HP LaserJet Pro M404n

Regular Printers / Regular Black and White Laser Printers

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How did it perform in our owner surveys and expert lab testing?

Overall Score

The Overall Score for this model incorporates our expert lab test results, as well as ratings for that brand’s reliability and owner satisfaction from our annual product owner survey of members.

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What goes into the Overall Score?

OWNER SURVEYS

Text quality

/ 5

Text speed

/ 5

Graphics quality

/ 5

Photo quality

/ 5

Maintenance ink use

/ 5

Versatility

/ 5

Ease of use

/ 5

Convenience

/ 5

Power saving

/ 5

Color

/ 5

Ink cost/year ($)

/ 5

Cost of ownership ($)

/ 5

About

The HP LaserJet Pro M404n is part of the Printers test program at Consumer Reports. In our lab tests, Regular Printers models like the LaserJet Pro M404n are rated on multiple criteria, such as those listed below.

Text quality: How crisply and clearly a printer produced black text in a variety of fonts, sizes, and styles. Models with higher scores produce more uniform type, with deep black printing, sharp edges and smooth curves.

Text speed: How quickly the model can print black text on five pages of plain, letter-sized paper. The best printers take less than 16 seconds while the worst take more than 31.

Graphics quality: The appearance of color graphics produced by the printer. The best quality graphics is perfectly sharp, has accurate colors, and is free of defects like banding or rough edges. Black-and-white lasers were judged on black-and-white graphics and the accuracy of various shades of gray.

Features & Specs

Features

Auto-duplex printing

Refillable ink tank system

Can print if color empty

Not applicable

Individual color cartridges

N/A

Swap black for photo ink

N/A

Water-resistant photos

Auto-duplexing

Borderless photos

N/A

Individual color tanks

LCD viewer

Memory-card reader

Specs

Product type

Small, mid-weight, regular black and white laser printer

Standard sheet capacity

250

Height (in.)

8.5

Width (in.)

14.5

Depth (in.)

Maximum paper size

8.5x14

Maximum paper basis-weight

200

Text cost (cents)

3.2

Graphics cost (cents)

6.7

Printing method

laser

Type of ink

Number of colors

List of inks/toners

8x10 photo cost ($)

Platform

Windows, macOS

Text speed (ppm)

23.1

Ink cost/month ($)

4x6 photo cost ($)

Number of cartridges

Prices of inks/toners

Time to replace first cartridge

2-year ownership cost ($)

5-year ownership cost ($)

Connections

Connectivity

USB, Ethernet, Apple Airprint

WiFi Direct

Networking

E, A

PictBridge

WiFi Auto-connect

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