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HP PageWide Pro 452dw

Mfg # D3Q16A#B1H CDW # 4081823 | UNSPSC 43212102

Quick tech specs

  • color
  • page wide array
  • 1200 x 1200 dpi
  • capacity: 550 sheets
  • LAN
  • USB 2.0 host
  • Duplex
  • A4/Legal
  • up to 55 ppm (mono) / up to 55 ppm (color)
  • USB 2.0
  • Wi-Fi(n)
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HP PageWide Pro delivers the fastest speeds in its class for up to 40% lower color cost per page than color lasers. Drive productivity with professional-quality color documents plus best-in-class security features and energy efficiency.

Dynamic security enabled printer. Only intended to be used with cartridges using an HP original chip. Cartridges using a non-HP chip may not work, and those that work today may not work in the future.

This item was discontinued on February 03, 2022

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HP PageWide Pro 452dw is rated 3.40 out of 5 by 15.
Rated 5 out of 5 by from This printer was bought to mainly print envelopes. This printer does not print 23 or so envelopes but only about 3. so we are very disappointed.
Date published: 2018-01-10T00:00:00-05:00
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Wow! It's fast, especially dual sided............. PROS: Fast. Quiet. Using it via WiFi on 3 home computers. Bought extra tray too. Initial ink cartridges still 1/2 full after 6 months of use, including lots of full page color photos. CONS: It's BIG and heavy. You'll probably need a separate table for this. Big replacement pagewide ink cartridges cost $130 each (X4) USD. In Windows 10 tool box / set up / options I can't find anything to let me tell it to pull paper from drawer 3, when 2 is empty. I keep both drawers loaded with the same 8 1/2 by 11 white paper and want it to pull automatically from the next drawer when the first is empty. Hopefully it's AUTO. No ethernet connection. Paper drawer 1 folds down like an airline tray table from the left side and sticks way out. Luckily it's used rarely for envelopes etc.
Date published: 2018-11-16T00:00:00-05:00
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Quiet and Quick We purchased this about 3 weeks ago and so far have been happy with the HP PageWide Pro 452 dw printer. We are a small office and have 5 computers hooked up to the network, all using this printer. It is much quicker than our previous printer. Our previous printer was a laser jet so I was a little worried about ink jet printing. But so far the quality has been good. It does a better job using higher quality paper instead of standard copier paper but for the most part, it is sufficient for our purposes. I use higher quality on reports or material being sent out of the office. I would say this is a good printer and have found HP to be a reliable company.
Date published: 2019-01-10T00:00:00-05:00
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Printer stopped working at 2868 pages Printer stopped working at 2868 pages printed with error code 0xc6fd0413. Hp wouldn't fix it 1 month out of warranty .
Date published: 2018-01-15T00:00:00-05:00
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Outstanding printer for designers Color printing in the office has always been a pain. We've been through inkjet printers that clog because they aren't used frequently enough, and three generations of laser printers whose color fidelity leaves a lot to be desired. This is the first color printer I have LOVED. As a long-time plain paper + laser user, committing to proper inkjet papers takes some time to get used to, but I love the result. Highlights: (1) it's blindingly FAST, outpacing the production HP and Xerox printers in the office; (2) color saturation and consistency is superb, especially on "presentation" paper (and definitely on photographic stocks); (3) it's easily networkable either over USB or wirelessly; (4) toner replacement is straightforward and unmessy. Honestly my only disappointment is that there isn't yet a version for tabloid sized paper. Otherwise this is probably my favorite printer ever, and I'd recommend it without reservation.
Date published: 2018-05-28T00:00:00-04:00
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Lightning fast Impressive speed, reliable, good color
Date published: 2017-05-25T00:00:00-04:00
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Streaking Failure The printer was easy to set up but, it was a total disappointment, the colors were “streaking” with all sorts of shades of color. I used several test PDFs that had printed on various other HP Laserjets but, the Pagewide results bore no resemblance.
Date published: 2018-12-28T00:00:00-05:00
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Very pleased Bought this printer to use for printing addresses on mailers for my small business advertising and so far has performed great for that purpose. It handles the heavier paper very well, prints at least twice as fast as the old printer we had and has a pretty good standard paper capacity. I was a little concerned initially because during set-up and test printing it had a lot of fine white lines on the page that wouldn't seem to go away with print head cleaning, etc. However now that I have run 5000+ of the mailers through the machine and printed a few regular pages again the lines appear to be gone although I am still concerned right now that they might come back. Overall though I am very happy with the purchase and anytime I need to print a large amount of pages in a short period of time this printer has proven a huge time saver and a good investment.
Date published: 2019-03-01T00:00:00-05:00
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Amazing technology, with some limitations Before discussing the merits of this specific printer, one must acknowledge that PageWide technology is an amazing achievement in printing. Depositing four colors of ink across the width of the paper at up to 40 ppm (higher for other models) is clearly an astounding technical challenge requiring mind-boggling precision and calibration, something that (to my knowledge) only HP has figured out. We do a lot of printing of graphic designs on card stock, and were looking for a way to get faster output (than a traditional inkjet printer) without moving to color laser, which has a different look and feel than ink. Since I couldn't find any PageWide printers in local stores, I bought the cheapest PageWide I could find on hp.com after getting confirmation that I could return it if I wasn't happy. My main concern was that the PageWide, not having the straight paper path of our current inkjet, would have difficulty handling stiff card stock without jamming. The printer is easy to set up and the ink cartridges are easy to install. After running the very slick web-based automated software installer on my Mac, I was printing within minutes. Well, I was hitting the "print" command within minutes. After many years of using a non-PostScript printer that simply sends the rasterized print image direct from Adobe Illustrator within moments, I was surprised by how long it took for the