Hewlett-Packard office/workgroup printers have a virtual lock on the office market when you take a close look at the HP LaserJet P2055dn and, although it is still a black-and-white laser printer, its output volume is huge and it handles duplex printing right out of the box.
That Hewlett-Packard virtually owns the office/workgroup market for printers is easy to see when you look at the reasonably priced, high-speed LaserJet P2055dn. About what this printer lacks is color and all that would do, in this instance, is slow it down and increase its cost.
That the P2055dn is really an office/workgroup printer is apparent because the basic unit includes the ability in interface with a high-speed Gigabit network, through its networking interface. This is virtually a necessity today as even small businesses move away from 100 Mbps to 1 Gbps as their standard networking speed. This means that all the device hooked to the network have to be capable of working at that speed and the P2055dn is certainly able to do that.
Since this was actually released before the start of the WiFi revolution in the workplace, there is little wonder that this HP is not set up for high-speed network-oriented printing, other than through a more standard interface. But, let’s face it even if it recognized all of the key standard a/b/g/n the top speed for this printer would still be a little over 100 Mbps, so the wireless interfacing will likely have to wait.
However, once you locate this 14.4 by 14.5 by 10.6-inch, 23-pound printer in your office there is little chance that you will be moving it around too much as it is not exactly a lightweight. That it is a heavyweight ready to take on any job you can throw at it comes from some interesting specifications.
First, the standard input paper page is half-a-ream or 250 pages of paper. That’s a lot of paper to move around an office and means that it is likely you will keep your boxes of paper quite nearby. Why would the boxes be nearby? Well, because of the next feature, second, this printer is made to handle up to 50,000 copies (you read that right, 50,000 copies), something a lightweight injket or small workgroup printer just can’t handle. If you get up around 20,000-pages you might be chancing the failure of the fusing wire, one of the keys to this device.
Plus, this printer comes with a 128 MB queue built in and it can also have its on-board memory expanded so that it is likely you won’t need a new printer very quickly.
And, finally, two pieces of information that should sell the manager looking for a new printer to take over 64-bit operations, the first is standard duplex printing so you can take advantage of duplex right out of the box and save money and second there’s a special 50-page special mode paper drawer that slides underneath the 250-page master drawer that will allow you to print on any colored stock from 3.5 by 5 to 8.5 by 14.
Oh, and if you are worried about this printer ultimately becoming part of your network, this printer can be set up as a single-PC printer through a USB cable, however, it’s interesting that it would take less than 5 minutes to turn it into a high-speed networked printer with its own printerserver, a PC or a Mac.
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