Subscribed straight away after seeing this video! One of my favorite retro LaserJet printers by HP! I was impressed that it only had almost 21500 pages printed in it’s life time. Actually that’s not that much, I would consider 250k as a lot. Most of those had 100-200k pages printed in total, Well done by showing everyone including me of what you can do on this printer, such as printing on windows 95, 3.1 & MS-DOS etc… It also looks like it’s in good condition! Hope you can make more videos like this as I’m into printers! Respect you man!!
My parents got one of those during my teen years at Goodwill. It lasted several years and printed plenty of school assignments. It eventually bit the dust, but it was really good for the time it was operational.
Still have one of these in use today. That rear pull down is an out feed sonyou can print thick stock of envelopes straight through the printer with the print out getting curled around the main top out feed.
This reminds me of a brand new* HP DeskJet 500 that turned up at a Cash Converters store, but I sadly couldn't get it due to a lack of space in the apartment I'm currently stuck living in. *They seemingly opened the box to take the actual printer out, but not any of the tape and such attached to it.
Got my hands on a 6P in 1986, near identical except more ram. These never die. This will print your entire novel, windows standard image formats, PDFs, anything text, print screen files. anything with print options I was just using my laserjet a short while ago on my bench computer (XP-pro) on the last of the 03a second toner cartridge, run the cleaning utility and prints just fine for 44 years old and a hundred reams of paper. You should get the user guide (it is big)(print that too) I have a good 10 reams of printing to do and this will be doing it after I refill the 03a. Hey, those fold open trays are in and out the back for Avery and envelopes. (read the guide) Thanks for sharing this.
I have the same exact printer. I've been using it since around 1996 or 97, and my dad had bought it new. It says on the back that it was manufactured in September of 1995. I just printed the self test page, which I didn't know about before watching this video. The page count is 49,269.
I do remember having a Cannon inkjet BJC 240 printer in early 1997 that I was using with an AST advantage adventure PC which was a 486-66 mhz pc with Windows 95.
My dad bought an HP Laserjet 6L with out Packard Bell in 1996 .. I thought it was amazing, it could print 6 sheets a minute, which was a big deal for that time.
That's a very nice piece of tech history, I have an HP LaserJet 6P that sometimes I still use with my main (Windows 10 Pro) PC, even if I've a Kyocera Ecosys M6530cdn as my main printer.
I found this video looking for Windows 10 driver for a 5P. New desktop with Windows 10 will not work. Older PC with Windows 10 on top of Windows 7 did work. My 5P has always been a strong printer.
Subscribed straight away after seeing this video! One of my favorite retro LaserJet printers by HP! I was impressed that it only had almost 21500 pages printed in it’s life time. Actually that’s not that much, I would consider 250k as a lot. Most of those had 100-200k pages printed in total, Well done by showing everyone including me of what you can do on this printer, such as printing on windows 95, 3.1 & MS-DOS etc… It also looks like it’s in good condition! Hope you can make more videos like this as I’m into printers! Respect you man!!
My parents got one of those during my teen years at Goodwill. It lasted several years and printed plenty of school assignments. It eventually bit the dust, but it was really good for the time it was operational.
On the '90s PBS Show Ghostwriter, Jamal had one in his one with his DOS PC
I think Samuel L Jackson played his dad.
Still have one of these in use today. That rear pull down is an out feed sonyou can print thick stock of envelopes straight through the printer with the print out getting curled around the main top out feed.
I just got my old HP printer from Germany from 1994/1995 to complete my bedroom Packard Bell setup.
This reminds me of a brand new* HP DeskJet 500 that turned up at a Cash Converters store, but I sadly couldn't get it due to a lack of space in the apartment I'm currently stuck living in.
*They seemingly opened the box to take the actual printer out, but not any of the tape and such attached to it.
Got my hands on a 6P in 1986, near identical except more ram. These never die. This will print your entire novel, windows standard image formats, PDFs, anything text, print screen files. anything with print options
I was just using my laserjet a short while ago on my bench computer (XP-pro) on the last of the 03a second toner cartridge, run the cleaning utility and prints just fine for 44 years old and a hundred reams of paper. You should get the user guide (it is big)(print that too) I have a good 10 reams of printing to do and this will be doing it after I refill the 03a. Hey, those fold open trays are in and out the back for Avery and envelopes. (read the guide)
Thanks for sharing this.
Aw man, I did not know Publisher used to have a paper aeroplane wizard. Of course, I grew up in the XP era, so it was probably already gone by then.
I have the 6P, still used daily
I have the same exact printer. I've been using it since around 1996 or 97, and my dad had bought it new. It says on the back that it was manufactured in September of 1995. I just printed the self test page, which I didn't know about before watching this video. The page count is 49,269.
This is the best printer I have ever had: I bought it in 1993 and am still using it now, in 2022!
A few years ago I had a HP LaserJet 4L but it broke.
But it was a good printer for that time.
Believe it or not, in my office there are some HP LaserJet 6MP's around. It looks just like the 5MP.
I do remember having a Cannon inkjet BJC 240 printer in early 1997 that I was using with an AST advantage adventure PC which was a 486-66 mhz pc with Windows 95.
My dad bought an HP Laserjet 6L with out Packard Bell in 1996 .. I thought it was amazing, it could print 6 sheets a minute, which was a big deal for that time.
That's a very nice piece of tech history, I have an HP LaserJet 6P that sometimes I still use with my main (Windows 10 Pro) PC, even if I've a Kyocera Ecosys M6530cdn as my main printer.
The 5MX was the shiznit
Nice.
Where do you get all the Old Computer Equipment?
Probably about 85% of it comes from ebay and the other from thrift shops.
Oh my God, I think my elementary school had these.
I still use mine as main printer, slow but a work horse
Good review on it
Does it have an expansion memory slot?
I found this video looking for Windows 10 driver for a 5P. New desktop with Windows 10 will not work. Older PC with Windows 10 on top of Windows 7 did work.
My 5P has always been a strong printer.
wow hp 5p good