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Today at the Amplify Partner Conference, HP Inc. announced the new HP Color LaserJet 4200/4300 and the HP Color LaserJet Enterprise 5000/6000 and X500/X600 printing solutions for businesses of all sizes. All new HP Color LaserJet series printers are powered by HP's next generation sustainable toner, which delivers up to 27 percent reduced energy use and up to 78 percent less plastic in the packaging. HP's high-performance printing solutions are built to help growing businesses maximize productivity and minimize disruptions for today's hybrid workstyles.

"Flexible work arrangements are here to stay with companies of all sizes using it as a way to attract and retain top talent. However, distributed workforce productivity is top of mind for businesses," says Xavier Garcia, Global Head & General Manager, Office Print Hardware at HP. "The Color LaserJet 4000 series was designed for small businesses to maximize productivity with easy, reliable, and professional printing. As our customers grow, our Color LaserJet Enterprise 5000/6000 is ready to enable productivity and scale."




Responsible Printing for a Better Planet
As part of its mission to empower customers with a better printing experience, the new HP TerraJet toner technology delivers both the most sustainable and the highest performance office printing HP has ever achieved. TerraJet is an advanced toner technology requiring 27 percent less energy when printing, up to 78 percent reduction in plastic, all while delivering sharper detail with up to 20 percent more printable colors. HP TerraJet cartridges can have a lower carbon footprint than their predecessor products and is included in new printing solutions from small business through large enterprise.

Powering Small Businesses for Productivity
Employees' intent to stay or leave a job is a growing issue for many organizations, which is only expected to increase as the oldest members of Generation Z enter the workforce. To attract and retain top talent, 60 percent of small businesses have implemented changes including flexible work arrangements. With these hiring trends in mind, an increasing number of small business employees are adopting hybrid workstyles. Yet, half of small businesses struggle to manage technology in a hybrid workplace. And 91 percent of small businesses still rely on printed documents to run their business.

The new HP Color LaserJet 4200/4300 builds on the LaserJet Pro series small business customers have come to trust for years with increased efficiency and enhanced manageability. Delivered in a compact design with groundbreaking performance, the 4200/4300 series enables maximum productivity with fast, two-sided color printing and scanning. Supported by robust management tools for de-centralized devices, along with industry-leading HP Wolf Security embedded and preconfigured right out of the box, the 4200/4300 series is designed to help businesses grow and make printing easier.

Key features of the HP Color LaserJet 4200/4300:
  • With 25 percent faster print speeds, customers can empower their team with technology that enables more productivity
  • HP Smart Admin Dashboard, an all-in-one printer management tool to view, control, and manage printers all from a single display
  • Stand out in the market and create real impact through high quality color documents
  • HP TerraJet Toner Cartridges are designed with the HP Color LaserJet Pro 4200/4300 series to help reduce the environmental impact and improve quality, compared to the previous generation:
    • 27 percent reduced energy when printing
    • 28 percent less new plastic in the cartridge
    • 71 percent less plastic in cartridge packaging

Scalable Solutions for the Reimagined Hybrid Office
As small businesses grow and printing needs become more complex, customers need printers that fit their evolving workplace, schedules, and dynamics. With a range of industry-leading solutions, HP is uniquely positioned to help small business customers scale as they reach enterprise-level needs. The HP Color LaserJet Enterprise 5000/6000 and X500/X600 are built for the reimaged office and delivers productivity and efficiency of an A3 copier at the cost of an A4 printer. With this line-up customers can customize without sacrificing power, productivity or security.

Key features of the HP Color LaserJet Enterprise 5000/6000 and X500/X600:
  • Industry-first customization with configure to order paper handling, ADF, finishing options, and speed license, offering flexibility
  • Designed to be a productivity and workflow hub with digital editing onto the device allowing highlighting, redacting and markups without a PC, all with the industry's Fastest A4 color laserjet speeds
  • Faster and seamless digitization using HP EveryPage with Reverse and Retry, which increases document integrity by never missing a scanned page and reducing mis-feeds with auto-recovery
  • 80% of common service events are completed in less than 5 minutes
  • World's most secure printing, HP Wolf Security protects, detects, and adapts to new threats
  • HP TerraJet Toner Cartridges are designed with the HP Color LaserJet Enterprise 5700 series and MFP 5800 series to help reduce the environmental impact and improve quality, compared to the previous generation:
    • Up to 78 percent less plastic in cartridge packaging
    • 35 percent recycled plastic content

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Dear HP,

None of your printers will ever be eco-friendly unless they come with refillable ink cartridges, and judging how hp printers brick themselves or lose functionality if non-genuine or tampered cartridges are detected. You folks from HP are a long ways from letting that happen. So kindly f the f-off on that horse you guys rode in on.

