Customer Ratings & Reviews

If you don’t need to print in color, the HP LaserJet Pro MFP 3105sdw monochrome printer is a great option for business, home office, and school use. This printer measures 16” wide, 12.5” tall, with a 15.5” depth and weighs just over 21 lbs. When the scanner lid is open, the total height is about 20”. The paper tray also extends to accommodate legal-size paper but will stick out from the front of the machine about 2-1/4”. There’s a paper jam access panel at the back that requires an additional 7” of clearance to use. There is an auto-document feeder (ADF) on top, a flat bed scanner, and it handles duplex-output printing and copying up to 33 pages per minute. For connectivity, there are USB-B and Ethernet ports at the back for wired connections, dual-band Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi Direct with Apple Airprint and Mopria support. The ADF has a 50-sheet capacity and allows you to scan or copy pages at a rate of up to 19 ppm. It can only capture one side of each page, however, since two-sided scanning is not available. A work around could be to use the 1->2-sided option to combine individual pages to produce two-sided documents. You can also scan manually on the flatbed up to A4 paper size. This printer has one paper tray at the bottom with a 250-sheet capacity. As there is no manual feed slot, you will be limited in terms the paper types and sizes you can use, namely printer paper, envelopes, or smaller card stock. The printer has on-board controls via the pop-up, color LCD touchscreen. It is easy to use and navigate and you have shortcuts for copy, scan, and quick forms. Quick forms let you print standard templates like graph paper, ruled paper, and blank music sheets which I thought was pretty neat. Setup was quick and straightforward. When connecting to my Wi-Fi network, I was happy to see that 5 GHz networks are supported, and there were no issues getting it to connect to my home network. For scanning from or to a computer, additional software, HP Scan, needs to be installed on the PC. Once it was setup, I was able to initiate scans from the computer and send scans to it from the printer’s control panel. You can also choose to scan to a network folder, Sharepoint, or E-mail. When you add the printer to an HP Cloud account, there’s even the option to send print jobs to it remotely by simply sending a document to the printer's email address. There is a toner cartridge pre-installed out-of-the-box. I did find, however, that the first couple prints that came out of the machine had a small black smudge near the top of each page. While it appeared to be getting lighter with each print, upon closer inspection of the toner cartridge, I found some toner powder clinging to the roller. I was able to gently remove it with a lint-free wipe, so after that minor cleanup, subsequent prints came out perfect with no visible flaws. The standard 138A cartridge has a yield of 1500 pages, while the high yield version goes up to 4000 pages. For printing text, I found the output to be sharp, uniform, and clearly legible. When making photocopies from the scanner bed with the default settings, text remained very readable, though slightly underweight, as the light from the scanner tends to soften the edges of the lettering, resulting in a “skinnier” font. However, bumping up the quality to ‘Best’ (300 dpi) and adjusting to print slightly darker resulted in a copy that was nearly was indistinguishable from the original. When using the ADF with text documents, however, due to the mechanical action of the paper moving through the machine via rollers, text tends to stretch or compress at different points in the page. What you end up with is line spacing and lettering that isn't uniform, with some lines stretched taller while others appear compressed shorter, with an overall reduction in print area by a few pixels; so when compared side-by-side or overlaid, the copies don't line up perfectly. Most of the time, these flaws did not impact copying for the sake of having a duplicate and aren’t as noticeable on documents that don’t have a lot of text. Just keep this in mind if precision is important. I was surprised with how good images were reproduced in grayscale, both by printing and when scanning a physical original. Photographs print clean with deep, uniform blacks, lots of detail, little to no pixilation, and only occasionally had subtle areas of minor banding. When scanning, the highest resolution the ADF can achieve is 300 dpi, but the flatbed captures up to 1200 dpi; just note that resulting file sizes can be large at higher resolutions. Color scan were accurate to the originals with only a slight brightening effect. The printer is a bit noisy while it’s operating and during warm up. There is, however, a setting called ‘Quiet Mode’ that reduces the noise by operating the motors at lower speeds. It doesn’t make the machine completely silent though and print speed will be slower. I was also able to print from and scan to my smartphone using the HP mobile app. You can manage the printer, monitor the amount of toner remaining, and order more supplies directly in the app as well. Overall, performance from the MFP 3105sdw was exactly what I wanted from a monochrome printer. As someone who infrequently scans documents and mostly prints text, the printer works great for my needs. The black and white image output was impressive nonetheless, so there’s a use case there for that as well. Even with the text distortion using the ADF, it’s still convenient for scanning a stack of documents all at once. The only thing to remember is that you can’t scan or copy two-sided documents in a single pass.

If you have a home office or do a lot of printing a laser printer is the way to go. The biggest thing for me preferring a laser printer is the speed, you simply can’t beat the speed of a laser printer. My girlfriend is in real estate and with this she needs to print a lot and speed is of essence also. One downside with her printing a lot is printing a lot of needless pages, with HP AI this helps reduce the unwanted and needless pages. This was a feature I was unsure about and didn’t think I would need or if it would really work, but so far I’ve been really happy with how much it’s saved in paper and ink. Setting printers up and connecting them used to be such a pain but the HP app has made this process so much easier. It will walk you thru everything and makes it easier to get it connected to your home WiFi and I’m glad this model includes dual band WiFi. The app basically makes it to where you don’t need to use the small display screen at all. This is a great home office printer and with AI, it helps you save money to spend on other stuff instead of paper and ink.

