Excellent printer - download the latest firmware set the printer to Quiet Mode & create a new default printing shortcut
Update: If your printer hangs on some print jobs as mine did go to the HP website and download the March 2010 version of the firmware (or a more recent version if available). The new firmware seems to have solved this problem. Also it's now possible to buy 3rd party refilled cartridges. On two occasions I have bought the cheapest cartridge I could find on the Internet and both have worked fine with quality indistinguishable from HP's expensive cartridges. Finally since I never print graphics my comments apply to text-only printing.
When I switched to a new computer running Vista x64 I was forced to replace my HP Laserjet 5P because HP failed to provide a driver that worked competently with the 64-bit operating system. Based on the second comment to this review HP apparently subsequently fixed the nonfunctional 5P x64 driver after Vista had been out for more than a year.
I chose the P2055dn because of auto-duplexing and the standard 128MB of RAM. I was initially disappointed by the poor print quality and noise of the printer with the factory default settings. After digging into the clunky digital-only manual and much trial and error I created new HP Printing Shortcuts for 1-sided and 2-sided documents with ProRes quality instead of the default FastRes quality and I set the default Printing Shortcut to be my new 1-sided definition.
I also set the printer to Quiet Mode. To set the Quiet Mode press the down arrow on the printer several times until you reach System Setup. Push the OK button then toggle down to Quiet Mode with the down arrow. Press OK twice then press the carriage return key to go back to Ready.
After these changes the printer runs slower but the print quality is excellent and the noise level is similar to that of the 5P. I also turned off the aggravating low toner reminders that are worse than spam email.More detail ...
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