HP LaserJet Pro CP1525nw Color Printer (CE875A)

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67 of 67 people found the following review helpful.
Great for the price
By Retired Early
Having grown tired of finding my 2 inkjet printers dead because of dried up ink, I bought one of these from the HPStore.com for the same $239 it is a Amazon today. I received it yesterday and so far so good.

Wireless setup requires connection with a USB cable. The wireless on the printer picks up twice as many neighboring access points as my Thinkpad, so it's pretty sensitive. It's a little noisy when printing or calibrating and not particularly speedy. I'm sharing it for home use with my wife - our "small workgroup". The print quality is excellent and what little graphics I've done look good. The starter cartridges say they're good for "> 600 pages", but the predicted page count will self-adjust depending on your usage patterns.

Four replacement toner cartridges cost more than the printer does, but even if you throw it away after the starter toner runs out, it still works out to about 40 cents per page, which is in the ballpark for supplies for some other color printers. Since we use color infrequently (hence the dried up inkjets), I'm expecting the starter color cartridges to last a good long time. I already bought a replacement black toner cartridge for $60 for 2000 pages, 3 cents a page, again in the ballpark for cheap B&W laser printers.

Unlike some manual feed trays, this one sucks in the paper a few inches when you insert it - no more standing there holding it wondering if the printer will pick it up.

Addendum - 12/16/2010 - the Kingston KTH-LJ2015/256 256MB memory module works in this printer - popularly priced here at Amazon.

56 of 57 people found the following review helpful.
Very Impressed
By Mike from Michigan
When Office Max had it for $240 Thanksgiving weekend, I just had to replace my 9 year old HP 1200 monochrome laser printer. The old HP ran like a champ, but I could not pass up the chance to move to color.

Setup was a breeze over my ethernet using my old Mac running Leopard. I rated the documentation as good, as I only used the quick set up guide and did not dig into the details, but the manual looks comprehensive. I did (and suggest) to skip the enclosed driver CD and go right to HP.com and get the latest drivers and firmware. This made the printer work with Apple's new airprint. I can print from my iPad and iPhone via my home wireless network. I didn't even have to set up the wireless printing on the printer. This is fine because my home network has a greater range in the house than the printer.

Print quality is great: "dang near photo" quality. I would still send my 4x6 prints to Walgreens to be printed on nice glossy paper.

Each toner in the old laser lasted for years. I hope the same is true for the color printer. Yes, the first toner carts are only about one-third full. Office Max has good prices on toner and Amazon prices are good if you can wait. The nice part is that you can tell the printer to use just black if one or more of the color toners gets low.

47 of 47 people found the following review helpful.
Simply amazing
By C. Vogel
I'm an IT consultant with 23 years of experience, 6 years on the Mac and Microsoft and Apple certified. My ~10 year old Epson inkjet finally had enough so I went to hp.com to find a highly rated color laser. Wasn't even looking for ePrint, though I knew it was recently released and would be great for the future and my iOS devices.

After coming across this new model, I was pleasantly surprised at the price of $239 ($60/20% off list). Online reviews were mixed as usual - I paid no attention to the negative reviews, warnings about using it with a Mac or that ePrint doesn't work yet - as they say, "your mileage may vary". Prices at HP, Amazon and retail were all the same so after finding out it was in stock at my local Staples, I went out and got one.

Now I'm a huge fan of HP and recommend their printers to all my clients. This machine again shows me why. Simple setup and installation (used Ethernet), amazing quality AND ePRINT! I've installed the printer on (3) Macs, (2) XP systems and Windows Server. The only glitch was a conflict with an older installation of HP software on my MacBook. Once that was unistalled, this new software installed cleanly. Also, this latest installation interface and routine is vastly superior to previous incarnations of network laserjet install kits.

Now for ePrint - installed the updated firmware and after a couple of days of unsuccessful connections - BOOM! - up and running. Once this is working, it is truly as awesome as it seems. Printed from my iPhone, iPad and email. Just add the email address the printer gets assigned to your address book and print from anywhere. Insanely cool.

This machine gets 5 stars for quality, performance, features and ease-of-use. Well done HP.