Hewlett Packard Color LaserJet 2500 Laser Printer

Pros: HP is THE name in lasers, but the "price spread" between features/specs is too long.
Cons: Non-included accessories like ethernet/extra paper trays cost twice what they should.

I have always bought HP LaserJets when ever I bought a laser printer in the past. I originally owned the LasetJet II. That lasted 7 years until it needed a new fuser roller, but I needed to print that day, so I bought the LaserJet 4 . The LJ4 lasted 9 ...

Pros: Get a Konica Minolta, rather than an HP, if print quality matters.
Cons: Poor print quality; slow printing.

In every respect but one, the HP Color Laser Jet 2500 is inferior to the Konica Minolta 2300. The HP:

1. takes longer to warm up,

2. takes long to print pages once it's ready, and -- most seriously --

3. delivers a print quality vastly inferior, especially in graphics, to the K-M. (In fact, the quality of print on standard paper is not much better than an HP inkjet.

The one feature that's superior is removing paper jams. The only reason I bought the HP is that my K-M had jammed and I needed a color printer right away. (K-M, to give them credit, agreed to send me a replacement printer when their engineer could not resolve the problem.)

Depending on where you buy -- I got both my HP and my K-M at Office Depot -- the costs of the two printers are about the same.