HP has been in the Laser Jet industry for a long time. I still own an old HP 1000 series printer from almost 20.years and it still prints no problems. The MFP 3105 is an evolution to their stake in the printing industry. Setup was super simple. Pulled out of the box slid it out (be careful super heavy). Plugged in. Walked through Wi-Fi connection via on screen prompt and I was in. Using onboard screen is super easy and no problems. Screen color is good and sensitive enough to do what you want it to do. Printer is a bit big. So.make sure you measure your office space or home space to be able to fit it where you want it. My Android phone found it no problems, my various household PC same. Found it with no issues. Print quality is as always to HP very nice crisp and fast. Seemless no buffer8ng errors. I tried using the app. It found the printer no problems. Scan and copy functions are great! Going to replace my other printer with this printer. Really great printer. I would recommend it.

We had been in the market for a new laser printer since our old one was having problems connecting to my wife’s new Chromebook. This one seemed to check all the boxes of things we needed, so we decided to get one. Out of the box, it looks like pretty much any other laser printer. It has the scanner glass on top, there is also an auto document feeder as well so you can scan a stack of papers or pictures. It comes with the toner cartridge already installed, so you literally just have to take off a few pieces of tape that id holding the trays and things in place, plug it in, and you are ready to set it up. The printer has a fairly small form factor, 16.5” wide by about 16” deep, and just over a foot tall. The setup process was very simple; I just downloaded the installation software suite from the website and installed it and then just added it as a wireless printer. I did the same for all the other computers, laptops, and phones in the house and now everyone is able to print wirelessly from any device in the house. I can verify that it does indeed work with Chromebooks in case you were wondering. The printer has a nice little touchscreen on it which makes it very easy for navigating and entering wireless passwords to get the printer connected. The printing comes out looking great, it is pretty fast too, they say 33 pages per minute. It also does double-sided printing as well. The scanning works great as well, we had a bunch of documents that had piled up that we wanted to get scanned, so we just loaded them up in the auto feeder and let the printer do its work. It went through and scanned about 30 different documents for us and we didn’t have to do anything. It did it all automatically. Overall, we are very happy with this machine, it connects to all of our devices, and just works. What more could you ask for! If you are in the market for a new laser printer, definitely check this one out!

The HP LaserJet Pro MFP 3105sdw is a great printer for my personal and home office needs. This has to be one of the easiest printers I’ve ever setup. I’ve had printers that would have glitches during the setup process. Not this one. I was able to take it out of the box and was printer in no time at all. The printer comes well packaged and there are small strips of tape that keep moving parts from moving during shipment. The pieces of tape are very easy to peel off and remove. After that, you just plug up the printer with the included power cord. I didn’t even have to install the printer cartridge. It was already installed inside of the printer, and ready to print. Connecting the printer to my WiFi network was a breeze. I was able to use the touchscreen display on the front of the printer to select my WiFi network and type in the WiFi password. The HP app on my iPad was able to quickly find the printer on my WiFi network, which allowed me to start printing. The pages come out quick and print quality is excellent. The printer has a glass document feeder and a sheet fed document feeder. Both are fast and the results come out great. Overall, I’m quite pleased with this printer and hope to get years of great use from it.

Over the past few months I have been using a HP inkjet printer, but found I was churning through ink as I printed documents for review and signing. Upgrading to the HP LaserJet Pro MFP 3105sdw has been a blessing. The HP LaserJet is so much faster and easier to use. Setup was fast, I'm using it on an office mesh WiFi network. I did the setup using the full color screen, as I was a little too anxious about using the app, mainly because I use a HP printer at home and didn't want to bind it to my home account as this will be a shared office printer. Even doing setup using the screen was easy. In terms of print speed, I did some very rough timing and I am getting well over 30ppm. I haven't done duplex printing (yet) but it does support duplex. Scanning works well, I don't use the HP software but a 3rd party tool we use in the office for scanning and PDF markups and the MFP 3105sdw was detected as a network printer. If I had to pick a fault, I do wish the paper tray was a little bit deeper but given the printer is designed to be compact for a small office, I guess this is a reasonable trade off. If you're looking at the LaserJet v HPs OfficeJet (inkjet) series, if you only need black and white, I would definitely get this LaserJet 3105sdw, you will get better value and use out of it and higher speed printing is a must in the office because you don't want to be hovering around a printer waiting for you confidential files.

Bottom Line: The HP LaserJet Pro MFP 3105SDW is a good solid laser printer for small or home office that only needs black and white printing. Set up was easy on both my personal computer/laptop and even an android phone. The wireless printing is so convenient. Not needed, but if you download the HP app, you can take your LaserJet Pro MFP 3105SDW to the next level with automated AI functions. I don't think you can go wrong with this printer. Set Up: The set up was simple. For the simplest way, connect your printer to your WiFi network then use the windows control panel to add printer and everything is on screen to follow. On your android phone, I found it easier just installing the HP smart app to recognize the printer. Final Word: Definitely a good black and white printer for small businesses. Fits all my needs for printing, scanning, and copying, which are the most used functions my little office uses. Being wireless, simplifies adding all my workers computers. It's also very convenient solemnly printing from my phone. I would recommend this printer for small offices, or someone who only needs to print documents.