HP Color LaserJet 2600n Printer (Q6455A#ABA) | List Price: $329.99
Discount Price: $349.94
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Platform: Mac OS X
Brand: Hewlett-Packard
Binding: Electronics
Warranty: 1 year warranty
Features: - Color laser printer offers affordable color printing
- Up to 600 x 600 dpi for both black and color prints with 8 ppm speed for both black and color
- 250-sheet paper tray, with option to add second tray
- 16-character front panel LCD display offers easy-to-access information
- Device measures 16.0 x 14.6 x 17.8 inches (WxHxD)
Worth it - Ships with full tanks of toner (vs 1600) [Posted on 2008-05-15]
I have had this for over a year, and am very fairly with it. I have yet to buy any toner/ink for it, and would have spent perhaps $100 on inkjet cartridges with my old printer.
Note that this printer comes with FULL tanks of toner. When I was comparing it with the HP 1600n, I found that the 1600 came with HALF-FULL tanks of toner, so the 2600 gives you the equivalent of 2 more tanks of toner, so it was clearly worth it to go with the 2600n. It also came with an Ethernet port, which allowed me to put the printer anywhere in my house.
One downside is that the original black cartridge (still going) makes makes a faint line across every page :( so I am almost tempted to replace it.
HP 2600n [Posted on 2008-06-17]
This printer is a primary network printer. It has issues when connected directly to one PC. If using Windows Vista, a Printer Spooler Error occurs. HP has no supporting drivers to fix this. Microsoft has no Windows patches to fix this. This error is famous as several forums exist to attempt and hack both the Windows spooler and the HP 2600n. Fought this problem for two solid days with Tech calls, internet chats and promises of return calls with a solution. I have yet to hear from either group. However, the pages that managed to print were of the finest quality I've ever seen from a home office printer. I'm sure it will be the best printer I'll ever own once it works.
Perfect for the Mac and Small Biz!! [Posted on 2008-07-15]
We have owned this printer for close to 3 years now. We switched from inkjet to laser with this machine. Our office is 100% Mac based. From day one this printer has been great. Super easy to network with multiple Mac machines through standard 10/100/1000 ethernet router and the reliability has been superb! No complaints at all. We don't print a lot since most of our documents are converted to PDF and just after 3 years we are shopping around to replace the original toner that came with the printer. If you are expecting for this printer to give you professional looking graphic and photo prints, then look somewhere else like the Minoltas; but if you are looking for an awesome document and good looking graphics printer then this is it. Don't forget that even though is HP it works great with any Mac.
Slow and not great at printing envelopes [Posted on 2008-07-15]
I have had a hard time printing envelopes - this is after three weeks of daily use of the printer. This is my fourth HP printer in 20 years and I have never had any problems before with envelopes.
Excellent, affordable color laserjet (4+ stars) [Posted on 2008-08-01]
Sometimes it amazes me at how affordable color laser printers have become, and this HP printer is an excellent example of such a printer. Perfect for home or small business use, it prints professional-looking, crisp color sheets at a decent rate, although not as fast as a higher end model should. (It takes about 30 seconds from turning the power on to printing the first, full-color page; a ten page job takes approximately 2 1/2 minutes.) The resolution of the printed pages was even better than I had expected.
This particular model comes with full-size color toner cartridges. Given the price of replacing them, it adds real value since most printers come with 1/2 full toner. The display on the front shows how much of each toner remains, a helpful feature if you're about to print a big job. Drivers are available for Mac OS X and different versions of Windows. This is a non-PostScript printer.
The only problem I had was printing from a Adobe PDF document on my Mac. I can print the same flier from a Word document, but once I convert it to PDF, it loses the font graphics. The same PDF document prints fine from a Windows machine, so it has something to do with the Adobe Reader for Mac. If you use a Mac and expect to print a lot of PDF files, you should be aware of this potential problem. Because I can print using Word, I deducted only a half star for this.
I don't recommend this as a solo printer if you print a lot in black-and-white since the cost of toner and the slower speed makes it inefficient for simpler tasks. Use this as a supplement for times when you need high resolution color that is more colorfast and glossy than an inkjet. For a good quality, low cost black-and-white laser printer, I recommend Brother HL-2040 Monochrome Laser Printer.
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