6  Getting to know the printer 
What ships with the printer 
The HP Color LaserJet 5550 series printer ships 
with the following: 
•  Getting started guide 
•  Setup poster 
•  Printing systems software CD  
(includes the user guide) 
•  Four HP Color LaserJet print cartridges with 
HP Smart printing technology 
•  Power cord 
•  IEEE 1284-C parallel cable  
(HP Color LaserJet 9050 printer only) 
•  500-sheet input tray 2  
•  Additional 500-sheet input trays  
(HP Color LaserJet 5550dtn and 5550hdn printers only) 
•  Automatic two-sided printing unit  
(HP Color LaserJet 5550dn, 5550dtn, and 5550hdn printers only) 
•  HP Jetdirect 620n Fast Ethernet internal print server  
(HP Color LaserJet 5550n, 5550dn, 5550dtn, and 5550hdn printers only) 
•  Printer stand (HP Color LaserJet 5550dtn and 5550hdn printers only) 
•  20 GB HP high-performance EIO hard disk (HP Color LaserJet 5550hdn printer only) 
Printer software 
The HP Color LaserJet 5550 series printer includes a powerful suite of software that is easy to install 
and use. The print drivers and utilities cover a wide range of operating systems and are localized 
in many languages.  
The printer ships with the following components on the printing systems software CD: 
•  Installer/uninstaller 
•  HP PCL 6 print driver (Windows environments) 
•  HP postscript level 3 emulation print driver (Windows and Macintosh environments) 
•  PostScript® printer description (PPD) files 
•  HP Toolbox 
•  HP SureSupply
TM
 (convenient Internet-enabled online supplies ordering) 
•  Driver auto-configuration (in Windows 2000 and XP environments, the printer features 
automatic discovery and driver configuration for printer accessories at the time of installation, 
including the automatic two-sided printing unit, optional paper trays, and installed DIMMs) 
•  Driver pre-configuration (lets you create custom installations and copy the printer software onto 
disks, your computer’s hard drive, or a network drive) 
•  Printer documentation  
Additional drivers, updated drivers, and other valuable software for the HP Color LaserJet 5550 
series printer will be available on the HP Customer Care Web site after product introduction at: 
www.hp.com/support/clj5550
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  IMAGE PLACEHOLDER, WILL REPLACE