HP 1500L Color Laserjet Printer

HP 1500L Color Laserjet Printer

This HP color laser is designed as an entry level model. With the HP Laserjet 1500L you don't have to suffer poor print performance for the price. What you get for under $800 is good quality printing and inexpensive running costs.

Basically this model is a cut down version of the HP Color LaserJet 2500 series which starts at about $1000. You get the same print engine but much less memory. This makes the HP 1500L a little less suited to sharing print jobs in an office or workgroup.

This HP color laser takes cyan, magenta, yellow, and black laser toner cartridges which are supplied. HP rates the black toner cartridge ($83) at about 5,000 pages and the color cartridges ($100 each) for about 4,500. The printers imaging drum ($174) can last for as many as 20,000 black pages or as few as 5,000 color ones, with HP predicting most users will see 6,000 to 8,000 pages' use.

specifications:

• black: up to 16 ppm
• color: up to 4 ppm
• Total Media Capacity 375 sheets
• 600 dpi x 600 dpi for both black and color
• up to 2 input trays

HP Color Laserjet 1500L

Color laser printers are still quite a bit larger than their monochrome counterparts and much larger than inkjet printers. They also consume a fair amount of electricity and vent hot air. Keep this in mind when you decide where to place your lovely new printer.

The HP 1500L is one of the more noisy color laser printers around but you cannot fault its printing ability. Text is great and although images never come out great on plain paper color graphs and diagrams and produced crisply.

Print times for this printer is comparable to others of it's class and don't warrant praise or criticism.