Thursday, August 8, 2013

HP Color LaserJet Enterprise CP4525n Printer - Black/Silver (CC493A)

Bargain HP Color LaserJet Enterprise CP4525n Printer - Black/Silver (CC493A)


HP Color LaserJet Enterprise CP4525n Printer
  • 500-sheet output bin
  • 512 MB total memory and an 800 MHz processor quickly handle complex print jobs
  • 100-sheet multipurpose tray 1 and 500-sheet input tray 2 that total 600 pages

This Laser Printers give to us some advantages, like this :
1. Won't owe you a thing...
I have a 20 year old LJ III, always just worked, File/Print and the pages came. Still works today.

Bought an Epson R1800 for color and bought nothing but problems, drinks ink, test pages every few days, 50/50 chance the page would even be useful, then one day the ink stopped flowing mid-print and nothing but white paper since. Cost to fix was hundreds of dollars. Life cycle cost per print probably ended up in the tens of dollars. File/Print and pray, every time. Epson? Never, ever, again.

So, back to HP and their new CP4525. Why not, buy a set of toner and HP will give you the little brother CP4520 is just about for free. A few dollars more and you get the faster CP4525 engine. Cost per page is built into the toner alone. Buy 2, just to get a second set of toner cartridges AND end up with a spare printer (Fuser alone costs $250). Soon enough you'll likely be able to dump compatible toner into those carts. Also, no need to worry about "chips", the diagnostic menu...

2. Just another Great printer
This is a great printer.

On a Mac, to get good colors, you need to choose the color profile in the printer instead of using one of the ones Mac offers.

Need more appointment... ?
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Like most affordable HP printers, this is kind of cheaply constructed, but in any case is the norm unless you're willing to pay a few thousand more. No major pluses or minuses. Drivers work with Windows 7 x64 and print speed is, as expected, pretty fast. Decent printer.
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