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2008-08-21 00:00:00 0 out of 0 found this reivew helpful |
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well i guess this review if based on the printer and the ink . they are great as far as color is concerned .but they run out pretty fast and they are very expensive. we use them for business. we print mostly black and white and rarely use color.... (Read full review at Amazon)
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2008-08-10 00:00:00 0 out of 0 found this reivew helpful |
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First, in general this has been a great printer, worthy of the venerable HP name.
Now, on to the caveats.
First, this printer is essentially "Windows only." I do not have a Mac but I can tell you that there is no way in... (Read full review at Amazon)
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| Excellent, affordable color laserjet (4+ stars) |
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2008-08-01 00:00:00 0 out of 0 found this reivew helpful |
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Sometimes it amazes me at how affordable color laser printers have become, and this HP printer is an excellent example of such a printer. Perfect for home or small business use, it prints professional-looking, crisp color sheets at a decent rate,... (Read full review at Amazon)
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| Slow and not great at printing envelopes |
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2008-07-15 00:00:00 0 out of 0 found this reivew helpful |
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I have had a hard time printing envelopes - this is after three weeks of daily use of the printer. This is my fourth HP printer in 20 years and I have never had any problems before with envelopes. (Read full review at Amazon)
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| Perfect for the Mac and Small Biz!! |
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2008-07-15 00:00:00 0 out of 0 found this reivew helpful |
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We have owned this printer for close to 3 years now. We switched from inkjet to laser with this machine. Our office is 100% Mac based. From day one this printer has been great. Super easy to network with multiple Mac machines through standard... (Read full review at Amazon)
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| -- Pcworld Expert, Pcworld 0 out of 0 found this reivew helpful |
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| HP Color LaserJet 2600n This simple-to-use model prints very sharp text, but does so slowly, making it best suited for home offices. The $399 HP Color LaserJet 2600n is easy to maintain and is best suited for a small workgroup with modest demands. Lightweight at only 40.5 pounds, the printer is also compact and should squeeze into the most cramped of workspaces. The 2600n's paper drawer holds up to 250 sheets of plain paper. For $149 you can add a second 250-sheet tray, which might be handy for printing your letterhead, but hardly turns this unit into a high-capacity workhorse. No optional duplexer is available; however, the 2600dn includes this feature. The 2600n printed some of the sharpest-looking text we saw, albeit slowly, at 6.8 ppm. On plain paper color images looked grainy with lots of banding. Colors were oversaturated, and skin tones had an unnatural orange tint. Glossy photos looked slightly greenish, a little grainy, and had faint banding. The four toner cartridges are the only replaceable parts, and they slide easily into individual slots behind the fold-down front door of the printer. The 2600n comes with full-capacity cartridges, though their rated capacities are modest: just 2500 pages for the black cartridge, and 2000 pages for the color cartridges. The 2600n has the highest estimated costs per page of any printer in our tested group: 2.9 cents per monochrome page and 14.9 cents per color page. Upshot: Given the 2600n's high costs per page and lagging print speeds, consider spending $50 more for the much faster and more efficient Dell 3000cn. -- Paul Jasper ...
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-- Pcworld Expert, Pcworld  0 out of 0 found this reivew helpful |
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| The $399 HP Color LaserJet 2600n is easy to maintain and is best suited for a small workgroup with modest demands. Lightweight at only 40.5 pounds, the printer is also compact and should squeeze into the most cramped of workspaces. The 2600n's paper drawer holds up to 250 sheets of plain paper. For $149 you can add a second 250-sheet tray, which might be handy for printing your letterhead, but hardly turns this unit into a high-capacity workhorse. No optional duplexer is available; however, the 2600dn includes this feature. The 2600n printed some of the sharpest-looking text we saw, albeit slowly, at 6.8 ppm. On plain paper color images looked grainy with lots of banding. Colors were oversaturated, and skin tones had an unnatural orange tint. Glossy photos looked slightly greenish, a little grainy, and had faint banding. The four toner cartridges are the only replaceable parts, and they slide easily into individual slots behind the fold-down front door of the printer. The 2600n comes with full-capacity cartridges, though their rated capacities are modest: just 2500 pages for the black cartridge, and 2000 pages for the color cartridges. The 2600n has the highest estimated costs per page of any printer in our tested group: 2.9 cents per monochrome page and 14.9 cents per color page. Upshot: Given the 2600n's high costs per page and lagging print speeds, consider spending $50 more for the much faster and more efficient Dell 3000cn. -- Paul Jasper ...
