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This printer is one of the best printers for home and home-office needs with good quality print. POSITIVE: 1 pass tech., quiet, excellent text quality, acceptable graphics and photos, looks good (compact design and light), reliability from HP, a lot of...
A Great Printer for a Great Price. I read all of the reviews before making my decision and based on the technical people who reviewed this printer, I decided to go ahead and purchase it. I was not disappointed at all. From the time I opened the box, it...
Exceeds Expectations! After much research, especially here, I made my purchase of this on HP's site for $319. I asked for ground shipping and imagine my surprise when I had it in 2 days! I need to "clarify" the no cons opinion a little, as the unit...
Spectacular Overall Value. Initially I had a heap of trouble connecting via USB. it simply wouln't work. loading the driver wouldn't happen. I overcame this by connecting to the network port. The USB still doesn't work. I ended up going thru the HP...
Sweet machine! I was quite taken back by the quick warm up speed of the 2600n. I was a bit skeptical of this printer especially because of the CNET rating, but saw positive user feedback, and I'm so glad I went through with the purchase. This color does...
Excellent for Home office. Recomend this printer to the person that is looking to graduate from the Ink Jet world. Cnet complained about the controls on the right. The installed printer controls allows you to monitor your ink consumption as well as set...
Excellent deal for the $$. I bought one of these on eBay for a very good price, brand new. Hooked it up only to found it got broken in shipment (internal not box damage). Called HP and they FedEx'ed me a brand new one overnight at THEIR dime! New unit...
Excellent Machine. After initial setup, which took longer due to insufficient instructions, the printer began working and has continued to work without problems. I have had HP laser printers before and this 2600n by far is a far superior machine to the...
Great value for home/home office use. Whenever I look for a new product I look for 3 things, is it affordable, will it suite my needs and what is the general reviews on it. I was looking for an affordable, good quality laser printer that didn't have a...
Great Value. I'm not sure what the bad reviewers are using this for, but as a small business need, I've been very happy with this product. It was up and running in under 45 minutes - the majority of the time was unpacking. It's very fast, and the colors...
Great Buy for Moderate Printing on a Mac Network. We are an all Mac company. We were doing some research about laser printers to quickly replace our all-of-the-sudden dead inkjet. Iread all kind of reviews on CNET, Amazon, etc. Very difficult to decide...
Excellent Value for Great Quality! I am extremely satisfied with the purchase of this printer. Print quality for text and graphics are great, considering the cost of this printer is inexpensive. Cost of toner is reasonable compared to others. As far as I...
FOR THE PRICE WHICH INCLUDES INK - GREAT. OVERALL A VERY GOOD IF NOT EXCELLENT LASER PRINTER FOR ITS PRICE, ESPECIALLY WITH INK CARTRIDGES INCLUDED. PAID $250.00 FOR MY...
Great printer for small office. This is a great fit for a small office. I'm a graphic designer working mostly in print. I use the printer for previewing layouts, not color proofing--blues print way too dark! But, I wasn't expecting great color matching,...
Superb Performance - But Don't Try on USB 1.0. Outstanding print quality for both text & graphics. Very pleased with even pictures. At least the same quality as my Tektronix 740 Plus $3k Color Laser but prints much faster. Just wish there had been a...
Great little entry level color laserjet. Considering this machine has not been on the market that long it's tough to say how it will hold up. However if it's like all the other HP printers I've owned it will be fine. First to those that gave it a low...
Excellent Buy! I was looking for a good black and white laser printer for my wife's home based business. So print quality was important to me. I've read most of C/Net's reviews for the black and white lasers and didn't look at any reviews for color model....
Don't be confused by mixed reviews! Read this... I normally don't write reviews, but when I went looking for a printer, I hit the user reviews at all the sites. With this HP 2600n, half the reviews said it was the greatest thing since sliced bread, the...
Excellect for the price. I am impressed with the output quality, both B&W and color. Easy to setup, network ready was a plus. Sure the Dell 3100cn(or 3110) is better and faster, but at almost twice the price, it better be....
Great printer, easy setup. I just bought this over the weekend. It set up easily, the setup poster was easy to follow. HP even has extra long pull strips on the toner cartridges so you don't get overzealous and cover yourself with toner. Printing is...
So Far So Good. I have only had the printer four days but have put it through as many tests as possible. I do photo shoots for a realtor friend and needed something which would print fast and do a good job with color. This one printed 10 b&w pages in...
Good color laser value. We needed a new color printer solution for our growing home office network of three Macs and four PC's. The HP 2600n gives us compatibility with both Mac and Windows and has an Ethernet which goes right off the router so it...
Great Printer for the Price! This is a great printer for the price, I paid $199 after rebates. For a full color laser you wont find better at that price point....
