Customer Ratings & Reviews

Needed to upgrade our printer with more speed and this printer does the trick. Very fast and easy to setup and connect to our devices. This printer is great for printing hundreds of pages at a time.

This HP black-and-white printer has been a fantastic addition to my home office. It’s fast, with clear, crisp print quality on every page. Setting it up was a breeze, and it connects seamlessly to my devices, so I can print directly from my phone. The compact design is a bonus, fitting perfectly on my desk without taking up too much space. For anyone needing a reliable printer for everyday tasks, this one’s a winner. Highly recommend!

I recommend purchasing this printer, because it is very easy to use, has very good printing quality and all for a very good price.

Purchase this on sale when it was under 200 bucks. I need a new printer because my old LaserJet failed. Came home hook this up and I was surprised to see how many features this thing had. The biggest surprise is that it duplexes and also allows you to print from your cell phone. So tired of ink cartridges and the expense that comes with them. Setup was a little extensive but once you get past it, it works fine. So far so good, I gave it five stars

Easy install/start up. You have to be brain dead to not be able to fallow very clear directions. It’s been 2 months so far and it doing great. This printer is not meant for business, big or small, just for light home use.

Printer was very EZ to set-up even if your older and not so "tech savvy" I even set my phone up to print to it, not just my computer! It prints great quality documents. I am very pleased!

"I bought the HP LaserJet M234sdw couples months ago for my home business, and honestly, it has exceeded my expectations. What I like the most is how economical it is with laser ink. I've been printing a lot and the ink levels are still high. Plus, it's super easy to connect with my phone. I definitely recommend it for people who print frequently and want to save on ink. It’s great for students, small business owners, or families.

Good printer, running very fast and clear… easy to set up with WiFi and great for office and home too.

This is an upgrade for us. We love it. The install was pretty straightforward. This one seems easier to use than our last hp laser printer. The touch screen is better and the print quality is excellent.

I LOVE this printer, Its super easy and gets the job done!!

I love it! I can scan a document through my phone using their HpSmart app it prints out like an original. Uses one cartridge of black ink. Really nice! It took a while for me to figure out that the printer has to be on the same WiFi as the homes. I have two WiFi connections that caused my delay in setting up. it’s really great though. I can even send a document to print from my car. Prints double sided. Copies one side at a time

Easy printer to set up work takes very little time to actually start printing

My new laser printer from Best Buy is perfect for my needs and is performing excellently.

Amazing wireless multifunction printer I have ever owned , very easy to print from wifi from any device or phone, no more worry about inkjets drying up, prints come out very fast, i should of gotten this sooner. I highly recommend !

