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HP Color LaserJet 4700 Review
 
Editor's Review
HP Color LaserJet 4700 by Andrew Hall 08/27/2010 OVERVIEW:
The HP Color LaserJet 4700 is a full-color workgroup laser printer designed for workspaces that need high-speed, high volume printing in both color and grayscale. With its above average speeds and many options for expandability, the printer is designed to be put through its paces by small-to-medium offices that need a workhorse requiring minimal user input between printing sessions.
Editor's Pros & Cons
PROS:
The 4700 measures 20.5" by 23.5" by 24.7" when closed and 20.5" by 37.4" by 22.9" with its paper tray extended. The printer weighs 107.8 lbs. Given its size, it likely will not sit comfortably on a desk, but it could sit easily on a credenza or a similar piece of furniture designed to hold it.
The printer includes two trays, one of which holds 100 sheets of paper and another that holds 500. Up to four more 500-sheet paper trays can be added to the printer, bringing its total capacity up to 2600 sheets, allowing for more than five reams of paper to be loaded at a time, well over what a small office would go through on a daily basis. Also optional is an automatic duplexing unit as well as a 750-sheet stapler/stacker to further automate paper-handling procedures and reduce downtime. The printer also includes a foreign interface port and an accessory port to support third-party add-ons, allowing you to connect non-HP parts and accessories if necessary to meet your particular needs.
The 4700 can print to letter, legal, statement, executive, and No. 10 and Monarch envelopes without any adjustments and supports custom media sizes between 3" by 5" to 8.5" by 14" in its multipurpose tray; the 500-sheet trays support paper between 5.8" by 8.3" and 8.5" by 14" in size. It prints documents at 600 x 600 dpi in both black and color. Additionally, the multipurpose tray can print to almost all forms of paper (plain, glossy, colored, preprinted, letterhead, recycled, high-gloss laser), to envelopes, to transparencies, to labels, and to cardstock. If you predominantly print to media that isn't paper, transparencies, or labels, however, you may want to consider another printer; those are the only media that can be reliably loaded into the 500-sheet input trays.
The 4700 includes 288 MB of memory. This can be expanded to 512 MB of DDR SDRAM and 32MB of Flash memory. A hard disk can be added to the printer as well for additional storage, though this adds another moving part to the unit, potentially leading to hardware failure and necessitating additional maintenance in the future.
The 4700 prints both color and black and white documents at 31 pages per minute, well above the the industry-standard 20.
The printer features an IEEE-1284 bidirectional parallel port and a USB 2.0 port. Network support is optional via either an HP Jetdirect internal or external print server, HP wireless print servers, or via Bluetooth, all of which can be added to the printer via EIO slots.
If managing multiple LaserJet 4700s, HP provides Web-based administration software that can administrate up to 15 HP printers simultaneously, eliminating the redundancy inherent in making policy for several individual devices. CONS:
The base model 4700 does not include network support. You will need to purchase the expansion card or start with the 4700n to purchase a printer with network support built-in.
If connecting to the printer via USB, you will need to purchase a separate USB cable, as one is not included with the printer. Customer Reviews For HP Color LaserJet 4700
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INK/TONER NEEDS:
The printer includes full-capacity toner cartridges rated at 11000 pages for black at 5% coverage as well as 10000 pages each for cyan, magenta, and yellow at 5% coverage. In addition to toner replacement, the printer's image transfer kit will need to be replaced at approximately every 100000 pages, and the fuser assembly kit will need to be replaced at every 120000 pages at 5% coverage. This may make necessary a large amount of product maintenance depending on the amount of paper that your work environment produces on a regular basis. 
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