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When considering the HP LaserJet 2200 printer and HP LaserJet 2200 toner, keep in mind that one will be getting a workhorse laser printer meant to be used mainly as a computer-to-printer unit for the most part. It features excellent print speed and good print quality at a price (new, around $130) that will be hard to beat for those small office or home office entrepreneurs on a budget.

Printer speeds delivered by this monochrome laser printer are one of the 2200’s selling points. It can deliver a very nice 8 pages per minute of copy and at a price that most other competitor printers would be hard-pressed to match. Additionally, these same printers have a tough time getting within a couple of pages per minute of this HP printer, which should also be attractive to most anybody considering purchasing it.

Going hand-in-hand with the fine print speed of this HP printer, is its 1,200 dots per inch print quality. This means that the resolution of a product printed out by this particular Hewlett-Packard model will be excellent across almost all print criteria. Output should emerge looking sharp, clear and with no evidence of blurring or smudging. It also can print graphics-rich jobs as well.

In terms of physical size, the HP 2200 — at 10 inches high by 16 inches wide — will sit on any desktop unobtrusively and at a low weight. It matches up well against most of its competition for a fact. Given that it delivers both high print speed and excellent print quality, it’s only surprising that it’s not a big, bulky printer.

Onboard memory supplied by Hewlett-Packard for this unit comes in at 8 MB, which can be upgraded to 72 MB at its maximum. The computer and the printer will share processing power for the most part, and the printer itself comes supplied with a 133 MHz processor, which is adequate enough to handle printing prioritization and output duties under most any circumstance.

Versatility is also excellent in the 2200. It can be hooked into a computer or even a workgroup of a certain size. It’s versatile enough to be connected to a network via either a parallel port or a USB port. It doesn’t come with an included cable, though, so it’ll be necessary to shell out a few extra bucks for one of a decent quality to run between the printer and the computer.

This offering from Hewlett-Packard can hold a full 250 sheets within an included autoloading input tray out of a total of 350 sheets (the other hundred can be fed in through a separate manual feeder slot). It can also print on a number of different media stock, giving it an additional level of versatility that matches up with the versatility already evidenced by its connectivity and print quality.

The HP LaserJet 2200 printer comes to the game with nice durability, as far as these types of printers go. Monthly duty cycle is rated at 40,000 pages per month of print product. This means that it can print out about 40,000 sheets of product before needing any sort of required maintenance. It has the ability to run off of Mac OS 7.7.7 and most Windows OSs. For $120 retail and decent print speeds, it hard to find much to nitpick about when it comes to this laser printer.

The HP LaserJet 2200 toner offers the reliability so admired by fans of Hewlett-Packard. Quality HP compatible toner is always at the top of the game when it comes to how your documents look, as the end product is where the true value of the printer toner used shows.