Looking for a Review of the HP CP1525NW Wireless Color LaserJet?

Update 11-30-11:

I’ve recently purchased a Brother HL-2240 for our black and white printing to cut costs.  I’ll let you know if it ends up saving us any money.

Update 9-21-11:

Time Warner Cable had to adjust our wireless router settings to improve connectivity, and in the process renamed our wireless router.  Now our HP printer can’t connect wirelessly to the network, and so I’m having to use an ethernet connection between the router and the printer so that we can all print wirelessly to the printer.  Another hour or more of time wasted trying to be my own tech support.

Update 9-11-11:

I’ve recently had to purchase a new laptop, and I bought a MacBook Air.  It has worked quite well with the HP CP 1525NW, automatically downloading the necessary drivers, and printing without any problems.  I haven’t figured out how to change the print settings to print in black and white, but for now I can live with that limitation.

Update:  8-31-11:

I haven’t had wireless connectivity for my Lenovo laptop for weeks, and so have gone back to using the USB connection.  My wife’s Lenovo has had no problems maintaining wireless connectivity, however.

Update 7-9-11:

The wireless connectivity works again after failing earlier this spring.  I am happy again with this purchase.

Update 2-8-11:

Based on the remaining toner in the color cartridges, and the cost of each color cartridge ($69.99), it looks like it costs about $.175/page for color printing.  Not cheap, but in line with product estimates.

Update 2-4-11:

Just added the additional 256MB memory from the source recommended in the comments section.  Memory installed fine, but I still can’t print PowerPoint Note Pages (the small slide above the notes doesn’t print).  NOT HAPPY!  My workaround to date has to been to print the note pages into a PDF and then they print fine.  I will have to contact HP tech support to see if they can fix the problem.

Update 12-12-10:

I finally replaced the black and white toner cartridge.  The factory b&w cartridge was still printing fine, well after the factory yield estimate had been exceeded, but the indicator stated “very low,” and so I decided to replace it anyway.

Update 11-26-10:

I had a problem today printing the Note Pages from PowerPoint.   The notes print fine, but not the small version of the actual slide above the notes.  I think it may be a memory problem, but I’m unable to locate on the HP website the actual 256MB memory module upgrade for this printer.

Update 11-25-10:

I can now print directly from my iPhone 4 to this printer, including attachments.  How cool is that?!

Aneil

Our Dell color laser printer recently gave up the ghost, and so we had to go get another printer that could be the workhorse of our home office.  I decided to go for wireless connectivity this time, so that the kids wouldn’t have to keep using Karen’s inkjet printer to print out their documents, and so that Karen wouldn’t have to keep emailing me large documents to print as well.  After doing quite a bit of searching online, I went to Best Buy, but wasn’t happy with their selection, and so walked over to OfficeMax.  The salespeople were knowledgeable, and recommended the HP CP1525, after remarking to me that the Brother line of printers had reliability problems.  (Full disclosure:  my brother Andrew works at the store, but does works in the printing department rather than selling office supplies.)

The problem with their recommendation was that the printer was so new, I couldn’t find any online reviews on my iPhone.  I went ahead with their recommendation, and have been very pleased so far.

I’ll also be updating our experience at Amazon — be sure to also read the comments section at this link.

Aneil

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