HP Laserjet P2055 toner cartridge

HP Laserjet P2055 toner cartridge fitted to the printer when new is the 05A cartridge (HPCE505A), this is a low capacity cartridge and it is advisable to replace with the 05X cartridge.This replacement cartridge although more expensive will yield almost three times as many prints and will lead to a lower cost per print.Cartridge Concept offer both these toner cartridges at discount prices, so for the cheapest prints from your P2055 order the HPCE505X cartridge here.

HP LaserJet P2055dn Review

The mono HP LaserJet P2055dn is a mid-range printer that is fast and offers good quality prints.

The P2055dn can be bought for about £275 and has automatic duplexing included. It has two paper trays, a 150 sheet one at the top and a 250 sheet one at the bottom. Also included is 128mb of memory which can be upgraded to 384mb and USB and ethernet connections.

A black and white LCD is included on the P2055dn and you can alter print density from the printer. Dust can be removed from moving parts of the printer by using the inbuilt cleaning mode and firewall and security settings can be modified to use either HTTP or HTTPS protocols.

The simple web-based interface allows you to check the status of the cartridges and various statistics. The interface also makes it possible to configure print settings on the P2055dn and administrators can set up the firewall policy.

The Print modes for the P2055dn are split into 600dpi, 1200dpi FastRes and 1200dpi ProRes. Although the FastRes and ProRes resolutions are 1200dpi, the latter produces better quality prints at a slower pace.The FastRes and ProRes resolutions may be the same but ProRes generates higher quality documents at a slower rate. The P2055dn can produce its first page in roughly 9.5 seconds and further pages at roughly 35 pages a minute using either the 600dpi or 1200dpi FastRes settings.

The P2055dn takes about 14.5 seconds to print its first page using ProRes after which it pauses on every second page so that the overall speed is about 14.5 pages per minute or roughly four seconds per page.

It is possible to make the P2055dn print in a quiet mode but this reduces its print speed by about half.

It is also possible to alter the line density of the P2055dn when using ProRes which is highly unusual in a printer of this price.

Using the highest quality setting the P2055dn produces excellent prints with clean test characters and evenly spread toner.

The HP Laserjet P2055dn toner cartridge fitted to the printer when new is the 05A cartridge (HPCE505A), this is a low capacity cartridge and it is advisable to replace with the 05X cartridge. The higher yield cartridge is more expensive but it will produce nearly three times as many prints making it far more economical in the long run.

More expensive printers offer greater networking and security features but for the money the HP LaserJet P2055dn offers high quality, fast printing and is recommended.