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HP CP2025DN Color LaserJet Printer
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Great network-capable color laser printer with duplex
(5 out of 5) by usna 76 on Jan 23, 2009 (Florida)I purchased this printer earlier this week to replace an HP 2600n that had failed. The software installed without issues on four computers, which run either Windows Vista or Windows XP operating systems. No problem printing on any (or all) of the computers. Printer prints both color and B&W very quickly. Duplex printing option works great. Prints are high quality.
The only issues to date include:
1. Installation software offered either default or custom installation options. Even though I chose the custom option, the software gave me no choices for installation, and everything was installed on all four computers. I had to call customer support to then uninstall unnecessary software on three of the computers.
2. HP defaults this printer to the setting: Stop at out. This setting stops the printer from printing when a print cartridge has reached the end of its estimated life. I've found that a print cartridge has several hundred usable pages of life left when this setting is reached. You can override this setting by setting: Override out.
The only issues to date include:
1. Installation software offered either default or custom installation options. Even though I chose the custom option, the software gave me no choices for installation, and everything was installed on all four computers. I had to call customer support to then uninstall unnecessary software on three of the computers.
2. HP defaults this printer to the setting: Stop at out. This setting stops the printer from printing when a print cartridge has reached the end of its estimated life. I've found that a print cartridge has several hundred usable pages of life left when this setting is reached. You can override this setting by setting: Override out.
48 of 50 people found the following review helpful:
Never go back to Inkjet!
(5 out of 5) by C. Nissen on Jan 11, 2009What a fantastic printer! After spending a small fortune over the past 6 years with two top-of-the-line Epson Photostylus inkjet printers, I'd had enough when my R1800 started chewing through 50% of the 6 ink cartridges it has just trying to get the nozzles cleaned....all at $14/cartridge. So I did a little research and found the CP2025dn brand-new from HP. What a joy!
I just hung it off the home router with its network interface and leave it on 24 hours a day. It goes into sleep mode (from which it only draws a couple of watts of power) yet it immediately wakes up begins printing within about 20 seconds. AND it doesn't clink and clang and make all kinds of fuss: it just prints! This is in what I would call an medium intensity home office or very intense personal use. Four people are using it, 3 from windows, 1 mac and everyone loves it. Using the HP glossy laserjet photopaper it even produces decent pics - not near what an R1800 would do BUT at a fraction of the cost, about 50x as fast, they're totally waterproof, and the quality is easily good enough for a school project, to mail pics to relatives, photobooks etc. But that's not the main thing it will be used for with prints from CVS and others only costing 10 or 15 cents for a 4x6.
Being that the inkjets seem like nothing but cash-cows for the printer manufacturers and the outrageously small number of pages that one gets out of a set of cartridges and the fact that the vast majority of printing is not for photos anyway - but day-to-day text/graphic use, laserjets seem the only way to go. From that perspective, this feels like the best money I've ever spent on a printer and I HIGHLY recommend it - you won't be sorry.
I just hung it off the home router with its network interface and leave it on 24 hours a day. It goes into sleep mode (from which it only draws a couple of watts of power) yet it immediately wakes up begins printing within about 20 seconds. AND it doesn't clink and clang and make all kinds of fuss: it just prints! This is in what I would call an medium intensity home office or very intense personal use. Four people are using it, 3 from windows, 1 mac and everyone loves it. Using the HP glossy laserjet photopaper it even produces decent pics - not near what an R1800 would do BUT at a fraction of the cost, about 50x as fast, they're totally waterproof, and the quality is easily good enough for a school project, to mail pics to relatives, photobooks etc. But that's not the main thing it will be used for with prints from CVS and others only costing 10 or 15 cents for a 4x6.
Being that the inkjets seem like nothing but cash-cows for the printer manufacturers and the outrageously small number of pages that one gets out of a set of cartridges and the fact that the vast majority of printing is not for photos anyway - but day-to-day text/graphic use, laserjets seem the only way to go. From that perspective, this feels like the best money I've ever spent on a printer and I HIGHLY recommend it - you won't be sorry.
