HP CLJ2605DN Color Laserjet Printer

Average customer rating: 3.5

Network Connection Defective
Inexpensive Duplex Color Laser
Great printer
Beautiful output
It works fine. Not the best but acceptable for its price

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HP CLJ2605DN Color Laserjet Printer

Manufacturer: Hewlett Packard
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B000FBWL2O

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Amazon.com Product Description

The HP CLJ2605DN Color Laserjet Printer is an affordable desktop printer that lets you add brilliant color to your business documents. Complete your work quickly and easily thanks to its simple, fast, and intuitive operation. <table align=right width=150 cellpadding=20> <tr> <td> <img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-page/hp-2605-1-sm.jpg" border=0 align=top>See the powerful, versatile CLJ2605DN in detail.</td></tr></table> Ideal for high-volume workgroups, this printer delivers impressive performance and handles even the most complex jobs with ease. Thanks to its easy-to-use design, the CLJ2605DN can help your workgroup thrive. It's an excellent investment for any business that demands superior print quality in an efficient, economical machine. Color Can Help Your Business Thrive
Statistics show that color improves comprehension, increases readership, accelerates learning, and reflects a professional image. No matter what your business creates, you can't afford not to use color. The CLJ2605DN lets you print in color to produce more effective internal communications, including memos, e-mail, and spreadsheets. Develop full-color attention-getting marketing materials, such as brochures, flyers, and advertisements, that differentiate your business from others. Then trust the CLJ2605DN to produce a final product that you'll proudly distribute. Reliable Performance For Optimum Productivity
You can count on the CLJ2605DN to work quickly and efficiently. Boost user productivity and support easy workteam sharing with fast print speeds of up to 12 pages per minute (ppm) for black-and-white documents, and up to 10 ppm for color. In addition, instant-on technology minimizes wait times by delivering the first page in as little as 20 seconds from a cold start. With the CLJ2605DN, you can finish entire jobs before competing printers have even warmed up! The intuitive, two-line, 16-character display also makes it a snap to set up, use, and maintain the printer and its supplies, while taking the guesswork out of cartridge replacement. You won't have to worry about running out of important supplies; the machine will alert you when it's time to change the toner or ink. When it comes to paper handling, the CLK2605DN is equally efficient; the 250-sheet input trays and the priority feed slot can handle a variety of different paper types and sizes while helping reduce time spent replenishing the paper supply. <table align=left width=250 cellpadding=10> <tr> <td> <img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-page/hp-2605-2.jpg" border=0 align=top>

A simple control layout makes complicated printing tasks a snap. </td></tr></table> Dazzling Color For Dramatic Results
The CLJ2605DN gives you the option to enhance your documents with brilliant color. With HP ColorSphere toner and HP ImageREt 2400, your documents can be as dynamic as your business. HP ColorSphere toner is designed together with the printer to provide consistent, sharp color, which means you can easily integrate realistic images and photos into business documents. Once you've done that, you can enjoy effortless color printing thanks to HP smart printing technology, which enables communication between the HP print cartridges and your printer, triggering automatic adjustments that optimize print quality and reliability. Expand Your Printing Options
The CLJ2605DN lets you print complex documents using sophisticated printer languages, with support for HP PCL 6 and HP postscript level 3 emulation. Broad compatibility ensures consistent, predictable results, regardless of the platform or operating system. The 64 MB of built-in memory (expandable to 320 MB) means that this printer can take on even your most complex jobs with ease. You can also make office printing easier and more versatile by taking advantage of the two-sided printing option, a built-in photo memory card slot, and an input capacity of up to 500 sheets. Finally, it's easy to share printing functions thanks to a built-in print server that connects to a 10/100 Base-TX Ethernet/Fast Ethernet network. What's in the box
2605dn printer, power cable, CD (includes the User Guide and printer software), Network Getting Started Guide, output tray extension, paper tray cover, 2,500-page HP Color LaserJet Black Print Cartridge with HP ColorSphere Toner, and 2,000-page HP Color LaserJet Cyan, Yellow, and Magenta Print Cartridges with HP ColorSphere Toner
Note: Approximate page yield based on five percent coverage.

Product Description

Instant-on Technology delivers the first page in as little as 20 seconds from a cold start. The intuitive, two-line, 16-character display makes it easy to set up, use, and maintain the printer and its supplies, taking the guesswork out of cartridge replacement. Increase the productivity of your office, with support for HP Web Jetadmin peripheral management software and convenient online supplies ordering via HP SureSupply. With HP ColorSphere toner and HP ImageREt 2400, your documents are as dynamic as your business. HP ColorSphere toner is designed together with the printer to provide consistent, sharp color. HP Smart printing technology enables communication between the HP print cartridges and your printer, triggering automatic adjustments that optimize print quality and reliability. Enhanced print drivers help you get the most from your Windows or Macintosh environment. Print complex documents using sophisticated printer languages with support for HP PCL 6 and HP postscript level 3 emulation. Broad compatibility ensures consistent, predictable results, regardless of the platform or operating system. It's easy to share printing functions with a built-in print server that connects to a 10/100 Base-TX Ethernet/Fast Ethernet network. 64 MB Memory Up to 500 Sheets Max Input capacity Up to 10 Standard envelope capacity Up to 125 Sheets Output capacity Automatic Standard Duplex printing (printing on both sides of paper) Media types - Bond, brochure, color, glossy, letterhead, photo, plain, preprinted, recycled, rough, transparencies, labels, envelopes and cardstock Compatible Network Operating Systems - Windows 98 SE, 2000, Me, XP Home, XP Professional, Server 2003, Mac OS X v 10.2 and higher Dimensions - Width 16.1 x Depth 17.8 x Height 16.3 inches Weight - 43.8 pounds

