HP Color Laserjet CP1518NI Printer Entry Level Color Laserjet for Us Government

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

From the Manufacturer Want to print professional color marketing materials? The HP Color LaserJet CP1518ni Printer has everything you need—like a free online toolkit[1] to help you get started and pre-configured Printing Shortcuts. Effortlessly print on envelopes, card paper, glossy paper and more.

Want easy printing for your whole office? Share your printer using built-in wired networking, plus use the two-line LCD control panel to manage your printer and get supplies information. Print up to 150 pages without reloading the paper tray and print on special paper using the single-sheet priority feed slot.

Want to print-shop quality documents with photos? Print eye-catching color, sharp text and crisp graphics using Original HP ColorSphere toner. To select photos for your documents, slide your memory card into one of the printer’s card slots and browse the images on your PC. You can also connect directly to your digital camera using the PictBridge® port on the front of the printer.

Want fast, affordable printing? Spend less time waiting by your printer with Instant-on Technology[2] and enjoy black-and-white printing for the same cost as using a mono laser printer[3].

Create custom marketing materials in your own office.

Boost your business image with the HP Color LaserJet CP1518ni PrinterEasily create marketing materials right in your office. Avoid keeping outdated documents and storing extra copies by printing only what you need, when you need it.

Make your own brochures, flyers and more using HP Color Laser Brochure Paper and HP Color Laser Photo Paper. Find business templates and project ideas at www.hp.com/print

Print high-quality color Make your business documents stand out. Count on HP ColorSphere toner and HP ImageREt 3600 for exceptional print quality. Colors will look bright and bold, and charts and text will look sharp and clean.

Save energy in more ways than one with an HP LaserJetDid you know that HP LaserJet printers with Instant-on Technology have reduced carbon emissions by 5.25 million tons? That's the same as taking 1.1 million cars off the road for one year[4]. Plus, this printer is an ENERGY STAR® qualified product.

Remember compatible toner, paper and accessoriesHP, the 1 brand in toner is the 1 value[5]. Get professional results every time. The HP Color LaserJet CP1518ni Printer uses four individual print cartridges: black, cyan, yellow and magenta.

Print all your business documents, from brochures and presentations to invoices and emails, using Original HP paper.

To easily connect your PC to this HP printer, you'll need a USB cable.

See all the compatible toner and recommended papers here.

Get the specificsPRINT SPEED: Up to 12 ppm black, up to 8 ppm color; first black page out as fast as 26 secondsPRINT FROM: Ethernet, USB, PC/Mac®PAPER HANDLING: 3" x 5" to 8.5" x 14"; up to 30,000 pages per month

Save energy in more ways than one with an HP LaserJet.What's in the box?

• HP Color LaserJet CP1518ni Printer


• HP Color LaserJet Introductory Black Print Cartridge


• HP Color LaserJet Introductory Cyan Print Cartridge


• HP Color LaserJet Introductory Magenta Print Cartridge


• HP Color LaserJet Introductory Yellow Print Cartridge


• Power cable


• Output tray extension


• Getting Started Guide


• CD-ROM (for User's Guide and printer software)

HP LaserJetThe world's most trusted business printer[6].

Count on reliable, high-volume printingNeed to print business documents in high quantities? Then you need an HP LaserJet. You'll get Instant-on Technology for faster printing and lower costs. Plus, there are fewer parts to replace compared to other laser printers[7].

Print impressive documents using Original HP LaserJet print cartridgesWant to avoid reprinting? Choose Original HP LaserJet print cartridges, proven to be more reliable than bargain cartridges, for professional-quality documents that meet your standards. Over 25% of the pages inspected from the tested remanufactured cartridges were not good enough for distribution outside of the office[8].

What's special about print cartridges with HP ColorSphere toner? They're designed to deliver consistent print quality and trouble-free printing.

Reduce, reuse and recycleWant to help your business go green? Save paper by choosin an HP LaserJet with automatic two-sided printing.

Since most HP LaserJets are ENERGY STAR® qualified products, you can be sure you're saving power.

