HP Color LaserJet CP1215 Printer test
The number of|The amount of|The range of} colour laser printers below 150 continues
to grow and HP's Colour LaserJet CP1215 is an extremely small entry in to the marketplace. It is not significantly larger than a mono laser, yet has the ability to print in complete colour at rates of speed comparable inkjet models would likely continue to be hard pressed to match.
It's a well put together modest printer, cased in light grey and white, with a straightforward control panel comprising two substantial buttons, meant for paper feed and also job cancel, as well as a variety of indicator lights, which includes four for toner level. Paper feeds by a 150-sheet tray in the base of the machine to an indent in its top cover and there aren't any opportunities to include additional trays to improve the capacity and flexibility of paper handling.
There is no wireless option for this machine, however there's a single USB slot at the back for data transfer.
The colour laser engine is a nice, streamlined model. Fold down the front panel and then slip out the tray to get into the four
HP Color LaserJet CP1215 cartridges, that each include both drum as well as toner. The starter cartridges supplied with the printer possess capacities of 750 pages each, therefore you will have to obtain supplies promptly in case you're use is anything at all besides light printing.
Software installation went smoothly, with drivers for those versions of Windows immediately after 2000 available on the CD along with linux drivers available for download. There are not any OSX drivers provided for this device, either on the software CD or alternatively on the support site, and that is unusual, because almost all other HP machines offer support.
HP boasts print speeds of 16ppm black and 12ppm colour for the Colour LaserJet CP1215, but as usual they are a little ambitious. We scored 6.12ppm for our five-page black text print, but this increased to 9.45ppm on the 20-page test document. The five-page black text and colour graphics print managed 4.76ppm, consequently in the two cases we had substantially less than the stated rates of speed.
The caliber of print for this HP model is okay for the purpose of basic office duties, with clear, razor-sharp, black text, right down to small-scale point sizes. There's no indication of toner spatter while emboldened text in titles come through looking as neat as body copy.
Colour images tend to be vivid to the point of over-saturation as well as having a bit of a gloss to them, which some folk aren't keen on. More problematic is that a handful of shades emerge over-dark, thus black text on top is difficult to read; a shame since registration of black over colour is usually precise.
Last but not least, the test picture print was not especially good. Despite the fact that there exists minimal sign of banding and colour gradation is reasonably smooth, the primary colours are once more overly vibrant and darker shades tend to be overly keen to veer to black. The four drum and toner cartridges are the sole consumables for this device.
As we have observed more and more equivalently priced inkjet printers and all-in-ones tend to be coming through with cheaper print prices compared to a lot of lasers, therefore if print economy is particularly important to you, you should look at the new business inkjet models available from HP along with other producers.
There are some good advantages of the Colour LaserJet CP1215, like its compact size, ease of maintenance and excellent text print quality. But, it is also quite slow, delivers over-saturated colours and has no Mac support. Then there's no multi-purpose feed slot. Not one of HP's best designs.
HP toner cartridges are available here.
HP Color LaserJet CP1215 Printer test
By: Quentin Stuart
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