The HP P1505 is, to put it bluntly, loud enough to turn heads in an office setting while printing, at least. Although it idles as quietly as any machine can, when it starts printing, the P1505 belts out sounds that people in the back of a theater could hear, and it may very well be a distraction in a small office setting.
Why didn’t HP make it a little quieter? Probably because it was busy giving it lightning fast speed. This Printer performed exceedingly well when printing a 10-page document (31 seconds). If you’re printing a one-page text document, it’ll appear in less time than it takes to have a hearty swig of coffee or take a bite of muffin.
A couple of other knocks on the P1505 are that it has no network capability, it only has 2MB of RAM, and it’s also a pain to install. (We had to completely uninstall the software and reinstall it a couple of times to get the printer to work properly.) Of course, if you don’t need to use your printer on a network, the former complaint is nullified.
Those few negatives are ones you can quickly ignore if your primary criterion for a laser printer is print quality; the P1505 produced exceptionally rich, deep blacks in graphics and crisp text even in an 8-point font.
Although the P1505 produces prints in 600 x 600dpi, the FastRes 1200 function gives it an effective output quality of 1,200dpi. It can also handle legal-sized paper and can print on a variety of media, including envelopes and postcards. If you can deal with the noise and don’t need a network-capable printer, the HP P1505’s impressive speed and superb print quality make it an ideal laser printer for your home or small office.
Price: $199.00 (Base Model), $249.00 (Base printer plus: networking and 8 MB more memory).
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