The Economical HP LaserJet 1020 Printer Will Surprise The Office With Performance

The economical HP LaserJet 1020 printer using LaserJet 1020 bulk toner, looks to be designed by the company to be applicable to the needs of most home office users who have a once in a while print job but nothing too out of the ordinary. It delivers good quality text printing and its overall cost per page is nice and low, owing in part to its retail price. It’s one of a number of 1000-series printers offered by Hewlett-Packard.

In particular, this laser jet printer offers its services in monochrome and at a fairly decent print speed of 14 pages in a minute. This is about par for the course for a unit at this price point and in this particular market segment. Keep in mind that the 1020 looks to be mainly for use as a personal printer and not an office-typewriter and there should be little to fuss about over print speed.

The 1020 can be hooked up easily to a PC via its attached USB connection port, which is the only method available to hook up the machine to a computer, as a matter of fact. It’s not Mac-compatible, as well, so remember that if finding a low-priced black-and-white laser jet printer for one of Apple’s computers is the aim. There are other HP printers in the lineup that are suitable for that particular role.

When it comes to the print quality that the 1020 is capable of producing, it’s more than acceptable at 600 dpi resolution. It also will emerge from the printer and fairly rapid order, with the first printed page coming out in about 10 seconds after the print job has been sent from the computer to the printer. HP includes one of its image enhancement technology suites to keep print product looking good.

Onboard memory included with the HP 1020 is only 2 MB of RAM but that’s all that’s needed because the computer is meant to handle most of the processing duties it sends to the printer. Additionally, a 234 MHz microprocessor has been fitted to the printer to keep the flow of jobs from the computer to the printer to output well regulated and smoothly flowing. That 10 second order-to-print capability is evidence of that.

The 1020 can also handle a variety of media type materials when it comes to printing out product. This includes envelopes, labels, plain paper and transparencies as well as business cards. There is a 150 sheet maximum capacity and it has a 5000 pages per month maximum duty cycle. For a small personal printer, this is actually a very good number and will mean that any maintenance to be done will be few and far between.

The 1020 uses a single black HP LaserJet replacement toner, and it can make good use of a variety of different Windows-based operating systems. This includes Windows ME as well as windows XP and XP Professional. Additionally, Hewlett-Packard Supplies the 1020 with a one-year warranty that can be stretched out past the time for payment of a small fee. It looks to be a durable little printer in the Hewlett-Packard lineup.

Prices for the HP LaserJet 1020 printer run about $150. For that price, one can be assured of capability and durability from a printer that will handle most tasks with relative ease. Look carefully on the Internet, though, because some retail shops are asking as much as $375. Given all of the competent functionality embedded within the 1000-series printers, $150 seems a small price to pay. Printer toner cartridges can be found on any website that sells HP ink and toner.  Just make sure that your purchase the proper HP LaserJet 1020 printer toner cartridges.