1500 Series Color LaserJet Printers

HP 1500 Series Color LaserJet Printers

The HP entry Color LaserJet printer series delivers high quality, professional color laser documents for a great price. These easy-to-use printers are designed for home offices, small businesses, and workgroups that want a compact, networkable color laser solution for their business communication and small print run needs.

The HP entry Color LaserJet printer series provides the high quality color laser output you have come to expect from the industry leader. The 600-dpi engine, HP ImageREt 2400 color layering technology, and new toner formulation ensure great print quality for your business documents.

With ease-of-use, real-time status, and supplies management features, these printers are designed to quickly bring high quality color capabilities to users - while lowering your total cost of ownership by minimizing printer downtime.

The HP Color LaserJet 1500 series is a host-based printer, meaning it relies on the host computer to render the print job before it is sent to the printer. The benefit of host-based printers is usually lower acquisition costs - since the processing occurs on the host computer the printer requires less processor power and memory than conventional PDL-based printers. These lower requirements allow HP to provide a color laser printer at an incredible low price. To achieve the lower acquisition price there are trade-offs to be considered.

Since host-based printers rely on the computer's processor they require a specific driver for each supported host and these drivers are unique to each operating system. Host-based printers are compatible with select Mac OS and Windows operating systems. A host-based printer is ideal for one or two users working within one of the supported operating systems.