Affordable, business-enhancing colour from an HP LaserJet that's easy to manage and use. Produce professional-quality colour marketing materials and more. Maximise your investment with expandability options. Count on HP for energy-saving features.
Ideal for enterprise and small-business workteams who want professional-quality colour and advanced printer management tools.

Features

Make your business look its best with high-performance colour.

  • Create marketing materials with realistic colour and crisp detail thanks to PANTONE® colour matching and HP Easy Color.
  • Increase colour accuracy with HP ImageREt 3600 and HP ColorSphere toner technology.
  • Achieve low-cost, high-quality printing right out of the box, with a complete set of cartridges – on average, nearly two times more black toner and more than two times the colour toner of leading competitors1.
  • Print black text affordably, using an optional high-capacity black print cartridge2,3.

Invest in a printer that's as easy to use as it is to manage.

  • Manage jobs directly from the printer’s four-line colour control panel, and easily print from a USB flash drive4.
  • Make printing as mobile as you are with HP ePrint – now you can print from virtually anywhere5.
  • Keep confidential information secure by requiring a PIN to retrieve print jobs and protect data with the HP High-Performance Secure Hard Disk6.
  • Easily control colour usage with HP Color Access Control, and proactively manage printing environments with industry-leading HP Web Jetadmin.

Take advantage of inventive expandability options.

  • Easily update, manage and extend printer capabilities, using HP FutureSmart Firmware.
  • Take advantage of the HP Solutions Business Partners programme, enabling you to access HP certified solutions from industry-leading partners.
  • Incorporate optional productivity and security solutions easily, using the hardware integration pocket4,7.
  • Improve productivity: this workhorse colour laser printer gives you up to 1,100-sheet capacity to save time and complete large print jobs without reloading8.

Enjoy outstanding energy and paper savings.

  • Reduce energy use by 19% to 66% by setting the Auto-On/Auto-Off mode9. Save even more energy with Instant-on Technology10 which speeds warm-up and cool-down times.
  • Collect data, control settings and create useful reports using HP EcoSMART Fleet.
  • Save time with convenient cartridge installation, and get free, easy cartridge recycling11.
  • Conserve resources and get up to 50% paper-savings using automatic two-sided printing4.
1  Based on the amount of black and colour toner that ships with the printer, and the majority of top competitive printers by market share as reported by Gap Intelligence as of 8/1/11.
2  Compared with HP LaserJet Enterprise P3015 series. Assuming customer is printing at least 30 percent of total pages in colour with content similar to the colour ISO/IEC 19798 test suite (www.iso.org/jtc1/sc28) and overall average job length of three pages. Yields established using ISO/IEC test standards. Actual yields and costs vary considerably depending on images printed, number of colour pages printed, and other factors.
3  The HP 500X Black LaserJet Toner Cartridge not included; please purchase separately.
4  Automatic two-sided printing, walk-up USB and hardware integration pocket available only on the HP LaserJet Enterprise 500 color M551dn printer and HP LaserJet Enterprise 500 color M551xh printer.
5  Requires an Internet connection to the printer. Feature works with any connected Internet- and email-capable device. Print times may vary. Some HP LaserJets may require a firmware upgrade. For a list of supported documents, and image types, see www.hp.com/go/eprintcenter. And for additional solutions, see www.hp.com/go/mobile-printing-solutions.
6  The HP High-Performance Secure Hard Disk available only on the HP LaserJet Enterprise 500 color M551xh printer.
7  Solutions deployed through the hardware integration pocket may require additional purchase.
8  The 1 x 500 sheet feeder may be purchased separately for the HP LaserJet Enterprise 500 color M551n and dn. Additional tray can be added to n and dn models only.
9  Energy saving based on internal HP testing of Auto-On/Auto-Off setting compared to default setting. Minimum savings based on a 45-minute sleep delay. Maximum savings based on a 1-minute sleep delay. Actual results may vary.
10  Compared with products that use traditional fusing.
11  Programme availability varies. HP print cartridge return and recycling is currently available in more than 50 countries and territories around the world through the HP Planet Partners programme. For more information, or to request return envelopes and bulk collection boxes, visit www.hp.com/recycle.


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