HP Color LaserJet 2550N. Slow printing takes 16

More details, what kind of document are you printing, what format, what driver, what software are you printing from. If you are printing full page color photographs those can take a long time to print. Make sure all updates for software and firmware of printer is up to date as well.

Is the print quality poor on left side for all colors? You may have one bad cartridge. Create a paint document with Yellow, Magenta and Cyan squares on the left side and see if one color prints better than the others. You can also gently shake the cartridges to redistribute toner.

Check your print driver settings. And if you are printing from any of the microsoft office applications look at the page setup to see if something was changed. Click file, then right near print is the page setup.

This could be a very serious problem. Have it check by a qualified technician


Good Luck

it seems you don't have proper driver for your HP LaserJet 2550n Printer installed in your pc. download it from
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DriverDownload.jsp?pnameOID=388402&locale=en_US&taskId=135&prodSeriesId=388394&prodTypeId=18972

install in try for color print.

The ink of your printer seems to be empty. Replace the toner cartriage to solve the problem.

check on the printer driver if the paper size is set to the type of paper that you are using.

What icon?

Here is a link to the User Guide. See Chapter 2, page 23 for the control panel indicators.

2550n User Guide


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Have you checked that you are sending the print job using the correct paper tray on the printer? Check the properties of the printer to ensure you are. Check also that the printer is OK by running a test print from the printer and not through the PC. If I remember it's hold the green button for around 7-10 seconds, whilst powering on.

Look at your printer properties and check that you are using the correct tray settings.