HP LaserJet 5000 5550DN Laser Printer - Color - Plain Paper Print - Desktop Q3715A 749Producing quality, wide-format color laser prints (up to 11 by 17 inches), the HP 5550dn meets most everyday office and workgroup demands. Featuring HP ImageREt 3600 print technology, the 5550dn offers up to 27 ppm printing in black and color, with less than 16 seconds warm-up time. Versatile and expandible paper handling lets you add new trays as you need them; and with the 5550dn, automatic duplexing comes st...
- Up to 27 ppm print speed for black and color images
- Large format, up to 11 x 17 inches; 600-sheet input capacity; auto-duplexing
- 533 MHz RISC processor, 160 MB memory, expandable to 544 MB
- USB 1.1 and parallel ports, 2 open EIO slots, Fast Ethernet internal print server
- PC and Mac compatible; 1 year warranty
This Laser Printers give to us some advantages, like this :
1. Heavy Duty Color Laser
We have been using this at our office as a netwrok printer for a year and a half. Mostly for documents, charts and company resumes.
Pros:
-The color laser printout of images is very good even on a regular copy paper. You get better results using bright white photo paper. We have not to try it on a glossy paper yet but it can. But just don't compare it with an inkjet yet.
-Printing color images even for a full page is amazingly fast. Approximately mere 5 seconds per full color page.
-Compare to an inkjet, laser printers are much economical on ink. Inkjets are notorious for selling you the unit almost at a giveaway price and then selling a full set of replacement ink for the same price as the printer itself.
-Multiplatform. Windows and Mac
-Duplex printing.
-It can print up to 11 x 17 paper.
-The warm up time, around 15 secs is decent
-The spec claims a duty cycle of 120,000 pages per month. We are printing around 5000 pages a...
2. Nightmare!!!
This is certifiably the worse nightmare product I have ever bought. After paying $4000 for it 5 years ago, the printer began to have multiple print quality problems within the first year and half. From that point on it was one maddening experience with HP [lack of] support after another. We had to pay $30 at one point to get the quality pay-per-tech-service they required us to use; the guy freaking read the website trouble shooting guide to me while I screamed at him over the phone. We took the machine in to a certified repair technician and ended up replacing the fuser, image transfer kit, and all four toner cartridges even though they all showed more than 33% life left. Some problems were fixed but others not (it can't seem to print the same exact shade of tan across an entire page for instance, and there are intermittent black streaks that pop up.) We actually had to replace the transfer kit again after only 1 year and almost no use because it created large stripes of color...
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Pretty good workgroup printer. Good supply of maint parts available.
I support six of these units.
Overall, they perform pretty well.
Depending on how intense your usage is, you might require some add on parts such as:
- more RAM
- external hard drive to help with job storage and collating
- IF you THINK you might need the duplexing capability, purchase the printer that INCLUDES it.
(buying the duplex unit later will cost over $100 more, to buy as as add on device)
Pros:
- can do most paper sizes, including 11 x 17
- service manuals readily available
- maint parts readily available
- add ons readily available
- with more vendors in the marketplace, you can buy parts cheaper than if you had to deal directly with a single source parts vendor.
- Service: if you buy the service manuals online and someone in your office has some technical abilities, you can most likely fix almost any problem that might arise. The HP service manuals have pretty well documented trouble...
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