HP Color LaserJet 2600n Printer (Q6455A#ABA)

Unit was ordered only to replace like unit that cost of repairs was thought to exceed value. Verified with seller before purchase that there should be no problem using existing cartridges since unit came without those & was advised it should not be a problem. Orded & received promptly as advertised. Unit would not print in Magenta or Cyan right out of the box. Advised seller & was told to go buy new HP brand Magenta & Cyan cartridges & try them then get back to them or if I returned unit to them there would likely be " Fees "! Spending almost as much to trobleshoot their problem as we paid for the unit did not seem a viable option so being a repair company ourselves we were able to scavage enough parts off of unit to fix our origional unit & junk the rest. Also even though the unit was advertised as 'good' I think 'makes copy' would have been a fair assessment of copy quality based on the Black & Yellow print we were able to see. Transfer belt was not in real good shape. Don't really want to be sour grapes but if you are going to sell a product you should back it up. Likely will not do business with this company again.

I just installed our new 2600N Laserjet and I am very happy with the purchase. This printer is a steal, if you consider that it is a COLOR laser and comes with a network card built-in. This is the cheapest networked color laser printer on the market that actually has a good quality. It comes with toner cartridges, which is not the case with most others and the $0.15 estimated cost per page (pcmag.com) is cheap enough to make the trip to a copy shop obsolete if you need multiple copies of your printouts. I wanted this printer, because I am sick of constant paper jams, paper not being pulled in or ink cartridges being dried up and costing $50 a pop. If you consider cost of inket cartridges, this printer will amortize itself in no time, not even counting the agony of "yet another dried up cartridge needs cleaning".Quality is very crisp and sharp for text and I was pleasantly surprised about the color print quality. This is clearly not a photo printer, large areas of uniform colors (blue sky) show some banding, but overall, the photo quality on plain paper beats the quality of my Epson 1280 photo printer hands-down at a much lower cost (and higher speed!). Printouts on plain paper actually have a nice satin sheen to it, which an inkjet won't do without photo paper coating. Even though it doesn't match the speed that I am used to from our full-blown office color jets, it is fast enough, does its printing in one pass (i.e. all 4 colors are applied in one step, instead of 4 steps) and will suffice for any home or small office printing needs.I didn't bother to run the installation CD, simply downloaded the latest driver from HP.com and installed it that way. Nice features of the print driver, such as fit-to-page, color presets and manual duplexing (via front-load sheet feeder). I had it installed, warmed up and calibrated as well as configured on all 3 of our computers in a matter of 30 minutes. It fetched its own IP address automatically once plugged in and the only annoyance was that its settings default to an A4 paper size, instead of letter-size. Other than that, it's working without a hitch and I am looking forward to many printouts. Highly recommended!

This machine prints great. Takes a while to initialize and does it quite often, so best if you leave it on all the time. Also had a problem with it thinking that it was out of the yellow ink. It was not. Took me skaking the cartridge and taking them all out and placing them back a few times to correct the error. But, otherwise this item is acceptable especially for the price. The ink....expensive. Look to see the ink prices before making this choice.

the text is crisp and the graphics is crisp... i can't ask for more... maybe just that the printer can include the 4000 page toner instead of the 2000 one... but oh well.if you have paper jam all the time, it could be due to the orange thingy in the paper tray.... i don't know why but i don't see any paper in the package saying that the orange thingy should be removed. so i had paper jam all the time. after i suspect that the orange things are all supposed to be "pulled out", then i removed it and then no more paper jam any more!Update afterwards: the yellow toner actually bleed into the paper every time, and my black and white print out all had the bleeding yellow shade region. I tried to change it to print Black and White only but the Settings on the Mac doesn't have it, and Windows 7 cannot find the printer either... so... I printed maybe 70 pages with this printer... and then it stopped working... so I think my cost is about $8 per page

Printer made a rattling/hammering sound most times when I hit the Print button; sometimes even had to turn it off to stop the action.Color quality just OK on paper prints, but on photos was terrible, whether on glossy or matte paper. Color smeared on both front and back of photo paper, which jammed in the machine about half the time.Be careful ordering this from Amazon; they use a no-name shipper instead of UPS, Fedex, or USPS - shipper used snail-mail to contact me, and setting up delivery was inconvenient since I live 50 miles from their nearest location.

The Magenta toner does not function or does not work at all and it's a shock for me.

The printer wasn't bad when it was working but the problem was that the toner didn't last long before having the purchase a new one. It got so expensive that I looked for alternative sources and purchased non HP brands. They never lasted long. Some time ago I purchases an HP yellow toner and to my dismay the printer rejected it. My printer has been sitting ever since and I have decided to just give all 3 of my HP printers to a non-profit organization to re-sell them for parts and purchase a new printer. I am finished with HP products.