HP Laserjet 1022 Printer (Q5912A#ABA)

Performance-wise, this printer is great considering the price point. The quality is great and the speed is also great. I don't think it's noisy at all, and its compact size is helpful in my cluttered office.Regarding the wireless networking, I intended to get this to print via Airport Express. I saw a few people on this board were not successful in doing this. However, I did note that Apple sells this printer on their website and several people commented on that site that they were able to get this printer to work via Airport Extreme and Airport Express. So I took it as a challenge and bought this printer anyway as it was exactly what I needed.I am happy to report that I have my iMac, MacBook and a Dell desktop running Windows XP printing wireless via Airport Express. It took me about 30 minutes to get everything working.The key is to load the printer and software locally on each machine and get that working first, then hook up the printer to Airport configure Bonjour.To make it detect the driver correctly on the Mac:1. From an application, hit APPLE+P to print2. From the Printer dropdown, select `Add Printer'3. Choose your Bonjour printerOn the Dell with XP, I simply selected the HP 1022 with the Bonjour printer application. Everything works great.Good luck to all!

Had one just like this refurbished one and I decided I'd rather have a newer model.

I bought the LaserJet 1022 to replace my ancient LaserJet 4. Even though my printing needs are limited, I passed over several less expensive lasers because I wanted a solid product with good performance, easy installation and no hassles. I should have saved my money; the 1022 has the look and feel of something you might pick up for $19.98 at Walgreens.It goes without saying that there is no published instructional manual furnished with the item. (Yes, I know; there never is these days, but I don't have to like this corner-cutting.) There is however a two-sided sheet - labeled "Start" in 4 languages - which is all the written text help you get. It consists of 9 numbered pictures. The pictures are considerably less than self-explanatory. After spending much time trying to puzzle these out, and there being no teenager in the house, I finally asked my poor wife to rescue me (her HP 4ML dates from only 1995, so she's more up to speed on this new-fangled hardware). There are more pictures and lights on the printer's exterior panel, but no identifying text. What each of these means is not intuitively obvious.So far, I'm getting crisp text output very quickly. That's good. But if something goes wrong, I'm expected to wade through megabytes of "online help" (the PDF "manual" is 128 densely packed virtual pages), when all I'd probably need is a 20 or 30 page pamphlet that addresses the basics. Oh well.HP helpfully provides a power cord so that I can plug the thing in and turn it on. That's terribly nice of them. But no USB cord is included, so if you want to actually print something, too bad. Printing requires a separate trip to Radio Shack. Penny wise, pound foolish -- poor show, HP.I paid over $600 (in 1991 dollars) for my trusty HP 4. That may seem like a lot today, but I got my money's worth - and much more. I'm not at all confident I will feel the same about this HP 1022 in the year 2023 - or even in 2008.

Can't yet rate this piece of equipment. HP still has not created the drivers for it, yet they're still selling these printers without notifying the buyer! How much would it take to put a sticker on the box - "not Vista compatible?" Therefore, if you have Windows Vista as your operating system, don't buy this printer!On a high note, Amazon delivered it promptly. No problem with Amazon as usual.Shame on HP. I've had this printer for over a month, still can't use it. When I first bought it and figured out the drivers don't exist, I contacted HP. They said the drivers would be available "before the end of July." Well, it's mid-August and I'm still waiting. Rotten bastar**

I finally retired my decade old HP 5 -- a printer that weighed 40 pounds and had lots of gravitas and cost $1,000 in today's dollars. I replaced it with the 12 pound HP 1022 -- which seems flimsy in comparison.The 1022 does everything it is supposed to -- it is faster to print, much faster to warm up, prints envelopes, etc.My only complaint is that the paper roller feeders "torque" the paper slightly -- which I noticed printing return address labels and Quicken checks in which the print lines are not quite parallel to the edge of the paper.If you are printing out, say, a Word document you don't even notice that it is slightly canted. This is, I guess, the price you pay for something that is faster and more lightweight. I've gotten over having my checks look not quite perfect, but if you are really fussy you should buy a printer in the $300 range. You are just not going to get perfection in this price range. I suspect all the small cheaper printers do this as they have fewer rollers pulling the paper in -- and are yanking it in much faster than the old style printers.I also suspect, due to the size and weight of the toner cartidges, that you get less than half the copies from a given cartridge compared to the HP 5. Clearly HP sells the printer at cost or a loss so they can sell you $80.00 toner cartridges with 400% markups, following Mr. Gillette's marketing advice from 1912.All in all, it works fine. My wife has one as well, and she likes it.