HP LaserJet 3550 - Expert Reviews

Pros: Colour printer, good monochrome print quality

Cons: Too big, high price

Verdict: The HP Color LaserJet 3550n delivers decent print quality, especially for black-and-white documents, but it is both expensive and quite slow.

Review summary: Printer uses an add-on network interface and relies on its host PC to render pages, but you don't get a price break.

Verdict: The HP Color LaserJet 3550n delivers decent print quality, especially for black-and-white documents, but the simpler technology doesn't translate into sufficient savings for the owner, and it isn't the fastest of the pack.

Review summary: The HP Color LaserJet 3550n is bulky, housed in a gray box whose front curvature adds to its sense of inflated size. Unfortunately this model's girth, and its $999 price tag, don't reflect the components inside, considering it cuts some corners in its ...

Verdict: The printer comes with two printed documents, a Start guide to explain the basic hardware setup and a Network Installation Guide. We didn't get far with the latter before it referred us to the Jetdirect Administrator's Guide, which was included as a ...

Review summary: Type: 1-pass color, Technology: Laser, Rated Speed (Color): 16 ppm, Rated Speed (Mono): 16 ppm

Pros: Output quality ranges from the high end of good to excellent. Standard 350-page capacity with 850-page maximum. Easy network installation.

Cons: The 16-page-per-minute engine rating is slow for the price, and so is the measured performance. Network connection uses an external print server.

Verdict: The HP Color LaserJet 3550n is a reasonably capable color laser for those who value output quality more than speed. Both the 16-page-per-minute engine rating and the actual performance are slow for the price. But quality across the board is better ...