HP Color Laser Jet 2600n is a $399 printer with built-in Ethernet networkability. This printer is simple to use, and the quality of most of its print samples are impressive. Laser jet 2600n is best suited for small work groups and home offices as its post purchase cost is high. The two-tone gray HP Color LaserJet 2600n measures a compact 16 by 18 by 15 inches (WDH). Two sturdy handgrips in its base make this cheap 40-pound printer machine easy to move. The control panel on the top-right corner of the Laser jet 2600n features a tiny two-line LCD. The control panel provides buttons to move across the menus and drill down through them, but not to climb back up; so after setting a menu item, you have to jump back to the starting point.
Color laser jet 2600n prints 8 pages per minute (ppm) for black text. Color graphics printed at a more reasonable 6.3ppm. That’s fast enough for most home offices, but not for any workgroup of more than a few people. In terms of print quality, plain text obtained from the printer cartridge is great with a crisp black that few colors lasers achieve, and sharp, clean letters, even at 2-point size. It also printed grayscale graphics well, with some blotchiness in areas but good detail, particularly on photos. A page of black text uses about 3 cents’ worth of toner and a lightly covered color page uses about 15.3 cents’ worth, according to vendor specs.