Customer Ratings & Reviews

The best Laser printer I have ever owned. I am retired no and use it for everyday use but I also use it for sewing and embroidery and it is so clear!! It is so quiet you dont even know it is working. Highly recommend

We really like this printer. We have had no problems with it so far. It connected easily to the internet, printing is clear. We originally had a different one and had issues with it. Since we have Total Tech we took it in and said we didn’t want that one and wanted to exchange it for a different brand. We had no hassle and customer service was great!

Love my laser color printer allows me to print documents, envelopes and make copies an all-in-all printer. Wireless so I can print any pics or images or text from IPad or iPhone. I highly recommend it!!

Great quality prints and fast printing. Lackluster scanning with autofeed. Have to manually seperate pages to feed. Upgraded to laser due to poor proformace of new inkjet models.

This is am amazing printer. I've been an HP fan since the original 2680 back in 1981.. This printer is fast, efficient, great output quality, and SMART... I highly recommend this printer for your home or work environments.

Stopped printing after less than 50 prints. Got some weird error on the LCD and unit became unresponsive even after multiple restarts. Waited a few hours and it started printing fine again. When it does work, it works great, but if you are buying this for a business, maybe buy an older model with a proven track record.

Love this printer. Print fast and is a great addition to our business. We print our own candle lables. Lloydcandlecompany.com

Wonderful printer! The print quality is remarkable and highly economical. I would definitely purchase it again.

Excellent Product. Very easy and powerful printer. Highly Recommend

So far, our home office printer is exactly what we were looking for. Print quality is excellent.

Excellent printer especially for the price. For the longest time, maybe nearly 15 to 18 years I've wanted my own laser printer at home. However, their price was always way too expensive for me to afford. I bought this printer on Cyber Monday for a great sale price and have enjoyed using it every since. It was very easy to set up and so easy to use. I would highly recommend this product to anyone looking for a top quality laser printer.

Have had this printer for about a month and, so far, it functions as advertised. My first color laserjet and I'm pleased.

The printer runs smoothly. Not having a single problem

Great reliable printer that was cost effective. Does everything you need it to do.

I love HP Printers, but the network card in this printer died within three months of me owning it. It was not a surge or other network failure. It took me two weeks of arguing with HP to get it fixed, they shipped me a new unit. I just asked them to send the NIC/Mainboard.

It was working great for the first two weeks, then Memory Error codes started coming up and we couldn't print large files... Still haven't figured out how to clear the memory, but can print smaller files.

Printer is great but screen has small keys for typing filenames.

