I have a new color laser printer (HP 2025dn) that seems satisfactory. It replaces my cheap Samsung CLP-300 which died when one of the plastic gears that drives the pick-up roller shaft apparently broke a tooth. The Samsung would have to be very seriously disassembled to even get to this gear, and getting the part would probably be more trouble than it is worth (it was a $99 printer), especially here in Mexico.

The 2025dn is nice. It has automatic duplexing, and the image quality is better than the Samsung, at least while the printer is new. I think it is going to be quite expensive to operate, about $400 for a complete toner set (that's more than I paid for the printer!) compared to $24 for the Samsung, although in all fairness that $24 set was aftermarket, not OEM and did not give the best quality, and the $400 HP set includes new drums, developer, etc. so it isn't an apples to apples comparison.

Anyway, my only concern so far is how long it takes for first print. Once the printer starts it goes along at quite a nice pace. The documentation claims 21 pages per minute in either color or black and white, and while I haven't actually timed it, that seems about right. The delay in first print seems to be mostly in how long it takes the printer to "wake up" and get ready to print. If the printer is in "Ready" mode it takes 10 seconds from the time I send the page to the printer until the green light on the printer starts blinking (16 seconds in "power-save"), saying the printer is receiving data. Then it's seven or eight seconds before it pulls the paper from the paper tray and goes to work.

The printer is plugged into my WRT54G router so that it can be shared with SWMBO's Macintosh. Other things connected to the router are my Ooma VOIP phone and my cable modem.

Is this 10 (or 16) second delay before the printer acknowledges that data is being received reasonable, or should I be looking at network settings or something?

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