• The HP 8550 printer is an office printer. The printer is ideal for either a small business or a small department within a larger department, according to Cnet.com. It does not have a modem, scanner or copier but it can handle several print jobs simultaneously. It has separate paper output and input trays and features network printing.
  
  

Basics

• The HP 8550 is a color laser printer and has white a plastic cover. It is 26 inches wide, 28 inches deep and 42 inches in height. It weighs 222.7 pounds and prints a 600 by 600 dots per inch maximum resolution in color and black and white.
  
  

Internal Workings and Memory

• The HP 8550 has a QED RM5271 200 MHz processor and 32 megabytes of RAM, which is expandable to 512MB.
  
  

Print Capacity

• The HP 8550 prints on plain, glossy, label and transparent papers in the following sizes: 8.5 by 11 inches, 11.7 by 16.5 inches, 9.83 by 13.9 inches, 6.93 by 9.83 inches, 7.25 by 10.5 inches, 8.5 x 14 inches. It prints envelopes in the following sizes: 4.13 by 9.5, 4.33 by 8.66 inches, 6.38 by 9, 3.87 by 7.5 inches. The copier holds up to 600 sheets of paper, and its ink cartridge prints up to 170,000 pages. It can print up to 24 pages a minute in black and white and six pages a minute in color.
  
  

Operating system

• The HP 8550 has to connect to computers that are running either Microsoft Windows XP or Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, IBM OS/2, Apple Mac 7.1 or later operating systems.