Easy to set up, easy to connect to, and very fast at producing high quality prints. After unpacking, removing the tape, and powering up the printer, you only need a few minutes to configure its wireless access, load paper, connect to it from a phone device or laptop/PC and print your documents. In a few minutes the HP LaserJet Pro 4301fdw was up and ready to print/scan/copy. - Pros: Fast, great looking color prints, easy to configure and access. - Cons: Heavy. >> Setup << The printer is very heavy, so plan in advance to have a sturdy table or desk available to place it on. The first thing I noticed, after opening the box and following the description printed on one of the flaps about how to extract the unit from the box, was how well packed the unit was. The second surprising thing was that there was not really anything to assemble or insert, besides removing the tape holding the parts and adding paper to the trays, there was not even need to install the cartridges as they already came installed in the printer. After powering the printer on, just follow the different screens on the printer’s Control Panel. Nothing really prominent to mention about all of this except that the only “major” configuration step I needed to do was to provide wireless access to the printer, just that. I might add a wired network connection and local connection to a computer later, but currently, the printer is in one room accessible to anyone that wants to print/scan/copy something. >> Connecting << Once the printer is on Wi-Fi, connecting to it with my Windows 11 PC and laptops was as easy as it gets. I just had to select the option to add a printer, and the printer would show up ready to be added. There is also the option to install the HP Smart App if you want to. On one of my Windows 11 laptops, after I added the printer, a pop up showed up asking me to launch the HP Smart App. I recall on other devices I had to click on the "Get App" option after adding/installing the printer. The other type of devices we use for printing are phones. It was easy to connect to the printer and print documents effortlessly from mobile devices. In fact, my first document printed was done using my Android cell phone, it was a pdf doc I needed right after setting up the printer. Very pleased with the experience. >> Copy, Scan and Print << Copy, Scan and Print are the three things I’ve tried on the HP LaserJet Pro 4301fdw and I am more than pleased with the results so far. I haven’t set up the fax yet as I have another fax machine, I might give it a try at some point in time; well, I am not too fond of having someone faxing lots of things to print and spending my precious toner (see below on discussion on toner replacement.) Scan using the predefined settings of the Windows Scanner App is sufficient for what I need to do. I only had to change settings a couple of times; for example, to adjust the DPI. Nothing out of the ordinary when compared to other scanners. Copy has lots of options reachable from the printer’s Control Panel. One I particularly liked was the one to enhance exposure and light, I used it when copying a dark color picture from a magazine. The initial copy came out too dark, a quick adjustment on the control panel, and boom, a nicely copy of the original picture was produced. I now appreciate the Control Panel on the printer, which I didn’t think at first that I would make too much use of beyond using it to configure the wireless access. Print is crazy fast, not your typical home printer. I think this printer is ideal for businesses where documents need to be available promptly. I have used desktop and laptop computers running Windows 11 to print with this printer, and all have been fine. Printing from a phone is also very easy to do. In summary, printing documents from different sources is going to be the main use for this printer. >> HP Smart App << According to the HP Smart App, you can use it to print documents from anywhere. I haven’t used this feature yet as it requires you to create an account on HP. It looks useful if you need to print different things for your personal or small business and have them ready for other people. I haven’t used the HP Smart App too much, as the default Windows and Android software/drivers have been working great for our needs. Nevertheless, I gave the HP Smart App a try multiple times. The only annoying thing I encountered the first time was the Phone App asking for a PIN, which was supposed to be found on the back of the printer (according to the message in the App). With no PIN info on the back of the printer, next I went to the HP support site which was of no use. So, I used Bing and the most helpful advice/answer was given by the AI chatbot that said to “…locate the label inside the cartridge door to view the factory default credentials…” Well, I didn’t find that information at the door, by I did find the username and PIN on the side of the cartridge itself. I looked carefully at the booklets that came in the box, but I found nothing (or perhaps I didn’t look properly.) Anyways, I was not excited about this experience. >> Photo Printing << I am impressed with the color and quality that comes when printing photos with this device. Without adjusting any parameters, just what is set by default, colors are vibrant and the little details in the pictures are noticeable. I haven’t played too much with the settings, just adjusted paper type, size, photo size, color, or b/w. We’ve already printed several photos that we have placed in frames that we have gifted to friends and family. I have only one complaint, though. I haven’t been able to print on 4x6 glossy photo paper from another manufacturer (not HP), the paper gets stuck in the printer. I had no luck searching online looking for others facing a similar situation with the same or similar printer. This means that I will need to buy specific HP branded glossy photo paper to give it a try. I am also worried that other non-HP paper sizes might get trapped as well, so I stopped printing in other manufacturer’s photo papers until I buy HP branded ones and determine what is going on. >> Cartridge replacement << Although I haven’t replaced cartridges yet, I gave a quick look at the replacement toner prices on the HP website. They are expensive, well, crazy expensive, to the point that it made think (after recovering from the shock) about limiting printing on this device and to be extra mindful of what we print. The HP Smart App suggests getting on the HP Instant Ink subscription service to get the toners at savings up to half the price, which I may end up doing to save my hard-earned money.

