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Expert Verdict
With its high capacity HP Laserjet Enterprise 500 Colour M551DN toner cartridges, this laserjet printer is suitable for any standard business needs and the output quality is above average. This well-rounded printer is an easy pick as an Editor’s choice workhorse colour printer for fulfilling the medium to heavy printing needs of a small business. Measuring 15.8 X 20.2 X 19.8 inches (HWD), this printer is quite large and because of its weight it will take around two people to move it from one place to another. The controls are given besides the small LCD and contain - Home, OK, Cancel, and Help buttons. Also, the display’s colour is used primarily to show HP Laserjet Enterprise 500 Colour M551DN toner cartridges’ levels.
The standard paper capacity of this printer is 600 sheets where it’s split between a 500-sheet main paper tray and a 100-sheet multipurpose feeder. The printer comes with an automatic duplexer for printing on both sides of the paper and minimising paper wastage. The M551DN offers both USB and Ethernet connectivity, allowing users to directly print using mobile devices. Compatible with both Windows and Mac OS, this printer is capable of printing bond paper, cards, envelopes, glossy paper, heavy-weight glossy paper, heavy-weight paper, labels, plain paper, recycled paper etc.
Coming to print speeds, it produces the output at an effective rate of 9.0 ppm. For a colour laser printer, this speed is very good considering its 33 ppm rated speed for both mono and colour cartridges. This speed is based on printing text documents without graphics or photos. Also for graphics pages, and pages with mixed content, it delivered output at quite a good speed. Talking about the output quality, the overall output quality is above average, thanks to the HP Laserjet Enterprise 500 Colour M551DN toner cartridges for detailed graphics and photo quality. Text quality is normal for a laser printer, let’s say good enough for any business. In graphics, the colours will look bright and reasonably true. Though for some, the background colour may not be as you expected. As for printing out PowerPoint presentations, the graphics are fine. Photo quality is slightly above average though in our testing, for a few photos the coloured looked slightly off. However, most approached true photo quality. Unfortunately, this printer lacks borderless printing, so it might not help those who need borderless prints.
The four colour HP Laserjet Enterprise 500 Colour M551DN toner cartridges include Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black toners. All the four colours run longer than expected and will save you a lot of money in the long run. Talking about the running costs of the printer, The M551DN has reasonably low running costs of 1.8 cents per monochrome page and 13 cents per colour page. This model of HP offers a winning combination of fast speed, above-par output quality, and a reasonably low cost per page. It brings enough to the table to make it a perfect choice as a workhorse colour printer for small offices with medium to heavy-duty printing demands. If output quality is your biggest concern then the HP LaserJet Enterprise 500 Colour Printer M551DN is here to offer a much better balance between quality, speed, and running costs. Also, even though the cartridges are cost-effective, buying a multipack of HP Laserjet Enterprise 500 Colour M551DN toner cartridges will benefit you more.
In all, The HP Laserjet Enterprise 500 Colour M551DN is a laser printer that provides a winning mix of high speed, above-par output quality, and reasonably low running costs using its high capacity HP Laserjet Enterprise 500 Colour M551DN toner cartridges.
Review
The HP Laserjet Enterprise 500 Colour M551DN is a business printer with excellent energy-saving features.The printer gives crisp and realistic colour details, making this a suitable option for small business with medium to heavy-duty printing needs.
The printer measures 15.8 by 20.2 by 19.8 inches, larger than one would want to share a desk with. It has a standard paper capacity of 600 sheets divided between a 500-sheet main tray and a 100-sheet multipurpose feeder.The printer comes with an automatic duplexer for printing on both sides of a sheet of paper. It offers 33 page-per-minute rated speed for both coloured and black-and-white printing text documents.The color control panel allows users to quickly check print status..There are minimal color LCD buttons, for Home, OK, Cancel, and Help. With USB and Ethernet connectivity features ,it also allows users to print directly from any mobile device.
The output quality is above average, making it a suitable option for any standard business application.The graphics are fine to print PowerPoint presentations.When used with HP Laserjet Enterprise 500 Colour M551DN toner cartridges, the text quality is good which is sufficient for any business purpose or desktop publishing applications that uses very small fonts.
Advantages- Features user authentication ideal for large business settings where security is important
- Capable of 2-sided printing
- Integrated with HP Colour Access Control capabilities that helps to monitor what application uses colour printing, limit the access and track colour printing costs
- Expandable in tray capacity
- Do not have hard disk capacity
- Heavyweight
The compatible HP Laserjet Enterprise 500 Colour M551DN toner cartridges are:
- HP 507A CE401A Laser Toner Cartridges
- HP 507A CE402A Laser Toner Cartridges
- HP 507A CE403A Laser Toner Cartridges
- HP 507X CE400X Laser Toner Cartridges
The HP Laserjet Enterprise 500 Colour M551DN’s overall output quality is above average, with very good graphics and photo quality. With HP Laserjet Enterprise 500 Colour M551DN toner cartridges, the printer provides a winning mix of high speed, above average output quality and reasonably lower running costs.Taken all together, the text, graphics and photos are suitable for business use simple marketing materials.