HP LaserJet 1300 Laser Printer
The HP Laserjet 1300 is the replacement model for the incredibly successful Laserjet 1200 and the pedigree is obvious as the HP Laserjet 1300 looks almost identical to it's predecessor. Not all of the of the good breeding has been passed through, however, as the HP Laserjet 1300 prints grey scale images poorly - the HP 1300 Laserjet was clearly not designed to print graphics.
HP Laserjet 1300 laser printer
Almost identical to it's predecessor the Laserjet 1200
The HP Laserjet 1300 is the fastest laser printer in it's class, nearly obtaining the manufacturers claim of a very respectable 20 pages per minute and the first page to be printed in about 9 seconds. If you are printing graphics with the HP Laserjet 1300 you will need to double the output times.
THP Laserjet 1300 for the SOHO Market
It has been estimated in a study by one of the leading laser printer manufacturers that the consumable cost (the cost per page of running your laser printer) is 85% less with a laser printer than it is with an inkjet. Which means even in the small home or office environment you will very quickly be saving your self-money in the long run by making the extra investment in a laser printer from the start and it is in the small home or office environment that the HP Laserjet 1300 thrives.
The HP 1300 Laserjet comes standard with a decent 16 MB of memory and as your printing needs grow can be expanded up to 80 MB. The standard input tray on the HP Laserjet 1300 holds 260 sheets of paper but can be expanded via an optional tray on the bottom to 510 sheets.
The HP Laserjet 1300 is also capable of being placed on a network via an expansion slot for an Ethernet print server. The $200 more expensive model Laserjet 1300n comes with an HP Jetdirect 200m LIO internal print server so you can add it to your small office network out of the box.
Specifications for the HP Laserjet 1300:
- Print Speed: up to 20 ppm
- 16 MB Memory(expandable to 80MB)
- Total Input Media Capacity 260 sheets (expandable to 510)
- 1200 dpi x 1200 dpi for monochrome documents
- Average Duty Cycle: 10,000 prints/month
HP Laserjet 1300 Well Featured
The HP Laserjet 1300 has some new features from the earlier model and these include a very handy EconoMode, which uses less tone, when you want a hard copy of those long draughts while still maintaining some degree of text legibility. Similarly the HP Laserjet 1300 default is a print resolution is 600 x 600 dots per inch (dpi) but this can easily be increased to 1200x1200 dpi for that high quality work.
The HP Laserjet 1300 also has a handy manual duplex feature, duplex is the short way of saying printing on both sides and allows you to print multiple pages on a single sheet a useful feature in publishing.
The HP Laserjet 1300 is available with drivers for Linnux and all you Mac users out there and drivers for Mac OS and Linnux are available from HP.
The HP Laserjet 1300? Poor Print Quality?
What the HP Laserjet 1300 has to compete with the most in our office is our beloved HP Laserjet 1200, we at loved this printer. Despite the battering it has taken over the years, staples, coffee and even surviving being pulled off the desk when I got my foot caught in the power cable it has performed tirelessly.
I think the problem with the Laserjet 1300 is that HP have sacrificed quality for speed and when you compare sheet for sheet alongside the Laserjet 1300's competitors this difference is marked, particularly so when printing graphics.
Our Conclusion on the HP Laserjet 1200
In our opinion the HP Laserjet 1300 is only superior to it's predecessor in terms of its network support ability and being able to upgrade. So if you never envisage demanding long print runs or wanting to be able to network your printer we would still recommend the HP Laserjet 1200 as you can now buy one very, very cheaply.