complex illustrations I create to be sent in PostScript over ethernet, and converted into dots. About three minutes later, my first print emerged. The first print looked worse than I expected, but only because I had not yet found the option in the print driver to set the quality level properly, and it was on "normal" by default. Once I switched from normal to presentation mode, the image got much crisper, though print time certainly didn't improve. In fact, one particularly complex illustration seemed to be too much for the device, and its status screen showed a "processing job"-type message for several hours until I finally just killed the power, at which point the device got "stuck" on a "shutting down"-type message and I had to eventually just pull the plug. Subsequent tests with simpler illustrations worked fine, though it still took 2-3 minutes just to ingest each job before it started printing. I would call the 452dw's color quality adequate, but not bright enough for our purposes. In general, it just wasn't as vivid as the output we get from our existing 5-color inkjet made by a well-known Japanese brand. And now that I'm used to a USB-connected device that prints directly from Illustrator, I'm not sure I'd want to go back to a PostScript-over-ethernet-based driver. (In fact, I noticed some geometric anomalies in the output that were clearly the result of PostScript emulation that wasn't working quite right, another worrying sign.) However, for typical office settings with many users sharing the device on a network, the ethernet (and wireless) connectivity should work well. And the color quality will likely satisfy mainstream office users, particularly those who need to print multiple copies of the same document quickly. The biggest surprise was how well the PageWide handled card stock--no jams at all, despite a paper path that bends the sheet. However, I ultimately returned the printer because the processing time and color quality for complex Illustrator designs was simply not as good as what I'm currently using, even if the actual print speed is slower. If HP ever develops a wider-format PageWide printer aimed at graphic arts users, particularly one with brighter output, a straight-through paper path, and the option to do direct raster printing rather than PostScript, I'd have to consider it. In its current form, PageWide is a solid general-purpose workgroup printer but not one really tuned to demanding graphics output.
Date published: 2017-11-28T00:00:00-05:00
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Think twice about investing in a pagewide printer For the past 20 or so years, we have purchased many HP laser and inkjet printers and they were workhorses. So about 3 ½ years ago, we purchased a Pagewide Pro 452dn printer because we needed a printer with laser printer speed, but with lower ink cost and the 452dn was the perfect solution. We could not have been happier! After about 3 or 4 months, the black ink printing had white vertical stripes. HP sent a tech out and the printer was replaced. After another four or five months, the white stripes were back. HP sent another refurbished replacement. Yeap, you guessed it, another three months and the same problem came back only this time, HP told us we were beyond the original 1 year warranty period, so we were out of luck. We dumped the printer at Goodwill recycle center. Several months went by and someone suggested that maybe the bugs had been ironed out in the new Pagewides, so we purchased an Officejet Pro 476dw. After the 1 year warranty ran out and with only 17k pages printed, this printer has the same problem. We called HP and as suspected, no help. We are on our own. Called local HP repair service and was told repair is over $1000. I guess this one will eventually end up in the Goodwill recycle center along with $400 worth of new HP cartridges we had bought for it. Here is the kicker. The 452dn and 476dw specs claim a monthly duty cycle of 50,000 pages. The three 452dn each had less than 10,000 pages TOTAL when they died, and the 476dw has only 17,000 pages TOTAL. And yes, the printers are used every day, so there is no chance for the ink to dry. In fact, on the 476dw, we ran a small print job with no problems and immediately ran another small print job, and there were the white stripes again. By the way, we have always used HP cartridges, and yes we tried level 1, 2, 3 and advanced cleaning, but to no avail. These are great printers when they work, but pass the year warranty, from our experience, they are throwaways. We could always count on HP products being above the rest, but now I am not so sure.
Date published: 2020-01-29T00:00:00-05:00
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Love this printer! I had the model printer like this one only it was black. I loved that one but after 5 or 6 years it finally gave out. Now I have this one and it prints faster and does what my other one did. I love it! I print a lot so this printer works great for me. I still haven't printed any pictures yet so I am hoping it works good for that too.
Date published: 2020-05-18T00:00:00-04:00
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Exactly What We Wanted! We have had the HP PageWIde Pro 452dw printer for about two weeks now and so far it's been a great addition to our small office! This machine is SO FAST. It's a bit loud, but not something I mind too much since it's not constantly running. If you work in an office that is pumping out print projects all day, I'd recommend keeping the machine in a separate room from where you may be taking phone calls. The Bluetooth printing is an awesome feature when I have a document on my phone that I need printed in a hurry! Setup was quick and painless as well. Color is vibrant and black is true (not gray).
Date published: 2020-06-29T00:00:00-04:00
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Big Disappointment First printer arrived defective and had to send back. The second printer print quality is poor. I have completed all levels of cleaning, alignment, color desenity calibration, ink cartridge replacements with HP ink and the blacks still fade to barely readable throughout the print jobs. I have also ensured that I had the latest updates on the printer as well. It's just progressively getting worse.
Date published: 2019-05-14T00:00:00-04:00
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Love This Printer! My previous printer broke and it worked great. Purchase this brand and model because I was very please with the easy functionality of it.
Date published: 2021-02-12T00:00:00-05:00
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Very reliable ! I've owned for 5 years the multi-function version of this printer and I love it. It's super reliable, ink cost is very low when used with the XL cartridges. Print speed is impressive and the paper drawer fits a full pack of paper. I needed a second printer for my office and I didn't hesitate a minute to buy this one since I didn't need a second multi-function printer.
Date published: 2021-07-30T00:00:00-04:00

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