Business quality and features at an at home price. I read every opinion here, and had only one concern, how well it would print on card stock. I'm happy to report that, when the paper type is set to "card stock", I printed 10 pages of zero perf. business...
Great price, good speed, Good output Quality. I bought this printer direct from HP during their instant rebate at $299 with free 2 day shipping. It arrived two days later via Fedex in great shape. The funny thing is that the four cartridges are around...
Really nice for a printer at home. The only thing that I have a complain about is that it doesn't print graphics very well. Other than that, it is a really nice printer at a relatively good price....
So far so good. I have had this printer for 5 hours (so take all that I say with a grain of salt). But so far the prints look good, It was easy to set up. I have it networked with 5 computers (3 Mac one PC and wireless with 2 Mac Laptops). I will post...
Great value for money. I have this printer for a few days now and I love it! Setup was a breeze, within 10 minutes the printer was installed on both the PC and the wireless laptop. It is hooked up straight at the router and the software from HP made it...
Easy Set Up. I have only had the printer for a couple of hours but I wanted to comment on something I read by another reviewer. I bought the printer as a second choice and so at the store couldn't remember much about it's reviews. I was debating on...
Cheap and Cheerful. I was in a bit of a quandry -- I needed a network colour laser printer quickly and the CNET editors & readers seemed to disagree on their opinions of this printer. The problem is that, in the UK, it can be difficult to get what...
Nice little printer for my needs! I bought this to replace a Magicolor 2430dl, which was giving me progressively poorer print quality. The only thing their tech support could suggest was to replace all the toner cartridges and "see if that fixes the...
Not as slow as many state - Works good by me. I have used this machine for 2 weeks. I got a defective USB so that is why my set up did not go smoothly. I use this machine for a small envelope business printing invitations and envelopes. Graphics and...
The machine does all that I require but there is a problem I cannot solve. Excellent machine, but expensive in cost per copy. When marks appear on copies there is a cleaning program in tools, but this fails to clear the marks which are repeated in a...
Prints great if you're printing text and a small graphic on plain paper. Otherwise, not so well. If you're picky about how your printed graphics will look, this isn't the printer for you. I know of 12 Laserjet 2600n all with the same fuser problem, it...
Nice but economically a rip-off. I have the 2500 model & this one. The 2500 did require a $150 drum & the 2600 does not, that is a good thing. However HP has cut the toner capacity in half (2000 vs 4000 page toner capacity, 15 % coverage) &...
Toner Almost Costs More Than the Printer. I was going to buy this printer when I saw it advertised for $319, but I did a bit more research. Each toner cartridge costs about $75 and is only rated for 2000 pages. That means to replace all 4 toner...
Great price good blacks but Slow. Good printer for simple pages with business graphics and tables, but image reproduction is...
Slow, product does not live up to expectations. Printer broke down after one year. Refurbished printer was sent which had several errors and had to be resent. Customer and technical support need improving. HP site not user friendly. Very nice graphics....
HP is stealing you blind with this one..$1600 a year. nice inexpensive..but HP has made it that way on purpose......the printer has imbedded chips in it that says when to replace the ink. even if you only use black, when it goes the chips say all the ink...
Poor picture quality. i really liked the feel of this unit( a little big) easy to set up, easy to change ink. the sheet feed was top notch and both of my computers had no problem printing through the network card. Documentation did not cover the grainy...
STOP! No printing for you! I purchased this printer about 1 year ago for our small business. We use it for day to day printing as well as for proposals and literature. The printer starts up much faster than the previous model we had so we are not waiting...
Do not buy! We have 5 of them at our offices. 4 of them had the same common problem with ghosting. Three were replaced by HP. Not worth the hassle. I'd preffer to pay a bit more for a reliable printer rather than go that rout again. I strongly advise to...
Dissatisfied. This printer has been a headache. I switched from a Deskjet970 and want to switch back. After less than 100 copies, I started seeing a grey background on my copies. HP replaced the toner which did not help. They sent me a refurbished...
THIS PRINTER USES COLOUR CARTRDGES TO CREATE BLACK AND WHITE IMAGES! We bought this printer at a good price form one of the UK?s largest printer suppliers PC world. Set up was easy. The quality of print very good for the purchase price. Then, our...
Very poor colour printing. Really poor quality colour printing. Most $100 (CAD) inkjet printers will print better colour. The thing ways a ton. On the other hand it prints ver very sharp black text and it nakes it glossy too At the bottom of the paper...
Ink/Toner RIP OFF. If you don?t print primarily COLOR documents, DO NOT BUY THIS PRINTER. I purchased the HP Color Laserjet 2600n as an alternative to cheap inkjet printers which use way too much ink. I knew the cartridges were expensive ($85.00 per) but...
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