Hello everyone it’s Ben from Printerbase and in this video we’ll be looking at the
LaserJet Enterprise M553dn from HP.
This is an A4 colour laser printer, designed to print up to 6,000 pages per month at speeds
of up to 38ppm, so you can tell it’s built for business.
The controls on the device are sparse, but with them you can operate the printer and
access everything you’d need to.
In terms of connectivity, there’s the USB and Network ports at the back of the machine
that we all know and love, as well as a USB port at the side of the machine, for direct
printing.
This machine is also compatible with Apple’s AirPrint, HP ePrint, and it’s Mopria Certified,
so you can connect this printer to a wireless modem via the network or USB ports, and print
to the machine wirelessly via a wireless network.
Inside there’s a 1.2Ghz processor whizzing away to large print jobs are handled quickly,
and there’s also 1Gb RAM and an optional secure hard drive available, for added security
and performance.
Speaking of performance, the M553dn prints at up to 38ppm for both colour and mono documents.
The fact that it doesn’t take any longer to produce a colour page, tells me that HP
have done a great job, designing this printer.
The 553 also offers duplex printing at up to 38ipm which, quite frankly, is excellent
performance.
This teamed with a first page out in as little as 6 seconds, means this device is bound to
impress a busy office.
The maximum duty cycle for this printer is 80,000 pages, and this gives us an indication
of how reliable the machine isand lets just say, it’s not going to break down any time
soon.
The recommended monthly print volume is between 2,000 and 6,000 pages, so it’ll fit in well
in most busy offices, and I’ll even go as far to say when using the right media, the
print quality is more than good enough for outgoing documents.
So if you wanted to, you could easily print small runs of marketing material on a machine
like this.
The printer comes with toner cartridges preinstalled so you can literally plug and play, and these
starter toners offer up to 5,000 pages for colour and 6,000 pages for black.
This means that most offices would get a month out of the machine without needing to replace
toner.
When you do come to replace the toner cartridges, you have the choice of two yields.
The standard being the same as the starters, 5,000 for colour and 6,000 for black, but
then there are the higher yield cartridges.
These offer up to 9,500 pages for colour and around 12,500 pages for black.
We here at Printerbase always recommend the higher yield cartridges, as they offer a lower
cost per page, a much lower total cost of ownership, and less downtime, as you’ll
be replacing the cartridges less often.
Moving on to paper handling, this machine does ok, with a multipurpose feeder at the
side of the machine that can handle 100 sheets of standard office paper, and the main tray
will take more than 500 sheets of paper.
This is a really nice feature and one that I want to see more of in new printers. Having
the ability to drop a full ream of paper into a tray removes the hassle of separating stacks
of papers.
It’s also really frustrating when you have to split a ream to fill a printer, and some
of the pages get bent and they don’t print properly. With this machine, that’s not
the case.
The multipurpose feeder will take various media like envelopes, transparencies and cardstock
as well as regular paper, and the whole machine will print on media weighing up to 220gsm.
The ability to print on thicker paper and nice card is a bonus, because you can create
some really nice presentation and marketing material, great for mail outs, and info packets.
To sum up, this printer is great. Really nice print quality, great performance and convenient
features that make life a little bit easier.
If you’d like to know anymore about the LaserJet Enterprise M553dn from HP just click
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I’m Ben, and thanks for watching.