Sincerely, the public.
 
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Dear HP,

None of your printers will ever be eco-friendly unless they come with refillable ink cartridges, and judging how hp printers brick themselves or lose functionality if non-genuine or tampered cartridges are detected. You folks from HP are a long ways from letting that happen. So kindly f the f-off on that you guys rode in on.

Sincerely, the public.

Their ink printers suck, but I've had a good experience with their laser printers. I've been using the same Laserjet 1018 for over 15 years now, and the HP laser printer we have at work rarely has issues.
 
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Does eco-friendly mean expensive and does eco-logy in this sense also stand for inverse of eco-nomy? Well it shouldn't.
 
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One does not simply use "eco-friendly" and "printers" in the same sentence. Probably the best example of manufactured e-waste.

Especially HP, who has a history of retroactively blocking the use of third-party ink on older printers.

I long for the day that someone makes an open source printer that is designed to actually print documents rather than squeeze as much money out of the user and cause endless frustration.
 
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All new HP Color LaserJet series printers are powered by HP's next generation sustainable toner, which delivers up to 27 percent reduced energy use and up to 78 percent less plastic in the packaging.
And cost 350% more? yeah, no thanks.

This corporate greenwashing is disgusting. If you want to "take care of the planet" first remove firmware locks, useless updates and DRM, and standarise toner or liquid ink cartridges so that all machines use the same models and not a hellish nightmare of different choices.

Oh, and stop the moronic softlocks that prevent colour printers from printing B/W pages when the yellow cartridge is low but the black is literally full. WHAT DO YOU NEED YELLOW FOR TO PRINT BLACK TEXT?????

Make refillable standard toner cylinders so that small business can refill them, but of course that won't happen because the "genuine" toner and all the stupid fearmongering like "don't use 'counterfeit' toner or your printer will start emitting deadly radiation that will cook your lungs" would be over.

They don't care about the planet or saving power, they don't care about people, they only care about money and ripping off businesses and normies that aren't tech savvy.

edit: and I'm not a greenpeace tree hugger I just despise printers and HP. Rage Against The Machine.
 
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Their ink printers suck, but I've had a good experience with their laser printers. I've been using the same Laserjet 1018 for over 15 years now, and the HP laser printer we have at work rarely has issues.
You know whats really eco?

The lew laser printers require the use of the HP app which will undoubtably stop working in 2 years and render the printer useless.
 
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You know whats really eco?

The lew laser printers require the use of the HP app which will undoubtably stop working in 2 years and render the printer useless.

Not sure if you mean the consumer laser printers but we've been using a fairly new M507n and it does not require any of HP's software installed on client PCs to work. It uses the standard Windows, AirPrint or Google Cloud Print drivers.

It still uses PCL 6 and postscript but those are years-long standards.
 
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fairly new M507n
junk
drops the formatter unit like crazy, same exact problem like M407 - these printers have no business being in the enterprise portfolio
 

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junk
drops the formatter unit like crazy, same exact problem like M407 - these printers have no business being in the enterprise portfolio
Works fine for us. We just put it through around 10,000+ pages last month and its still chugging along on the same toner cartridge. It replaced an old Samsung laser jet.
 
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Works fine for us. We just put it through around 10,000+ pages last month and its still chugging along on the same toner cartridge. It replaced an old Samsung laser jet.
prepare for maintenance, fuser replacement (depends on the quality of paper used), formatter - I don't give it 6 months at that volume
 

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prepare for maintenance, fuser replacement (depends on the quality of paper used), formatter - I don't give it 6 months at that volume

Doesn't matter to us. The university has been using Samsung (which their printer division is owned by HP) for years and we have their dedicated personnel who can come on-site if something goes wrong. We just have to make sure its accessible.
 
