HP LaserJet Pro CP1525nw Color Printer Real Reviews
HP LaserJet Pro CP1525nw Color Printer Real Reviews Real People
When Office Max had it for $240 Thanksgiving weekend, I just had to replace my 9 year old HP 1200 monochrome laser printer. The old HP ran like a champ, but I could not pass up the chance to move to color. Setup was a breeze over my ethernet using my old Mac running Leopard. I rated the documentation as good, as I only used the quick set up guide and did not dig into the details, but the manual looks comprehensive. I did (and suggest) to skip the enclosed driver CD and go right to HP.com and get the latest drivers and firmware. This made the printer work with Apple's new airprint. I can print from my iPad and iPhone via my home wireless network. I didn't even have to set up the wireless printing on the printer. This is fine because my home network has a greater range in the house than the printer. Print quality is great: "dang near photo" quality. I would still send my 4x6 prints to Walgreens to be printed on nice glossy paper.Each toner in the old laser lasted for years. I hope the same is true for the color printer. Yes, the first toner carts are only about one-third full. Office Max has good prices on toner and Amazon prices are good if you can wait. The nice part is that you can tell the printer to use just black if one or more of the color toners gets low.
Setup for wireless was fast and easy. Well made. Solid proven technology. This printer (unlike the cp1025nw) prints shipping labels well -> and even more amazing - small gold and silver foil labels in color! No problema! Highly recommend, especially for the low Amazon price, customer service, and HP business customer service. The first laser printer I saw decades ago took up half a room, with a closet full of supplies. This is a professional quality color laser printer that fits neatly on a small narrow 18" table.
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This is the first HP LaserJet that I've owned, though I've worked with and installed them since the original LaserJet 1 in the mid/late 80's. Set up was a breeze, mainly consisting of removing lots of pieces of orange tape and taking what I call the tape worms out of the toner cartridges. I was finally able to get the wireless to work with OS-X Lion, and here's the steps: 0. DO NOT install the HP software! It predates Lion, and HP is infamous for buggy software. Just plug in the printer via USB and let OS-X do its own updating, it should work fine, but it will take a little while to download and patch.1. Connect an ethernet cable between the printer and your computer. Give it a minute to pick up an IP address.2. From the printer, print the Network Summary report, under TCP/IP(v4) it should list a 169.254.x.x address, enter this address into a web browser.3. You're now in the printer's web interface and can set up the wireless configuration to connect the printer to your router! But you're not quite done yet...4. You now have the printer configured to accept wireless connections through your router, now you need to add the wireless printer to your computer configuration. Go to System Preferences/Print & Scan and click on the + to add a printer. It should come up with HP LaserJet CP1525nw (xxxxxx). I don't know what the xxxxxx is, some sort of address. Anyway, this is your WiFi connection. Once OS-X is done, you should be good to go. Disconnect any cables between the printer and your computer, and you should be printing wirelessly! (and I'm recreating the steps above from memory, but they should get you close, if not entirely there)
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At the end of October 2011, I bought this printer for a small non-profit organization. We had been using an inkjet printer but the ink was getting too expensive to keep buying so we started looking for a color laser printer that was wireless and had a good price. This was the one we picked and installed. First, the installation is not easy. Our wireless router is in a small nook which made it nearly impossible to hook the printer to it in order to set it up. The fact that there are four cartridges makes me cringe, but most color laser printers have that. I thought it would be worth the hassle if it could save us some money. The prints do look good.As for saving the organization money? I may have been wrong. Since October (2.5 months), we have used all the introductory cartridges and are onto full cartridges for every color. We have printed 258 pages using the yellow. It's 30% full, with approximately 100 pages left. We have printed 617 pages of black, and it has 50% left. Cyan has printed 258 pages, with 60% left. Magenta has printed 185 pages, with 70% remaining. I don't know how HP determined how many pages each cartridge was supposed to have printed, but they are very very wrong. They say each cartridge prints at least 1000 pages, but we won't be able to reach that number. We printed almost the same amount of pages on an inkjet printer but using cartridges that cost less than half the price! It's too bad. I would not recommend this printer to anyone.