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| -- Activehome Expert, Activehome 0 out of 0 found this reivew helpful |
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| With the lowest price of any of the printers reviewed here, HP?s Color Laserjet 2600n is an excellent way of achieving high-speed colour printing for a minimal price. The 2600n turns out full-colour pages at a rate of up to 8ppm, leaving many more expensive printers lagging at just over half its speed. It has a network interface as standard, an LCD status panel with control buttons and works with Windows and Macintosh systems. Single-pass colour technology places the toner cartridges in a line, making refilling extremely easy and there?s no need to interact with menus or wait for toner carousels to rotate. It?s this technology that allows the printer to achieve its high colour-printing speeds ? the page goes straight through the printer in one pass at the full engine speed, rather than having to complete a separate pass for each colour of toner, which effectively slows the process down by a factor of four. Unfortunately, the engine in the 2600n is rather slow, and switching to mono gains you no performance increase whatsoever. It?s less than half the speed of its nearest rival when printing in black and white, which is a serious disadvantage if you?re hoping to introduce modest colour requirements to print jobs that contain many mono-only pages. As is often the case with printers that are inexpensive, the true cost of the Laserjet 2600n is hidden in the high price of its consumables, which make it the most expensive printer of the group to run. It?s also restricted to rather low-capacity cartridges, which could mean you have to replace them frequently. Software installation is very easy with a good set of features in the Windows driver, although the print quality settings are curiously placed in the ?Finishing? section rather than in the section labelled ?Paper/Quality?. This is part of a group test on budget colour laser printers. Other articles are: Introduction and editor's choice Canon Laser Shot LBP 5200 Dell 3100cn Epson Aculaser C1100N Konica Minolta Magicolor 2430DL Lexmark C510n Oki C3200 Xerox Phaser 6120 The Real Cost of Printing Like this story? Spread the news by clicking below: del.icio.us Digg this reddit! Permalink for this story | View trackbacks to this story Trackback URL: http://www.activehome.co.uk/actions/trackback/2152651 ...
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-- CNET Expert, CNET  0 out of 0 found this reivew helpful |
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| If you've decided you can't afford a color laser printer, reconsider: the HP Color LaserJet 2600n costs only $399 with built-in Ethernet networkability. This model is simple to use, and the quality of most of its print samples impressed us. However, its slow performance on some tasks and its potentially high postpurchase costs mean the 2600n best fits small and patient workgroups and home offices. The comparable Konica Minolta Magicolor 2430DL is twice as fast and includes a PictBridge port for instant digital-camera prints, but it lacks built-in networking. For a small office, we recommend the Samsung CLP-510N , which works at more than double the HP 2600n's grayscale speeds and even makes two-sided prints. The two-tone gray HP Color LaserJet 2600n measures a compact 16 by 18 by 15 inches (WDH). Two sturdy handgrips in its base make this 40-pound machine easy to move. In order to keep production costs down, HP cut corners in ways that are difficult to forgive. For example, the control panel on the top-right corner of the machine features a tiny two-line LCD that's hard to read because it's set at an awkward angle and lacks backlighting. The control panel provides buttons to move across the menus and drill down through them, but not to climb back up; so after setting a menu item, you have to jump back to the starting point. In other words, to save money on a plastic button, HP designed a control panel that accesses only one menu item at a time. Still, HP got some of the 2600n's design elements right. The enclosed paper drawer at the bottom holds 250 sheets, and you can add a second 250-sheet drawer for $149--pricey but essential for a workgroup that prints a lot. Adjusting the paper drawer's width and length guides for A4 or legal paper was painless. The auxiliary tray for alternative media and envelopes includes a unique, easy-to-feed single-sheet bypass slot. The 2600n's front wall flops out on sturdy hinges to expose the four combination toner-cartridge and imaging-drum units, whose convenient handles make changing components easy. HP deserves credit for not exaggerating the Color LaserJet 2600n's print speed. Its advertised 8 pages per minute (ppm) for black text was close to the poky 7ppm clocked by CNET Labs' tests. Color graphics printed at a more reasonable 6.3ppm. That's fast enough for most home offices, but not for any workgroup of more than a few people. (CNET tested the 2600n over a USB connection; Ethernet performance may vary.) CNET Labs' color laser speed tests (pages per minute) (Longer bars indicate better performance) Color graphics Color text Black graphics Black text Dell 3100cn 4.31 4.83 17.97 21.95 Brother HL-2700CN 6.48 6.87 11.27 18.51 Samsung CLP-510N 5.34 5.68 17.5 17.87 Konica Minolta Magicolor 2430DL 4.43 4.88 14.04 14.26 HP Color LaserJet 2600n 6.31 6.64 6.78 7.03 In terms of print quality, our plain-text samples looked great, with a crisp black that few color lasers achieve, and sharp, clean letters, even at 2-point size. It also printed grayscale graphics well, with some blotchiness in areas but good detail, particularly on photos. The weakest area was probably color graphics: gradients made abrupt transitions, solid colors had odd mixtures of extra colors, and photos came out unpleasantly dark and brown, though they did preserve detail well. CNET Labs' color laser quality (Longer bars indicate better performance) Color graphics Color text Black graphics Black text Dell 3100cn excellent good excellent excellent Konica Minolta Magicolor 2430DL good good good excellent HP Color LaserJet 2600n fair good good excellent Brother HL-2700CN fair good good good Samsung CLP-510N good good good fair Click here to learn more about how CNET Labs tests printers. Upkeep for the 2600n is expensive. A page of black text uses about 3 cents' worth of toner, and a lightly covered color page uses about 15.3 cents' worth, according to vendor specs. However, there are no other consumables to replace, and HP provides full cartridges in the box instead of the increasingly common half-full "starter" cartridges. The HP Color LaserJet 2600n ships with a competent setup poster but no manual. The only other information is in a help file, but it's one of the better ones we've seen. HP covers the 2600n with a standard one-year warranty that generously includes paid next-day shipping exchange and toll-free tech support on weekdays from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. ET. A three-year warranty extension costs a hefty $169. ...
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| Perfectly priced for the home office, yet powerful enough and network-ready for small businesses and workgroups, the Color LaserJet 2600n is a fantastic value offering for producing business, marketing, and sales documents in-house. The extremely affordable printer produces high-impact colour materials and supports an additional paper-input tray, but its 264MHz processor and maximum memory configuration of just 16MB RAM may not offer enough grunt for print-intensive environments. All print languages are host-based too, so you'll need a speedy computer processor to power the unit. Nevertheless, the Color LaserJet 2600n is exceptional value. Pros: Attractive price; excellent print quality; relatively quiet printing Cons: Basic specifications; moderate paper handling; tad slow HP is targeting small businesses with its latest colour laser printer. Designed to provide a relatively flexible and affordable option for in-house marketing and basic external communications, the Color LaserJet 2600n printer sets a new standard for its class with a combination of exceptional affordability and excellent print quality. The only led down is its print speed, which is slower than cheaper monochrome laser models. Colour has been growing in popularity because of lower prices and faster print speeds for both monochrome and colour, which in turn will open up market opportunities as customers try colour printing for their home or office for the first time. HP's Color LaserJet 2600n is an excellent product to help customers make the move from relatively expensive-to-run inkjet printers. The Color LaserJet 2600n represents a pretty significant breakthrough in desktop colour laser performance at an affordable price. It also has an eye-pleasing and compact design (406x452x370mm, 18.37kg) and should take up minimal space in your working environment. In fact, the printer is almost small enough to sit on your desk - a feat we'd never have thought possible with a colour laser. Its claimed print speed of up to 8ppm in both black-and-white and colour are impressive too (on paper at least), it comes with built-in networking (100Base-TX) and USB 2.0 ports (no parallel), and has one-door access to the print cartridges. 1 2 » ...
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| HP Color LaserJet 2600n Workgroup printer - laser - color |
| $309.99 - $369.69 |
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