comparable to the price of printer itself.

   I have printer connected via Ethernet so that it can be shared between all my computers. Printer wakes up just fine when jobs are submitted via the network. As opposed to my old LJ 2100 printer web interface no longer requires Java, which is great. LJ 2100 only supported specific old version of Java that only worked with old browsers, so I could only access web UI from my old Windows XP PC where I had to install old version of FireFox and old version of Java just for that occasion.

   This is why you need to pick this printer over cheaper models:

   1) LCD control panel vs cryptic blinking LED-s.
   2) Networking, so it can easily be shared by plugging it in your router
   3) Support for PCL 6, PCL 5e and PostScript IN HARDWARE (as opposed to “host-based” printers)
   4) Built-in duplexer.

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