We like HP laser printers; this is our third, & this model is virtually identical to the HP M234sdwe we set up for my stepson more than a year ago we kind of knew what to expect going in. Fortunately, this MFP isn't as heavy-handed on the Instant Ink subscription program as the M234sdwe was. Instead of being locked into a 6-month Instant Ink program out of the box (where ongoing subscription costs are likely subsidizing a bit of the M234sdwe's price which is you can buy it just a tad cheaper & get an extra year's warranty), the M234sdw comes with a microchip-enforced HP toner cartridge & a 2-month trial of Instant Ink. For those of you unfamiliar, HP Instant Ink program is a subscription service where toner refill shipments & cartridge recycling materials are mailed out based on HP’s monitored usage of your printer with prices/output ranging from $.99 for 10 pgs/month to $24.99 for 700 pgs/month. Excess pages will cost you if you don’t have enough limited rollover pages remaining from a prior month’s use. If you print a LOT or generally follow a very regular or predictable toner use pattern, Instant Ink may be economical for you, especially if you go through a lot of high-capacity cartridges. But unless you produce a lot of copies/printouts, you are probably going to exceed the trial period that comes with this printer before you need your first refill & thus not get a sense for what subscription rate might be a good fit for your needs. During setup, you are notified that the printer will regularly check for new firmware to update the printer’s genuine HP toner enforcement, ostensibly to ensure you remain locked into using & purchasing ONLY genuine HP toner cartridges (if you’re not on an Instant Ink plan). So long as you’re comfortable with one of those two options for purchasing/ordering new toner (which always ends up costing far more than the price of a budget laser printer anyway), that about sums up the primary differences I can see between this M234sdw & the M234sdwe. But assuming you don’t have the benefit of a nearly identical HP LaserJet to compare this one to, what does the M234sdw bring to the table? PROs: - Super-fast! About 7 seconds for the first page to come spitting out while additional pages take less than 3 seconds; a dual-sided page took a bit less than 5 seconds to fully run through the auto-duplexer (NICE!). - Text is razor-sharp, clean, & crisp as you would expect & demand from a laser printer; straight lines, corners, & curves are all rendered with equal clarity & definition. - Grayscale graphics are produced without obvious banding, blockiness, or sloppy-looking stippling. Copies, especially of complex images & shapes, do not suffer from serious image degradation - The top-mounted auto document feeder holds about 40 sheets of paper; the output tray will accommodate about 100 pages, while the paper tray will give you a capacity of 150 sheets (which, I grant you, may feel just a tad cramped if your output needs lean more on the heavy side) - Network & printing connectivity options are extensive with dual-band WiFi, local USB, Ethernet, WiFi-direct printing, Air Printing, & printing via HP Smart App (which is really cool because you can access most functions & print documents from LITERALLY ANYWHERE via HP Smart.. - I had to go to HP’s support website for the M234sdw because I found conflicting information online, but it looks as if the maximum resolution of the printer’s output is 600 DPI which matches the optical resolution of the scanner itself…this means you won’t be making larger image/document scan files than necessary. - The paper tray’s fold-up/fold-down dust cover features a small LCD display with buttons for making copies with adjustments in image size down to 25% of the original or zoomed enlargements up to 400% as well as adjusting copy count, creating a single sided-page of 2-sided ID cards, adjusting brightness, wireless on-off control, & canceling or resuming the current print job. - The companion HP Smart app is a very user-friendly hub of utilities including monitoring printer & supplies status; changing scanner settings; creating shortcuts like automatically emailing a scanned copy or saving a document to GoogleDrive, Dropbox, etc.; creating various documents for crafts & projects (HP’s “Printables); accessing HP’s Mobile Fax–a capability that allows you to use the M234sdw as a bonafide FAX machine even if it’s not hooked up to a phone line, printing photos & documents; extracting text from documents, & adjusting multiple admin & advanced settings CONS: - The auto-document feeder is single-sided only; that’s to be expected in a budget-level laser–and at least you can duplex your printed documents, but a duplexing document feeder would have really knocked it out the park! - The paper tray sticks out of the front of the printer at ground level by nearly 5 inches. The tabs that secure the tray into the main body of the printer aren’t very long nor do they feel well-supported. I suggest you figure adding several inches front-to-back to the shelf-space you expected the printer to occupy, which is really unfortunate given the otherwise quite diminutive footprint. - The control panel buttons are sparse to the point that you can’t do much more while standing at the printer other than make photocopies–sadly, you can’t set up shortcut buttons/macros to scan a document that is automatically saved or sent to your computer or anything like that. All other functions must be done through a phone/PC app. At the very least, I would have loved a 1-sided/2-sided button for copies so I wouldn’t have to access my phone or PC if I needed to change the default copy/output settings. - The LCD display is not backlit though the buttons on the panel are–it would be nice to see the LCD readout in lower ambient lighting. & despite having an auto-off/sleep feature you can adjust in the admin menus, the network & power LEDs remain illuminated all the time which might be intrusive if you happen to keep the printer in the same room where others sleep. - Like 4 of our other 6 HP printers, this M234sdw was not configured on our network without incident. The HP Smart app would error out after the printer pulled an IP address from my router but would not authenticate to HP’s servers or finish device configuration (if you’ve searched HP printer support requests lately, you’ll see this is a pretty common occurrence). *** What worked for me was to let HP Smart’s “Setup a New Printer” wizard error out, then go back into the app & complete the setup by choosing “Finish setup or add a printer that’s already set up” from the add-printer dialog. This worked for my father’s troublesome HP LaserJet, too. Note that if HP Smart still doesn’t find your printer, you may need to check your router’s client table to see what IP address it was assigned & then tell HP Smart to connect to the printer directly by IP address (I had to do this for my PC, but not my phone). *** - HP support for the M234sdw can be confusing because most features are accessible through HP Smart, but there are other settings, monitoring programs, features, & troubleshooters that are available in the HP Easy Start setup package that you can download from HP’s website, & there are no less than 10 separate downloads (!!!) on the printer’s support page, many of which sound remarkably similar; if HP Smart failed you, it may not be completely obvious which alternative programs might be necessary. - As I observed with our other HP MFPs, all my Windows programs with TWAIN support baked in did not read the M234sdw as an available scanner even after it was online. I don’t know if it’s something I’m not seeing/doing correctly, but from what I can tell, scanning functions appear to be accessible only through HP Smart or a separate scanning program installed via one of several HP downloads (HP Easy Start, Basic, or Full HP Universal Scan packages). I do not know if things would be different if the printer was set up locally via USB. - If you loathe reading instructions, be aware there is a PIN code on a label inside the printer you’ll need to access any "Advanced Settings" submenus & adjustments–but if you just stumbled across those settings within the HP Smart interface, you might not know that the hidden PIN is the admin password being requested. Thankfully, the mechanism to open/close the top of the assembly doesn’t require much force, which is a nice departure from the concerning amount of pressure (and accompanying snapping sounds) it takes to get the lid open/closed on my LaserJet Tank MFP. If it sounds like I’m being overly critical, I’m not trying to be. For the price, the M234sdw really *is* a solid light-to-medium-duty MFP & a pretty good value for the asking price. It offers remarkably clean/clear print quality, incredibly speedy output, surprisingly decent graphics performance (maybe even slightly improved from what we saw with the M234sdwe), & a number of convenience features that make it fairly simple to use--especially if you are one of the lucky ones who can get it online without any of the networking or setup hiccups that seem to plague a number of users. Granted, negotiating many MFP functions through HP Smart may rub some advanced users the wrong way; and those lulled into thinking everything they need will be available via the simple/user-friendly HP Smart interface may be intimidated when they need to make adjustments in the more detailed & picture-free advanced setup/configuration pages. However, the fact that I’ve been willing to continually put up with such issues (and even recommend these budget LaserJets to my family) should hopefully say something. If you can get past some of the speedbumps I've indicated, there's still a lot to appreciate here--recommended.

Works great! Is very fast. I also like the paper tray as it holds a fair amount of paper.

Great product. Works like a charm. Easy to set up.

This is the best printer I have ever had, and the price is simply incomparable

Very reliable and fast. My opinion, best cost effective option on the market.

Setup wasn't too painful but the system doesn't seem to recognize the toner cartridge that came with it. Updated all the drivers, updated the firmware, checked the chip and contacts, restarted and reseated the cartridge countless times, but still displaying Error 11. Not sure if it's an issue with printer, the cartridge, the software, but in any case it's really disheartening that they expend all this effort to prevent you from using 3rd party ink but apparently don't put in the effort to make sure you can even use their own ink... HP customer support isn't available on the weekend it seems, so if we don't get things solved on Monday then it's back to the store to return it!