HP Color LaserJet 3800 series - Evaluating color laser printers; Evaluation guidelines

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6 Evaluating color laser printers
Evaluating color laser printers
Based on extensive market research and customer feedback, HP has identified user needs in six key
categories. These categories should be closely examined as businesses consider purchasing a color
laser printer. In this section, we will examine each of these and how the HP Color LaserJet 3800
series printer meets the criteria in each category.
1—Ease of use
2—Print quality
3—Performance
4—Reliability
5—Network management solutions
6—Total cost of ownership
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During your evaluation, we invite you to compare the HP Color LaserJet 3800 series printer to other
competing printers to see why it is the best choice for your workplace!
Evaluation guidelines
As you design tests and conduct your evaluation, remember the following guidelines:
• Consider the typical end-user’s printing needs.
• Simulate the end-user’s environment.
• When testing more than one printer, try to make a fair comparison between printers by setting
up in the same environment and testing similar settings and configurations.
• Analyze each of the elements of the printing, process, but remember that the elements work
together as part of the whole solution. (For instance, performance claims mean very little if
documents print incorrectly or with poor quality.)