Good colour laser for those on a budget

Advantages: Reasonable cost cartridges available. Good quality
Disadvantages: Large. No network adapter.

...I have owned this printer for a few months now and I am very happy with it. I wouldn't normally recommend HP since other brands are often cheaper. Often, they are identical models too, Canon have made a lot of printers for HP in the past. This time was different, the HP was the cheapest colour laser I could find where the cartridge prices were also reasonable. Being a laser printer, these do take drums as well as toner cartridges. All laser printers do, but the cartridges for this one come together with the drum. This means to the end user, you only need to change 4 toner cartridges, one for each colour of black, cyan, magenta and yellow. They are the standard four colours but you need to be careful when ordering replacements. Normally, manufacturers list the cartridges in the following order: black, cyan, magenta, yellow. The part...

NegativeG 28.12.2008 (09.09.2009) · Read review
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Review of HP Color LaserJet 1600

HP Colour LaserJet For Your Office

Advantages: Print Quality
Disadvantages: The Device Can Be Noisy When Waking Up

...its price might vary at different places and times. HP's CP3505x used to cost 800 pounds plus VAT when it was launched. Now its price has come down significantly. Even on HP's website, it costs 499 pounds + VAT which is too less as compared to the initial price. If your budget isn't too high, then you can probably try the other from CP3505 models which are priced cheaply. The price for these printers start from 199 pounds + VAT. The CP3505x is an excellent printer because of its great print quality. The text quality is superb even on plain paper. In addition to this, it also has a duplexer, two paper trays and also a networking support. This color laser printer definitely stands out in comparison to other printers in the market. Its ideal for small offices....

bennyong 28.11.2008 · Read review
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Review of HP Color LaserJet CP3505x

HP Color LaserJet CP4005dn Printer

Advantages: Fast Printing (if not Adobe), Toner Level Display, Good Quality Print
Disadvantages: It's Too Big, Doesn't Duplex Properly, It's Too Big, Noisy, oh yes - It's Too Big!

...In March, my office finally bit the bullet and bought its first networkable printer (to be used by 3 people). Up to that point, we had 3 different printers - 1 on each desk - which all went through a full colour cartridge every fortnight and a black cartridge cost every week. Given the extortionate cost of printer cartridges (even recycled ones), my boss decided that now was the right time to buy a new 'central' networked printer, and wanted people to come up with ideas as to what we wanted. We eventually decided that we wanted a printer that could be networked wirelessly, had a high print cartridge capacity, could work with Vista had a fast printing turnaround, had a household name so that cartridges wouldn't be a problem and one that had a duplexing facility as we print a lot of double-sided pages as part of our order forms...

caroline9 25.04.2008 · Read review
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Review of HP Color LaserJet CP4005dn

Colour Laser

Advantages: Fast, large sheet capacity, cheap for colour laser
Disadvantages: none

...Design and Quality: --------------------------- This printer looks pretty nice, and isn't as bulky as some colour lasers it's dimensions are approximatly 48 x 45 x 32.5 cm What's in the box?: ------------------------- Included in the box is: - HP 1500L Printer - Toners (see below for consumable prices) - Laserjet imaging drum - Getting started guide - Paper tray - power cable - 1 year HP Guarantee - software: drivers;HP Toolbox software;HP Status and alerts software. Printing speed: -------------------- This printer is very quick, however the print speed depends on what quality you are using: -Black and White printing upto 16ppm -colour printing upto 4ppm There is a huge difference in the printing speeds of colour and black and white pages... however the colour prints are well worth waiting for...

andy.taylor 26.06.2004 · Read review
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Review of HP Color LaserJet 1500L

Dell Colour Laser 3110cn Review

Advantages: Qulaity, Speed, Network Adapter
Disadvantages: Size of paper tray

...This is a superb colour laser printer for the money. I use this for business on a daily basis. Although mainly used for B&W printing its very fast. When used in Colour the image quality is fantastic. This printer comes with various means of communication ie parallel, USB and a built in network adapter. I have it linked directly to the router and therefore it can be used as a network printer easily. The menus are very versitile and offer you a great array of features to help control your business costs. Ie turning off the colour function to certain users. My only disappointment is that it doesnt come with a larger tray. An additional tray can be purchased as an optional extra at additional cost. The printer is very frugal with the ink, it seems to keep printing and printing without the levels going down rapidly. The cartridges...