40 of 43 people found the following review helpful:
Color laser duplex printing reasonably priced
(5 out of 5) by Irvin M. Haas on Oct 16, 2008 (Indianapolis, IN USA)If you've been waiting for a color laser that does two-sided printing at a reasonable cost, your wait is over with the HP CP2025dn.
Previously if you wanted an HP that does color laser duplex printing, you needed to spend over $700. That has all changed with the CP2025dn. For only $50 more than the manual duplex printer (CP2025n) you get the duplex feature. This printer is fast with a print speed of up to 21ppm. It is all in a compact footprint, not much larger than HP's other black laser printers.
The negatives are few, however. The LED display (1-3/4" x 1.2") could have been larger and easier to read. The CP2025dn comes with 4 starter toner cartridges for 1200 pages. Their replacement toners are for up to 3500 pages, by comparison. Both of these were done by HP to keep their costs down
Sure, you can get a color laser for $250 less, but not with the print speed and duplex feature. With this printer, HP is really giving you your money's worth.
Previously if you wanted an HP that does color laser duplex printing, you needed to spend over $700. That has all changed with the CP2025dn. For only $50 more than the manual duplex printer (CP2025n) you get the duplex feature. This printer is fast with a print speed of up to 21ppm. It is all in a compact footprint, not much larger than HP's other black laser printers.
The negatives are few, however. The LED display (1-3/4" x 1.2") could have been larger and easier to read. The CP2025dn comes with 4 starter toner cartridges for 1200 pages. Their replacement toners are for up to 3500 pages, by comparison. Both of these were done by HP to keep their costs down
Sure, you can get a color laser for $250 less, but not with the print speed and duplex feature. With this printer, HP is really giving you your money's worth.
39 of 42 people found the following review helpful:
Still Searching
(3 out of 5) by Sandman on Feb 17, 2009 (Austin, TX)Do yourself a favor and bring a laptop into a retail store and test the printer before buying. Make sure you download the driver to your laptop first. After all the glowing reviews, I thought I finally found a color laser for my small business. Duplexing and color are both important for me. And speed. I tested the 2025DN with a Macbook and it recognized it quickly. But to do duplex, you need to download the driver. For SMALL files, (less than 1GB) it works very well. VERY nice color output. But bring a hammock for larger files! I printed a 7 MB and 16MB pdf file. It was only 2 pages in length: color pictures with text. It took 4 minutes to print one page (with Duplex) and another 2 minutes to print a second copy. Yikes! Considering it comes with 128MB ram, what's the problem? It's the processor. The printer trays and components are also very flimsy. HP does have good tech help. All-in-all, for SMALL color files, this printer will work for you. Anything larger, better have a lot time on your hands.
23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
Better that printing in kinkos
(5 out of 5) by Alberto Cid on Nov 17, 2008 (Austin TX)After spending a small fortune printing brochures in Kinko's, I got this printer. It is great. Same quality as Kinko's. Now I spend a fortune in toners, but on a FULL color page I estimate a 20% savings in this printer over kinkos, but if you pages do not have a color background, the savings are even bigger since Kinko's charges per page does not matter the amount of toner they use.
*update June 09*
I had printed enough documents to get a better estimate, My costs are ~60% to 80% lower than printing at Kinkos. Paper included.
If printing from adobe products, use the Universal PS drivers to get the colors as you see it in a calibrated monitor. The PCL5 drivers for some reason do not give me the right colors.
*update June 09*
I had printed enough documents to get a better estimate, My costs are ~60% to 80% lower than printing at Kinkos. Paper included.
If printing from adobe products, use the Universal PS drivers to get the colors as you see it in a calibrated monitor. The PCL5 drivers for some reason do not give me the right colors.