Laser Printer Roundup : HP LaserJet P2035
2. HP LaserJet P2035
First page in 11 seconds
Whether the printer has already warmed up or starts from standby, the first page arrives in 10.8 seconds. That's good news, as a lot of printers can take up to twice as long to print the first page from standby, but not this one. On the other hand, the first run is much slower. We had to wait almost four minutes before we saw the first sheet slide out of the top. We were almost prepared to switch it off entirely ... which is a shame as it only consumes 6 W on standby, but it will probably need to be turned off at night. In normal mode, it uses almost 230 W during printing, which is a rather good score.
Build Quality
The P2035 is a compact personal laser printer that prints the first page off your document pretty quickly, with HP talking about 'instant printing'.
It only includes 16 MB of RAM, meaning it's best suited to light office documents, and while it does include Windows, Mac and Linux drivers, you'll have to make do with PCL 5e.
- LaserJet P2035 Laser...
There's only a very limited set of extra features. This is a black-and-white 30 ppm laser with no network support, no WiFi and no dual-sided printing. In short, it's a very basic model. One stingy detail is that while the theoretical toner capacity for this printer is 2300 pages, the supplied cartridge only has enough for 1000 pages.
| Specifications | ||||
| Resolutions | 600 x 600 ppp | Number of Cartridges | 1 | |
| Ink drop size | 30 ppm / -- ppm | Number of Base Colors | 1 | |
| Ink Drop Size | --Picolitres | Scanner / Copier / Fax | No/No/No |
Printing Speed: Office Use
The P2035 has two modes: normal (31.1 pages per minute) or quiet (half as fast: 15 ppm), with quite a large difference between the two in terms of noise, falling from 56 dB for the former to 51 dB for the latter. Unless you absolutely need the speed, leave it in quiet mode, where you'll find it by default. To activate normal mode, you'll need to play about with the driver.
Printing the first page is a speedy eleven seconds (see inset).
This is a 600 dpi printer that simulates 1200 dpi, a feature that often causes us to fear the worst. In reality, the P2035 did reasonably well, thanks to a good conversion of colours to shades of grey.
Text is quite accurate, even if a real 1200 dpi printer would produce characters with better curves. Gradients are reasonably well-handled with each shade looking distinctive and contrast is respected. Overall, the conversion from colour to monochrome was reasonable, producing readable documents and sharp graphics. The fact that this is only a 600 dpi printer isn't really a problem--indeed, its output is better than some true 1200 dpi printers.
Cost per page
Cartridge lifespan - ISO test for office printing
| Cartridge | Lifepan (Pages) |
|---|---|
| CE505A | 2300 |
The P2305 offers reasonable running costs, but they're not the lowest.
| Pluses | Minuses |
|---|---|
-31 ppm, first page arrives quickly -Reasonable cost per page -Quiet mode makes it less noisy -Drivers for Windows, Linux and Mac | -No PCL6, no PS3 -No network, no WiFi, 16 MB of memory: hard to share -Quiet mode makes it twice as slow |
 The strengths of this printer are its fast printing speeds and the rapidity with which it produces the first page of a document. We would nevertheless have liked to see some extra features at this price point, including quieter printing and more economic running. | |
I have the scx-4500w and the review is pretty correct, setting up that Wifi make me want to pull my fingernails out.
My biggest pet peeve is the "scan to pc" button doesn't work as its said to. It will work, if it is in Ad-hoc mode, but if its on the network then you will need to open a program do it, it still works but it takes 5 times longer. Overall a great printer though, its certainly far from an eyesore and fits perfectly on my small filecabinet.
Quote from the Dell 2335dn page: "but when it's printing, that rises to an average of 850 W--contrast that to the 20 W required by an inkjet."
You probably meant 85 w? I'm pretty scared if you didn't.
I wouldn't doubt 850 watts, some of the others hit 600....
Any chance to do a review on the Brother MFC Series MFC-9120CN. It just came out and I can't find anything on it.
Precisely as the conclusions of the reviewer, I have tested the Samsung SCX-4500W and immediately run into several problems during configuration. I cannot see how the average user will get the machine to work with full functionality. Scanning is extremely weird, requiring you to start programs on the computer, click buttons and run back and forth to the machine to feed the document. It should simply scan to email or to a file share by pressing ONE button! For the record I have tested this device with Windows, Mac, and Linux.
I believe that the manufacturer of the SCX-4500W would clearly benefit from releasing the software of as open source. The original software and documentation has so many flaws and limitations despite the fact that the product has been on the market for perhaps more that a year. No updates seem to be available. Shall I conclude that further development has been stopped?
There is much more that could be done with a beautiful machine like this if the software and documentation are improved!