Hewlett Packard LaserJet 1018 Printer
- Black Print Speed: 12 ppm
- Output Type: Monochrome Printer
- Technology (Detailed): Laser
- Printer Type: Personal Printer
- Max Resolution (BW): 600 x 600 dpi
- Total Media Capacity: 150 Pages
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HP LaserJet 1018 May be the Quietest Laser Printer on the Market
Pros
Low cost, very quiet, quick idle to print time, powers down quickly.
Cons
No longer available but look at the HP LaserJet Pro P1102w for comparable printer.
Recommended it?
Yes
The Bottom Line:
If you can find this fast, easy to use and quiet printer new on the resale market, grab it, or look for its newer replacement models.
I bought and stored this printer over two years ago just because the price after rebate ($50 from $99 before rebate) was half the cost of buying a new toner cartridge for our other printers. Now that I put it into use just a month ago, I regret not doing that sooner! This HP printer is the quietest printing home laser that we have, and we've owned many different brands. And print quality is great too!
So why write a review on a printer that isn't being sold retail any longer? Well, it's not uncommon to come across some of these units in slightly used condition, and they are for sale on Amazon and other sites used. You might even find a new unit for sale now and then – it's for sale new on eBay for $349, a price that makes no sense given this printer originally sold for $129 or much less on sale. Knowing how HP's smaller laser printers perform can help guide you if you are considering one of their similar current models like the the HP LaserJet Pro P1102W that is retailing for $99 right now. Other than color and a bit of design change, it's essentially the same printer but with wireless networking and a bit faster printing.
We are using our HP LaserJet 1018 in a temporary housing situation where it sits idle and we plug in our notebooks to the USB cord when we need to print – so we do a lot of printing the requires the printer to fire up and go from a cold stand still. It takes about 10 seconds for the first page to print from the time I plug in, which I consider to be an exceptionally fast warm-up time (versus the Samsung, Mita, and Oki printers we have at home). The warm up is a low hum that you can barely hear, and the printing noise is only slightly more audible. I don't have any way to measure the sound level, but judge it to be the quietest home printer we've ever owned and we've owned about a dozen so far. Equally important, the printer after the job is done, shuts down back to silent in well under 10 seconds too – so we don't have what I consider annoying hum of an idle printer as it cools down.
The printer offers a very compact footprint, and has an easy to load paper tray up font. The paper tray is open to the air, which I don't like if we were in a humid or dusty environment, but in an home or apartment, it works fine. We've had no problems with the output projecting into the output tray – some printers don't like it when you have a large print job, the paper can begin to spew off the output tray, but so far no such problems with the HP 1018.
As I mentioned before, the printer runs off of a USB cable, which came with the unit. Print quality is as good as the printers costing thousands that we use at work. The 1018 is rated at 12 pages per minute, and we're getting 15 or more per minute for word processing type documents – have not printed any photos or graphics which I suspect will run a bit slower.
The bottom line is that HP's small DeskJet printers have a solid track record of quality performance, nice printing quality, good print speed, and all at an affordable price – to get this printer in its current configuration for $99 is a steal (the HP LaserJet Pro P1102W).
So why write a review on a printer that isn't being sold retail any longer? Well, it's not uncommon to come across some of these units in slightly used condition, and they are for sale on Amazon and other sites used. You might even find a new unit for sale now and then – it's for sale new on eBay for $349, a price that makes no sense given this printer originally sold for $129 or much less on sale. Knowing how HP's smaller laser printers perform can help guide you if you are considering one of their similar current models like the the HP LaserJet Pro P1102W that is retailing for $99 right now. Other than color and a bit of design change, it's essentially the same printer but with wireless networking and a bit faster printing.
We are using our HP LaserJet 1018 in a temporary housing situation where it sits idle and we plug in our notebooks to the USB cord when we need to print – so we do a lot of printing the requires the printer to fire up and go from a cold stand still. It takes about 10 seconds for the first page to print from the time I plug in, which I consider to be an exceptionally fast warm-up time (versus the Samsung, Mita, and Oki printers we have at home). The warm up is a low hum that you can barely hear, and the printing noise is only slightly more audible. I don't have any way to measure the sound level, but judge it to be the quietest home printer we've ever owned and we've owned about a dozen so far. Equally important, the printer after the job is done, shuts down back to silent in well under 10 seconds too – so we don't have what I consider annoying hum of an idle printer as it cools down.
The printer offers a very compact footprint, and has an easy to load paper tray up font. The paper tray is open to the air, which I don't like if we were in a humid or dusty environment, but in an home or apartment, it works fine. We've had no problems with the output projecting into the output tray – some printers don't like it when you have a large print job, the paper can begin to spew off the output tray, but so far no such problems with the HP 1018.
As I mentioned before, the printer runs off of a USB cable, which came with the unit. Print quality is as good as the printers costing thousands that we use at work. The 1018 is rated at 12 pages per minute, and we're getting 15 or more per minute for word processing type documents – have not printed any photos or graphics which I suspect will run a bit slower.
The bottom line is that HP's small DeskJet printers have a solid track record of quality performance, nice printing quality, good print speed, and all at an affordable price – to get this printer in its current configuration for $99 is a steal (the HP LaserJet Pro P1102W).
