The Highly Capable HP LaserJet 1018 Printer

The highly capable HP LaserJet 1018 printer is emblematic of the Hewlett-Packard desire to deliver good quality monochrome laser printers for the small office or home office, and in this model it's clear that HP has largely succeeded. The 1018 does most everything out with ease and it is able to produce particularly nice looking documents with its high-quality printing functionality and capability.

Within the industry, this particular laser jet printer was known for quite some time as being the smallest around. It also listed for around $150 before any discounts were applied, meaning that it also was an exceptional value. Just from looking at the 1018, it's clear that this 11-pound printer was made to sit on a desktop, nestled away in its own corner.

Print speed with the 1018 is acceptable at 12 pages per minute; the 1018 is really not a speed demon in this regard. Perhaps that might be due to the fact that the printer works so hard to deliver excellent quality printing by using its 234 MHz processor to the fullest in order to fulfill that role, which helps to explain its relatively low rate of print speed.

In looking at the 1018 as a whole, after taking it out of the box, it's clear that it will also be fairly easy to get up and running and pretty much no time at all. It's a "plug and play" printer, meaning that it will install its software drivers and owners manual directly after it's been plugged into the computer via means of its USB port. There's no cable, though, so make sure to pick one up.

Generally speaking, it looks like the 1018 has been designed to handle most any sort of text printing job with relative ease. It will put out high-quality print using fonts all the way down to as little as four-point, which is a quite small font indeed. Graphics will be okay, but the printer is intended to be more of a text model than one intended for graphics-rich products.

The 1018 will make good use of just about any Windows-based operating system, including both the 64 bit and 32-bit versions of Vista. Will also be able to hold 150 sheets are more of paper within its auto load tray and another 10 sheets in a special priority slot. It can print on most types and sizes of paper and media stock, including envelopes and labels and also custom-sized paper.

When it comes to print resolution, the 1018 is fine enough at 600 dots per inch but it also can be wrapped up to 1200 dots per inch through use of a special image enhancement tool that Hewlett-Packard has included within the 1018. It'll also take only about 10 seconds for a print task to emerge. Additionally, it's a fairly durable unit, coming with a 3000 page per month duty cycle.

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