Just as important as the employees for a business is the equipment the office has. Many manufacturers are introducing a high number of products to the market in order to meet the needs of any type of user, be it for home use or for professional use. When it comes to the office arena, a person in charge of purchasing the equipment should know by not that the printers and computers should work , be as reliable and efficient as the employees themselves, for everything to work properly and in order to maximize efficiency.

HP is a leading company in manufacturing and providing devices, including office printers. One of their printers, The HP 5500dn color laser printer isn’t necessarily the best you’ve ever seen, but can offer most of what an office will ever need. While it’s not the biggest of them, be warned that the HP Color LaserJet 5500dn really is big and will require it’s own private corner of an office.

In fact, before you decide where to seat the printer, it would be highly recommended that you’ll never want to move it from that spot again. The toner cartridges are arranged in a vertical stack which results in a smaller footprint than most lasers have. But what it lacks in footprint dimensions, it makes up for in pounds, so it will take two people to stand a chance in moving it around. It weights just around 132 lbs and measures 22.7 x 27.7 x 25.2 inches. When it comes to setting the printer up, moving it in and placing it somewhere is the hardest part. The rest of it, installing the drivers and the actual printer, is really simple.

Now, when you start printing you’ll notice that its speed is actually great. Not only does it produce 21 pages per minute (it’s true, there are other faster printers out there), but the warm up speed is actually short. Warm up speed is one of the most annoying things when it comes to office printers. Unless you’re printing continuously, the printer will enter sleep mode. Thus, every time you start printing again, it will have to warm up.

With some printers having a long warm up period, you almost never get to feel that the printer is indeed fast, because you’ll be getting warm up time plus actual printing time. Fortunately it’s not the case of the HP 5500dn color laser printer.

While the quality of the prints is good, the biggest problem of the 5500dn is the maintenance costs. While you won’t have to replace all consumables at the same time, they are costly nonetheless. There are three toner cartridges that work for 12,000 pages and a black one that should last for 13,000.Overall, this printer is reliable and sturdy, easy to operate and prints 21 ppm in both mono and color. The not so good parts include it’s big size, high initial cost and high maintenance cost. For offices that need larger format printing it also supports 11 x 17 inch paper.

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