HP Color LaserJet Pro M254nw

Personal Color Laser Printers

mpress with colour and increase efficiency. Achieve fast print speeds, including the fastest in-class First Page Out Time (FPOT).^1,2 Count on intuitive security solutions, produce extraordinary colour prints, and get easy mobile printing.³

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.

Features

Increase efficiency with fast colour printing

Get the fastest in-class two-sided printing speed and First Page Out Time (FPOT).^1,2

Help save energy with HP Auto-On/Auto-Off Technology.⁴ Safeguard data, devices, and documents.⁵

Stay productive and change paper less often with a 250-sheet capacity paper tray.

Get quick and easy printing directly at the control panel.

Automatically print two-sided documents. Speed through presentations and other business materials while saving paper.

More. Pages, Performance, and Protection.

Count on high-quality colour and more pages with Original HP Toner cartridges with JetIntelligence.⁶

Get the Original HP quality you paid for with anti-fraud technology.

Spend less time replacing toner, with optional high-yield cartridges.

Speed through print jobs right out of the box, using preinstalled Original HP Toner cartridges.

Easy mobile printing and scanning – HP Smart app

Print and scan from your smartphone, and easily order toner, with the HP Smart app.⁷

Have confidence in your connection with steady performance from dual band Wi-Fi®.⁸

Connect your smartphone or tablet directly to your printer – and easily print without accessing a network.⁹

Simply tap the print button on your smartphone or tablet to print.³

Specifications

Print speed black:

Normal: Up to 21 ppm 
(Measured using ISO/IEC 24734, excludes first set of test documents. For more information see http://www.hp.com/go/printerclaims. Exact speed varies depending on the system configuration, software application, driver, and document complexity.)

Print speed color:

Normal:Up to 21 ppm 
(Measured using ISO/IEC 24734, excludes first set of test documents. For more information see http://www.hp.com/go/printerclaims. Exact speed varies depending on the system configuration, software application, driver, and document complexity.)

First page out (ready)

Black: As fast as 10.70 sec
Color: As fast as 12.10 sec 
(Measured using ISO/IEC 17629. For more information see http://www.hp.com/go/printerclaims. Exact speed varies depending on the system configuration, software application, driver, and document complexity.)

Print quality black (best)

• Up to 600 x 600 dpi

Print quality color (best)

• Up to 600 x 600 dpi

Print Resolution Technologies

ImageRET 3600

Duty cycle (monthly, A4)

Up to 40,000 pages

Recommended monthly page volume

150 to 2,500

Print technology

• Laser

Processor speed

800 MHz

Print languages

HP PCL 6, HP PCL 5c, HP postscript level 3 emulation, PCLm, PDF, URF

Display

• 2-line graphical LCD display

Replacement cartridges

CF500A HP 202A Black LaserJet Toner Cartridge (1,400 pages)
CF501A HP 202A Cyan LaserJet Toner Cartridge (1,300 pages)
CF502A HP 202A Yellow LaserJet Toner Cartridge (1,300 pages)
CF503A HP 202A Magenta LaserJet Toner Cartridge (1,300 pages)
CF500X HP 202X Black LaserJet Toner Cartridge (3,200 pages)
CF501X HP 202X Cyan LaserJet Toner Cartridge (2,500 pages)
CF502X HP 202X Yellow LaserJet Toner Cartridge (2,500 pages)
CF503X HP 202X Magenta LaserJet Toner Cartridge (2,500 pages)
CF540A HP 203A Black LaserJet Toner Cartridge (1,400 pages)
CF541A HP 203A Cyan LaserJet Toner Cartridge (1,300 pages)
CF542A HP 203A Yellow LaserJet Toner Cartridge (1,300 pages)
CF543A HP 203A Magenta LaserJet Toner Cartridge (1,300 pages)
CF540X HP 203X Black LaserJet Toner Cartridge (3,200 pages)
CF541X HP 203X Cyan LaserJet Toner Cartridge (2,500 pages)
CF542X HP 203X Yellow LaserJet Toner Cartridge (2,500 pages)
CF543X HP 203X Magenta LaserJet Toner Cartridge (2,500 pages)
(Replacement 202A and 203A cartridge average composite (C/Y/M) declared yield 1,300 pages and average black yield 1,400 pages; Replacement 202X and 203X cartridge average composite (C/Y/M) declared yield 2,500 pages and average black yield 3,200 pages based on ISO/IEC 19798 and continuous printing. Actual yields vary considerably based on images printed and other factors. For details see http://www.hp.com/go/learnaboutsupplies)
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.
http://www.hp.com/go/learnaboutsupplies

