HP LaserJet 4250 Monochrome Printer

Average customer rating: 3.0

This Printer is a Disaster
Unfair competitior
Fast, but Buggy
Speed and quality

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HP LaserJet 4250 Monochrome Printer

Manufacturer: Hewlett Packard
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B000590WRW
2004-10-18

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Product Description

Looking to increase your workgroup's performance? This reliable and versatile black-and-white printer may just be what your office needs to keep up productivity. At a print speed of up to 45 ppm and a duty cycle of about 200,000 pages per month, the LaserJet 4250 has the performance to keep work flowing quickly and smoothly. Adding an optional print server, lets this printer provide aggressive network productivity to help you get ahead and stay there. Parallel and USB 2.0 connectivity (printer cables not provided) Computer Connection Compatibility - Microsoft Windows 98, Me, NT 4.0, 2000, XP; Mac OS 9.x, OS X 10.1.0x or later Smoothly process documents containing text, images, and graphics with the 460MHz processor and 48MB of memory (expandable to 512MB) Get jobs printed fast - up to 45 pages per minute Waste less time standing at the printer - the first page emerges in less than 8 seconds via the instantly on technology Automatically adjust for optimized print quality with HP's Smart printing technology Quickly send complex documents to print via Hi-Speed USB 2.0, or use the parallel port Manage remotely with the HP Embedded Web server Get more font choices, intelligent e-forms, secure printing, bar code printing, SAP/ERP solutions, and job accounting solutions, plus enable third-party solutions, via two CompactFlash slots Simplify troubleshooting and configuration - the control panel displays up to four lines of text with helpful, animated graphics

Customer Reviews:

This Printer is a Disaster.......2006-04-23

This printer is very loud. It sounds like a blowdryer and causes the lights in my office to dim (I'm in an old building, but still). I have a USB 2.0 connection, so there should be no problem. It keeps jamming and the help function is completely useless. I used the HP 4000 for many years and was very happy. This printer is a disaster.

Unfair competitior.......2005-11-01

Last time we got frastrating experience from HP
deskjets, scanners and now laserjet.
Their competition seems unfair. Take a look on
a comperison chart above. As a competitors suppose to be
Dell 5300W and Lexmark 640T.
As for 4250 it worked for 4 month normally and
all of a sudden lost speed. Now about 35ppm.
We replaced firmware from september 2005.
It did not resolve speed issue.
Support simply waste our time for 2 hours
and I had to cancel conversation.
Previous guy is right printer is buggy.
In our case its event log already have 37 errors (max 50).
Finally paper loader died in a year.
So keep away from HP.
We already swithc to Canon, Microtek and Dell.

Fast, but Buggy.......2005-01-26

This printer has a great price, good specs, and fast printing. However, it does have some issues that hopefully HP will work-out.

The firmware seems pretty buggy. We've had several different problems with the printer crashing. Every couple days or so we get a "Service Error" message on the screen and the printer has to be rebooted. Also, I tried printing a large (1000 page) pdf on it and it would just freeze after printing around 140 pages. It froze twice on the exact same number of pages. I had to break it up into print jobs of 100 pages each. We've also seen where it gets in an infinite cycle where it says, "Processing Job" and the data light blinks, but nothing ever comes out. Again, it requires a reboot. We upgraded the firmware, but the problems didn't go away.

FYI, a parallel port doesn't seem to deliver data fast enough to this printer! It consumes data faster than the port can send it. We could only achieve the 45ppm when we hooked it up to the USB 2.0 port. Not sure about the performance when using HP JetDirect internal print server.

Speed and quality.......2004-11-09

This printer is ridiculously fast. We use one as a network printer and I have not been able to walk the 30 feet from my office to the printer before it has finished printing 3 or 4 page PDFs, emails, etc. This printer is faster than our photocopier. 1200x1200 dpi gives excellent detail.

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