HP Laserjet Pro M1217NFW Multifunction Printer Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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Welcome to my unboxing and first look at the
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HPM1217 NFW MFP. It's okay. The MFP isn't actually
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part of that ridiculously complicated part number. That stands for
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multi-function printer. So, this is a pretty basic multi-function printer
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except for one key fact. Not only is it
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a network multi-function printer, it supports e-rint, which is cool because
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you can use not only a computer, whether it's a PC or a Mac, you can also use an
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Android smartphone or an iOS device or
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even just from anywhere you send an
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email of the thing you want to print. And as long as you've configurated the
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e-print feature of this printer, then it'll just print it for you, which is
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pretty cool. So, let's have a look at Okay, we don't need to see the contents
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cuz we're going to open it. Here's the minimum minimum system requirements, which are basically like don't have a
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crap computer from the 80s. Um, start printing right away with
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effortless setup. No CD installation required using HP Smart Install. Print
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from virtually anywhere in the office with wireless connectivity. HP Oh, it's
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wireless, too. Oh, neat. Okay. HP's most complete, affordable wireless MFP.
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Features an automatic document feeder with 35 page capacity. Send and receive
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documents using the 33.6 6 kilobit per second
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facts. Yeah. All right. So, that's pretty much
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it. So, it's like wireless and like installs as fast as 5 minutes. And we're
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going to put that to the test because we're going to be using this printer for an upcoming NCX tech tips showcasing the
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e-print feature and basically finding
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out if it's as like bees knees as HP
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seems to think that it is. So, included is a USB cable.
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Oh, a phone cable. Wire. It's only two
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wires. So, is it like a wire or a cable? It's a
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wires and uh contract return
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checklist. Okay. What else we got in
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here? Laser
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jet printer. Okay. Oh, there's more stuff in there.
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Don't take it away, Slick. All right. More documentation. Power
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cable. Ah, trade receptacle
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doodad. And
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uh are those like EMI shield things? It's an EMI shield thing for the cord.
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Okay. discs, including Rediris Pro for
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HP. Oh, I dropped my lens cap for the
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camera. Put that away. All right, so here's the printer
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itself. It's taped so that it doesn't totally fall apart in shipping, which is
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good because if it totally fell apart in shipping, then by the time it reached
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you, it would have totally fallen apart.
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Okay, taking off some tape. This is part of the unboxing
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process. Unpacking
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taping. And it looks pretty much like a
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multi-function printer if I do uh if I do say so. So, there's
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a thing. Give me a sec. Slick and I have spent a fair
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amount of time determining the ins and outs of this multi-function printer. For
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the most part, paper goes in and comes out and ink goes in and comes out. So
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that is the conclusion that we came to at the end of it. So up here is the
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feeder tray style paper input for the uh scanning,
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copying, faxing functionality. Down here is the flatbed style. So it goes in here
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and comes out here and it goes in here and then also comes out here because for
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a flatbed there actually is no feeder system for the paper to come out when
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it's done. Okay. You can also lift this up completely and access where the paper
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comes out for printing or for
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copying but not for scanning because with scanning paper doesn't come out at
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all. And you can install this piece right here which then extends and then
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extends again in order to keep the paper from falling off because you want it to
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come out but not off. Okay. We can also
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access nothing and the ink cartridge.
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So, this is a mono printer. So, there's only black and no
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color. Monochromatic
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world. Put that down. All the functionality of the functionaliness is
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done through here. So, there's your screen, there's your Wi-Fi button,
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there's for dialing numbers to people who you want to send things to. Ideally,
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not black pages. Come on, grow
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up. Okay. Also, your navigation here.
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Can fold that in. One step, two step,
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red step, blue step. And then down here,
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you can load paper, which again has
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that, you know, transformer like unravelingness
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that happens. Um, so it's a 35 page loader.
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Something about no paper clips or staples cuz they're bad. And really it
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comes down to errint. So we're not going to be talking about that right now
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because that's for our NCIX tech tips episode. Let's put that back. On the
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back IO, we've got your power in. We've
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got your Kensington lock. We've got your modem plug as well as phone line and
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other like not quite phone line but more different phone line. I'm guessing this
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is plugged for a reason. Oh, it's probably a pass through for the phone.
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But I mean, who uses a phone anymore? I mean, I haven't seen a phone with a
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cable coming out of it in like months. USB as well as Ethernet, so you
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don't have to use wireless, but you can. Thank you for checking out my unboxing
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and first look at the Laser Pro M127 NFW, which is not the same as an
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SFW.
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