Hewlett Packard Color LaserJet 4500 Printer

Pros: Awesome color prints
Cons: Pricey printer and comsumables

I came a crossed this printer while looking for a printing solution for one of my clients. You see I am a computer hardware salesman, so it is my job to find the best products to fit my clients needs.

This client was looking to be able to...

Pros: Fabulous output
Cons: None

I’ve succumbed. Bit the bullet and bought myself this wonderful mammoth of a machine: The HP Color LaserJet 4500. Yes, it’s very pricey and yes I won’t get *anything* for Christmas, but I am soooo satisfied.

After having gone through...

Pros: Cheap maintenance and toner, inexpensive buy-in, very hardy and fast
Cons: too big for the home desktop, loud and noisy, draws a lot of power

I am amazed. I've been at the forefront of color printer technology for years. I've watched printers come down from $100,000 models that cost $30 a sheet to where we are now: The Hewlett Packard Color LaserJet 4500, which costs about $2500, and around...

Pros: Outstanding quality, speed, features, warranty...
Cons: Not much in this category....price for some.

HP, I commend you. To be honest, I more than commend you, I praise you. What you have unleashed on the market of buisness equipment is a pure technological wonder. Truly an amazing piece of printing machinery, I sometimes find even myself amazed at the...

Pros: Fast, great color and print quality
Cons: You will never be able to move it again

This is a printer for serious printing. If you’re not doing serious printing, the price will definitely deter you (I paid $3,172 plus an extra $680 extended warranty for 3 years with Unisys). If the price doesn’t deter you, the size will. This massive...

Pros: Beautiful Sharp color, and BW. Fast printing times, and consistent quality.
Cons: Long warm up times.

I first ran into the HP 4500 at my previous job, and what a pro it was. For a color laser printer around $2000.00, this thing is a wonderful beast. The quality is top notch, and the color is consistent and vibrant.

I used this printer mainly...

Pros: FAST, Excellent Color/Black Print Quality.
Cons: Toner is a little on the expensive side.

Everyone has high expectations of Hewlett Packard and let me tell you something, this printer holds those expectations better than any other color laserjet that I've seen. Compared with other lasers of this price-range (between about 2400.00 and...

Pros: price, quality
Cons: noise, speed

HP has made a very good color laser printer at a relatively low cost. I have been using the HP 4500 in my home office for nine months and have never had any problems with it. I estimate that it costs me about 10 cents per page for color printing, which...

Pros: Quality, user friendly, cost of consumables
Cons: Speed, noise, display of remaining lifetime of consumables

Rather bulky but I guess this is the price you have to pay in order to have 4 separate toner cartridges. Also slow because of that (4 ppm full color).
Very reliable, it worked in our office for 1 year, printing more than 70,000 copies without...

Pros: Great print quality, low cost of ownership
Cons: Warm up time

Takes a lot longer than a standard b/w laser printer to warm up (calibration and warm up takes approx 5 minutes). Just remember to set the energy save time-out to something long, so you don't have to keep waiting for a warm up. Aside from that it's a...

Pros: Good print quality, good speed
Cons: Takes about 3-4 minutes to warm up.

I purchased this product because I needed a color printer that could pump out some quantity, and I have had about enough with inkjet printers. A high-end inkjet costs about the same as the CLJ 4500, and the 4500 is a very flexible printer.

To...

Pros: Beautiful output
Cons: Noisy; big and heavy

I purchased this printer to replace my recently departed HP2500C ink jet. I got it online for $2,200 with free shipping. I looked at numerous other printers but just fell in love with the output of this printer. It is absolutely stunning. I...

Pros: Built like a brick. You'll need a hammer to break it.
Cons: Color is addictive.

There's only two drawbacks to this printer.

1.) It's not QUITE foolproof. I maintain computers and printers in a building with about 10 of these. Once, a secretary put in a toner cartridge wrong (she had to force it to get it in wrong) but...

Pros: Good color reproduction
Cons: ghosting still occurs

Let me start by saying, this is an awesome printer. While I have had some not so satisfying encounters with other color laser printers in the past, I'll have to say, this HP machine is really nice.

It's quick and the color qualities are...

Pros: quality, capacity, versatability
Cons: large, expensive for individuals

We have this printer at my office and have used it for two years now in hundreds of ways. The results are remarkably clear and brilliant...very high quality. jpegs and bmps and gifs print out like real photos.

I've used this printer to print...

Pros: Great color, long lasting toner
Cons: Slow first page, very big machine, expensive

Regardless of what the inkjet maker say about photo quality, yada, yada. This color laser blows the doors off a color inkjet. Although the machine is big and very pricey it beats going down to the local OfficeMax to buy a ink cartridge in the middle of...

Pros: plan on toners lasting 8,000 to 12,000 copies, little or no maintenance
Cons: up front price is shocking, however pays for itself in little amount of time

I am employed by a small automotive accessories and graphic wholesale catalog company. We mail out approximately 4500 mailers every 2 months to advise our customers of new products/specials/etc...and for the past 10 years have sent black and white...

Pros: Great color
Cons: It's big

Of the color laser printer that I have seen, this has got to be the best. Where I currently work we have 4 of them and use them all the time. I am the one that maintains them and am glad that they went with these. When I was in the Air Force at Offutt I...

Pros: colour quality, speed
Cons: warm up time, big area

Power. Thats all I see looking at this behemoth as its known as at work. Everyone who comes around it is just in awe at how large and powerful it looks. Just when it warms up the humming sound it makes sounds great. But the work it does is just...

Pros: Fantastic Color Output
Cons: it's more than a bubblejet, but wait till you see the quality!

We just installed the 4550 in our office after years of struggling with crappy bubblejet output. The speed is far superior to an inkjet. The consumables aren't rally that expensive, and the quality is astounding.

We sent files to HP to...