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Chapter 4
Peripherals and Accessories
4-268 HP e3000 Business Servers Configuration Guide – Effective 7/03
Information Subject to Change
Subchapter 4.10—Printers
Description
Three categories of printers are supported directly connected to HP e3000 Series 900 systems.
• Character printers tend to be less expensive yet versatile in capabilities, including the handling of multi-part
forms.
• Line printers offer much of the same versatility and provide the lowest cost of operation and a highly
reliable technology for larger volumes of printing. Some impact printers are as quiet as the HP LaserJet 4Si
printer is, so they are suited to operate in office environments.
• Laser printers are quieter in the office environment and offer crisp, letter-quality output in a range of print
speeds. High-speed page printers are most efficient for centralized production jobs, such as billing,
invoicing, or mass customer communications.
Table 4.10.1 summaries various printers supported on the HP e3000 Series systems
Table 4.10.1 Types of Printers Available for e3000 900 Series Systems
Printer Type Print Speed Noise Level (dBA) Print Quality
Dot-Matrix Impact Serial 40–480 characters per second 56–63 Near letter quality
Line Impact 300–1600 lines per minute 48–64 Near letter quality
Laser 8–210 pages per month 50 Letter quality
HP LineJet Printer
(formerly the LP Series Printer family)
The HP LineJet Printers (line impact printers) combine versatility at reasonable cost with good print speed.
Versatility can include graphics image and bar code printing and the ability to trade speed for better print
quality. Good print speed means that a line impact printer can be used as the only printer on a system with
modest-to-average printing requirements.
The HP LineJet printers combine print speed, flexibility, lowest print cost for volume range and great
reliability even for heavy duty cycles and burst throughputs (unattended operation). Flexibility includes
resolution form sparse to NLQ, raster and industrial graphics as well as electronic forms creation ability
(requires the HP QMS or PGL graphics upgrade kit), multiple-part forms (up to 6 parts), noise ranges starting
from 50 dBA, barcodes, postnet, and many font sizes and languages.
There are HP LineJet printers for office and for harsh environments. LineJet printers provide a wide range of
connectivity from serial, parallel, and LAN interface via the LineJet Printer Manager or HP JetDirect EX.
LineJet printers are ideal for data processing centers, accounting, checks, invoices, reports, distribution,
circulation or where bar codes and automated identification process is needed.
With full-featured SAP R/3 system device types now available, the HP LineJet printers integrate directly with
SAP applications. Reports, forms and bar code labels can be created in SAP R/3’s applications and be printed
on the LineJet printers without the need for additional printing middleware.
Targeted at the enterprise computing marketing, HP’s LineJet printers provide high speed, reliable printing,
especially for large, business critical print environments. The HP LineJet printers are for any application
where good print quality and very low printing cost is required.
4.10.2 HP LineJet Printer Family
Printer Model Product Number Performance (lpm) Monthly Duty Cycle Rating Quietized Available Field Upgrades
500P C3201D* 500 130,000 pages No QMS Graphics, PGL Graphics
500Q C3202D* 500 130,000 pages Yes QMS Graphics, PGL Graphics
1000Q C3204D* 1000 205,000 pages Yes QMS Graphics, PGL Graphics
1500Q C3205D* 1500 375,000 pages Yes QMS Graphics, PGL Graphics
1500Q w/power stacker C5640D* 1500 375,000 pages Yes QMS Graphics, PGL Graphics
* Discontinued product, listed for reference purpose only.