Overview
If your small or medium sized business is looking for a printer, then look no further than the HP LaserJet Pro M451. It will make the perfect addition to your company. This printer possesses wireless connectability which allows users to print wirelessly from a mobile device. The printouts that this machine produces show a professional quality that you will be proud to give to even your most important clients.
Pros
This printer is a little too large to sit on a standard size desk, being its dimensions are 15.9 inches wide, 17.9 inches deep, and 12.7 inches high, weighing in at over 50 pounds. However, it will do fine residing on a sturdy shelf or table.
21 pages per minute will be produced by this printer, in both color and black & white. This is the perfect speed for any small or medium print jobs.
With 600 X 600 dpi resolution, this printer produces high quality, professional printouts. The graphics and logos will look very clean. Business documents this top-notch would be perfect to hand out at a meeting.
The M451 has a paper tray that holds up to 300 sheets. There’s 250 sheets for the input tray and 50 sheets for the multipurpose tray. An additional tray can also be purchased to bring your total up a 550 sheet capacity. This will be plenty big for most all of your printing needs.
A 2-line 16 character LCD display is offered on the control panel. This makes for configuring your printing jobs fairly easy. Troubleshooting is also a cinch as well. The control panel has 5 buttons: the up arrow, the down arrow, cancel job, back, and select. There are two led lights that say either attention or ready.
The HP LaserJet M451 allows you to print on both sides of the paper with automatic duplexing. This is super environment-friendly, cutting down on paper and costs.
The recommended duty cycle by the manufacturer is 40,000 pages. Recommended monthly pages are up to 2,000.
Software is included with the printer, consisting of HP ePrint, Auto off/on technology, Smart Install and Apple AirPrint.
Hardware and software can be installed pretty quickly and you can be printing within an hour, making this a super simple printer to get set up.
Cons
One pitfall of the HP LaserJet Pro M451 is that only prints at a speed of 21 pages per minute. This is considerably slow in comparison to other models on the market of the same printer class, which usually print at a speed of 25 pages per minute, some even up to 30 pages.
250 sheets in the paper tray is also considered small. It can be expanded, which is good, but when a lot of offices go through more than 1,000 pages a day, it makes it seem like you are constantly filling up the paper tray again and again.