HP LaserJet 1020

If you’re looking for an inexpensive monochrome laser printer for personal use you can’t get much better than the HP LaserJet 1020. For the price of $180 dollars you get a compact printer that produces very respectable results for your light printing needs.

The printer measures in at a mere 14.6 inched wide, 9.5 inches deep and 8.2 inches tall. It weighs 11 pounds. Once you open the front panel, you’ll reveal a 150-sheet input tray and a single-sheet manual input tray which both have adjustable paper guides. There is an output tray on the top of the printer which includes a fold-out paper support.

The HP LaserJet 1020 is perfectly suited for a single user, home environment as it only has a USB connection and a 234MHz processor. There is just 2MB of on board memory, which isn’t a phenomenal amount but it’ll do the job in hand and do it well.

The 1020’s size is down to the fact that it’s a mono printer. This basically means there is only one toner cartridge. Pop open the printer’s top panel and you’ll find it. In a test by cnet.com, the 1020 printed text at a rate of 12.52 ppm (pages per minute) and graphics at a rate of 12.61 ppm.

The quality of text and graphics with the HP LaserJet 1020 is perfect for everyday home users and will not disappoint.

Read more on the HP LaserJet 1020 at cnet.com

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