HP Colour Laserjet 2600N

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I'm thinking about getting a colour laser printer - the HP Colour Laserjet 2600N looks like it does what I want, has Windows and OS-X drivers and built-in networking, and comes out around £210 plus delivery, with consumables around 40 quid per cartridge (and yes, I know it uses four cartridges).

I can't seem to find a review anywhere. Has anyone got one of these, or know anything for or against them? The main snag I can see is that it's 600 DPI and not incredibly fast, both of which I can probably live with, but are there any reliability issues I should know about?

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2600N

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If it's anything like the 2500N I had to support in an office (and it probably is...) the good side is it's pretty reliable as a printer. It got a severe kicking from the users (500 pages a day occasionally in bursts) and kept on going. The bad news is it isn't cheap to run. You noticed the four toner cartridges but I think you missed one, the imaging drum unit which costs about 90 quid and needs replacing every five thousand shots or so. There's also a RAM upgrade you really need to fit to get full-page A4 graphics and it's one of those HP funnies based on a non-standard SoDIMM format (100 pin, I think). HPQ also pull the Carly trick of supplying you with half-filled toner cartridges in the original box, only good for 2000 pages max. They're chipped and nobody makes aftermarket refills for them as far as I know (yet).