The HP LaserJet 8150dn printer and its capabilities are on full display whenever this monochrome printer is given full reign in a small or medium-sized business. In comparison to many other monochrome laser printers available out on the market, this particular Hewlett-Packard would probably be considered mid-priced and characteristic. It is a speedy printer with a lot of reliability, especially with the quality of the print as offered by the HP LaserJet 2420dn toner.  

That print speed comes to the fore right away, with the 8150dn able to kick out product at a fast 32 pages per minute. For a business needing a workhorse network printer, it’s hard to find many much better than this Hewlett-Packard model. It is able to juggle a number of different print jobs effortlessly and it has a decently fast processor to help it along.

When it comes to all of the different media types that the printer can produce product on, it’s probably best to say that the 8150dn is extremely versatile. All the standard media types, including envelopes, labels, transparencies, letter and legal sizes, as well as a wide variety of non-standard paper sizes can be handled by this printer. That’s sure to make it attractive to most any network, for sure.

When it comes to connectivity, Hewlett-Packard has made sure that the 8150dn can be joined to most any network or even just the desktop quite easily. It comes with a nice Ethernet 10/100 port, as well as traditional parallel porting capabilities. This gives the 8150dn decent capability and versatility, meaning the office IT specialist won’t have much trouble hooking it up to the network.

A particularly nice characteristic of the 8150dn is its print resolution capability, which comes in at a sterling 1,200 dpi. For a workhorse network printer like this Hewlett-Packard, getting 1,200 dpi for the price that one will pay is a bit surprising.  That might be because it is actually a fairly reasonably-priced machine when one considers not only print resolution, but an array of other features that it comes with.

From the time the first print task is designated until the time the first page emerges is only 17 seconds, which means that the supplied microprocessor (a QED 250 MHz model) is doing its work well. That microprocessor combines with a decent amount of standard memory to handle a large number of nearly simultaneous print jobs from all across the network, which is also an excellent capability found in the 8150dn.

Standard memory given to the printer by Hewlett-Packard comes in at 32 MB of RAM. This can be increased to 160 MB fairly easily, but make sure to check out the print needs of the network or workgroup before spending the money to upgrade the memory.  It’s fairly certain that the networks for which this printer is intended won’t need a full 160 MB of RAM.

Taken altogether, there’s a great deal to like about the HP LaserJet 8150dn printer and very little to find to dislike. It has a great deal of features and capability, and it’s nicely priced at about $600 for a new model, though plenty of refurbished and used ones can be found for around $200. Make sure to grab one as soon as it’s available because it tends to be snapped up fairly quickly, which is a testament to its versatility and capabilities along with its durability.

Additional savings throughout the life of the printer are possible with HP LaserJet 8150dn toner cartridge.  Not only by stopping costly reprints, which is what HP toner cartridges does, but by eliminating expensive retail prices when toner cartridge is ordered online.