HP LaserJet Pro M521dn Multifunction Printer

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Overview

The HP LaserJet Pro M521dn All-in-One Printer allows for printing, scanning, faxing, and copying in a single device. It features high-speed printing up to 42 ppm in black & white and can put out the first page in 8 seconds. Also, it has a printing and scanning resolution of 1200 x 1200 dpi.

The M521dn can also make from 1 to 99 copies of a document with a resolution of 300 x 300 dpi. In addition to copying features, it can fax documents with a modem speed of 33.6 kbps, allowing for a page to be sent in about 6 seconds. These features work with the automatic document feeder to work with multi-page documents very quickly and easily.

Scanning features include the ability to send documents to email, the cloud, network folders, or a USB drive. You can also use the 50-sheet automatic document feeder to speed up this process. For connectivity, this printer features multiple ports, a USB port, USB host, Ethernet, Telecom, and Phone for convenience with the setup you desire.

The M521dn is durable, featuring a monthly duty cycle of 75,000 pages. Also, with automatic eco settings and an automatic duplex mode, you can be sure that you are saving paper and energy with this unit.

Input capacity of up to 1,100 sheets and automatic two-sided printing

A 3.5″ color touchscreen allows you to quickly access data and change settings for your scans, prints, faxing, and copying needs

Networking is possible with a 100/1000 Base-TX Ethernet port and it can connect to networked email addressed with LDAP connectivity

Print while on-the-go with a smartphone, tablet, or notebook using HP ePrint, AirPrint, or DirectPrint

Print directly from a USB drive via the built-in USB port

Save energy with the HP Auto-On/Auto-Off Technology, Instant-on Copy, and Instant-on Technology

Set customized energy-saving settings with the HP EcoSMART Console

Warranty provides on-site support

ENERGY STAR qualified device

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HP LaserJet Pro M521dn Multifunction Printer

Key features

• fast print speeds of up to 40 ppm 4.
• Scan documents and send digital files to email, the cloud, network folders or a USB drive, in one easy step.
• Save paper with two-sided printing, and use the 50-sheet automatic document feeder to heighten productivity.
• Access, store and print web content from the MFP’s touchscreen using business apps installed on the device.
• Efficiently monitor and manage this MFP, using HP Web Jetadmin to track office printing and device status.

HP LaserJet Pro M521dn Multifunction Printer

Features and Basics

In addition to the basic MFP features I’ve already mentioned—printing, scanning, copying, faxing, and email—the M521dn can both scan to and print from a USB memory key. In an unusual touch for a monochrome printer, it will even let you preview the photos stored on the memory key before printing them. It also supports printing though the cloud.

Much higher on its list of key features is its scan capability. Like most MFPs aimed at office use, the M521dn supplements a flatbed scanner with an automatic document feeder (ADF). As is common, the flatbed is limited to letter-size paper while the 50-page ADF lets you scan up to legal size. Unlike most of the competition, however, including some significantly more expensive MFPs like the Editors’ Choice Dell B3465dnf Multifunction Laser Printer($1,299.99 at Amazon), the M521dn offers a duplex scanner for copying and scanning. (It won’t scan in duplex for faxing, however, which takes a little of the shine off the feature.)

Having a duplex scanner (meaning that it can scan both sides of a page at the same time) is different from having a duplexing ADF, which scans one side, turns the page over, and then scans the other. Either approach will let you scan duplex documents. And if the MFP also offers duplex printing plus appropriate copying commands, as with the M521dn, either approach will also let you copy single- or double-sided originals to your choice of single- or double-sided copies. However, scanning in duplex is a lot faster than scanning with a duplexing ADF.

We don’t usually time duplex scanning with MFPs, because most desktop MFPs that duplex use duplexing ADFs, which is more of a convenience feature than something that’s truly competitive with duplexing scanners. With the M521dn, however, I ran a test using a 25-sheet document just to get a sense of its speed. For scanning to disk, and including the time for saving the file to disk after scanning, the M521dn came in at 10.7 pages per minute (ppm) or 21.4 images per minute (ipm), with one image on each side of the page. If you scan duplex documents very often, this one feature can save a lot of time compared with using an MFP with a duplexing ADF.

Very much on the plus side for the M521dn is the 3.5-inch touch screen, with its particularly well-designed menu system. The combination makes it easy to both change settings in the printer and give commands for copying, faxing, and emailing.

One other strong point is the paper handing for printing, with both a 500-sheet paper drawer and 100-sheet multipurpose tray standard, along with the automatic duplexer. The 600-sheet capacity should be enough for most small to mid-size offices. If you need more, however, you can add a second 500-sheet drawer ($185 street), for a total of 1,100 sheets.

Setup and Speed

At 20.0 by 18.3 by 18.3 inches (HWD), the M521dn is too imposing to share a desk with. It’s also heavy enough, at 52.7 pounds, that you’ll probably want some help moving it. Once in place, however, setup is standard fare. For my tests I connected it to a wired network and installed the driver on a system running Windows Vista.

As I’ve already suggested, speed is not a strong point. HP rates the engine at 42 ppm, and I timed it as being a touch faster, at 43 ppm, for printing a text document with little to no formatting from Microsoft Word. On our business applications suite, however (timed with QualityLogic’s hardware and software), it came in at a surprisingly slow 5.3 ppm. Although that’s a tolerable speed, it’s significantly slower than most other mono laser printers we’ve tested. The Brother MFC-8950DW, for example, managed 10.6 ppm, the Canon imageClass MF4770n came in at 12.3 ppm, and the Dell B3465dnf hit 15.0 ppm

Output Quality and Other Issues

Output quality is a mixed bag. The good news is that the M521dn handled text in our tests particularly well, which is generally the most important kind of output for a mono printer. Text quality was well above par, making it easily good enough for any business use and even good enough for most desktop publishing applications.

Graphics output was a touch below par, but still within the tight range where the vast majority of mono laser MFPs fall. That makes it good enough for any internal business need. Depending on how critical an eye you have, you may or may not consider it acceptable for, say, PowerPoint handouts. Photo quality was also at the low end of par for a mono laser MFP. It was certainly good enough to print recognizable photos from Web pages. Whether you consider it suitable for anything more than that will depend, once again, on how critical an eye you have.

The one feature I wish this printer had that it doesn’t is the ability to fax in duplex. However, if you don’t need to fax duplex documents, that won’t be an issue. It also doesn’t leave you any worse off for faxing than with an MFP that can’t handle duplexing at all, making this oversight more of a missed opportunity than an actual problem.

Faster print speed would be welcome also. However, the time saved with duplex scanning and copying if you need it can more than make up for whatever points the printer loses on print speed. The text quality is a big plus too, as part of a highly attractive balance of speed, output quality, paper handling, and MFP features. For a small to mid-size office that needs to copy or scan (but not fax) duplex documents on a regular basis, all this can make the HP LaserJet Pro MFP M521dn a near-perfect fit, which is also enough to make it an Editors’ Choice.

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