HP Color LaserJet CP3505 > Reviews > Smooth, Quick, Good Looking....and its a printer

Author's product rating:   

Picture quality	Good
Printing speed	Very fast
Colour sensitivity	Good
Ease of use	Easy
Value For Money	Excellent

Advantages:	Quick startup and printing, great quality, smaller than last one .
Disadvantages:	Not sure on cost of toner etc but always seem to be really expensive

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

Right then, may be the most boring product review ever but at least it won't be full of printer specs because my head might explode if I went through all of these.

It begins with a story, I was sat here at work all morning printing out new paperwork and stationary stuff for the upcoming week (and writing reviews on ciao) when I went to collect the printed stuff from the office. I thought, wow this stuff looks awesome and that printed really quick, and hey presto a review for ciao.

Our old epson laser popped its clogs last week and I dived into the crazy world of printers to find a replacement, The CP3505 is what I found, I actually found it in PC world and checked up on its specs on the HP site as I don't always trust the staff at PC World, they seem way to cheerful for selling PC's daily. Then ordered online and it arrived a coupld of days ago, I am pretty savvy with installing printers and making them work as I have done it for a couple of businesses and friends but this one seemed even easier than normal

It is also much smaller than I expected, the previous laserjet has its own gravitational pull it was so big and a reinforced desk but this one fits nicely on a filing cabinet and there is no bending of wood in sight.

I can't comment on the running cost as it has literally been here for 3 days and I haven't looked at cost of toner and photo units yet but probably similar to what we paid for Epson.

The best thing is that it prints colour and black and white really quick! We always have on the spur of the moment things at work to design and print for new deals etc and this means I don't have to start printing the day before in anticipation. It also has no warming up period that the last one seemed to spend eternity doing before jamming on the first page.

I have printed on cheap paper, good paper, semi thick, card and photo paper so far and they all look fantastic. With a smallish business I think this would work really well to just keep going and always give good results. If you are on the lookout for a new one at the moment take a look at this.