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HP Color LaserJet 4650n Review
 
Editor's Review
HP Color LaserJet 4650n by Mel Meyers 08/25/2010 OVERVIEW: There’s only one thing better than color prints and that’s color prints that won’t cost an arm and a leg in ink costs. With a 23% increase in speed over the 4600, the 2004 HP LaserJet 4650n still delivers the high-resolution color prints and features of it’s predecessor.
Editor's Pros & Cons
PROS: The hefty, 80-pound printer with an almost square 18” x 19” square footprint will need a sturdy table to support it. Extending with a second tray to a height over 25 inches, the LaserJet is tall enough for a person to operate it without stooping. There are four variations in the LaserJet 4650 series: The basic 4650, the 4650n with Ethernet and duplexer, the 1100-sheet capacity 4650dtn, and the 4650hdn with all of the features of the 4650dtn, plus a third paper tray and hard disk for extra storage. Most businesses will opt for the network-ready 4650n. The network, memory, and extra paper tray are available as optional accessories and can be easily added to any printer with no more than a screwdriver. The LaserJet 4650n comes standard with a 500-sheet cassette tray, capable of holding over a ream of letter or legal-size paper. For more capacity, a two more 500-sheet cassette can be added to bring total printing capacity to 1,600 pages. The flip-door on the bottom of the printer reveals a 100-sheet multi-purpose tray that can handle transparencies, labels, post cards, envelopes, and to 8.5" x 14” legal paper of various bond weights up to 44 pounds. With 18 seconds from its “energy saver” state, the LaserJet 4650n can print up to 22 pages per minute on single-side paper, 8.5 pages per minute in duplex mode. Single-pass color printing allows color print speeds to be as fast as many monochrome laser printers in 2004. To achieve the 2400 x 2400 color resolution HP utilizes a technique where using a 600 x 600 dpi hardware each dot will have 4 colors. Think of it like having a whole pie then cutting it up into 4 smaller pieces. At the maximum print resolution text is reasonably sharp, and photographs are very detailed with smooth color transitions. If you want to print in B & W, the printer software will allow for only the black toner to be used, saving on color toner. In addition to Ethernet, the LaserJet 4650n also has a Parallel port interface. The built-in 160MB of printer memory can be expanded up to 512MB, enabling the LaserJet 4650n to easily handle workloads as a high-volume network printer. CONS: This is one printer you don’t want to keep by your desk. Sitting silently idle, the LaserJet 4650n produces 65db of sound when printing. To give you an idea of what that means: 60 decibels is the level of typical conversations. If you have a quiet workplace, you don’t want to place this near any office cubicles, but its noise will hardly be noticeable in a copy room or break room. Customer Reviews For HP Color LaserJet 4650n
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INK/TONER NEEDS:
Normally the purchase of a color laser means having smaller toner cartridges, therefore less pages. Not the case with the 4650n. Out of the box, HP includes the standard 9,000-page yield black cartridge, and three 8,000-page yield color cartridges, one for each color (Cyan, Yellow, and Magenta). Those numbers are based on 5% ink coverage per page. To give you an idea of what that mean’s: A print out of a mostly text web page will need 10% ink coverage; a newsletter 30%, and a print with graphics, text, and photos can exceed 60%. These “no-shake” design cartridges can be purchased separately, especially if the black toner gets depleted at a higher rate than the other colors. Combo-packages are available to save costs. Other consumables you’ll need to consider is replacement of the Image Fuser every 150,000 pages and the Image Transfer Unit every 120,000 pages. 
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