The LaserJet 1200 also handles paper much differently than did its predecessor. While this design puts everything at your fingertips and keeps the cables neatly in check, we found the process unnecessarily complicated.
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But when you do need to get into the guts of the machine, to connect an interface cable or to upgrade the RAM, for instance, you must first open the front toner panel and then pop off the left side panel.
On the good side, the toner cartridge slides out for easy removal when you open the front panel-no more digging into the printer's interior. With a boxy yet curvy new design that drew admiring comments from CNET editors, the LaserJet 1200 looks completely different from the LaserJet 1100xi. HP plans to offer a 3,500-page cartridge for $64 starting in July 2001. A 2,500-page replacement toner cartridge costs $62.50, which works out to about 2.5 cents per page-about the norm for personal laser printers. The LaserJet 1200 did a fine job on the line drawings, gradients, and tricky grayscale photographic elements in our test document. On graphics tests, the LaserJet 1200 is only the second monochrome laser printer that CNET has tested to receive a score of excellent (the other printer is the HP LaserJet 2100TN). At three- and five-point font sizes, letters had a slightly moth-eaten quality, but this is unlikely to be an issue for everyday usage, and increasing the resolution to 1,200dpi solved the problem. Text samples we printed looked excellent at 600dpi, with crisp, solid black lines on both serif and sans-serif fonts. Output quality was even better than output speed. The LaserJet 1200 slowed down to about 8.3ppm when printing mixed text and graphics, but it was still among the fastest we've tested. While this speed is only about two-thirds of HP's maximum claim of 15ppm, it's nevertheless the fastest of any personal laser CNET's tested to date. It clocked 10.5 text pages per minute (ppm) at 600 dots per inch (dpi). The LaserJet 1200 bested its predecessor on all of CNET Labs' tests. This device, which sits on top of the output tray, adds important office functions to the machine, so you won't have to buy separate machines. Offices seeking a multifunction's versatility might also appreciate the LaserJet 1200's copier/scanner attachment option ($149).
The printer's driver includes some unusual features, such as the ZoomSmart function, which works just like the zoom on a copier, and the question-mark icon, which explains when certain driver settings are unavailable (for example, no N-up printing is available when the zoom is set for 400 percent).
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The LaserJet 1200's bundled software includes scanning and copying programs, as well as ReadIris Professional OCR, for turning scanned documents into editable text files. The LaserJet 1200 fixes all the things we disliked about the 1100xi and delivers better print quality at faster speeds-all for the same low price. Improving on a good thing can be difficult, but in this case, HP succeeds admirably. Hewlett-Packard's LaserJet 1200 is poised to replace the HP LaserJet 1100xi, a low-cost laser we've known and loved for its excellent print quality and its versatile copy/scan attachment.
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