- Four-toner dry sort laser electrophotography
- Prints sixteen ppm in black, 4 ppm in color
- 133 MHz RISC processor: with 64-MB customary memory
- 600 x 600 dpi resolution, network government capability
- PC as well as Mac compatible
Product Description
Color LaserJet 4500 Series printers broach well-developed tone imitation peculiarity right out of a box, in further to charity a same altogether trustworthiness which you’ve come to design from your HP monochrome printers. These printers have been preferred for all your workgroup tone laser copy needs from formulating sales-winning selling presentations to producing polished, easy-to-read monetary statements to copy in-house precision materials. Whatever your tone copy needs might be, HP Color LaserJet 4500 Series printers can hoop them, but requiring a lot of await or maintenance. They fast as well as economically imitation up to 8.5- by 14-inch tone outlay upon both sides of a page with a involuntary duplex unit, as well as … More >>
I was about to shell out for this printer – it sounds great, however the hp support site lists it as discontinued and no longer sells supplies for it.
THIS IS THE 100th or SO WONDER OF THE WORLD. IT IS FAST AND EXTREMELY EFFICIENT. I RECOMMEND BUYING THIS ONE BECAUSE IF YOU HAVE A NETWORK OR PLAN TO BUILD A NETWORK THIS IS A GREAT PRINTER. IT HAS FEW ADVANTAGES OVER THE 4500 yet IT IS NETWORKABLE.
FYI: I USE THIS AS A DESKTOP WORKHORSE.
THANKS HP!
After using several B&W HP lasers for years, I’d always wanted a color laser. Finally, I splurged and got this one as my desktop printer about 6 months ago. I’m not happy- nor totally unhappy either. It’s definitely a workhorse. Once it’s warmed up, calibrated and running, it works beautifully. Furthermore, it is much less expensive to run than a regular inkjet. I had been spending close to $/month in ink with the PSC500 I was using before this printer. I’m still using the original cartridges which came with the printer…In this respect, it’s a great buy.
However, to save energy it goes to idle after 15 minutes or so, and takes about 5 minutes to warm up, calibrate and get up to speed. If you get a paper jam, it will again require the whole cycle. Thus, it’s not really suited to be a personal printer. It is best suited for specific large jobs, not as an everyday printer. Everytime I write a one page letter, cut a check or do something simple, I have to wait and wait, and it’s definitely exasperating.
Also, it’s not really good as a photo printer, although I have often used it as one.
I hope the new color laser series is better.
I bought this printer for a home network with multiple PCs and Macs. There were zero problems in setting it up and achieving complete functionality from all systems. Print quality and print speed are outstanding — color and b/w, paper and transparencies. Tremendously better speed than inkjets; tremendously better quality than “glue gun” color printers. “Power-saver” works well too — printer drops to “silent and cheap” after a user-definable period of time, but quickly comes to life and prints.
Not much to add to what the others have said. This is a great printer. It is very fast in B&W mode, does great color and is still reasonably fast when printing color. I have mine setup with letter size paper in one bin and envelopes in the other. The driver automatically picks the correct bin. About that cable: If you are going to hook up to a printer port (which you can do in addition to the network connection) you will need the DB25 to micro centronics cable, not the regular centronics. These are typically called A-C printer cable. I am using a Belkin F2A045-10.