Connectivity

Mobile printing capability

HP ePrint
Apple AirPrintâ„¢
Mopriaâ„¢-certified
Wireless Direct Printing

Wireless capability

• Built-in 802.11 b/g/n
•  Authentication via WEP, WPA/WPA2, or 802.11x
•  Encryption via AES or TKIP
• WPS
• Wi-Fi Direct

Connectivity, standard

• Hi-Speed USB 2.0 port
• Built-in Fast Ethernet 10/100 Base-TX network port
• 802.11 b/g/n wireless

Minimum system requirements

• Windows® 10, 8.1, 8, 7: 32/64-bit, 2 GB available hard disk space, CD-ROM/DVD drive or Internet connection, USB port, Internet Explorer. Windows Vista®: (32-bit only), 2 GB available hard disk space, CD-ROM/DVD drive or Internet connection, USB port, Internet Explorer 8. Windows® XP SP3 or higher (32-bit only): any Intel® Pentium® II, Celeron® or 233 MHz compatible processor, 850 MB available hard disk space, CD-ROM/DVD drive or Internet connection, USB port, Internet Explorer 8. Windows Server support is provided via the command line installer and supports Win Server 2008 R2 and higher.
  
  

• Apple® OS X Sierra(v10.12), El Capitan (v10.11), Yosemite (v10.10)
• 1.5 GB available hard disk space
• Internet required
• USB

Compatible operating systems

Windows® 10, 8.1, 8, 7: 32/64-bit, 2 GB available hard disk space, CD-ROM/DVD drive or Internet connection, USB port, Internet Explorer. Windows Vista®: (32-bit only), 2 GB available hard disk space, CD-ROM/DVD drive or Internet connection, USB port, Internet Explorer 8. Windows® XP SP3 or higher (32-bit only): any Intel® Pentium® II, Celeron® or 233 MHz compatible processor, 850 MB available hard disk space, CD-ROM/DVD drive or Internet connection, USB port, Internet Explorer 8. Windows Server support is provided via the command line installer and supports Win Server 2008 R2 and higher. Apple® OS X: Sierra(v10.12), El Capitan (v10.11), Yosemite (v10.10)
1.5 GB available hard disk space, Internet required, USB. Linux (For more information, see http://www.hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html). Unix (For more information, see http://www.hp.com/go/unixmodelscripts)
(Not supporting Windows® XP (64-bit) and Windows Vista® (64-bit); Not all "Compatible Operating Systems" are supported with INBOX software; Full solution software available only for Windows 7 and newer; Legacy Windows Operation Systems (XP, Vista, and equivalent servers) get print drivers only; Windows Server OS install driver only; Windows RT OS for Tablets (32/64-bit) uses a simplified HP print driver built into the RT OS; Linux systems use in-OS HPLIP software)

Paper handling

Paper handling input, standard

• 250-sheet input tray

Paper handling output, standard

• 100-sheet output bin

Maximum output capacity (sheets)

Up to 100 sheets (10 mm stack height)

Duplex printing

• No

Media sizes supported

• Executive (184 x 267 mm)
• Oficio (216 x 330 mm)
• 102 x 152 mm
• 127 x 203 mm
• A4 (210 x 299 mm)
• A5 (148 x 210 mm)
• A6 (105 x 148 mm)
• B5(JIS) (182 x 257 mm)
• B6(JIS) (128 x 182 mm)
• 100 x 150 mm
• Oficio (216 x 340 mm)
• 16K (195 x 270 mm)
• 16K (184 x 260 mm)
• 16K (197 x 273 mm)
• Postcard(JIS) (100 x 147 mm)
• Double Postcard(JIS) (147 x 200 mm)
• Envelope 10 (105 x 241 mm)
• Envelope Monarch (98 x 191 mm)
• Envelope B5 (176 x 250 mm)
• Envelope C5 (162 x 229 mm)
• Envelope DL (110 x 220 mm)
• A5-R (210 x 148 mm)

Media sizes, custom

76 x 127 to 216 x 356 mm

Media types

Paper (bond, brochure, coloured, glossy, heavy, letterhead, light, photo, plain, preprinted, prepunched, recycled, rough), transparencies, labels, envelopes, cardstock

Supported media weight

60 to 163 g/m² (Uncoated/Matte, recommended), however up to 175 g/m² Postcards and 200 g/m² HP Matte is allowed in the driver; 60 to 163 g/m² (Coated/Glossy, recommended) , however up to 175 g/m² Postcards and 220 g/m² HP Glossy is allowed in the driver.