HP Color LaserJet 5550DN Printer

by HP

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 30.5 x 39.2 x 32.2 inches ; 114.2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 200 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: B000301ATM
• Item model number: Q3715A#ABA
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 7, 2004

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Producing quality, wide-format color laser prints (up to 11 by 17 inches), the HP 5550dn meets most everyday office and workgroup demands. Featuring HP ImageREt 3600 print technology, the 5550dn offers up to 27 ppm printing in black and color, with less than 16 seconds warm-up time. Versatile and expandible paper handling lets you add new trays as you need them; and with the 5550dn, automatic duplexing comes standard.

The 5550dn has a powerful 533 MHz processor and offers 160 MB of memory (expandable to 544 MB) as well as two Flash Memory card slots. It features both parallel and USB (1.1) connectivity, plus an HP Jetdirect 620n Fast Ethernet internal print server, and two available EIO slots. The HP 5550dn is backed by a one-year warranty.

What's in the Box
HP 5550dn printer, HP print cartridges (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black), software and User's Guide on CD, Getting Started Guide, Network Installation Guide, power cord, 100-sheet multipurpose tray, 500-sheet input tray, HP Jetdirect 620n Fast Ethernet internal print server, automatic two-sided printing unit; printer cables not included

Product Description

HP LaserJet 5000 5550DN Laser Printer - Color - Plain Paper Print - Desktop Q3715A 749

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Heavy Duty Color Laser, September 19, 2008

By 

Nuknuk (Springfield, VA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HP Color LaserJet 5550DN Printer (Office Product)

We have been using this at our office as a netwrok printer for a year and a half. Mostly for documents, charts and company resumes.

Pros:
-The color laser printout of images is very good even on a regular copy paper. You get better results using bright white photo paper. We have not to try it on a glossy paper yet but it can. But just don't compare it with an inkjet yet.
-Printing color images even for a full page is amazingly fast. Approximately mere 5 seconds per full color page.
-Compare to an inkjet, laser printers are much economical on ink. Inkjets are notorious for selling you the unit almost at a giveaway price and then selling a full set of replacement ink for the same price as the printer itself.
-Multiplatform. Windows and Mac
-Duplex printing.
-It can print up to 11 x 17 paper.
-The warm up time, around 15 secs is decent
-The spec claims a duty cycle of 120,000 pages per month. We are printing around 5000 pages a month.

Rooms for improvement:
- Speed can be improve on the black and white printouts.
- Can be made smaller. 28W x 25H x 23D is a huge footprint .
- Price can go lower.

7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Nightmare!!!, May 22, 2009

By 

Andrew Lopucki (Gainesville, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HP Color LaserJet 5550DN Printer (Office Product)

This is certifiably the worse nightmare product I have ever bought. After paying $4000 for it 5 years ago, the printer began to have multiple print quality problems within the first year and half. From that point on it was one maddening experience with HP [lack of] support after another. We had to pay $30 at one point to get the quality pay-per-tech-service they required us to use; the guy freaking read the website trouble shooting guide to me while I screamed at him over the phone. We took the machine in to a certified repair technician and ended up replacing the fuser, image transfer kit, and all four toner cartridges even though they all showed more than 33% life left. Some problems were fixed but others not (it can't seem to print the same exact shade of tan across an entire page for instance, and there are intermittent black streaks that pop up.) We actually had to replace the transfer kit again after only 1 year and almost no use because it created large stripes of color along both ends of every print.

HP told us that the color toner cartridges only have a life span of two years whether they are used or not and the fuser and image transfer kit are only under warrantee for six months after installation. That directly conflicts with what is printed on their website and on the materials that come with the parts.

To sum up, we have spent over $6000 on a printer that only worked properly for 18 months (a couple thousand printed pages) and we have spent well over 12 hours of constant time on the phone with HP being treated like crap. In the most recent call I just wanted to buy the new transfer kit but the woman forced me to listen to pitch after pitch ranging from why not buy some paper to (if you can believe it) why not buy a new printer since this one is so old! I told her I wasn't very likely to ever buy anything from HP ever again. I earnestly recommend that you never buy anything from them either!

To think I could've just printed my color prints at kinkos trouble free for about 1/3 the cost of what I've spent on this nightmare.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Business Printer, May 2, 2008

By 

Carol Singer (New York, New York USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HP Color LaserJet 5550DN Printer (Office Product)

Fast easy assembly, great short warm-up and speed in printing both color and black & white. Came out of the box and was up and running in less than 1/2 hour. Highly recommend this to any small business particularly if you have need to network both mac's and pc's and need both 8 1/2 X 11 and 11/17 output.