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The Business Ink Jet Printer Guide: Vendor & Product Profiles
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sells for $299, while the Deskjet 9800d sells for $399.
They can print on pages up to 13" x 19". However, they
print slowly and hold little paper. The 9800d comes with
automatic duplexing standard.
Pros: PCL, poster printing.
Cons: Meager paper handling (150 sheets input, 50 out-
put), slow speed.
Hewlett-Packard Deskjet 6940
Hewlett-Packard Deskjet 6940dt
Up to 6ppm full color (600dpi, normal mode)
Up to 10ppm black & white (600dpi, normal mode)
Sum-up: Good paper input and decent speed for a low price.
The Deskjet 6940 is priced at $130, while the Deskjet
6940dt comes in at $180. These new models (upgrades of
the discontinued Deskjet 6840 and 6840dt models) have
some good features for the price: up to 400 sheets of
input (standard on the dt model), duplex (also standard
on the dt model) and standar
d Ethernet. This family’s
claim to fame is its standard built-in support for the wire-
less protocol IEEE 802.11g. That’s a faster version of the
now-common IEEE 802.11b pr
otocol. Of course, you’ll
be limited to IEEE 802.11b speeds unless you have a
sending device that offers the newer protocol. Also, the
printer design is ele
gant and compact.
Pros: Ethernet and IEEE 802.11g standard, automatic
duplexing optional, decent 400-sheet capacity.
Cons: 50 sheets of output capacity.
Hewlett-P
ackar
d Deskjet 6540
Hewlett-Packard Deskjet 6540dt
Up to 6ppm full color (600dpi, normal mode)
Up to 10ppm black & white (600dpi, normal mode)
Sum-up: Inexpensive models with pretty good features.
T
hese models, the $130 Deskjet 6540 and the $180
Deskjet 6540dt,
are similar to other HP models at this
level. They have decent enough features and can be
shared among a few users.
Pr
os:
PCL 3 standar
d,
Ether
net and 802.11b optional,
automa
tic duple
xing (standar
d on the dt model), and a
decent 400-sheet capacity (also standard on the dt
model).
Cons: Slow at normal speeds, only 50 sheets of output
capacity.
H
ewlett-Packard Business Inkjet 1200d
Hewlett-Packard Business Inkjet 1200dn
Hewlett-Packard Business Inkjet 1200dtn
Hewlett-Packard Business Inkjet 1200dtwn
Up to 8ppm full color (600dpi, normal mode)
Up to 9ppm black & white (600dpi, normal mode)
Sum-up: Inexpensive machines with some interesting fea-
tures.
This family is priced from $200 to $350. A full range of
networking is available, and auto-duplexing is standard
for all models.
Pros: External Ethernet server option (standard on
three models), wireless connectivity, automatic duplex
standard, 400-sheet capacity.
Cons: No PostScript.
Hewlett-Packard Business Inkjet 2300
Hewlett-Packard Business Inkjet 2300n
Hewlett-P
ackard Business Inkjet 2300dtn
Up to 8ppm full color (600dpi, normal mode)
Up to 9ppm black & white (600dpi, normal mode)
Sum-up: These models have good paper capacity and a strong
duty cycle.
Priced from $499 to $899, these are capable models with
(for ink jets) decent paper capacity and speed along with
good features. But they are not inexpensive.
Pr
os:
Ether
net (optional on Business Inkjet 2300), ade
-
quate memory (up to 320MB), good maximum paper
capacity (900 sheets), duplexing, PCL, and PostScript.
Cons: Pur
chase prices comparable to color laser
printers.
Hewlett-Packard Officejet Pro K550
Hewlett-Packard Officejet Pro K550dtn
He
wlett-P
ac
kar
d Of
ficejet Pro K550dtwn
Up to 10ppm full color (“laser quality” mode)
Up to 15ppm black & white (“laser quality” mode)
Sum-up:
A r
e
v
olution in of
fice printing.
The Officejet Pro K550 family is a winner. It combines
real-life speed with features good enough to surpass those
of many of the bargain color laser printers in this guide,
and a
t mar
kedly lower prices. Even better, it has consum-
a
bles costs that are remarkably low for an entry-level
of
fice printer. Frankly, it makes almost all of HP’s busi-
ness ink jet line that we have documented above irrele-
vant.
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