For a printer that’s designed to be used by a large workgroup, consider the HP Color LaserJet 5550n printer using 5550n toner. This printer is rather expensive in price yet offers excellent speeds as it prints graphics. It is a great choice for offices that make a lot of color prints.

The documents that you produce using this printer are very high in quality. The printer is equally efficient at printing text, black graphics or color prints using HP bulk toner. Black prints offer smooth transitions and great fine detail. If used to make color prints, the machine will offer prints, which have excellent detail and color that is vibrant and rich but do not sacrifice the realistic tones. This printer is very fast at producing color prints. However, you may find that it is a little slow when compared to other printers at producing text prints.

Originally, the machine was designed for use with Windows XP. According to HP, the current machine is designed for use with the Windows 7 OS and may lose some functionality with older versions, however it is doubtful than any major functions would be lost. There may be minor issues for users of XP or Vista.

Setup of the printer is fairly easy. It does sometimes take longer than setup of other printers. It is likely that other versions of Windows that are being used will recognize the printer. The longest part of the setup process is the installation of the driver.

The printer is equipped with two paper trays as standard equipment. The MP tray accepts various size papers to the tabloid size. However, it can only hold 100 sheets per loading. The standard paper tray holds 500 sheets of paper that are letter sized. Additional trays can be purchased that each hold up to 500 sheets of various sized paper and added up to three trays. Therefore, the total capacity of the machine for paper is 2100 sheets at once.

Installed in the printer is 160 MB of standard memory. It can be expanded up to 54 MB. The included processor is a 533 MHz for easy connectivity and an additional 20 GB hard drive can be installed to store watermarks or other frequently needed documents that can be printed directly from the console of the printer.

As is common with laser printers, this printer produces copies at a much lower cost than can be produced on the inkjet printer. Laserjet prints are waterproof, so ink will not smear or run in high humidity settings. This can be very important if you are producing prints for archiving or even scrapbooking. Prints are clean and crisp.

While you may pay substantially more for this printer than you would pay for an ink jet printer, you will find that it can be used to serve all the computers in your work group. Many large work groups find that the HP Color LaserJet 5550n printer can handle their biggest workloads. It gives great image quality no matter what is being printed and makes a great reliable choice that will last for several years. Your printer will need HP Color LaserJet 5550n replacement toner. HP laser toner can be found online as well as in stores, however, the best deals on toners are usually online.