HP M855x+ User Manual

Product guide

Outstanding color, great value

HP Color LaserJet Enterprise M855 series

September 2013

Product guide | HP Color LaserJet Enterprise M855 series

Simplify 11 x 17/A3 color printing without stressing the budget

Product walk around

Top features at a glance

Give workgroups the speed they need

Easily expand, manage and safeguard

Mobile printing options boost efficiency

Conserve resources without sacrificing performance

Technical specifications

Ordering information

Table of contents

Product guide | HP Color LaserJet Enterprise M855 series

Simplify 11 x 17/A3 color printing without stressing the budget

Awarded Buyers Laboratory LLC’s 2013 Color Printer/MFP Line of the Year

Bring innovation to your office with the HP Color LaserJet Enterprise M855 series. Equip all departments to streamline color printing tasks without breaking the budget. Give everyone in your organization the power to produce color documents smoothly and quickly. Mobile printing is simple with HP wireless

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direct printing and touch-to-print technology.

Who can benefit?

This 11 x 17/A3 color printer is designed for businesses that want to boost productivity for every workgroup with fast, professional-quality color printing and easy mobile printing options. This device will be right at home in your office with a user-friendly color touchscreen, up to 4,100-sheet input capacity,3 and new finishing options including a stacker/stapler or booklet maker with hole punch. Easily upgrade this enterprise printer as your organization’s needs change.

Product guide | HP Color LaserJet Enterprise M855 series

Series at a glance

Part number

A2W78A

A2W79A

D7P73A

3,500-sheet letter/A4 HCI

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1 Intuitive 4.3 in (10.9 cm) color

HP Color LaserJet Enterprise M855x+ shown

Product walk around

Side I/O panel close-up

Front view

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touchscreen control panel

2 500-page output bin 3 Front door provides convenient access to

HP toner cartridges and drums

4 Built-in automatic two-sided printing 5 500-sheet input tray supports media up

to 11 x 17/A3

6 3,500-sheet high-capacity input tray

supports letter/A4 media

7 Easy-access USB port to print files directly 8 Hardware integration pocket (HIP) for

solution integration

9 Right-side doors provide access for

clearing jams

10 100-sheet multipurpose tray handles

media up to 58 lb bond (220 g/m

11 Access port for optional Kensington-style

lock

12 800 MHz processor, 1 GB standard

memory

13 High-Speed USB 2.0 port (for connecting

third-party devices)

14 HP High-Performance Secure Hard Disk 15 HP Jetdirect Gigabit Ethernet print server 16 Hi-Speed USB 2.0 printing port 17 Two internal host USB 2.0 type ports for

third-party solutions

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Model

On paper calibration technology

100-sheet multipurpose tray 1

500-sheet 11 x 17/A3 tray 2

3 x 500-sheet 11 x 17/A3 feeder

Booklet maker with hole punch

Two-bin stapler/stacker

Touch-to-print and wireless direct mobile printing

HP High-Performance Secure Hard Disk

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M855dn M855xh M855x+ M855x+ NFC/Wireless direct

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Product guide | HP Color LaserJet Enterprise M855 series

Top features at a glance

This color printer gives your entire organization access to fast, simplified color printing with professional finishing options. Protect your investment—you can easily upgrade and add to this device’s capabilities as your business needs evolve.

Give workgroups the speed they need

• Make everyday printing tasks more efficient. Equip employees to launch jobs easily and

accurately from the large 4.3-inch (10.9 cm) touchscreen.

• Give employees the tools to organize documents faster and more conveniently: Staple, stack,

fold, and punch holes with the printer’s optional finishing options.6

• Experience color printing that’s vibrant, consistent, and affordable. Produce attractive,

professional quality reports and brochures every time.

• HP’s on paper calibration technology helps provide even, consistent color—from page to page,

and on every printer.

Easily expand, manage, and safeguard

• Work with the future in mind. HP FutureSmart firmware lets you upgrade your printers and MFPs

on your schedule, whenever solutions advance.

• Be ready for the new—now. This printer is designed to be compatible with emerging solutions, so

you can upgrade and increase capabilities as needed.

• Manage your entire printing environment from a single location—with HP Web Jetadmin.

build business efficiency and take the pain out of distance.

• Add security without adding employees. Apply fleet-wide policies to protect all your HP devices

with the HP Imaging and Printing Security Center.

• Your printers harbor sensitive information—make sure it’s not at risk. HP High-Performance

Secure Hard Disks help safeguard sensitive data to keep you worry free.5

Help

Mobile printing options boost efficiency

• Enable more convenient and secure mobile printing. Employees can send documents by simply

touching their smartphone, tablet, or laptop to the printer—with no need to access the corporate network.

• Let employees print from a smartphone, tablet, or Internet-connected PC from virtually

anywhere,9 and give them the power to print wirelessly from an iPad®, iPhone®, or iPod touch®.

• Easily share on the network with embedded wired networking capabilities.

