HP LaserJet Pro MFP M225dn: wired monochrome jobs and color scans review

A monochrome MFP with a simple wired arrangement

The HP LaserJet Pro MFP M225dn makes black-and-white prints and copies, scans in color and includes analog fax. HP's exact US product page identifies CF484A#BGJ and marks it discontinued. This review concerns its documented 110–127-volt, 50/60-Hz configuration. The separate 220–240-volt version is different hardware, not another voltage setting on the same printer.

The dn configuration uses USB 2.0 or built-in 10/100 Ethernet. Its original model column has a two-line LCD panel and no wireless network connection. This is a useful distinction from the touchscreen M225dw. A shared family page can describe functions that the LCD model does not include, so the suffix should be checked alongside the product number.

HP specifies up to 26 Letter pages per minute, separately 25 A4, and recommends 500–2,000 printed pages monthly. The exact store and support pages disagree on the maximum duty cycle, listing 30,000 and 15,000 respectively. This review leaves that maximum unresolved while retaining the separately agreed recommended workload. The figures are maker specifications, not measured review results.

Automatic print duplex and 260 normal input sheets

The standard main tray holds 250 ordinary sheets. The priority tray holds a genuine ten-sheet stack, rather than being only a single-sheet handfeed slot. Together they provide 260 included normal print sheets. The 35-page document feeder feeds originals into the scanner and does not add to that paper total.

The original size matrix explicitly checks Letter, Legal and A4 in both print feeds and the automatic duplex column. With a compatible computer driver and approved stock, those sizes can print on both sides automatically. Set the actual size, media type and required binding before sending the job.

Media-type restrictions matter as much as size. The original duplex table approves ordinary Plain paper and its listed lighter and midweight categories, but it excludes heavier categories, labels, transparencies and envelopes from automatic duplex. A general input allowance reaching 163 g/m² is therefore not permission to duplex every sheet of that weight.

For the documented priority-tray envelope routine, load face up with the top edge toward the right of the tray and the postage end entering last. That orientation differs from other HP models. Select the correct envelope size and type; do not use an ordinary-sheet or automatic-duplex assumption for it.

Color scan capture with a one-sided feeder

The original exact model column positively confirms color scanning, a flatbed for Letter or A4, and a document feeder reaching Legal. The exact scanner specification gives a 35-sheet ADF and says no duplex ADF scanning. It therefore does not qualify for automatic two-sided or single-pass original scanning.

A general two-sided copy section in the shared guide does not override that explicit scanner limit. Automatic duplex printing can make a two-sided output from appropriate scanned pages; it does not prove that the feeder automatically captures both sides of an original. Legal originals have a confirmed feeder route, without becoming a Legal-flatbed claim.

HP Scan can initiate a scan from a compatible connected computer and save it as a file. Install and verify the actual scanning software for the intended operating system, using the documented USB or network arrangement. An ordinary print driver alone does not establish that the computer can receive scans.

The LCD model does not inherit touchscreen scan destinations

The original model table marks front-panel Scan to Email, Scan to Network Folder and Scan to USB only for touchscreen models. Those native services are not assigned to M225dn. Its computer scanning routine remains useful, but the office must supply and run the compatible computer software instead of expecting a neighboring model's front-panel delivery menu.

AirPrint and Mopria network printing are documented for the exact model. A mobile device can reach the Ethernet-connected printer through the appropriate shared local network. That does not add a wireless printer radio. The original guide also says AirPrint does not support USB here and warns that HP-driver duplex options might not appear through AirPrint, so the mobile routine is kept separate.

Fax needs suitable telephone service connected to its fax port. HP describes an analog device and recommends a dedicated analog line. Configure the intended line arrangement and run the fax test. Ethernet or USB does not itself supply telephone fax service.

Supplies and unresolved physical measurements

The exact US replacement supplies are 83A CF283A, nominally around 1,500 pages, or higher-capacity 83X CF283X around 2,200. Those replacement figures do not establish how much toner remains in an installed cartridge. This review does not turn a yield test performed on another printer into a test of this M225dn.

Hardware PIN-held print release was not established. General secure-authentication advertising or an administration password is not sufficient evidence to promise that function. It remains unknown for matching a selected PIN requirement.

Width is approximately 17.42 inches and height 14.6. Depth and weight conflict between original and current specifications and remain unconfirmed, so check the actual unit and paper supports. M225dn fits an earlier wired monochrome workflow when its compatible computer scanning, simplex originals and separate fax setup meet the actual document jobs.