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HP Business Inkjet 1200dtn

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The HP 1200dtn beats the beige box blues with its airy whites and attractive curves.
HP’s latest Business Inkjet 1200 comes in a number of configurations to suit various small office needs. The 1200dtn has M an additional 250 sheet paper tray, ■ increasing its capacity from 150 to 400  sheets. There’s also a duplex printing unit, W Ethernet networking support along with USB and Parallel.
The 1200dtn is fairly easy to operate via its simplified control panel with basic buttons for cancelling jobs, feeding paper and printing a network configuration page. More advanced settings can be made with the HP Toolbox application, and a Web server lets you determine ink levels, see how many pages have been printed and estimate the number of prints possible with
the remaining ink. The automatic paper sensor helps to eliminate incorrect settings, and the auto-duplex unit means you can print out double-sided booklets without standing next to the printer and reinserting each page.
The printer has four separate ink cartridges (cyan, magenta, yellow and black) and print heads which aren’t integrated into the ink cartridge units. This saves you from wasting ink if one colour runs out first, or throwing away a print head when you replace an ink cartridge. Print heads cost $58.95 each and yield 12,000 black and 24,000 colour pages, according to HP. Ink cartridges, which are intended to last 1,750 pages at 5% coverage, cost $56.95 each. Overall, the print engine has a 6,250-page duty cycle per month — quite respectable at this price.
While our test results didn’t exactly match HP’s quoted performance, the 1200dtn managed to print a 10-page colour and text PDF in three minutes and 36 seconds. Monochrome text documents printed at 12ppm in Draft mode and seven in Normal mode. Colour reproduction on plain and coated paper reveals smooth graduations and fine edging thanks to the 4,800 x 1,200 resolution. Black text sharpness in 1,200 x 1,200dpi mode is only slightly inferior to laser. The only letdown is the lack of a manual feed tray.
Ultimately, the 1200dtn is a well designed, easy to manage small workgroup printer. A one-year return-to-base warranty with 24-hour technical support applies.

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