MoneyB007 28.06.2008 · Read review
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Review of Dell Color Laser Printer 3100cn

Decent Colour Laser at a Great Price

Advantages: Price, Ease Of Use, Easy Setup
Disadvantages: Possibly The Size, Can struggle with Labels if Not Careful

...Having purchased a number of the C1100's predecessor, the AcuLaser C900, purchasing one of these was seen as a natural step, and is a step that has not proved dissapointing. The printer comes well packaged, and protected, it what is possibly a slightly oversized box! Following the instructions through the initial setup is easy, and your also guided by the LCD display. Once you have installed the various consumables, and hooked it up to you PC via either a Parallel or USB connection, installing the drivers (on Win XP) was also straight forward. When printing it can take a short while to get going, but isn't anything other than you'd expect of a laser printer, and is also reasonably quiet. The print quality is good, and for general colour printing in an office envrionment, it proves excellent value for money. The one thing...

STRONGBOW 07.07.2005 · Read review
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Review of Epson AcuLaser C1100

Colour laser printing at its best

Advantages: brilliant, non wrinkly, perfectly reproduced printouts
Disadvantages: expensive - both to buy, and to run.

...Now before I start, this opinion may not be for the home users out there, as this printer starts selling at around £1,500. Right. Now that I've scared all my sensible readers away, I'll continue talking to the 'not so sensible' people who are going to find out about one hell-of-a colour laser printer! We recently purchased one of these huge A4 colour laser printers at work, and it has been used constantly ever since for flyers, brochures - in fact anything with a hint of colour, just for an excuse to use it! The Epson C2000's models There are four different models available (we chose the basic model) : * AcuLaser C2000 - 32MB mem, 500 sheet cassette and 150 sheet tray. * AcuLaser C2000PS - 96MB mem, PostScript 3, 500 sheet cassette and 150 sheet tray. * AcuLaser C2000DT - 96MB mem, duplex printing...

MikeWhalley 02.05.2001 · Read review
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Review of Epson AcuLaser C2000

Fast colour printer

Advantages: Great Quality
Disadvantages: NOT WITH VISTA

...I am writing a review on the hp 1600 printer. I use this colour printer regulary in my work, and i have found it to be excellent.Its a business printer so i am not sure what it cost - but looking online i would estimate: £140 from the HP Website What it looks like: It sits quite upright but with a gently curved front panel and a completely flat top. Coloured in beige, light and slate grey, the printer has a minimal control panel of just four buttons, two LED indicators and a 16-character LCD display. The display is hard to read, as it's partly in the shadow of its surround and, our pet gripe, could dearly use a backlight. On the front there is the HP Logo, and the printer name below HP Laserjet 1600 - the paper goes in at the tray in the bottom, and comes out the top.The function buttons are along the top. The printer...

lesleyanne18 27.03.2008 · Read review
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Review of HP Color LaserJet 1600

laser printer

Advantages: laser printer
Disadvantages: bit dark on photos

...…………………………̷ 0;….................................................................. ................. Using a laser printer instead of a normal standard injet printer is great, there a lot faster than normal inkjet printers, there a lot more reliable and can carry on printing for ages without you worrying whether the things going to blow up or over heat or not. But most importantly of all, they have such better print quality, the ink stands out amongst the page which is what gives you that shiny ink and picture pages and it makes documents and pictures not only look great quality, but very professional too. This is why companies use them, so that their printed documents look a lot more professional, however all this does come at a price. These are known as office...

techno_man_37 04.04.2008 · Read review
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Review of Dell Laser Printer 1720dn

The Pro & Cons of HP Color Laserjet 4700dn Printer

Advantages: Easy install and setup, reliable, fast speed and capable for network pritning .
Disadvantages: Expensive and cannot print in A3 size, difficult in loading paper .

...reduce the lifespan of the other three color toners. Conclusion It is an idea for LAN printing in a business office with a wide range of media selection, reliable quality and faster speed. However, if you required for print media in A3 size, then it is not for you. It is also not a good idea for personal or graphic designer, as it is expensive in price and also not the best choice for the hi-resolution graphics due to the 600 dpi limitation. Although it seldom got jammed, but if you are not fixing the media correctly, it may be a problematic and need to call technician for help. The correct selection of media type in the printer properties option will reduce the problem and make your printing smoothly. Thanks for reading Jason G ~ 25 Sept 2008 (Original copy published on Ciao.com at same day) Resource Reference http://reviews.cnet.com/laser-printers/hp-color...

newbee123 25.09.2008 · Read review
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Review of HP Color LaserJet 4700dn