HP's latest offering delivers the printing goods to individuals and work groups alike.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, July 18, 2006 - The HP Color LaserJet 2605 Printer series is designed for small work teams and home office users, offering them a printer that easily and cost-effectively adds brilliant colour to business documents with HP ColorSphere Toner. Offered at a very affordable price point, the printer series is also ideal for creating professional marketing material in-house without the hassle and costs of external printing services.

Fast printing speeds of up to 12ppm in black-and-white and up to 10ppm in colour, automatic two-sided printing1, networking2 and photo printing via memory card slots3 are additional features of the ultra-quiet HP Color LaserJet 2605 Printer series. With its convenient, space-saving design, the printer easily fits on a desktop and into small work areas.

Amr Hassan, General Manager, Imaging and Printing Group, HP Middle-East said: "With the Color LaserJet 2605 printer series, we wanted to bring the quality of professional print houses, and fit them on desks of executives working in small and medium businesses thus offering them fast access to quality and cost effective printing in the convenience of their offices."

Highlights/Specifications

  • Fast printing speeds of up to 12ppm in black-and-white and up to 10ppm colour
  • Automatic two-sided printing1
  • Reliably share the printer on a network2
  • Photo printing via memory card slots3
  • HP Imageret 2400 and HP ColorSphere Toner provide professional, high-quality colour documents and images
  • Convenient, space-saving design for small work areas
  • 250-sheet universal paper tray, optional second tray4
  • Handles complex print jobs with a 300MHz and 64MB base memory
  • Intuitive front LCD panel display alerts user to the status of supplies
  • Supports HP PCL6 and HP Postscript Level 3 Emulation
  • Proven HP LaserJet reliability and a 35,000 page per month duty cycle

-Ends-

About HP
HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure, global services, business and home computing, and imaging and printing. For the four fiscal quarters ended April 30, 2006, HP revenue totaled $88.9 billion. More information about HP (NYSE, Nasdaq: HPQ) is available at www.hp.com.

About HP Middle East
HP is the largest technology and solutions provider in the Middle East with 670 employees and subsidiaries in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Jeddah, Khobar, Cairo,  Ramallah and Oman servicing the GCC, Egypt and the Levant. HP has been present in the Middle East since 1968 and opened its first regional office in 1994. HP Middle East is the market leader for enterprise, small and medium business and consumer technology products and offers a large portfolio of solutions and services in various business domains

More information about HP in the Middle East is available at www.hp.com/me

1 Automatic two-sided printing is available only on the HP Color LaserJet 2605dn and HP Color LaserJet 2605dtn.

2 Network sharing is available only on the HP Color LaserJet 2605dn and HP Color LaserJet 2605dtn.

3 Memory card slots are available only on the HP Color LaserJet 2605dtn.

4 The HP Color LaserJet 2605dtn comes with two 250-sheet paper trays; the HP Color LaserJet 2605 and 2605dn each come with one 250-sheet tray.

© Press Release 2006