Product Description

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Product Details

• Brand: Hewlett-Packard
• Model: Q6455A#ABA
• Platform: Mac OS X
• Dimensions: 14.60" h x 17.80" w x 16.00" l, 50.00 pounds
• Memory: 16MB

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)

Amazon.com Product Description
Create high-impact, professional documents and marketing materials with this affordable HP 2600n network-ready color laser printer. HP expertise pairs advanced color imaging technology with innovative print cartridge design for superior prints. The on-board HP ImageREt 2400 technology ensures exceptional quality color printing while HP's smart printing technology monitors and makes automatic adjustments to the cartridges to ensure consistent quality throughout cartridge life. The result is brilliant, professional-quality color every time you print. An intuitive, front-panel LCD makes it easy to set up, use, and maintain the printer. The two-line, 16-character display alerts you to low toner levels, taking the guesswork out of printer management. With a standard single-sheet priority feed slot, a 250-sheet covered input tray, and an optional 250-sheet input tray, you can configure this versatile printer to meet your specific paper handling needs. Priced for the home office, yet powerful enough and network-ready for small offices, this printer lets you produce business, marketing, and sales documents in-house, rather than outsourcing to a print shop. As a testament to its speed and efficiency, the HP Color LaserJet 2600n printer produces a first page out in less than 20 seconds from a cold start. Compatible with Windows and Mac operating systems, this printer measures 17.83 x 16.02 x 14.6 inches, weighs 40.5 pounds, and is backed by a 1-year manufacturer's limited warranty.

What's in the Box
Color LaserJet 2600n printer, power cable, CD-ROM (user's guide and printer software), getting started guide, output tray extension, paper tray cover, and print cartridges (cyan, magenta, yellow, black).

From the Manufacturer
Create high-impact, professional documents and marketing materials with this surprisingly affordable network-ready color laser printer. HP expertise pairs advanced color imaging technology with innovative print cartridge design – HP ImageREt 2400 technology ensures exceptional-quality color printing, while HP’s Smart printing technology monitors and makes automatic adjustments to the cartridges to ensure consistent quality throughout cartridge life. The result is brilliant, professional-quality color every time you print.

An intuitive, front-panel LCD makes it easy to set up, use, and maintain the printer. The two-line, 16-character display alerts you to your toner levels, taking the guesswork out of printer management. With a standard single-sheet priority feed slot, a 250-sheet covered input tray 2, and optional 250-sheet input tray 3, you can configure this versatile printer to meet your specific paper handling needs. HP Color LaserJet cartridges are designed for simple operation. With just four print cartridges and easy access from a single door, you get hassle-fee supplies maintenance.

Perfectly priced for the home office, yet powerful enough and network-ready for small offices and work teams, this printer lets you produce business, marketing, and sales documents in-house, rather than outsourcing to a print shop.

Instant-on Technology allows HP LaserJet printer to complete some print jobs before our competitors’ printers have even warmed up! The HP Color LaserJet 2600n printer produces a first page out in less than 20 seconds from a cold start.

Customer Reviews

Caveat Emptor
First, in general this has been a great printer, worthy of the venerable HP name.

Now, on to the caveats.

First, this printer is essentially "Windows only." I do not have a Mac but I can tell you that there is no way in the world to get Linux to print to this machine. For the majority of people that's not an issue, but if you're browsing for a low-cost reputable color laser and you DO use Linux, be aware that this one isn't for you.

Second, and worst of all: I have fried the fuser roller on mine recently because I - stupidly, perhaps, but understandably - tried to use HP photo-glossy paper in the printer. It melted the glossy layer of the paper onto the roller, and I now have a very large doorstop instead of a printer.

I hope these remarks will be helpful to someone.

Excellent, affordable color laserjet (4+ stars)
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.

Slow and not great at printing envelopes
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.