Afternoon all We have a new HP laserjet pro CM1415fn in the office and its leading a charmed life at the moment!! It takes about 30 secs to get a single page out from a document so you can imagine how long it takes when i have to do single page printing from 20 different documents....What i need is advice on a faster one, which needs to be a all in one colour jobbie. before the the gesture of ink supplied with this one runs out and i have to get refills!!

Any help much appreciated

Cheers

Kit

What's your budget to start with?

oops sorry about that about 500 euro

kit

We've had one of these for the past few months.

http://www.xerox.co.uk/office/printers/colour-printers/colorqube-8570/reviews-engb.html

Set to come on with the timer so warm up time isn't really an issue. Print quality is very good, ink can be got quite cheap, and spits pages out stupidly quick.

Cashback deals are also available on it too

Thanks for the quick reply but that seems to be just a printer and not an all in one which i require

Cheers

Kit

Ah didn't read that bit!

I have just bought one of these, I think it will do alll what you need and poss more !

http://www.printerbase.co.uk/acatalog/brother-mfcj6510dw-multifunction.php

and compatible cartridges £5.99

Radiotwo

Actually, are you sure there is physically something wrong with yours?

Has it always been this slow to output pages?

surely there are options in the printer software to reduce print quality to get a higher throughput? If you have the print quality set for higher than you need, it will slow things down. Also can you not use the settings to print in B&W for plain text documents to help speed things up further?

No its the "first page print time" apparently laserjets are slow to print the first page...we have ours on the everyday setting with uses next to no ink and its still slow...just spent half an hour on the fone with HP and its a common thing they say!!

HP's tend to be solid, I mainly use Canon and Toshiba "copier" sized devices in the office, but for the smaller workgroup offices I put HP's in.

Always worth checking here for deals: http://h41201.www4.hp.com/AdLanding/uk/en/93000/1/

Maybe something like this is up your street: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/printers/374509/hp-laserjet-pro-400-mfp-m475dw

I don't have first hand experience with it, but it gets PC Pros approval

I have a hp Laserjet CP1025 printer and i have never had a problem with the speed of it.

Have you played with the spool settings?? Unless the printer is cold (been switched off for hours), it should come to life and print a page in less than 10 seconds, then churn out a page every few seconds.*

I would try bypassing the printer spool to start with, or try plugging it in to a different PC and seeing what happens speed-wise.

How are you connecting to it, USB or Ethernet?? Do you have a USB wireless dongle for internet or keyboard/mouse?? I have found some of these mess up file transfer speeds to other USB devices as they "poll" too often.

*Having read a few reviews - this is the problem with MFD, a cheap dedicated printer and scanner would give faster and better quality results; other MFDs in the same price range may be quicker, but the printer/scan quality will probably suffer; it is a balancing act and HP appear to have gone for quality over speed with this device.

My HP inkjet churns out draft print jobs three times faster than your HP MFD (18ppm)

No its the "first page print time" apparently laserjets are slow to print the first page...we have ours on the everyday setting with uses next to no ink and its still slow...just spent half an hour on the fone with HP and its a common thing they say!!

Yep- I've got an old Apple B&W laser printer( HP clone). Single page jobs are slow, but I haven't had an inkjet that can keep up with it for multi page jobs.

Increase the memory on your existing printer.

That's relatively cheap (Check http://www.crucial.com/uk ) and should speed up print out's a good amount.

The very first page will probably still take a little while, but if jobs are queued up, then they will all be in the printer.

Suggest you look at 256MB or 512MB.

EDIT: Scrub that, you've got 160MB and it can't be upgraded :(

Edited 25 July, 201213 yr by cheezemonkhai

Increase the memory on your existing printer.

Tried that on mine .Being an ancient printer ( still shows up on XP though) it takes ancient memory. I saved some out of an old MB using an Intel P2 ,which was of the right type ,but no go . Printer has since developed tantrums. Not really bothered except that I want to use it to print PCB artwork to iron on to PCB. Trouble in my OAPage, the flesh is wiling, but spirit can'r be assed .

We are getting it changed to a HP laserjet pro 300 M375nw next week so hopefully that will be faster:)

K:)