Laser Printers

HP being the world’s largest technology vendor in terms of sales has introduced a brand new LaserJet P2055dn laser printer. This monochrome workgroup laser printer, will meet all the expectations if you need to print good quality monochrome documents quickly. LaserJet P2055dn is inexpensive laser printer for its security features, resolution and speed of printing.

Features:

HP LaserJet P2055dn Network Laser Printer is available in grey colour and it has a two-line monochrome LCD display with the help of this the default density settings can be changed from the printer itself. Advanced options like cleaning mode is available which helps to eradicate the building up of dust on the printer’s movable parts. We can reset the firewall and several security settings to factory defaults are also present in this printer. HP LaserJet P2055dn is an economic printer which has a 250-sheet paper tray and an additional multi-purpose tray. This printer comes with a paper capacity of 800 sheets. It contains 128MB of memory which the users could upgrade to 384MB through a removable side panel. Ethernet and USB connections are also available in HP LaserJet P2055dn Network Laser Printer. Users can even go to the extent of choosing the printer’s web server protocols like HTTP or HTTPS (secure HTTP).
A network configuration report is mandatory to be printed to identify the initial IP address that has been assigned to the printer. The Web-based interface is sparse with the consumables status and statistics being the important aspects. Administrators can set up LaserJet P2055dn mono laser printer’s firewall policy and default print settings can be configured by using the interface. Security authentication, 802.1X is also included which are available competing printers. This monochrome printer comes with some print quality settings which are separated into 600dpi, 1200dpi FastRes and 1200dpi ProRes modes. 1200dpi ProRes mode produces documents with higher quality at a slower pace where as 1200dpi FastRes mode produces documents with relatively lower quality at a faster pace.

HP LaserJet P2055dn Mono Laser Printer can print the first page of a document in an average 9.5sec and subsequent pages at a rate of 35 pages per minute (ppm) by either using the 600dpi or FastRes 1200dpi setting. This setting provides the maximum print speed for this laser printer. HP has added an interesting feature of quiet mode on the LaserJet P2055dn mono laser printer which makes it less noisy but in turn affecting the print speed. It slows down the print speed from 35ppm to 17.6ppm. When using the ProRes printer quality setting we can also choose the preferred line density which is an essential feature that is reserved most expensive printers. The printer employs half tones to increase the number of lines that the printer can print in a given area when these settings are used. This results in highly accurate documents. Test characters printed using these settings are clean, fresh and have pinpoint accuracy. High yield cartridges are installed in the LaserJet P2055dn mono laser printer which costs very less per page. The box would include HP LaserJet P2055dn printer, Pre-installed HP LaserJet Black print cartridge (CE505A) with up to 2,300 pages yield (in accordance with ISO/IEC 19752), Getting Started Guide, CD (user guide, printer software) and a Power cord.

Performance:

The print speed of this P2055dn monochrome laser printer is 35 ppm, which is somewhat faster than some similarly priced lasers. It holds a duty cycle of 50000 pages. HP LaserJet P2055dn takes an average of 14.4sec for the first page to be printed while using the ProRes mode of print quality setting. This is because the printer pauses on every second page which causes the printer to takes 2.5sec to print a single page. The overall speed is close to 14.7ppm. HP LaserJet P2055dn laser printer offers fast print speeds where as costlier printers provide more networking and security features in addition to this. This printer could be classified as a reasonably priced mid-range model for high quantity printing with high line density settings. This printer has HP’s universal print driver which expands the ease of use and productivity. HP print cartridges comes with interactive intelligence which helps in enabling alerts when supplies are low, making management very flexible. With this high performance black-and-white HP LaserJet more can be done in less time.

Warranty:

HP LaserJet P2055dn Workgroup Laser Printer is in no way less than any other laser printer in terms of warranty also as it comes with 1 year warranty. As the user guide in the form of CD and getting started guide are provided with the box, it helps the users to install and figure out the common issues.

Verdict:

The Hewlett Packard LaserJet P2055dn monochrome laser printer is small, simple, fast and produces high quality documents. Hassle-free maintenance is possible with the extended user-friendly features. LaserJet P2055dn is great value at this price even though the costlier printers offer more extensive network features.

HP LaserJet P2055dn Laser Printer – Technical Specification Table

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