HP LaserJet Pro CP1025nw Color Printer (CE914A)

 (52 customer reviews)

I'm a seminary student at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis. We write many many papers for our classes. I needed a laser printer as my old HP LaserJet 1100, which in "computer years" was 100 years old, was about to give up the ghost.

But I really wanted color because I'm a visual learner and utilize charts and other colorful tools for my Greek and Hebrew and other classes. And, note that from a "cost-per-page" standpoint, lasers just about always beat inkjets, sometimes significantly.

Enter the HP LaserJet Pro CP1025nw. I first spotted it at an Office supply store. It has a relatively small footprint compared to the other models. I looked at reviews here on Amazon and found that the only real problem with this printer is speed. And for me, that is not a problem at all. Also, some folks suggest this unit is not a great photo printer, and I would agree with that as far as it goes. But please note that generally speaking, Laser Printers are not interested in...Read more

The printer was wonderfully easy to set up and it's very small. The drawback, however, is that printing from either InDesign or Photoshop (on a Mac) results in really dark prints. Not "kinda dark" but too dark to be usable. Yesterday, I spent about a half-hour on the phone with HP tech support. After telling me "it's not a photo printer so don't expect much" we tried a number of different advanced settings in Photoshop to no avail. The quality of the prints--once I lightened them up substantially using Photoshop--is great. But I can't "fix" everything by hand to accommodate the printer. InDesign, same story. There is no printer profile available for this printer; according to the tech support guy at HP, he didn't expect one to be developed either. And it's not just Adobe products--printing from Firefox results in dark prints too.
So, it's a problem. It's a shame, since otherwise it's a great little printer.

Our family has been using the CP1025nw for nearly two months now and so far it has printed flawlessly. The size and price of color lasers have come down to the point where they are viable alternatives to color ink jets. We finally got fed up with our relatively new ink jet due to clogged print heads, streaking, wet smears, wrinkled paper and poor color saturation esp. when the kids were attempting (unsuccessfully) to print their homework assignments at the last minute before rushing off to school.

When it comes to care free operation with sharp, clean edges on text and line drawings, this laser performs far better then any ink jet we have used. The toner lasts and lasts (but it is also more costly to replace). The B&W dpi is 600x600 and the color dpi is 2400 but not quite photo quality. It's perfectly acceptable for one-off school projects, web printing and low-volume runs of color newsletters, announcements and small-business marketing materials where color accuracy isn't...Read more