HP Laserjet 1000 series printer and Windows 7

[Compman55]

Yes HP is fine, just avoid lexmark. Also avoid ANY inkjet that uses an ink tank with a seperate print head. Unless of course the print heads are dirt cheap......

On the older HP's and many of the other inkjets, the ink tank and head is in all one disposable cartridge. This is a very good thing.......

Yes lasers are FAR faster than an inkjet. Inkjet will wash off the page if it gets wet, laser toner will not.

 

[strep3241]

How would one know if it uses a separate print head?

I have been looking at inkjets at Office depot and noticed something. The one I was looking at has a print speed of 32ppm black. It also says that it is comparable to a laser printer speed of 10ppm. Why is inkjets speed different than laser's?

This is the one I was looking at. They had it for $100 on sale. They also sold a kit which includes the usb cable, paper and a 2 year warranty through Office Depot for $30. I don't think I need the cable because I have a cable that looks just like the one needed.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-763-_-Product

 

[Lemon law]

Because a laser uses a drum to computer paint the image on a drum in a single step, and the inkjet somewhat uses a spay paint strategy to spay ink of various colors in a large series of successive passes.

And in terms of ink jet speed rating, they are for very sloppy draft printing only, in actual use, its a question of how many minutes does it take an inkjet to print a page. And true photo printing is far far slower.

In contrast, a B/W laser will bang them out in high quality mode far far far faster than an inkjet. And the brother laser I have is not even noted for its exception speed. But my wife sometimes needs large numbers of certain forms, and then I can bang out 50 on my laser before an inkjet could print 3.

 

[strep3241]

Just an update, I went with the HP laserjet M1212nf. So far we are pretty happy with it. I only have one complaint so far, the screen on the printer is not backlight. Where he has it sitting, it is kind of dark so it is hard to see what the screen says. Why wouldn't they make the screen backlight? It couldn't cost that much more to add that. Is it because of the energy saving crap?

 

[Compman55]

Just an update, I went with the HP laserjet M1212nf. So far we are pretty happy with it. I only have one complaint so far, the screen on the printer is not backlight. Where he has it sitting, it is kind of dark so it is hard to see what the screen says. Why wouldn't they make the screen backlight? It couldn't cost that much more to add that. Is it because of the energy saving crap?

I am glad you posted back with what you bought. HP and many other printer companies have gone from once making a very high quality printer, to making a very cheap outsourced printer, and making their profits on consumables. The average customer has lost faith in the cartridge remanufacturing market thus enabling OEMS to profit greatly on consumables.

You backlight problem is simple, they felt the average customer would not need it. It is a cost cutting measure.