Product Review of the HP Color LaserJet 5550n Printer

For a printer that is designed to be used by a large workgroup, consider the HP Color LaserJet 5550n printer. This printer is rather expensive in price yet offers excellent speeds as it prints graphics. It’s a great choice for offices that make a lot of color prints.

Documents that have been prepared on this printer are found to be high in quality. The machine does equally well at printing color prints, text or monochrome graphics. Transitions are smooth and documents have great fine detail. Color prints are found to show great detail as well. Colors are all vibrant and rich yet don’t sacrifice their realistic qualities. The machine is comparatively fast at producing color prints, however the text prints are produced at a relatively slow speed.

Yet another helpful fact on the subject of this content. The printer was originally designed for use with Windows XP. Currently, HP tells consumers that the newest version of the printer is designed for use with Windows 7 and that older editions of Windows may cause the newest models to lose some of their functionality. Nonetheless, since the machine has spanned 3 versions of the OS, it’s likely to work well with all three.

Setup of the printer is fairly easy. It sometimes takes longer than setting up other printers. Most Windows versions will recognize this printer. Installation of the drivers will take the longest time.

Included with the printer are a couple of paper trays. The standard tray will accept up to 5 hundred sheets of letter-sized paper. In addition up to one hundred sheets of paper may be loaded into the multipurpose tray. This tray holds all standard sized papers up to the size of a tabloid sheet. You can also purchase 3 optional trays to add to the printer that each will hold an additional 5 hundred sheets. Thus the total capacity of paper held in the machine is 2100 sheets.

Installed in the printer is 160 MB of standard memory. It can be expanded up to fifty-four MB. The included processor is a 533 MHz for easy connectivity and an additional twenty GB hard drive can be installed to store watermarks or other frequently needed documents that can be printed directly from the console of the printer.

As is common with laser printers, this printer produces copies at a much lower cost than can be produced on the inkjet printer. Laserjet prints are waterproof, so ink won’t smear or run in high humidity settings. This can be very important if you’re producing prints for archiving or even scrapbooking. Prints are clean and crisp.

The cost of this printer is substantially more than would be paid for most ink jet printers. Never the less, this printer has the ability and capacity to serve the entire work group. Many very large work groups find that the printer is able to handle their largest workloads. The HP Color LaserJet 5550n printer makes great quality prints at a lower cost than an ink jet printer does. It’s a good choice that should last for several years.

If you’re using this in an office, make sure to have lots of HP toner on hand. Your toner cartridge may need to be replaced occasionally.

Just look online or in stores for HP Color LaserJet 5550n toner so you know it’ll fit your printer.