Anyone Using the HP 4600 Color Laser

[ShawnF]

Hello,

I'm debating which color laser printer to get for our company, and am leaning towards HP but am not sure between the 4550 or the 4600. The 4600 is pretty new, and I can't find much for reviews or replacement parts yet. Anyone have a 4600 that can comment on it? I've had experience with the 4550 before and would like to avoid it if possible. It's a decent printer, but it's slow. How's the quality, speed, reliability of the 4600? How much of a workload does it have?

Thanks,

Shawn

 

[jlasman]

Shawn,

I have no direct experience with either the 4550 or 4600
color printers.

As I understand it, the 4550 achieves full color with
three passes of the paper through the imaging system;
whereas, the 4600 lays all the toner down in a single
pass, so you are close to tripling the throughput.

HP hasn't really had any "stinkers" in their business line
of printers over the years. I think I would feel pretty
good about the 4600.

Jim Asman

 

[hpwizzard]

About the LJ4600 I can say quite some good things:

1) It`s very user friendly. Just open the front door to exchange toner, as they are all lined up.
2) It`s damn fast. As a in-line colorprinter it manages up to 17 pages pr. min. No slow calibration process.
3) It is cheaper to maintain. No drumkit to exchange fx.
More info here:

http://h20022.www2.hp.com/busprod/s...73,00.html?lsidebarLayId=106&rsidebarLayId=62

To those who has an LJ4500 or 4550 I will say this though. The colors are NOT exactly the same. The LJ4600 tends to print a bit lighter colors.
And no... I am not an HP salesman, I am just a HP printertech

 

[cdove]

We've just installed a 4600DN Laser. Excellent quality, although the toners are approx £130 each and there are four of them. We've done 550 A4 prints on 25% of the Toner. At the present time we can't now get 4550's.

 

[ShawnF]

Well, I ended up getting a 4600dn. I narrowed my search down to the Okidata 7200 color laser to the HP 4600. It came down to print quality. Both are fast, equally priced, but the HP print quality (color and black and white) was much clearer and that's what it came down to. The Oki replacement supplies seemed to cost a little less though.

The 4600 was very easy to set up (the display showed me how to do everything, with pics even!), is VERY fast (things are printed off before I can even get to it), and sleep mode does not take forever to wake up from like the 4550. Overall, I'm very impressed with the 4600dn. Two thumbs up!

 

[iwojima]

the 4600 is completely different from 4500/4550, it doesn´t calibrate 8 minutes, it´s fast, warms up quick as a mono laser. technic is different, one laser for each toner cartridge, fuser in the output, very good menu options, nice colors, it is definetely better to buy the 4600 although it is more expensive