HP Color LaserJet CP1215

Appearance I think the printers quite cute and its fairly compact so will fit on the table next to your monitor. It's also a nice sturdy machine and would rate the build quality quite high apart from a slightly loose sliding paper tray. Performance The printer isn't the fastest available but it's not unbearable its colour prints at about 2 pages a minute. It does however pump out an annoying high pitched noise as it prints. The worst aspect of the machine is its 'recommended monthly print volume' is a minimal 250 to 1,000 pages so it can only be used for personnel use. Quality of Print The ... more

I have owned two HP color laser printers in the past 6 years, a 1500L which lasted a very long time, however was ponderously slow, and the consumable price for that obsolete model was too outrageous to replace the cartridges. I replaced that with a CP1515n (is the same as the CP1215) and for 1 year and 1 day had excellent print results. The quality and registration were superb, and the speed reasonable for a home office. However after that it stopped working. No error code and no help from HP. They basically laughed at my misfortune and said buy another. Err - no thanks guys, you don’t know ... more