HP Color LaserJet 4600 Printer

Average customer rating: 1.0

Worst printer I have ever used
HP 4600 Expensive, Worst Investment, NO HP Support
Like others, the magenta barfed everywhere
Wide Multi-Color Page Streaks Render Printer USELESS.
HP has lost me as a customer..

HP Color LaserJet 4600 Printer

Manufacturer: Hewlett Packard
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B000068IG0

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Amazon.com Product Description

With the HP 4600 Color LaserJet, you always know what to expect. Designed with the modern office in mind, the HP 4600 produces every page with the same speed and precision, be it a standard memo or a colorful sheet of graphics for tomorrow's meeting. With 600 x 600 dpi resolution printed at 17 pages per minute for both color and monochrome documents, the printer delivers the consistent quality and production speed you demand.

Outstanding HP technology combines premium style with cost effectiveness. Crisp text, smoothly blended color, and supremely accurate supply monitoring are the result of direct color laser printing--your images will be clearly legible and remarkably vivid, with realistic skin tones. The paper tray can handle 600 sheets of letter-size or legal-size paper, or 20 envelopes. Labels, photo paper, transfer sheets, card stock, and transparencies are processed individually.

The printer is compatible with Windows and Macintosh systems, and it connects via an IEEE 1284-compliant parallel plug. Memory of 96 MB of RAM is standard, and memory is expandable to an impressive 416 MB. Hewlett-Packard provides a one-year warranty with onsite service.

Product Description

HP LaserJet printers quickly and quietly produce documents with excellent print quality. A variety of print media, including paper, envelopes, labels, and overhead transparencies can be used in your HP LaserJet printer. However, to ensure consistent performance and long-term reliability, the print media must be designed for use with laser printers. There are many choices of high-quality print media available to laser printer users. HP Color LaserJet 4600 series printers deliver exceptional color print quality right out of the box, in addition to offering the same overall reliability that you've come to expect from your HP monochrome printers. These printers are ideal for all your workgroup color laser printing needs from creating sales-winning marketing presentations to producing polished, easy-to-read financial statements to printing in-house training materials. Whatever your color printing needs may be, HP Color LaserJet 4600 series printers can handle them, without requiring a lot of support or maintenance.

Customer Reviews:

Worst printer I have ever used.......2007-01-31

This is definitely the worst printer I have ever used, and I used to work for a company that developed printer driver software, so I have some experience in the area. Our office has an HP Color LaserJet 4600dn, and it's been nothing but trouble.

First, the JetDirect network card failed. HP did replace this, as it was a known defect (our HP LaserJet 2300dn had the same model JetDirect network card, and it also failed). Then, the printer started producing streaks and smears of toner in a variety of colors, usually either cyan or magenta. At first, we thought it was just defective toner cartridges (we always used genuine HP supplies), so we called HP. They replaced them once or twice, but were less than helpful about the large amounts of spilled toner inside the printer (they said they'd send a special cloth to clean up the toner, but never did).

Eventually, the problem got so bad we started shopping for a new printer. While doing research, I stumbled upon a discussion claiming that the magenta toner smearing was a known problem, and the fix was to replace the DC Controller in the printer. Why HP didn't tell us that, I don't know. I called them again and convinced them to send a technician to replace the DC controller. That helped for a few months, then the cyan toner started smearing. Replacing the cyan toner didn't resolve the problem.

We're now back on the market for a new printer, and we're definitely avoiding HP. They had so many chances to resolve this problem, and they blew it over and over again.

HP 4600 Expensive, Worst Investment, NO HP Support.......2007-01-19

My department has had this printer for a few years and for the last year it sat unused because the toner leak problem "renders" it useless. We have even used it a few times with the smears and it developed a horrible noise. We paid to have it cleaned and adjusted, which worked for a month. We cannot afford to pay this much again for so little productivity. My opinion is that HP should have had a recall on this model. I really like HP a lot but will question HP in the future and am now looking at reviews of other printers before we consider replacing the useless behemoth. Very, very disappointing. [if zero stars was an option here it would get it]

Like others, the magenta barfed everywhere.......2007-01-18

Made a mess inside the printer and cost $600 in parts alone to repair. Just learned by reading these reviews today that magenta barf is a "normal" experience for users of this printer, so we should have just tossed it.

Wide Multi-Color Page Streaks Render Printer USELESS........2006-10-18

Printer has had very light use and suddenly developed mostly magenta & cyan toner leaks. The excess toner is streaked and transfered to every page resulting in full length page striping. The print outs are absolutely useless for presentation and barely useable for drafts. HP denies there is a problem however I see that I am not the only one with this issue. Won't buy HP again. This is clearly a defective product design. There is no resolve. Your printer is now an expensive and rather large doorstop.

HP has lost me as a customer.........2006-09-29

I'm a cartoonist. I need to be able to print color images for clients. I bought this printer two years ago from Staples, for $2500! Worked great for a couple months, after which the toner cartridges started leaking and the print quality rapidly dimished.

DO NOT BUY THIS PRINTER!

I'm reluctant to buy anything else from HP, knowing that how it performs on the sales floor can be markedly different from how it will perform after a couple months of light use.

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