Did you know HP recycles your print cartridges for free? Visit www.hp.com/recycle for details. In 2006, HP recycled more than 164 million pounds of hardware and print cartridges—the same weight as 600 jumbo jets.

Print impressive documents using Original HP LaserJet print cartridges

Choose the right product for you.

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[1] The Marketing Resource Software may be downloaded for free through the URL included with the printer's installation software. For more information, visit www.hp.com/go/ihm.[2] Instant-on Technology uses cutting-edge fuser technology to produce the first page faster when a printer is coming out of low power mode so your print job is done sooner.[3] Assuming comparable monochrome LaserJet printer, and that customer is printing 30% of total pages in color with content similar to the color ISO/IEC 19798 test suite. www.iso.org/jtc1/sc28[4] The tons of CO2 avoided is based on power plant emissions that otherwise would occur to generate the electricity saved; cars removed is based on annual emissions from cars burning gasoline.[5] From a 2008 RS Consulting MarketShare Study commissioned by HP. For details, see www.hp.com/go/valuestorysupplies.[6] Based on HP LaserJet share leadership as evidenced in IDC, Q3-2008 Hard Copy Peripheral Tracker Revision 2.[7] Based on the manufacturer's published product specifications for replacement parts (excluding print cartridges). Pricing is per manufacturer's website as of March 15, 2008. Actual prices may vary.[8] QualityLogic 2009 study compared Original HP Color LaserJet cartridges with remanufactured cartridges sold in North America for the HP Color LaserJet CP3505. For details, see www.qualitylogic.com/colortonertest.pdf

ENERGY STAR and the ENERGY STAR logo are registered U.S. marks.

HP CP1518NI Color LaserJet Printer. Print professional quality brochures and more at your desk with the HP Color LaserJet CP1518ni Printer. Free HP marketing tools allow you to alter documents instantly, so each piece is up to date and speaks to customer needs. Optimize output quality for an array of media types with new preconfigured Printing Shortcuts. Produce a variety of documents with a professional look and feel when you choose from a range of supported media including glossy paper in sizes up to 8.5 by 14 inches. For optimal results, HP offers a full line of everyday and specialty papers that are designed together with Color LaserJet printing systems. New HP ColorSphere toner takes award winning Color LaserJet performance to the next level. Immediately see the difference in your documents with sharper text and graphics and vibrant color. Add digital images to your business documents. Simply insert a photo memory card into one of the printer's built in slots, browse it from your PC, and select the image or images you want to use. Or, print directly from PictBridge enabled devices like your digital camera, using the built in USB port. Make no compromises when it comes to color quality. HP ImageREt 3600 is the difference between color that looks good, and color that looks exceptional. With this Color LaserJet, you can print black only pages for the same price as on an HP black and white LaserJet. With an easy to use print system, printer operation is intuitive and convenient. Print jobs quickly up to 12 pages per minute/ ppm, black and white and 8 ppm color with HP PCL 6 and HP postscript level 3 emulation print drivers. Maintain your momentum with a 150 sheet input tray, a single sheet priority input tray for special media, and a 125 sheet output tray. Original HP cartridges are preinstalled when the printer arrives and a handy front access panel makes replacement easy.

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 15.7 x 17.8 x 10 inches ; 39.9 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 111 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00168RF6C
• Item model number: CC378AABA
  

Price : $336.99
You Save : $172.01 (34%)

List Price : $509.00

Technical Details

• High-performance color network printer for professional-quality results
• Newly formulated HP Color Sphere toner for a wider range of colors and higher gloss
• Prints up to 12 ppm in black-and-white and 8 ppm in color
• Dimensions: 15.7 x 17.8 x 10.0 Inches (WxHxD); weighs 40 pounds
• 150 Sheet input tray, single sheet priority input tray for special media, and 125 sheet output tray

Costumer Reviews

The Good:

1) The Price - it is on sale for 299.00 in a number of places. A network printer at that price is a steal.

2) Image quality is sharp and crisp. Colors are fairly accurate.