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Doesn't matter to us. The university has been using Samsung (which their printer division is owned by HP) for years and we have their dedicated personnel who can come on-site if something goes wrong. We just have to make sure its accessible.
I am one of those 3rd party certified technicians

you need to see this not only from your view of enterprise user but also from a consumer (end user) - as soon as that warranty expires, you're going to get in a lot of hurt
 

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you need to see this not only from your view of enterprise user but also from a consumer (end user) - as soon as that warranty expires, you're going to get in a lot of hurt

No, I completely understand. I am only seeing this from the eyes of an enterprise user because that's what I am in my experience with HP Laser Jets at my work. We have an 8-year (I think) contract with same-term support so if anything breaks or such for that amount of time, HP would send you guys out to us to fix it as per their 2-day BCP.

At home I use a SL-C430W which honestly hasn't gone to crap since 2017, so I'm happy with it.
 
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Their ink printers suck, but I've had a good experience with their laser printers. I've been using the same Laserjet 1018 for over 15 years now, and the HP laser printer we have at work rarely has issues.
I think his complaint was about how wasteful it is to throw away perfectly good toner packs when they are actually ridiculously easy to refill and reuse. From that perspective and context, he's very correct, HP's business model is extremely lacking and not "eco-friendly" at all. So the claim made in the above article is utter and complete moose-muffins!

They need to make the toner packs refillable/reusable. Until they do this, they are lying to themselves and the public.
 
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You know whats really eco?

The lew laser printers require the use of the HP app which will undoubtably stop working in 2 years and render the printer useless.
I don’t understand how that hasnt Gotten them fined a couple of billion in the EU
 
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Not sure if you mean the consumer laser printers but we've been using a fairly new M507n and it does not require any of HP's software installed on client PCs to work. It uses the standard Windows, AirPrint or Google Cloud Print drivers.

It still uses PCL 6 and postscript but those are years-long standards.
Nope. Several business class laserjets require always online HP app DRM in order to connect.

Of course this is HP, so there is 0 consistency, but we've had 2 different models require this, even if connected over USB.
 
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Nope. Several business class laserjets require always online HP app DRM in order to connect.

Of course this is HP, so there is 0 consistency, but we've had 2 different models require this, even if connected over USB.
I wasn't aware of that ... What exactly does this DRM prevent you from doing? Are there any licencing costs to enable network printing or management or what?
We used to look out for printers made in China, now we have to look out for printers designed in Hell&Purgatory.
 

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Nope. Several business class laserjets require always online HP app DRM in order to connect.

Of course this is HP, so there is 0 consistency, but we've had 2 different models require this, even if connected over USB.
Are you sure about this? And can you provide which models required it?

This is not a troll reply or anything, but in my years with working with HP business printers (not home/SOHO) I've never had to install or use the "Full Feature Software" itself.
 
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I wasn't aware of that ... What exactly does this DRM prevent you from doing?
Anything. The printer will not print a thing unless the HP smart app is logged in on the PC.
Are there any licencing costs to enable network printing or management or what?
We used to look out for printers made in China, now we have to look out for printers designed in Hell&Purgatory.
You have to make an account with HP and register the product before it will work. Some you have to register the supplies with the same account.

Brother printers all the way
Are you sure about this? And can you provide which models required it?

This is not a troll reply or anything, but in my years with working with HP business printers (not home/SOHO) I've never had to install or use the "Full Feature Software" itself.
The laserjet M110we is one example. Anything that is part of the HP+ program requires it.


I have to ask my coworker which other models he found.
 
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Anything. The printer will not print a thing unless the HP smart app is logged in on the PC.

You have to make an account with HP and register the product before it will work. Some you have to register the supplies with the same account.

Brother printers all the way

The laserjet M110we is one example. Anything that is part of the HP+ program requires it.


I have to ask my coworker which other models he found.

Ahh yeah, those are the HP+ printers and why they require the HP app. I would highly avoid those for any purpose, to be honest. They make money from you because they try to coerce you to be on a 6-month lease (for ink) and they need that app to keep track of the printer's life and usage.

Avoid any of the HP+ printers. The real corporate/business ones are the ones that don't need any HP proprietary software installed.

Brother printers are good too. Our alumni department has a HL-L5000D and its a trooper.
 
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