The HP CP2025 color laser printer has a lot to offer the small or medium office environment.  Its excellent color quality and fast speeds will productivity up, and its excellent paper handling and expansion options are impressive as well.

For some offices, a color printer with the highest quality is not a necessity.  Many look for a fast monochrome printer that can also do the occasional color print.  For others, however, high-quality color printing is essential, and the HP CP2025 offers some of the best color printing quality in its price range.  Reviews from around the web give a clearer picture of its quality.  PCWorld liked its low price, and stated that it offers “plenty of good print quality.”  Cnet was particularly impressed with its graphics quality, and said it “remains true to the quality we expect from a professional laser”. 

Print speed is also a major factor when choosing a printer.  HP rates the printer at speeds up to 21 pages per minute.  While no reviewers found it to meet that speed, PCWorld rated it at 17.5 pages per minute, and Cnet found it to max out at 13.5 pages per minute.  Its speed is still quite impressive compared to older models, such as the HP LaserJet 2600, which has speeds of only 8 pages per minute in color and monochrome.

The HP CP2025 toner cartridges included with the printer are a bit small, with capacities of 1,200 pages each, but high-yield laser toner cartridges are available, with capacities of 3,500 page for black and 2,800 pages for each color cartridge.  Using third-party compatible cartridges will lower the cost per page even more resulting in a cost per page of around 1 cent for black and 6 cents per page for color.  This is possible because of the higher capacities, especially compared to the cost of LaserJet 2600 toner , which has a significantly higher cost per page.

Paper handling is impressive.  The unit has a 300-sheet paper capacity in its standard configuration, but can be expanded to a maximum of 550 sheets if more capacity is needed.  Its monthly duty cycle of 40,000 pages gives it plenty of room to grow.  Also, its initial 128 MB of RAM can be upgraded to a maximum of 384 MB for users who do a lot of graphics-intensive printing. 

Overall, the HP Color LaserJet CP2025 offers some of the best color printing quality in its price range, and still manages to keep toner costs low.  Its expandability will appeal to small offices expecting to grow in the future.  Users who need high-quality color printing will be very happy, and users on a budget will appreciate its low cost per page.