Staples Announces Exclusive Release of HP Officejet Pro K5400dn Color Printer
Late last week Staples introduced a new and exclusive color inkjet printer - the HP Officejet Pro K5400dn Color Printer. While this is an inkjet printer, Staples is touting it as printing color with laser quality and providing a 25% lower cost per page. The printer is priced at $199.98.
The HP K5400dn prints 36 pages per minute (black) and 35 pages per minute (color). If you are printing a page that contains both black and color you can expect to print at the 35ppm rate. This is a great rate for an inkjet printer. Print resolution is rated at 1200 x 1200 dpi (black) and 4800 x 1200 dpi (color). The paper tray holds 250 pages while the “after print” tray holds 150 pages. The machine holds all sizes of paper up to 8.5″ x 14″ and can handle printing up to 7,500 pages per month, making it a very versatile machine for use in your office. The printer is network ready and boasts 32MB of memory. It offers Ethernet or USB connectivity to your computer. The K5400dn offers automatic duplex printing (something very rare for inkjet printers) which allows automatic 2 sided printing, something Staples claims will reduce your paper consumption by 50%.
As for reducing your per pages costs by 25%, Staples states the following:
Cost-per-page (CPP) laser supplies comparisons based on published manufacturer specifications of the highest-capacity cartridges available for color laser printers under $500 and mono laser printers under $250 as reported by Current Analysis,Inc. as of July 2006. HP Officejet K5400 series CPP based on HP 88 XL cartridges (Black XL cartridge included, color XL cartridges not included - sold separately) estimated street price and published yield. Results may vary.
As with most printers, the K5400dn does not come with a USB Cable. You will need to purchase that separately.
Now, lets talk about the ink cartridges. This printer uses the HP 88 series, which is part of HP’s Vivera Ink family. The color cartridges each contain 9ml of ink while the black contains 25ml. It is important to note that the HP web sites reports page yields that are much lower than what Staples shows (820 for black, 620 for each of the colors). The series is made up of the following cartridges:
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HP 88 (C9396AN) Black Ink Cartridge, Large Yields up to 2,580 pages |
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HP 88 (C9391AN) Cyan Ink Cartridge, Large Yields up to 1,840 pages |
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HP 88 (C9392AN) Magenta Ink Cartridge, Large Yields up to 2,190 pages |
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HP 88 (C9393AN) Yellow Ink Cartridge, Large Yields up to 1,650 pages |
As far as cartridge pricing goes, these cartridges are priced in line with other HP manufactured cartridges of the same ink capacity and page yield. As with other OEM cartridges the cost per ml of ink is quite high, and unfortunately there are no alternative products at this time.
Only the “official” printer stats are available at this time. This printer is so exclusive it is not even available on the HP shopping site. The printer cartridges are though. As soon as we can find some professional and user reviews of this printer we will be sure to post them here. In the mean time, if you have this printer or know someone who does we would appreciate you letting us know (or having them let us know) what your review is.
Buy this printer: HP Officejet Pro K5400dn Color Printer
Buy ink for this printer: HP 88 Black | HP 88 Cyan | HP 88 Magenta | HP 88 Yellow
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9 Comments about “Staples Announces Exclusive Release of HP Officejet Pro K5400dn Color Printer”
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March 11th, 2007 at 6:47 am
I’m didn’t know much about printers- I got a Deskjet 3845 bundled free with my PC 2 years ago, and had been buying replacement ink at $18 a pop every 200 pages.
P.S. The black ink 88 (C9385) is the one rated for 820 pages; the black ink 88 XL is officially rated for 2,580 black.
March 11th, 2007 at 4:22 pm
Thanks for the post, James! You are correct, HP is making two different capacity cartridges for the 88. There is the high capacity 88 XL and the standard capacity 88.
The standard level HP 88 cartridge yields up to 820 pages (black cartridge) and up to 620 pages (cyan, magenta, yellow cartridges). The 88 XL yields up to 2,350 pages (black) and up to 1,210 pages (cyan, magenta, yellow).
The XL color cartridges are priced about $10 higher than the standard. The XL black is priced about $15 higher.
March 13th, 2007 at 10:58 am
I realize this site is “ink focused”, but the K5400dn is also one of the least expensive printers that can be attached directly to a network. The footprint is a bit larger than many inkjets, but it looks like a very good value overall.
March 14th, 2007 at 3:55 pm
Ralph - Any contribution is a good one. You’ve got something to share about the K5400dn and we invite you to share it.
Ink is only of importance when you’ve got a printer to use it in. We want our Blog readers to learn about printers from others (those that have them, or have had them). Good or bad, ink focused or not ink focused, we want to know your opionions on this printer - or any other for that matter.
Let’s hear them!
March 30th, 2007 at 10:05 am
Hi all:
I just purchased 2 of these printers for myself and a co-worker.
No real news yet - but a couple of comments:
1) It has 4 Ink Cart’s AND 2 “Printheads”
That have to put put in.
2) It takes a LONG time to wake up at first before you put paper in (Maybe 3 or minutes.
Then It took apx 12 minutes to do who knows what!
During that time you can install the software on your computer. In the install process it waits at some point and instructs you to connect the printer.
But it is now installed and works fine.
More to follow in a few days
Cheers Charlie
March 30th, 2007 at 10:06 am
We just tried the both side printing and it worked fine - just clicked print on both side in the print normal Windows popup.
April 5th, 2007 at 1:46 pm
OK
This has been running for a bit now:
Not lots to report.
It is a bit noisey sounding when it prints, but prints out fine.
Pretty fast but I use normal not draft as draft is not really clear (dark) enough for sending out a printout to a customer.
November 26th, 2007 at 10:50 am
We bought the K5400DN a couple of months ago and have it happily set up on our home network (1 wired PC, 1 wireless PC, 1 wireless laptop and the printer wired).
Apart from the rather long initial startup time (3 to 5 minutes, depending how adventurous it’s feeling) the printer is fast and functional.
Web based ink checking and options are welcome and useful.
Printed 69 pages so far, a few full page colour photographs (Colours are good, although not 100% true, but this isn’t a photo printer!)
February 20th, 2008 at 3:19 am
Hi there, I’m curious about if the printer works with only one cartridge? I mean, for example , if there is just black cartridge installed (or any other of them) inside, does it still work or you need to put the other ones?