HP Color LaserJet CM1312 Review
Colour laser printers continue to become even more unobtrusive and multifunction printers founded on colour laser components are also reducing in size
. This streamlined new multifunction by HP is only slightly bigger than a normal single-function laser from 2007, and it is directed at the SOHO market, or possibly maybe a family system.
Appearing like a compact set of steps, the Color LaserJet CM1312 is decked in cream in addition to something getting close to black and the straight forward, curved lines seem oddly stylish.
Working from the top downward, under the cream cover is a simple, A4 flatbed scanning device while the control panel is supported with a two-line by 16-character LCD screen. Even though this doesn't have a backlight, it is actually tilted forwards and contrast is good enough for being read in typical overhead light.
Controls are fairly normal on a laser-based multifunction machine, however the large, elevated button that cycles right and left through menu selections whenever you give a push to either end of it, comes with an OK button arranged within it, making it hard to make use of.
Unusually, the scanner part of the equipment fails to hinge upward, there is however adequate room in between it and the printer part for you to save any paper that may become jammed. The printer area has a quite rounded front, which in turn is a hinged cover providing straightforward access to the cartridges. Beneath this is the barely adequate, 150-sheet paper tray.
Just above the tray is a hinged cover which you open to be able to reach jammed paper.
Whenever you fold down the printer's front cover there is an inset handle, that brings out a tray holding four near-identical drum and
toner cartridges, helping to make this an exceptionally simple colour laser to keep up.
The solitary software CD comprises custom-made HP software meant for scanning, copying plus printing, and also a copy of ReadIris OCR software.
HP reckons the machine will print 12ppm in black and white in addition to 8ppm in colour, which would be decent however, as usual, we could not achieve those rates of speed. Our five-page, black text test piece needed 48 seconds in order to complete, offering a real-world, mono print speed of 6.25ppm.
The five-page, colour text and graphics document needed 63 seconds, or an equivalent of 4.76ppm, therefore the two outcomes are little above half the rated numbers.
A 15 x 10cm photograph required 32 seconds to be able to print and a solitary page copy required 38 seconds, and that is reasonable given that this specific unit doesn't have Auto Document Feeder (ADF).
The photo print ended up being somewhat over-coloured as well as a little garish. Whilst detail levels are fine, and there is no apparent banding, some shadow depth is lost and the colour field appears diminished.
The colour brightness that overawed our photograph print is actually well suited for business graphics and the colours in our text and graphics page seem vivid and confident.
Black text, printed at the machine's standard 600dpi resolution, is sharp and clear, providing a really smooth and professional look to text documents.
The sole operating costs with this unit are the combined drum and toner cartridges, that are rated at 2,200 pages with respect to black and white in addition to 1,400 pages for each one of the colours.
The simple style and simple setup as well as maintenance of the Color LaserJet CM1312 help make it quite capitivating, yet truth be told there certainly are a couple of unusual design decisions that could let it down. A paper tray supporting just 150 sheets on a machine made for office utilization is a strange limitation although some people are likely to be able to settle for the relatively slow speed. If you're able to tolerate these limitations, however, it will make a good choice.
HP Color LaserJet CM1312
toner cartridges are to be found here.
HP Color LaserJet CM1312 Review
By: Theodore Beach
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