high-performance color printing

Whether printing brochures or spreadsheets, newsletters or business presentations, with the HP Color LaserJet 5500 series printers you are guaranteed high-quality documents while meeting all your time-critical deadlines through in-house printing. Featuring inline printing technology—using a “direct to page process”—the HP Color LaserJet 5500 transfers toner directly to your media ensuring exceptional print quality and color printing at the same speed as black. And with best-in-class HP Jetdirect wired and wireless print servers, the printers can be placed anywhere in networked offices so that entire workgroups can access fast, wide-format color printing.

exceptional color output quality

HP has designed the HP Color LaserJet 5500 and HP smart printing supplies so that whether you are sending RGB or CMYK files, the printer is automated and configured to supply:

•image detail-8 bit vs. 1–2 bit contone-hp’s technology—four times the data delivers superior detail•color mapping-family similarity•print consistency-by product design, closed loop controls, and hp smart printing supplies•sharp color transitions-trapping•sharp text and lines-adaptive halftoning
ground toner
chemically

 

grown toner
advanced toner technology•all-in-one print cartridge•chemically grown toner•uniform and small toner particles that enable the best print quality•integrated release agent to enable “oil-less” fusing•cost efficient

what does trapping do?

• eliminates color plane misregistration

• eliminates transitions between halftones

trapping=overprint along edges of knock-out

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without trappingwith trapping
precise adjacent colors—trapping•eliminates color plane misregistration•eliminates transitions between halftones•automatic color plane registration•automatic corrections built-in
no edge
smart edge
enhancement

enhancement

 

(adaptive halftoning)
smart edge enhancement (adaptive halftoning)•extends beyond solids to light colored text

•dynamic algorithm identifies edges and applies special halftoning to sharpen edges

smart operation made easy

The HP Color LaserJet 5500 series printers are designed to operate both efficiently and intuitively.

•control panel displays text and animated graphics simultaneously with an intuitive user interface

•front panel provides convenient access to the end user-replaceable supplies•virtually eliminates printer downtime with genuine

HP smart printing supplies that enable status monitoring, proactive alert messages, Internet-enabled supplies ordering, and convenient remote troubleshooting