HP Laserjet P3015 toner cartridge

The HP Laserjet Enterprise P3015 printer is shipped with  the 55A toner cartridge, this cartridge is rated at 6,000 pages. When replacing this cartridge we recommend purchasing the high capacity HPCE255X cartridge with a page yield of 12,500  pages. This will lead to a lower cost per print and fewer cartridge changes. Fully guaranteed compatible toner cartridges are also available for this printer and these offer the lowest running costs for this printer.

HP LaserJet Enterprise P3015dn Review

The Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet Enterprise P3015dn is best appreciated as the smaller brother of the HP LaserJet P4014n Printer. They are both black and white lasers that provide similarly fast speed on a small to medium-size office or workgroup. Each of those offer similar-and fairly ample paper capabilities in their basic configurations. In contrast to the P4014n, nevertheless, the P3015 provides just minimal extra paper handling alternatives, which makes it suited to somewhat lesser heavy-duty printing needs.

The P3015dn provides a 600-sheet capability as the norm, separated into a 500-sheet drawer and 100-sheet multipurpose tray, plus a duplexer for printing to both sides of a page. You may also install a second 500-sheet drawer. The whole 1,100-sheet capacity is rather more than sufficient for many small offices.

In the event that you realize you will need the additional tray, you can help to save some money by obtaining the HP LaserJet Enterprise P3015x, which happens to be exactly the same printer with the extra tray bundled. Likewise, the HP LaserJet Enterprise P3015n is also just like the P3015dn, but minus the duplexer.

Setting up the P3015dn is quite typical for any mono laser. The model is substantial enough, at 12.4 by 17.6 by 16.2 inches (HWD), that you probably will not like it sitting upon your workplace. As soon as you find a place for it, however, shifting it in to place is not difficult (it weighs just 35 pounds), plus the actual setup is straightforward. Basically take away the packing materials, insert the toner cartridge along with paper, connect the wires, and run the automatic setup routine from disc.

I installed the P3015dn on a system operating Windows Vista. According to HP, it also includes drivers meant for Windows 7, 2000, XP, Server 2003 and 2008, Mac OS X 1.2 through 1.6, along with assorted versions of Linux as well as Unix.

HP rates the P3015dn at 42 pages per minute (ppm). On our own business software suite I clocked the P3015dn at a total of 4 minutes 33 seconds.

The P3015dn scores fairly adequately for output quality all round, although particularly efficiently with respect to text. The text quality is definitely near the top-end with regard to black and white lasers, and even especially acceptable for rapid mono lasers.

The majority of the fonts in our text range qualified as equally nicely formed and also very understandable at 5 points. Better yet, each of the fonts except for one extremely stylised font having thick strokes passed both checks at 8 points. The text is using the HP LaserJet Enterprise P3015dn toner cartridge only just short of what you may desire for the highest quality desktop publishing, but it is way more than satisfactory for virtually any other use.

Graphics output is actually typical with respect to a mono laser, which makes it much more than good enough for any internal company use. It's also serviceable with respect to PowerPoint handouts and so on. I noticed a bit of slight banding; relatively distinct dithering in the form of graininess as well as slight patterns; and also irregular pile height within solid blocks, that shows as distinct spots reflecting light in different ways from several angles. They are all typical problems pertaining to mono lasers.

Picture output ended up being close to the lower end of the range in which the great majority of mono lasers end up. It was undoubtedly good enough to print recognizable pictures from Web pages however.

There is no question that the P3015dn is mostly a really appealing printer. The combination of fast speed, attractive output, ample paper handling, and low cost per page makes it simple to endorse.