HP Color LaserJet CP2025dn reviews – a decent color laser printer

Wednesday, May 6, 2009, 7:40
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hpcolorlaserjetcp2025dn The HP LaserJet CP2025dn comes across as a below-$500 printer. It boasts of a variety of features that include printing on both sides of documents, network connection support, USB 2.0 support and an in-built 10/100 Ethernet support.

This printer belongs to the category of compact color laser printers. If you worry about the setting up of this device, then rest assured that this aspect will never show up. The CP2025dn is a device that is extremely easy to set up. It weighs around 53 pounds. This simply highlights the fact that you will have to have someone to help you in case you think about carrying or moving the device frequently.

For setting up the device, just plug in the required cables and you will be good to go. It must be mentioned here that the printer houses four small cartridges. The good news is that these four printer cartridges are preinstalled in the printer. However, you will have to remove the protective tape out of each of those cartridges before you cable-in the printer and start your printing jobs.

HP has made the CP2025dn printer to be Bonjour capable. The moment you connect this printer to your network, it will appear in your Print & Fax preference pane. Let us now talk about the capacity of the printer. It boasts of a 250-page input tray. In order to house other media types, you will also find an additional 50-sheet input tray on the printer.

The HP CP2025dn takes pride in being a speedy printer and delivers excellent quality prints. As far as printing speeds are concerned, it takes about 17 seconds to print an average Word page. This speed is far better than that offered by many rival color laser printers. The quality of the output prints comes out very good with superior graphics and natural colors.

As far as printing costs are concerned, the HP CP2025dn gives an average cost per page, in case of black prints, of 2.5 cents. Its black cartridge costs $123 and each of its color cartridges costs $121. These cartridges give an average cost per color printed page of 4.3 cents. Overall, the HP LaserJet CP2025dn is a decent color laser printer and is definitely worth a shot.