HP Color LaserJet 2600n Printer (Q6455A#ABA)

• Color laser printer offers affordable color printing
• Up to 600 x 600 dpi for both black and color prints with 8 ppm speed for both black and color
• 250-sheet paper tray, with option to add second tray
• 16-character front panel LCD display offers easy-to-access information
• Device measures 16.0 x 14.6 x 17.8 inches (WxHxD)

Amazon.com Product Description:
Create high-impact, professional documents and marketing materials with this affordable HP 2600n network-ready color laser printer. HP expertise pairs advanced color imaging technology with innovative print cartridge design for superior prints. The on-board HP ImageREt 2400 technology ensures exceptional quality color printing while HP's smart printing technology monitors and makes automatic adjustments to the cartridges to ensure consistent quality throughout cartridge life. The result is brilliant, professional-quality color every time you print. An intuitive, front-panel LCD makes it easy to set up, use, and maintain the printer. The two-line, 16-character display alerts you to low toner levels, taking the guesswork out of printer management. With a standard single-sheet priority feed slot, a 250-sheet covered input tray, and an optional 250-sheet input tray, you can configure this versatile printer to meet your specific paper handling needs. Priced for the home office, yet powerful enough and network-ready for small offices, this printer lets you produce business, marketing, and sales documents in-house, rather than outsourcing to a print shop. As a testament to its speed and efficiency, the HP Color LaserJet 2600n printer produces a first page out in less than 20 seconds from a cold start. Compatible with Windows and Mac operating systems, this printer measures 17.83 x 16.02 x 14.6 inches, weighs 40.5 pounds, and is backed by a 1-year manufacturer's limited warranty. What's in the Box Color LaserJet 2600n printer, power cable, CD-ROM (user's guide and printer software), getting started guide, output tray extension, paper tray cover, and print cartridges (cyan, magenta, yellow, black).

These printers are junk!!!!:
I had one of these because I got a good price on it and wasn't interested in speed at the time. They are definately slow but I could afford it and had always wanted a colored laser printer for minimal use....well I got minimal use. I'm not sure that the printer even lasted a year and it is now in the dumpster. They have a known problem with shadowing problems and of course that is what happened to mine. HP is a fantastic brand and I will buy another one but I'll guarantee you that it won't be this model.

Same ol story:
Great printer but when it comes to replacing the ink, really expensive! I have been living without it now for a couple of months as I can't seem to break down over $200 for ink. :(

Glad I made the purchase (Mac user):
I have had the 2600n printer for over a year now and consider it one of my best printer purchases. I got it at Staples when it was on sale for $299! What lured me to the machine was its ability to print on index card stock (for recipes) and the fact that HPs come with full toner cartridges. The fact that the printer starts printing within 8 seconds after turning it on is a tremendous feature! Installation on the Mac was plug and play with no problems whatsoever. I know all toner cartridges are outrageously priced, so I figure I'll suck it up when that time comes.

Caveat Emptor:
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 the world to get Linux to print to this machine. For the majority of people that's not an issue, but if you're browsing for a low-cost reputable color laser and you DO use Linux, be aware that this one isn't for you. Second, and worst of all: I have fried the fuser roller on mine recently because I - stupidly, perhaps, but understandably - tried to use HP photo-glossy paper in the printer. It melted the glossy layer of the paper onto the roller, and I now have a very large doorstop instead of a printer. I hope these remarks will be helpful to someone.

Beware the low price:
Beware the low price on the HP 2600 series printers. The quality of black and white prints are good and the usual HP quality is apparent in construction, BUT: 1) The color is not only terrible, it gets wore over time. My HP 2605 started out OK, but now prints a magenta haze over 50% of the area of all color prints even if I change toner, run the cleaning routines or use different color management software. HP claims there is nothing wrong and refuses to fix or replace it. It is less than a year old and the color began to decay a mere 6 months into its lifetime. 2) Beware that even if you set the printer to use only black and white for printing, it slowly consumes color toner anyway. 3) The printer will refuse to print if ANY one toner cartridge is close to empty so you cannot just print black and white only and replace the color cartridge later. Even worse, because it slowly consumes color toner even if you never print in color, you can end up with all three colors empty and then have to spend almost $250 to replace them to be able to print at all. 4) All 2600 series printers come with color toner cartridges that are less than half full compared to the replacement cartridges so you will have to replace all 3 of them surprisingly early, again setting you back close to $250. 5) Beware of the self-calibration routine. It consumes color toner and if it runs often enough you'll have empty cartridges even if you never printed in color. Overall, the total cost of ownership for these dogs run almost into the inkjet range unless you routinely print in color. Sadly, unless you're happy with "color" meaning completely unpredictable, psychedelic mixtures of colors very different from what you see in your source material, you'll probably do like I did and avoid using the color feature most, if not all, of the time. Think VERY carefully when buying a color laser of any sort, but avoid the HP 2600 series completely. They are junk. Not worth even the low price they sell for.