HP LaserJet 4250 Printer

Specification & Options

The HP LaserJet 4250n has enough speed and capacity to supply the needs of even the biggest workgroup. The largest-size toner cartridge (rated by HP to produce 20,000 pages at 5 percent ink coverage make this printer the lowest cost per page printer. A replacement drum is built into the integrated cartridge, so you have one less consumable to fiddle with.

Out of the box, the 4250n has a 500-sheet main paper drawer and a fold-down 100-sheet secondary paper tray, that can handle up to 10 envelopes at a time. The busiest workgroups will want to add more paper drawers, which stack under the printer.

The 4250n has a host of other paper handling options, including a 75-envelope feeder, a duplexing unit, a stapler, and a 500-sheet output stacker. If you're expecting to print very large documents, or if you'll have many people attempting to print at the same time, you can upgrade the standard 64MB of memory to a maximum of 512MB.

The LaserJet 4250n prints text swiftly, at 18.8 pages per minute, but graphics at a midrange 8.0 ppm. The output was unimpressive under close examination. Small text looked too dark; the solid internals of larger characters were blotchy; closely spaced bold letters bled into each other; and the bottom edges of most letters tended to be fuzzy. Line art printed too dark, so that narrow lines blurred together, and larger dark areas faded in the center. Our photo print lacked moire patterns and showed only minor horizontal banding, but it had blotchy dithering patterns in medium grey areas and skin tones. In addition, we noticed an unusual, horizontal ghosting mark in all of our print samples, possibly caused by a dirty roller.