Customer Reviews:

Network Connection Defective.......2007-04-26

This printer works fine as a USB printer, but it does not connect to a network. HP will not replace, says it must be something wrong with my network. Nevermind the 2 other printers, 2 Macs, and 3 WinXP computers connected to it.

No more HP for me.

Inexpensive Duplex Color Laser.......2007-04-10

I bought the 2605dn because it is the first networked duplex color laser (to my knowledge) that isn't ridiculously expensive.

Everything is stable and robust; no problems running off USB or ethernet. No misfeeds, color and text both look nice. I mainly print documents with color figures/charts, so I can't speak to printing pictures.

Not blazingly fast (~10ppm) and the printer pauses to calibrate itself once in a while, but it's a great deal overall.

Printed 3903 color pages with the original cartridges ($0.08-0.09 per page).

Great printer.......2007-03-25

I have had this printer for several months now and have printed a wide variety of material from plain paper, to cardstock, envelopes and labels. All work perfectly without misfeeds. The only trick is to set the paper type in Properties when printing so it will go slower for thick stock.

It's not photo quality, but great for brochures, marketing material, etc.

It's quiet and fast. The duplexing works amazingly well.

I recommend this printer highly.

Beautiful output.......2007-03-22

I am always so impressed with HP. Their products are always good performers. When I bought this printer I knew that I was entering a new sphere of potential problems as this is my first color printer. I avoided them because they relied on inkjet-type technology and I knew that the printer was only a carrier of those costly ink replacement packages. Also, old printer that were inexpensive technologies could not duplex. When I saw this model my heart rose because they are toner cartridge based (four colors; black, blue, red, yellow). I knew that four toner cartridges cost more, and 'Boy Howdy' it costs about $300 to replace them all after a professed 3,500 copies. It also duplexes and does speciality papers, including, they say, card stock (heavier paper, such as postcards).

Now for my review. The color is excellent! Duplexing works well and I find that the product produced is exactly what I need. Now for my negatives. I am used to printers that always available. You need to printer something, your printer is on, you send it, it prints. When not used it moved to a 'snooze mode', waiting for that next request. My last work horse is a HP 1100 black/white laser printer. This new, color model has a problem in that it goes through cycles of re-"calibration", is not available, or when you send a print job later, it can't handle it. This is really annoying! Another negative is that I frequently submit jobs that print part of the paper and then tells me that this job could not be printed. I then get messages that I must restart the printer. When I do, it begins to print the entire job from the beginning. Talk about a toner-eating monster! About 20% of the paper printed is a waste.

I think that this is a new model and the software that manages the system is still not fully debugged. I use my printer in a single computer, home office. It is connected by an USB (Not a CAT5 cabled network). I find that I must turn off the printer until I need it, and then if I don't have another job to print, turn it off.

I don't know how a network of computer can access this without having problems.

Don't get me wrong. This produces excellent results but may need software upgrades by HP to make it less annoying.

UPDATE: Problems solved..
Here is an update from my review. Working with the help desk at HP, they discovered that I had an old version of the firmware. Once they helped me give the device a 'new brain', all the problems that I had disappeared. The help received from HP was excellent and Debbie spent over an hour with me to trouble shoot the problems with printing. Since this solution, there has been no problems printing. As per the choice of selecting only output from the black toner cartridge in order to save the others, the jury is still out. It appears that even with all black text that some of the other three cartridge's toner is used.

If possible, I would change my rating for this printer from three stars to 5 stars. This printer serves all my needs with excellent color representation.

It works fine. Not the best but acceptable for its price.......2007-03-19

To my eyes, the printer's rendition of colors is above average. It isn't horrible but neither is it the best. Pricewise it's an excellent deal with the 64mg of memory and the duplex feature.

We've been using this hp quite a lot to generate mailing labels via Tray 2 (the default paper supply) and haven't any problems. The manual (electronic file) advises "Never print on the same sheet of labels more than once or print on a partial sheet of labels." So it's a pity that the rest of a multiple mailing label sheet has to be tossed for just one label.

A wonderful quality of experience is the near "instant on" (very minimal warmup) feature and it's quiet. My previous Okidata c5300 was a noisemaker and was turned on only just before printing. Its time delay was also a disadvantage. I think most people will be very happy with the HP.

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