HP LaserJet P2035n Printer

The HP LaserJet P2035n Printer ($299.99 direct) is a monochrome laser printer suitable for use with a small workgroup. It's simple to use, and compact enough that it can also fit the role of a personal printer in any size office. It provides solid output and decent paper capacity.

The off-white P2035n measures 10.1 by 14.5 by 14.4 inches (HWD) and weighs 24 pounds. It's small enough to easily put on a desk. Instead of a display, it has small green or orange LEDs, each set next to an icon: Power, Stop, Paper, Toner, and Paper Jam. When the power is on and the printer is ready, the light next to the power icon shines green. When the printer is low on paper or toner, or if there's a paper jam, the appropriate icon will blink orange.

The printer comes standard with a 250-sheet main paper tray and a 50-sheet multipurpose tray. It lacks an automatic duplexer for printing on both sides of a sheet of paper; driver support is provided to facilitate manual duplexing.

The P2035n offers USB and Ethernet connectivity. (A base model, the P2035 ($229 direct), lacks the Ethernet but includes a parallel port for those systems that still use one.) I tested it over an Ethernet connection with a networked PC running Windows Vista.

Print Speed and Output Quality
I timed the P2035n on the latest version of our business applications suite (using QualityLogic's hardware and software for timing), at 7.7 effective pages per minute (ppm). It is rated at 30 ppm, which should be about the speed you would get if you were to print text only. (Our test suite combines text pages, graphics pages, and pages with mixed content.) We clocked the Editors' Choice Samsung ML-2851ND ($300 street, 4 stars), also rated at 30 ppm, at 9.4 ppm on the same tests and the Editors' Choice OKI B431dn ($349.99 direct, 4 stars)?with a 40-ppm rated speed?at 11.1 ppm. The Samsung ML-3712ND ($300 street, 3.5 stars), rated at 37 ppm, tested at 8.9 ppm.

Output quality was typical of a mono laser in its price range across the board. Text was good enough for most any business uses, except ones requiring especially small fonts.

Graphics were suitable any internal business uses short of formal reports. Output tended to be on the dark side, with occasional loss of contrast in darker areas. Most illustrations showed dithering in the form of dot patterns.

Photos were good enough to print recognizable images from Web pages. Prints showed obvious dithering. As was the case with graphics, prints tended to be somewhat dark.

Other Issues
At 3.9 cents, the cost per printed page is a bit on the high side. The only cartridges available are relatively low yield.

One problem I encountered is that our test unit jammed several times during testing, and I had to redo the timing runs. The upside is that jams are very easy to clear as the paper path is simple, but they're a nuisance nonetheless. The jams occurred only when using multipurpose paper; they stopped when I switched to the slightly heavier, glossy stock we use in photo testing.

The HP LaserJet P2035n is a basic monochrome laser printer for a small workgroup, and it's compact enough to serve as a personal printer in any size office. There are faster mono lasers around, the Editors' Choice printers Samsung ML-2851ND and Oki B431dn among them. The P2035n is small, easy to use, and provides decent output quality. But it doesn't really bring anything to the table (or your desk) to make it stand out from similar models.

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COMPARISON TABLE
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