The HP Color LaserJet CP2025n is a pricey color laser printer built with the small business owner or work group in mind. At $450, the CP2025n can connect to multiple computers of a wired network, and the printer produces high-quality prints, but it’s not without minor faults: the output speed for text and presentation documents is slower than the competition and it’s missing an auto-duplexer for double-sided printing. At the same time, HP redeems itself with a toolbox full of helpful settings, instructions, and features that brighten the user experience, not to mention the CP2025n’s optimal quality prints. Although it’s not perfect, the positives do outweigh the negatives and we recommend the HP CP2025n for offices that need a dependable color laser printer. (Source: CNET)

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— CNET Rating: 3.5 Stars —

The good: Impressive print quality; fast output for color documents; high monthly duty cycle; comprehensive driver features and warranty; easy networking setup.

The bad: Slow black printing; no auto-duplexing; can’t print directly from USB thumbdrive or digital camera; lacks wireless connectivity.

The bottom line: Although the HP CP2025n is rather slow to print black documents and is missing supplementary features such as USB-direct printing and wireless, the color laser shines in output quality, and the software holds your hand through a somewhat daunting learning curve. The CP2025n also has a high monthly duty-cycle, so we recommend it to anyone hunting for a workhorse printer to complement an equally diligent work environment. (Read the full CNET review)

— PCWORLD Rating: 3 Stars —

Pros: Inexpensive; very good print quality; Competent speeds

Cons: No weekend support; Some pieces rattle and feel cheap

Bottom Line: For the price, you get solid overall performance–but a somewhat less solid-feeling package. (Read the full PCWorld review)

— Consumer Ratings: 3 Stars —

A positive comment from Amazon.com:

Decent Printer

Everything about the printer is good, except the ink cartridges are expensive and it doesn’t come with full cartridges. After about 600 copies the machine says I need to purchase another black cartridge. A full cartridge should print 3x that amount.

A negative comment from Amazon.com:

Good standalone printer, but not good network printer

Like any other printers that I work with I find that this printer is a nightmare. I have no quarms about setting up this printer as a locally installed usb printer, but failed miserably as a network printer. Our Windows 2003 DHCP server sees 18 hexadecimal mac address instead of 12. I have a nightmare when I try to install the driver to the server, server would freeze, and I had to reboot the server to finish the installation. HP Webjetadmin only sees the NPXXXXXX name and not the name that our dhcp server would provide. Lastly, when I updated the firmware trying to fix the problem, the mac address of the printer actually changed. I would recommend that you purchase for standalone printer only, and not for networking.(Read all Amazon.com user reviews)