Evaluating color laser printers
Color is proving itself as a business tool with a clear return on investment. Studies show that color
improves comprehension, increases readership, accelerates learning, and reflects a professional
image. More than ever before, businesses are discovering a need to produce high-quality color
documents. The HP Color LaserJet 2600n printer puts you in control of the color printing process:
• Create external communications in color for a professional appearance, such as letterhead and
business cards.
• Develop full-color marketing collateral that differentiates your business from the competition,
such as booklets, brochures, and flyers.
• Use color to design more effective, persuasive internal communications, including
spreadsheets, reports, proposals, and presentations.
• Print frequently updated materials in-house and make changes at a moment’s notice, reducing
outsourcing expenses, storage costs, and the waste of obsolete materials.
Based on extensive market research and customer feedback, HP has identified the needs of small
businesses, small workteams, and home offices in six key categories. These categories should be
closely examined as you consider the purchase of color laser printers. In this section we will
examine each of these and how the HP Color LaserJet 2600n printer meets the criteria in each
category.
1—Ease of use
2—Reliability
3—Total cost of ownership
4—Print quality
5—Performance
6—Network printing
The HP Color LaserJet 2600n printer is designed to bring remarkably affordable, simple, color laser
printing to the small workteam or home office. During your evaluation, we invite you to compare
the HP Color LaserJet 2600n 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 printer settings and configurations.
• Analyze each element of the printing process, but remember that the elements work together
as part of the whole printing solution. (For instance, performance claims mean very little if
documents print incorrectly or with poor print quality.)
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