An out lay of around £750 may seem steep for a printer but if your office needs the robustness of something designed to last, then the HP Hewlett Packard 4250N laserjet is a great candidate.

Printers like this can cost up to £2500, so what does £750 get you?

Well it's black and white A4 documents only, at up to 43 pages per minute, which is fast enough for most offices - any quicker and people may start printing needlessly. And no expensive colour cartridges to worry about. This model sports 64MB on board RAM but can be expanded to 512MB. Connectivity is flexible with Parallel, USB and Ethernet 10/100Base-TX options. Cartridge refills (HP 42A) will cost you around £81 but are enough for about 10000 pages each. Main features of the HP 4250N are :

• Printing up to 215 x 356mm (legal) also A4, A5, B5 and A6
• Printing at 1200 x 1200 dpi
• Media weight 60 gsm to 200 gsm
• Capacity 600 sheets
• 2 media feed inputs - rear hopper at 100 sheets and internal tray at 500 sheets
• Front panel control Screen
• Size H37.7cm x W41cm x D45.1cm
• Print speed Black & White A4: 43ppm
• Language Simulation: PCL 5E, PostScript 3, PCL 6, PDF 1.3
• Weight 22.7kg
• High speed USB connection - Ethernet - Parallel connections