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The HP 4050N printer is built like a tank. We use it in our offices and warehouses because it can stand up to harsh conditions and keep printing. Not the fastest printer but prints at a very good speed. They don't make heavy duty Enterprise printers like this any more, so when we see a good deal on one, we snatch it up. Not to hard to rebuild either and parts are readily available.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
This printer doesn’t work or print i wasted my money and got ripped off ended up having to buy s as another one very disappointed with this purchase.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
A couple of weeks ago I realized that we have 5 ink jet printers in the house. The two lexmarks don't work any more, they never did work well. The Epson Stylus prints well but it needs $100 worth of new ink cartridges. The two HP ink jets need ink and frankly, they never did work well. Ink jet printers are expensive and finicky... I was looking at paying nearly $200 bucks for ink to get three printers back to doing a lousy job. So, I spent the money on a refurbished business quality HP LaserJet 4050n. This is a workhorse printer that I have used in business and education. The one I got works perfectly, has great print quality, and the toner costs ~1 cent per page. The HP 4050n is quiet, reliable, and when purchased refurbished on EBay, it can be dirt cheap. All in all my refurbed 4050n with a toner new (remanufactured) toner cartridge cost about the same as the ink for my three crudy ink jets. The print quality is wonderful and since it can be hooked to a network all our PCs now share one printer. One word of caution. The 4050n comes with a network card, but unless you are very careful you might get one with a token ring card... which will not work on an Ethernet network. That happened to me. It was my fault, not the sellers fault, I got exactly what they advertised, but I did have to get a different network card.Read full review
Great money saving printer. The only downside I have experienced is that it uses legacy bootp protocol to lease an ip address on a local network. The solution to this is to use static ips which is preferable in my case anyway. There also may be a firmware update to allow DHCP but I haven't looked into it. It's a solid printer and should last me for many years. They are built to last and easy to repair. I don't really need to print often so I will save a lot of money from not having to buy ink every time it dries out. Definitely a better value than buying a brand new laser printer from a retailer that will crap out within a few years.
The LaserJet 4000/4050 series machines were very reliable and had very few problems that aren't related to consumable parts. Most used units will easily provide many years of service with minimal repair work (You might have to replace the paper feed rollers, but those are very cheap, and one does not have to be a printer serviceman to change them on these machines, they're held on with a clip, you just push on the tab, and slide off the worn one and put on a new one). To be perfectly honest, the maintenance kit thing is a bit of a crock, it does prevent problems, but frequently, parts last much longer than the 200,000 page interval. For the most part, replacing rollers and clearing the counter is good enough, the machine's fuser probably doesn't need replacing, and if a fuser ever does go out, it's usually just the teflon film sleeve, you can buy one of those and a packet of the appropriate grease and repair the fuser yourself instead of spending $100 on a new/rebuilt unit. These were some of the last printers built by Hewlett-Packard before they started making them as cheaply as possible, they are still very well-made, much more so than the newer models like the LaserJet 4350. Twice the speed, but flaky network cards (built onto formatter boards in some cases instead of removable) and more mechanical problems.Read full review
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