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How much colour stuff are you going to be printing Ed ?

We use HP stuff at my place of work and always have done. The black and white stuff has never been a problem we been using the 4xxx model printers for years, very robust never been a problem but, I've found before that the cheaper HP laserjets like you are looking at are more trouble than they are worth. Also the colour one in our office has been a right PIA at times. Also it eats toner like its going out of fashion, they arent IMHO cheap to run.

If you could give some idea of how much budget you have, how many sheets per day colour you'll be printing it would help.

Don't worry to much about network as even if the printer you want doesnt come with the networking built in you could buy a HP Jet Direct or Intel Netport that plugs into the network and then you plug the printer into that and you can network it that way. Or if you just have 1 or 2 PC's that you want to print from you can plug the printer into the back of one of the PC's and share it out across the network that way. ( this will have a bit of overhead on the PC that the printer is attatched to though and also that PC will need to be on so that the printer can be accessed over the network ) apologies if this is teaching you to suck eggs.

If your not doing much colour printing I'd look at something else rather than a laser printer. You can get good quality results with the deskjet range of printers if you use the right paper and tweak the settings.

HTH