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Conserve resources without sacrificing performance

• Get up to 50% paper savings with built-in automatic two-sided printing.

• HP Auto-On/Auto-Off Technology turns the printer on when you need it and off when you

• Help conserve resources with a high-performing, energy-efficient HP Color LaserJet printer that’s

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ENERGY STAR® certified12 and Blue Angel compliant.

Product guide | HP Color LaserJet Enterprise M855 series

Give workgroups the speed they need

Help boost productivity for every workgroup with fast color printing. Even the biggest jobs print easily and fast, thanks to an intuitive touchscreen, large input capacity, and versatile paperhandling options. Produce color documents that impress with this printer’s exceptional print quality.

Simplify tasks with the right touch

Enjoy the convenience of an easy-to-use 4.3-inch (10.9 cm) color LCD touchscreen control panel for a trouble-free user experience.

The control panel offers:

• Adjustable tilt angle of the touchscreen to provide convenient accessibility to all users.

• Simple-to-use buttons and scroll bar that allow you to navigate system defaults and

customize settings for a particular job.

• Home button on upper left corner of the touchscreen quickly returns the touchscreen to the

Home menu.

• Sign in and Sign out button to access previously configured secured features. Sign out lets you

quickly sign out and restore all options to the default settings.

• Easy-to-use Sleep, Network, Help, and Refresh buttons for efficient use of your time.

Easy-access USB

The easy-access USB near the control panel lets you quickly complete your print job from a flash drive. A variety of files are supported, including PDF, PostScript (PS), and print ready files (.prn, .pcl, .cht).

Don’t wait, just print

Save time and keep your business moving with blazing-fast black and color print speeds up to 45 pages per minute letter (46 ppm A4)13 and first page out speeds as fast as 11 seconds from ready (letter/A4). printer is built to stand up to the demands of today’s fast paced business environment and keep intervention rates low.

The HP Color LaserJet Enterprise M855 series features Instant-on Technology, enabling print jobs to begin quickly from sleep mode. when a printer is coming out of low power mode, so your print job is done sooner. In addition to helping you conserve energy and help reduce your environmental impact, these extra seconds can deliver significant real-world performance advantages over time, helping users get more done.

With a recommended monthly page volume of 4,000 up to 25,000 pages,15 this

Cutting-edge fuser technology produces the first page faster

Product guide | HP Color LaserJet Enterprise M855 series

The two stacker finishing accessories that can save you time

Expand your options

With a maximum input capacity of up to 4,100 sheets,3 this printer can help meet the needs of your high-volume imaging and printing environment and handles large jobs efficiently. With the option to load a high volume of tabloid/A3 paper, you have the media support you need without having to reload paper as frequently.

• Choose the M855dn model for flexible desktop color printing, with a 600-sheet input capacity.

Add the 3x500-sheet feeder with a rolling stand for greater input capacity and flexible placement.

• The M855xh model adds three 500-sheet trays for a total of 2,100 sheets, and the M855x+

models include a 3,500-sheet high capacity input, bringing total input to 4,100 sheets. The M855xh and x+ models also include a rolling stand that enables flexible placement.

• Expand your media options. Print on a broad range of media types and sizes, including

12 x 18 in, tabloid, letter, legal, executive, postcards, SRA3, A3, A4, and more.

• The device supports a variety of media weights, from 16 lb bond (60 g/m

bond (220 g/m2).

• Built-in automatic two-sided printing helps reduce the cost of wasted paper with less effort, and

virtually doubles the printer’s input capacity.

Add finishing touches faster

) all the way up to 58 lb

-bin, 3,000-sheet stapler/

is one of two optional

The printer comes standard with a 500-sheet top output bin. Give your employees the tools to organize documents faster and more conveniently while increasing your maximum output capacity with one of these optional 3,000-sheet finishing accessories:

• The stapler/stacker sorts, staples, and stacks your projects.

• The booklet maker with hole punch will print, fold, and staple your project, as well as add a

2 or 3 hole punch.

For more information, see “Ordering information” on page 17.

Conveniently and easily order supplies over the Internet

Enabled by HP Smart printing technology, HP SureSupply

helps you track and manage supplies usage, and provides alerts through HP device management tools when supplies should be replaced. With just a few clicks, access cartridge information, pricing, and purchasing options that best meet your needs—either from the reseller of your choice or directly from HP.

Show your company’s true colors

This is color printing like it should be: vibrant, consistent, and affordable. Give your enterprise the ability to produce attractive, professional quality reports and brochures, time after time. Stand out with brilliant color documents and marketing collateral on a variety of media sizes, up to 12 x 18/SRA3. HP print technology makes it easy.

Produce exceptional results with HP Image REt

With HP ImageREt 4800, the HP Color LaserJet Enterprise M855 series delivers brilliant results. The system’s foundation is comprised of key color laser technologies, including HP ColorSphere toner, image enhancements, HP Smart printing technology, and high-resolution imaging.

Designed together with Original HP print cartridges and HP papers, HP ImageREt produces exceptional output for your printed documents.

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