3) No problems were encountered installing printer on computer running Vista. However, there is a lot of stuff (optional programs) on the installation so a typical install can take a long time (in my case well over a half hour) during which time I did wonder why it was taking so long. I guess, in this age of "bloatware", this may expected.

The Bad:

HP does not make high yield toner cartridges for this series of printers (this one and HP Color Laserjet CP1215 Printer). High yield cartridges are a great money saver since they typically give you 2-3 times more pages while typically costing only 20-25% more than standard cartridges. So unless HP comes out with high yield toner cartridges for this printer in the future, you will be trapped into paying about twice as much per printed page than you would if you purchased a printer that can use high yield cartridges. At about $280.00 for a replacement set of cartridges, the low printer price savings could easily be overcome by higher printing cost if you intend on doing a lot of color printing.

The Product Description doesn't list the replacement toner cartridges. Here they are:

CB540A Black print cartridge with HP ColorSphere toner

CB541A Cyan print cartridge with HP ColorSphere toner

CB542A Yellow print cartridge with HP ColorSphere toner

CB543A Magenta print cartridge with HP ColorSphere toner

This is our second color laser printer in the past two weeks, and after a week of use we feel this is a keeper. The previous printer we tried, the Brother HL-4040cdn Color Laser Printer with Duplex and Networking, was a step better than this printer in nearly every respect, except color accuracy. But my wife had to have a printer that was highly accurate for her project and this little printer was able to meet her high expectations. The Brother just could not cut it with the color accuracy, despite all the advanced calibration steps we tried.

Let me admit that I was a bit apprehensive about getting this printer given the many negative early reviews. Thankfully, it seems HP has addressed the quality problems with the later releases of this printer since it has been receiving excellent reviews lately.

The print quality of this printer is astonishingly nice. HP is confident enough to let the printer print out a photo quality test page that has brilliant, vibrant colors, and amazing depth for a laser printer.

The build quality of this printer is good but perhaps a step below the substantially heavier Brother HL-4040cdn, which seems definitely capable of a higher duty cycle. This printer has a smaller footprint and feels more at home in a home-office as opposed to a business office. That said, in our first week of use we have had no technical issues with this printer whatsoever and, despite being slower and less robust than the Brother, it suits our needs just fine.

After networking it with our Linksys router and assigning it a fixed IP number, we found to our delight that most of the settings of the printer can be manipulated using a web browser after pointing the browser to the printer's IP number. The printer's built in webserver page displays information such as toner levels and estimated remaining prints and has a full menu system to allow you to change the settings.

Our only grouse with this printer is that the default color output for photos is a bit too dark, causing dull pictures. I browsed through HP's Support pages and found that the dark color issue was quite common, but I could not find a solution for the correct Print Density settings for this printer. So, after much testing, and lots of wasted paper, I came to the same conclusion as another reviewer that there was too much magenta, which tended to smear the subtle details.

My Color Adjustments:

Using the "HP ToolboxFX" program that is provided, or through the web interface, it is necessary to modify the "Print Density" settings under "Device Settings". I arrived at the following settings: cyan: 0, magenta: -2, yellow: -1 and black: 0. To keep things simple, I kept the values consistent accross all the print density attributes, i.e., contrasts, highlights, midtones and shadows, although each individual attribute should probably be further tweaked. To my eyes colors were true, with slight heaviness in magenta remaining.

It was also necessary to brighten the pictures themselves slightly, using a software tool such as Adobe Photoshop or Arcsoft Photoimpression. I simply used Photoimpression to bump up the brightness by 10% (or "auto brighten" by two levels).

Finally, when printing, I found it is also necessary to set the the color theme to Photo. I did try sRGB, Vivid and Photo (Adobe RGB 1998) color themes, but they all tended to push too much magenta. Only with the color theme set to Photo was I able to get true reds and vibrant, almost photo quality prints on 8.5 x 11 glossy photo paper.

Conclusion:

Since there is a relatively easy way to get around the dark color issue, I have no problem edorsing the HP CP1518ni as an excellent color laser printer for home use.