HP Color LaserJet 3500N Printer

by HP

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 104 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B0001AU7QG
• Item model number: Q1320A#ABA
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 9, 2004

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Liven up your business documents and material with color, courtesy of the HP Color LaserJet 3500 printer. Vibrant color is now available with the same speed, ease, and affordability that you get with black-and-white printing.

Features:

• Get professional-color-quality prints with HP's ImageREt print 2400 technology and HP Smart printing technology.
• Print up to 12 pages per minute in color and black-and-white with HP's single-pass printing and high-yielding print cartridges.
• Print faster and more efficiently with the four toner cartridges.
• Reduce your printing wait time with the instant-on fuser, which delivers the first page in as few as 18 seconds.
• Easily monitor, order, and replace the toner cartridges with the handy status information and easy-access front door.
• Print on very heavy or light media using the rear output door that allows for a straight paper path (ideal for printing envelopes and labels).
• Use with a small workgroup by taking advantage of the included networking option.

What's in the Box
Printer, HP Color LaserJet print cartridges (one each of cyan, magenta, yellow, black), USB cable, power cord, getting started guide, software and electronic user's guide on CD-ROM, HP Jetdirect en3700 external print server, power supply and cord

Product Description

600 dpi x 600 dpi Legal A4 USB EN 10/100Base-TXIts easy to bring color into your business with the HP Color LaserJet 3500 printer series. Vibrant color is now possible at the same speed ease&#

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

44 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very satisified, June 27, 2004

By 

Victoria Tarrani "writer, editor, artist, des... (Florida, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HP Color LaserJet 3500N Printer (Office Product)

Installation and configuration of this printer was easy and took less than 45 minutes from the time I started unpacking until I was printing.

I have extensive networking experience, yet I doubt a novice home user will have problems following the clear directions if this printer is installed as a shared device on a home LAN. I'm using an SMC wireless router with 4 switched Ethernet ports, so it was almost plug and play for me. I did have to set an address, but the instructions were clear and well illustrated.

The hardest part was installing the toner cartridges, but even that task was relatively simple if you take your time and follow directions to the letter.

Installing the management software and drivers is as simple as inserting a CD ROM and accepting defaults.

This printer produces beautiful prints in color and is blazingly fast. There is one area where it does not meet H-P's claims, and that is where the specs claim that with the instant-on fuser you will be printing your first page in as little as 18 seconds. It's more like 120 seconds or more. However, that is still better than the older models where it took as long as five minutes for the printer to warm up and start printing.

Overall, this is a great printer that produces amazing results in the highest resolution settings. The price is right, and the fact that it is network ready is a definite plus.

If you need a color laser printer and want one that anyone can install and operate with no hassles or reading through complicated manuals, this is a great deal.

5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT home/small business printer, May 17, 2010

By 

IronMan Mike Curtis "-Mike" (North Hollywood, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: HP Color LaserJet 3500N Printer (Office Product)

I've owned the 3500n for several years. The print quality is excellent. The speed? The pages come flying out like Jane Fonda in 9 to 5. It starts printing quickly. If you're used to ink jet printers, you will be impressed! It's solidly built.

I bought mine when they first hit the market. I had difficulty getting it running on my network. As always, HP's tech support was amazing. I ended up downloading a beta version, and changing the preprogrammed tcp/ip address to something a bit more realistic.

I do have two complaints. First, this thing is MASSIVE, and at a very awkward 80 lbs, revered by your chiropractor. Get someone to help and thank me for saving your back later. If you're at all strapped for space, this is one big boy. I like big stuff. It usually lasts a lot longer, and goes better with my size 14-EEE's.

Second gripe: The genuine HP print cartridges are priced like military hammers (if you have to ask price, you can't afford it). Fortunately, they can be refilled (apparently) several times quite easily, for a much more reasonable ~$40. The refill kit will have toner (duh), a replacement chip (when the old cartridge is empty, the printer blows out the old chip), and a soldering iron with a copper pipe cap for melting a CLEAN refill hole without getting shavings inside the old cartridge. Throw out all of the old toner.

HP includes tons of software to calibrate the printer colors. I'm a demanding perfectionist, and I constantly tweak all of my other stuff. I'd tweak this machine, too, if there were any reason to do so. There's not. I just look at the printing and give my best "Fonzie" shrug.

For the price (which is better now than when I bought mine), this is one amazing printer. Would I buy it again? Even after these many years, yes!


-Mike Curtis

9 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Airport Extreme users, take note, July 10, 2005

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tropic_of_criticism - See all my reviews

This review is from: HP Color LaserJet 3500N Printer (Office Product)

If you're a Mac (or cross-platform) user, and have an Airport Extreme, it is unnecessary for you to spend the extra money on this model. Save your money and buy the plain 3500 instead. The essential difference between the 3500 and the 3500N is the included print server. If you have an Airport Extreme, that device becomes your print server, via the USB connection on the Extreme. You can then point your Windows and Mac computers to the Airport Extreme's IP address and use it as the print server.

Now, some will note this means that you're dropping down from USB 2.0 to 1.1, but you might want to think hard about whether this is genuinely important to you. Yes USB 2.0 is significantly faster, in raw transmission rates. But most people simply don't print files that are big enough for this to become a perceptible issue. Routine printing of reports, web pages, e-mail and the like, do not attain a perceptible speed bump.

On top of that, there is the inevitable warm up period that's standard for laser printers. There is a lag between when the printer has received the data necessary to print and when its internal processors send the command to feed the paper and begin printing. Honestly, most of the time, the delay is not in getting the information TO the printer, it's in waiting for that warm-up cycle to complete. The truth is, chasing after genuine 2.0 speeds is trumped by the printer's own internal speed. And it's not a slow printer--not by any means--but honestly, I don't detect any real difference in speed between having the printer connected to the Airport Extreme and having it directly connected to my G5.

If you don't have an Airport Extreme, you might want to give some serious thought to using the price difference between a 3500 and a 3500N towards an Airport Extreme. Not only would you gain a cross-platform print server (through either X.3's Rendezvous or X.4's Bonjour), but you'd also be adding wireless connectivity to your network as well.