HP Color LaserJet 2600n - Expert Reviews

Review summary: The LaserJet HP2600n's price is hard to beat, but picky printer shoppers might want to spend a little more for a printer with better image quality.

Pros: Great price ; increased paper capacity ; good quality text and graphics printing

Cons: No PostScript emulation ; minimum of built-in RAM ; photo prints looked undersaturated ; grayscale prints had a green cast

Verdict: Setting up the printer was easy. Four toner cartridges come pre-installed, but you do need to pull them out to remove the shipping tape before starting up. You can connect the printer to your computer via a USB 2.0 cable or over a network by using ...

Pros: Inexpensive ; easy to use ; great black-text quality

Cons: Prints text slowly ; expensive toner ; mediocre color-graphics quality ; USB cable not included

Verdict: This HP is affordable if you want a simple color laser printer with wired networking, but it's sluggish.

Award: Editor's Choice!

Review summary: Type: 1-pass color, Technology: Laser, Rated Speed (Color): 8 ppm, Rated Speed (Mono): 8 ppm

Pros: Good performance for the price. Excellent text and good or better graphics and photo quality. Includes Ethernet connector.

Cons: The ratings of good for photos and the high end of good for graphics are below the best available for color lasers.

Verdict: The HP Color LaserJet 2600n ties for the title of lowest-price color laser to date. But it ups the ante by including an Ethernet connection. Even better, it offers reasonably good performance and output quality, making it a strong contender as the low ...

Review summary: Perfectly priced for the home office, yet powerful enough and network-ready for small businesses and workgroups, the Color LaserJet 2600n is a fantastic value offering for producing business, marketing, and sales documents in-house. ...

Pros: Attractive price ; excellent print quality ; relatively quiet printing

Cons: Basic specifications ; moderate paper handling ; tad slow

Review summary: This Network Colour printer has a print capacity of 8 A-4 pages per minute and a resolution of 600 x 600 dpi with print capacity of 2500 papers per cartridge. The printer holds a maximum of 500 sheets of Legal size. It has a USB Port. It is compatible ...