What To Know About The HP Color LaserJet CM1312 MFP Printer

What to know about the HP Color LaserJet CM1312 Mfp printer comes down to understanding that one will be getting what is known as "all-in-one" or multifunction printer capable of also scanning and copying. Additionally, Hewlett-Packard has delivered his printer at an attractive price point that makes a competitive with many other higher-end printers. Its print quality is excellent and it is also fairly speedy, which is something unusual with multi-functions at this price point.

This excellent print quality comes, though, at somewhat of a trade-off, which is something that most multifunction printers ask a user to accept. To get good print quality, one will have to be comfortable with a print speed rate of about 12 pages per minute for black and white and eight pages for color. It's no speed demon but most users looking for multifunction printers probably wouldn't care.

Print resolution as far as the copier is concerned is handled at about 600 dpi. Anything that emerges from 1312 will come out looking sharp, crisp, clean and clear. As a copier, the machine can enlarge any copy up to four times its size or reduce it down to one quarter of its size with no trouble at all.

From the time the print job is sent to the 1312 until the time the first copy emerges is about 25 seconds for a black-and-white about 31 seconds for a color copy. This isn't exactly quick, but it's print quality will be uniformly excellent, which is probably what Hewlett-Packard intended for it to do by slowing down its production until the machine could produce something excellent across-the-board.

Keep in mind that the 1312 is a multifunction printer that can also scan and copy. This means that Hewlett-Packard has had to design certain compromises into the model, though it really does do all three of its functions quite nicely. When one considers that it is reasonably priced, one will be happy to accept a scanner that can handle 1200 dots per inch resolution, which is actually above the standard of most other machines in this price point.

Onboard memory within the 1312 is 120 MB of RAM, and there's no way to upgrade that. This isn't a problem, though, because just about every multifunction printer sold by Hewlett-Packard or other manufacturers comes in right at about the same memory capacity. It's also easy enough to hook this printer up to a PC or Mac through its included high-speed USB port.

Durability with the 1312 is excellent, and it has a monthly maximum duty cycle of around 30,000 impressions. This means that the 1312 will be able to copy or print up to 30,000 sheets of paper before it will need any sort of maintenance. Additionally, it can hold about 150 sheets of paper within its tray and will be able to print out on the wide variety of stock such as transparencies and envelopes. It runs off of a number of different Windows or Mac operating systems as well.

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