You’ll only hear the spin of a fan for a few seconds while it cools down before utter silence. Fortunately, it only lasts while pages are still filtering through. It’s not quite combusting nitromethane in there, but you will hear the unmuffled whir of rollers and paper being pushed around, which is notably louder than most other lasers. Unfortunately, very much like a Top Fuel dragster, this printer doesn’t get from point A to B quietly. For zipping off those printed directions before hitting the road, or printing off a contract for a waiting buyer, that’s 20 less seconds you’re standing around listening to rollers spin. By contrast, our Dell Laser MFP 1815dn, a multi-function monster that handles just about everything around the office, completed the same test in 27.8 seconds. By the time you get up from your chair and walk across the room to pick it up, it’s done. In a simple one-page document print test, it managed to spit out a text page in just 7.5 seconds – from pressing “print” to hot page in hand. If it had four wheels, the P2035n would be a Top Fuel dragster. After all, most print jobs are one-off affairs you need in a hurry, not book reproductions. Though the “30 pages-per-minute” metric tells you how long you’ll be waiting for 200 pages of a manual to pour out, the real test of interest to most people is how long a printer takes to spit out its first page. Where other printers tended to mute the contrast in overly dark images by washing everything with gray, the P2035n preserved contrast and minute details, producing clearer reproductions with more pop. Test blocks of test were legible down to 4 points – and beyond – even with goofy fonts. Even connecting it to a network, which we expected to be a convoluted process full of IP addresses, firewall settings and other network drudgery, turned out to be a simple two-minute process that worked flawlessly without any tweaking.īoth text and images printed with the P2035n looked superb, with none of the muddiness and dark overtones we’re used to seeing from speedy laser printers. Pop in the CD, sit back, and follow the step-by-step directions. Software installation is just as simple as getting the hardware together. We would criticize the lack of a proper printed user guide in the box, but since you’ll need the aforementioned install CD to set the printer up anyway, it doesn’t really make sense to include one separately. And if you’re really hurting for help, putting in the CD breaks it down in a clean and simple animation worthy of Nick Jr. A series of large-print instruction booklets (packaged on top of the printer so they can’t be missed), brightly colored flags hanging out of the printer, and orange plastic pieces to be intuitively removed make it easy to prep the printer out of the box. HP has clearly had a chance to refine its formula for a consumer-friendly laser printer setup over the years, and it shows in the polished and nearly foolproof way the P2035N has been packaged. Like a lot of old-school office printers, this model also has no LCD display to let you know what’s going on inside – just six LED indicator lights with somewhat cryptic symbols. Unfortunately, this machine will only duplex (print on both sides of the page) manually, meaning you must print your pages, re-orient the pages in the printer, then send them through again. ![]() The “n” in P2035n designates built-in networking capability, which you’ll pay an extra $70 for ($300, rather than $230). Specs include resolution up to 1200 DPI, speed of up to 30 pages per minute, a 250-page letter tray and 50-page multipurpose tray, and both parallel and USB inputs. ![]() A footprint of over 14 inches square height of 10 inches makes it quite a monolith when you set it down next to a monitor or keyboard, so it’s definitely befitting of its own shelf (reinforced to handle all 24 pounds of it) or tabletop. It measures nowhere near as tall or large as the skyscraper-esque multifunction machines you’re used to seeing in corporate offices and Kinkos, but we wouldn’t call it appropriate for many desktops, either. The size comparison is relative, of course. HP positions the P2035n as a printer with the speed and quality of a business machine, with a much smaller footprint and price more befitting a machine for home or small office use. Speed and text quality remain the laser printer’s biggest selling points, and the P2035n excels at both, but cost of operating isn’t quite as low as some of its competitors. Though color inkjets, multifunction printers, high-res photo printers and other sexy devices have largely won over the battle for consumer living rooms, monochrome laser printers like HP’s P2035n continue to serve as the backbone of most home office and small business operations. Somewhat loud during printing high cost of operating "Starter" cartridge included no LCD screen
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