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 Great bargain for a quality color laser printer! December 11, 2008
desertrider (USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Wow, Amazon is selling this at a great low price and I am very happy with what I got. This printer is my first laser and color to boot and is very impressive in terms of the quality of graphics and text output. The printer comes with enough ink to print out 750 pages at normal mode printing. Then the cartridges are spendy but will have enough ink for 1400 pages for full cartridges (2200 pages for the black cartridge). There are 4 cartridges required for the printer, each costs around $65 each.
I think this will be far cheaper than ink printers when taking a long term view. One neat feature is the printer software is well designed and shows you exactly how many pages each cartridge has left remaining before the ink is depleted.
Very quiet when printing and the quality is great, however the printer itself is quite hefty and surprised me at how big a footprint it turned out to have. Make sure you have a big space for this printer. Also, the printer occasionally makes a noise like it is resetting or something, not unpleasant or anything but keep in mind its not totally silent all the time when not working.
 NOT MAC COMPATIBLE! December 10, 2008
Joe S (Pennsylvania)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I purchased this printer believing it was compatible with MAC OS, as amazon states. I received the printer and realized that HP does not make a driver for MAC. This printer is only compatible with Windows. I rarely write reviews, but I don't want anyone else to make the same mistake.
 Great Printer for the Money! November 24, 2008
Robert W. Timmerberg (St. Louis, MO USA)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
There's no doubt that there are better printers out there, but none for this price.
The photo prints that I've made seem a little saturated and dark, but that's compared to the laptop LCD screen which is back-lit. Also it appears there are ways of adjusting the color balance but I haven't bothered, mostly because I like the look of most of the pictures that I've printed. Besides, if you want a photo printer - go with an inkjet. The only reason I NEEDED a laser printer is that I print something once every 2-3 months, and in that time, inkjets dry up. I was replacing ink every time I printed anything, and that gets expensive.
The startup time is a little lengthy, but for a home printer it's not bad. Text is crisp and sharp.
I have it connected to my home-office computer, and shared among the computers on my wireless network, so that any of them can print to it. That works quite well, even though the comp that it's connected to is an old Win2K box.
So, I say that if you're wanting to go color laser - this is a great place to start.
 I expected better from HP November 6, 2008
Michael Lennon (Fayetteville, GA)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I ordered the printer from Amazon; shipped and rec'd in good time and condition. Directions to setup simple and straight forward.
Thought I was done. Started back to work, printed some docs with some color diagrams. Particularly the imagery was blury, almost as if they had shadows. Uhg, open and read manual; no help. Call HP customer support; now to their credit, "Bob" was helpful and patient. Patient because he explained my printer needed calibrating; 3 times worth. Then download and install latest firmware; oh, and calibrate 2 more times. Each calibrations cycle seemed to last 2 or 3 minutes; but I wasn't timing it. Printed off some test pages, good, problem solved or so I thought.
Next came this "spooler subsystem app" error. Uhg, what is this; google find out it's a .dll problem; going to require regedit. Ah no, I'm going to take a short cut and restore xp to yesterday setting so I can get back to work. Nope, that won't do it. Mind you, I can't print off the directions either. [..]
Follow the instructions, reinstall printer. What do you know, it works again. Folks it just shouldn't be this hard. I thought I was going to alleviate these problems by buying HP? Maybe next time.
So I've printed 100 pages or so now and for the money, I'm satisfied with the results. Would I recommend to a friend, reluctantly...
Very appy with it so far October 30, 2008
Mary Cheung (California)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
So far so good,no complaints.When I first set it up, it took a LONG time before it was ready & the program was loaded. once the connection to the computer was lost for some wierd reason. I checked all of the cables but it had nothing ot do with it, so I turn it off & restarted it.that seemed to solve the problem. other than that the print quality is great, very quiet. Oh every now & then it will make nosies like it is recycling & then be quiet again. The printer is huge btw , so make sure there is room to put it somewhere.
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