Expert Verdict
The HP LaserJet P3005 is a mono laser printer that works for all businesses. It's a quick printing machine that offers great print quality. You can find this printer suitable for your home office or multi-user office. The HP P3005 gives you better paper handling out of the box and cheaper prints due to its cost-effective HP Laserjet P3005 Toner Cartridges. The HP LaserJet P3005 is an excellent, single-purpose office printer you can find in the market. The HP LaserJet P3005’s grey-and-putty colour combination will blend into any standard office environment. It measures 16.7 wide, 16.1 deep, and 12.2 tall in inches, and weighs nearly 36 pounds. Though it's reasonably small for a mono laser printer, it may be on the large side for a small home office. Also being a mono printer, it accepts black HP Laserjet P3005 Toner Cartridges only.
The 500-sheet paper tray pulls out from the front of the printer. Also for flexibility, you can adjust the tray to hold up to legal-length paper, though the cassette will stick out from the back of the printer. Also, you will find a fold-out multipurpose tray that holds up to 100 sheets of plain paper above the tray, making it convenient for small print jobs on less commonly used media. Hence, you are saved from swapping out the contents of the main tray. The top of the printer serves as the output tray of the printer, whereas a small extension flap helps keep long prints under control. This printer comes with a straightforward control panel, which befits the basic nature of the HP LaserJet P3005. A menu button on the panel and menu navigation button help you scroll through the shortlist of menus, two-line text LCD. Moreover, this printer comes with a built-in duplexer for automatic two-sided prints to reduce paper wastage. When time comes to replace your HP Laserjet P3005 Toner Cartridges, you have two options. HP two capacity cartridges - 6,500-page and a 13,000-page HP Laserjet P3005 Toner Cartridge. However, both are very low numbers. While the toner savings could be significant over time, it's not enough to make up for the high running costs compared to other printers.
Coming to the printer’s performance, we tested the HP LaserJet P3005, over a USB 2.0 connection. Though in terms of printing speeds, the high-end versions may be slightly faster due to having more built-in memory, but the P3005 also seemed to be pretty fast. With HP Laserjet P3005 Toner Cartridges, The P3005's print quality is decent. It produces sharp and clean texts, though we would've liked it to be a bit blacker, though this is a nonissue for most people. The black graphics print also showed sharp text, as well as good graphics handling capacity. The photo prints were of good detail, though they could be better. For a basic mono laser printer, these small details can be forgiven.
This model of the HP series includes five configurations. All the configurations include a 400MHz processor, a 500-sheet paper tray and a 100-sheet multipurpose tray, and USB 2.0 and parallel connectors. Other configs are distributed amongst the lower and higher versions of this model. The low-end configs are better for home offices, while the high-end configs are suited for small to medium-sized offices. In all, depending on your requirements you can go for a much higher base version of the model you want. Moreover, to save costs in the long run, you can also use compatible HP Laserjet P3005 Toner Cartridges instead of the original ones. The compatible cartridges work just as well as the original ones.
Review
The HP Laserjet P3005 is a quick, mono laser printer with high print quality and suitable for small- and medium-sized offices.
The printer has a boxy appearance with the weight nearly 36 pounds and the dimensions 16.7 inches wide, 16.1 inches deep, and 12.2 inches tall. The design is pretty simplistic that makes this machine easy to use and it's color scheme is suitable enough to meet any office environment. It has a straightforward and easy to use control panel . A menu button and menu navigation button is provided that helps one to scroll through the short list of menus on the backlit with two-line text LCD.
With HP Laserjet P3005 Toner Cartridges, the printer has a high print speed of up to 33 ppm. The monthly duty cycle is up to 100000 pages and the print quality is clean and sharp. The black graphics print also displayed sharp text and the photo elements on the page showed good detail, though they can trouble by the cross-hatching that most lasers can't escape.
Advantages:- High printing speed with no ink splotches or imperfections
- It prints with high print quality
- It has high paper capacity that allows to literally go for months without refilling
- Heavy and bulky that took much of space
- There is no wireless connectivity
- It has a pretty old design
The compatible HP Laserjet P3005 Toner Cartridges are:
- HP Premium Compatible Toner Cartridge Q7551X (51X)
- HP Toner Ink Cartridge Q7551A (51A)
The HP LaserJet P3005 laser printer is the ideal solution if one is looking for high quality printing. It is a great mono laser printer for small- and medium-sized offices. This black and white LaserJet utilizes HP print cartridge technology. With HP Laserjet P3005 Toner Cartridges, it delivers high print quality that one can depend on with no paper jams.