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Reason for purchasing
I always seem to stick to HP when it comes to printers, as they have never let me down, unlike a few other makes I had years ago. I purchased this for my husbands home office, but it is used by all my family for all their different printing projects they do. This printer is excellent the best we have owned to date. I knew it would live up to our expectations because of all the good reviews I had read about it before purchasing it online.

Performance
This HP is really the kind of color laser printer you really would expect from any HP. It's very fast, capable of most things, and has a very strong output quality, particularly for printing text and graphics I find. The printer is a little restricted on paper-handling though. Still, it is sufficient for the small to medium-size office or a smaller workgroup. It can can hold 600 sheets of paper, divided into a 500 sheet drawer and a 100 sheet multipurpose tray which is very good. The HP prints at 30 pages per minute for black and white pages and 25 ppm for color printing, which is very fast.

The Printers Design
I actually am very pleased with the overall appearance and design of this HP. I think as printers go, it looks stylish enough. It is made of thick gray plastic and it really weighs a lot. It is very sturdy though and will last well in my opinion. All the buttons are situated at the front and are all clearly marked. The printing tray is easy to use and pull up and down also. Overall a good looking printer.

Set Up
Setting up this HP printer is surprisingly very easy, except for moving it into place though. It's a fairly big printer and it is very heavy indeed. You will need at least two people to help lift it. Once you've found the perfect place for it, however, the physical setup is almost simple to do. There is very little to the set up and the toner cartridges do not need your help to prepare them. They're already in place, inside the printer, ready to use which is great. The network setup is also very easy with this HP printer. Just plug in the network cable and run the fully automated installation routine.

Photographs and Prints
The photograph speed is really very impressive with this HP printer, because the overall quality is very good for a laser type of printer in my opinion, despite one smaller issue though. Red and orange colors on this printer are a little bit oversaturated and look more like the color magenta in my eyes, so the color orange, a red apple, and red stop sign for instance, are beyond the range of acceptable color to me. But colors in most photos are well within their realistic range, even though some photos are a little darker than they really should be at times. You won't mistake the output for true photo quality with this though, but unless you have a highly critical eye, you'll probably consider the photos excellent for your everyday needs like I do.

Text quality
The text quality really is great for almost anything you want to print off with this HP printer and I found it very acceptable indeed. Graphics quality is really good enough for any internal business use I need it for, as well as for things such as leaflets, projects and other handouts which you might print.
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Overall
Overall an excellent laser printer for any office and it gets the job done quickly and very easily indeed. I would recommend this printer and I am pleased with it. The photograph quality is great, the print quality for text is good also and the performance of this HP overall is really fast. The price has come down a lot also, so its a must have in my eyes. Highly recommended!