The last time I had an HP printer I truly hated it. So, I was a bit unsure about taking the plunge on another one having had such a bad experience before. So far, I can say that I think HP has taken great strides at improving their product if this one is any indication. It is not perfect however but has a lot going for it. This new laser printer is what they for some reason call a laser jet even though it has no jets at all unlike an ink jet which literally pushes ink through jet nozzles. Laser printers use dry toner, so they have very little in common. Naming convention aside, it was clear upon opening the box that it is big and very heavy. So, keep that in mind first and foremost, you will need some space for this thing and that space needs to be able to hold some weight as well. It is nice looking, with a high-res color touchscreen, and white with blue accents. I do find the choice to add those blue accents odd as nothing else I’ve ever owned in electronics has been that color before so it will always stand out, but there it is. I set mine up on top of a side of my corner desk since it is too large to fit on the pull-out tray my desk has intended for printers and plugged it in to my network hardwired rather than via wifi or usb which are also options. My first order of business was to ensure AirPrint worked since that is how I interact with my printers most of the time. Unfortunately, it was a challenge to get that working and took several tries to get it to respond to my sending print jobs from my iPhone 14 pro max. It had been setup, connected, updated, and my phone could see it and send jobs to it, but it would not receive them and print anything until after a couple power cycles. Since then, I have had no further problems printing documents from my phone, but it was an issue at first. Then I spent some time with the various settings and options on the touchscreen and found that you cannot scan anything unless you use a web browser or the HP Smart app on your computer. This prompted me to get my laptop setup with the printer which went smoothly by finding it on my network in windows settings, adding it, and following the prompts that followed to download and install the HP Smart software which I did. From there you have to setup an HP account, or you cannot use the full features even for scanning which I find bizarre. Finally, after doing that I printed some things and scanned them to see how it would do. Print quality is phenomenal, everything is crisp and professional grade. It also does double sided printing and color or black and white, and all those options are very fast. It is shockingly quick at spitting out pages and pages of high-resolution prints. Laser printers are fairly loud and this one is no exception, but it will go right back into standby about a minute after completing a job so that saves energy and keeps the noise down to a minimum. The nice high-quality prints I did I then used to scan right back in to see what they would look like, and it did so fast, but the quality of the scan was lacking a lot compared with the original print. Increasing the dpi to maximum brings that quality back up substantially but is very slow and creates an enormous file that is significantly bigger than what I used to print it originally. I’m not sure it proved anything but did get the point across that it can scan very well or very fast but not necessarily both, which is par for the course for scanners in my experience. It can also make copies and send Faxes. I was very impressed with how fast it made some copies and how close to the original the copies were in quality. The copies I made were of a color print as well and they still looked wonderful. I haven’t sent a fax in over a decade so I may never use that feature but it can do so as long as you have a hard phone line attached to it. Once again printing is what we’re really here for and that is where it shines. I’m able to print from my phone or computer without using the HP software and that is great. I prefer to keep the interactions simple and straightforward so I spend less time messing around with it and getting back to my life. It seems to let me do that so I’m happy. I do have reservations about HP’s instant ink program since toner lasts so much longer than ink, I’m not sure it is beneficial at all. There is no indication of how long the starter toner that it included will last, and replacements are extremely expensive. But having to pay a subscription fee for future toner when I don’t know how long it will be before I need more is a hard ask. I could end up paying $14/month for years before finally getting more sent out and that might not be a very good deal. I suppose it depends on your use case. I don’t print more than a dozen or so pages per month so I may not the best audience for that program. Overall I’m happy with how this printer performs, it is fast, smooth and has very high quality print capabilities. I’m not sure I like how many extra steps there are for scanning since you have to have their software and an account just to do that, and the toner is expensive, but the instant ink program is a bit vague on how long you may end up paying for it before receiving any benefit from it. If I keep things simple by printing from my phone primarily and only scanning when I have to, I’ll enjoy high quality color prints from here on out and that’s what I was primarily looking for. If you are familiar with HP’s products and services, you’ll probably find something you like but there are some real caveats to owning this printer because of how intrinsically tied to the software and services it is.

Summary: A very easy to use and setup HP laser printer with great resolution that I can recommend to any one looking for a more commercial grade printer for a small office, multi-functionality, and easy to operate user interface. The printer can be a bit on the heavy side so make sure you get a friend to help move or get this in to the right place. What's in the Box: HP LaserJet Pro 4301FDW printer Laser toner (already installed) Power cable Manuals Setup: The printer setup was very simple, getting the printer to where you want it can be more of a challenge, this is a heavy printer. As mentioned setting up the printer was relatively easy, all it really needs is just to be plugged in to a standard 120v outlet and remove all the protective tape securing it for shipping. Software Setup: Since I previously owned another HP Laserjet printer, I already had the HP Smart app that allows your phone/computer to wirelessly print from anywhere in the house, just as long as you're on the same network. The app is easy to use and simple to navigate. I did however encountered a small issue since my HP Smart app was tuned for another HP printer. No sweat, just make sure you reconfigure your computer or phone to add the LaserJet Pro 4301FDW. Functionality: Probably you'd expect from any other HP printer, multiple use of different functions. This printer comes with the ability to print from your computer/phone, copy, scan and even fax. I can't say much on the fax function but I often use my printer to make scans for any document I need to go digital. I've gotten so much use from this printer with the scan and copy functions as well as being a laser printer.