Getting A Handle On The HP LaserJet 1320n Printer

by erin on January 26, 2010

Getting a handle on the HP LaserJet 1320n printer using HP LaserJet 1320n toner is easy enough once one spends a couple of minutes looking it over and giving it a few test runs. This monochrome printer works best for small businesses and small networked workgroups, and it is a direct improvement on the earlier Hewlett-Packard 1320 printer that it seems to have been manufactured to complement or replace.

Print speed is uniformly excellent across the board with a 1320n, delivering as it does a solid 22 pages per minute in what the company calls “best quality” mode. The general speed can be increased by selecting a couple of different modes, each of which will reduce the visible quality of the print product by a very slight amount, and surely nothing that will immediately stand out as being poor.

The Hewlett-Packard 1320n printer makes use of solid laser technology to power its cartridges (it doesn’t use toner cartridges, but rather the kind of cartridges that look similar to inkjet printer cartridges found in most home printers). In the main, this is a very fine way of getting a large number of print jobs out, each of which will look more than acceptable.

As far as the quality of the product that’s produced by the 1320n, it’s uniformly excellent due to the high dots per inch resolution that the printer is capable of creating. At 1,200 x 1,200 dpi, most print jobs — even those heavy on graphics — will come out looking very sharp and clean. In fact, the printer does exceptionally well at presenting graphics-rich jobs in a relatively short amount of time.

Mostly, this is due to the fact that the printer makes excellent use of its standard onboard memory, which is currently listed at 16 MB. This can be upgraded nicely, though chances are most jobs will not come anywhere close to needing much more memory, nor will networked workgroup that will be delivering print tasks to the 1320n all throughout the day.

Monthly duty cycle is relatively low at 10,000 pages per month, and this is perhaps to accommodate the high print resolutions that the 1320n delivers to each print job. It can be connected to a computer or a network through a variety of means, the most common of which is by making use of its included USB 2.0 input port. It also features a parallel port and a number of different optional connections.

This Hewlett-Packard printer has been designed to work with most Windows-based operating systems, and has been certified to be Vista ready. It also has a standard one-year on-site warranty that can be extended for a nominal fee. It comes with a variety of printer software programs on an included CD-ROM and it can hold 250 sheets in a single tray, with optional trays bringing the amount up to 500 sheets.

In all, after taking some time with the HP LaserJet 1320n printer, it’s easy to see why this particular model has become popular among the small business set. A good refurbished model can be found for somewhere around $250; expect to pay twice that for a new one, though. Given that it’s a very capable Hewlett-Packard, that seems to be a reasonable price to pay.

Those in business will appreciate the fine detail offered by HP LaserJet 1320n toner.  Expecting clean, crisp prints no matter the size of the project is easy with HP toner.  Also appreciated will be the price of replacement toner when ordering from competitive online merchants.

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