subject: Hp Laserjet M1120 Very Low Cost Multifunction Printer [print this page] HPs M series was designed as their absolute cheapest line of multifunctional devices; sacrificing expandability options and excessive luxury features, the M series stood out as the MFP of choice for individual users and small offices that required basic functionality, with good print speed and quality, but none of the bells and whistles. The HP LaserJet M1120 allows users to not only print, but copy and scan as well thanks to a built in, flatbed scanning plate.
Operating with an incredibly fast 7 second first page out time thanks to HPs Instant On fuser technology, the HP LaserJet M1120 is absolutely ideal for light duty users who frequently print or copy single pages at a time. Its print speed of up to 19 pages per minute should also keep small businesses workloads running smoothly.
While copy speed is not as fast as print speed, up to 14 copies per minute is still admirable, considering the scope of the device, and LED based Instant On Copy technology ensures that start up time will be non existent. Black and white, or color, scanning is possible as well via the devices legal sized document glass, at a rate of up to 12 pages per minute. Users can preconfigure scan destinations or even scan directly to e mail.
The HP LaserJet M1120s compact design is part of what makes it so appealing to smaller organizations due to the unobtrusiveness of the unit. While the printer is certainly a bare bones device, it is not without a few helpful features such as I.R.I.S. Readiris PRO text recognition software that can convert hard copy documents into editable, digital documents, as opposed to simply an image file.
Though the HP LaserJet M1120 has limited on board memory, it efficiently uses host based printing, allowing the print driver to process print jobs on the connected, host PC, which is a great way for HP to cut costs on on board processing power, as well as memory, and pass the savings on to the buyer.
To make things easy on the user, HP has incorporated an intuitive, two line, backlit, high resolution LCD panel display for navigation of menus and options, and to help utilize the device as a stand alone copy machine. Also helping to keep operation of the machine at a novice level is HPs easy to use all in one print cartridge which eliminates the separate drum and toner units and incorporates them into a single device for easy toner refills.
Additionally, each toner cartridge incorporates HP Smart Printing technology which uses the semi new HP patented spherical toner for sharper imagery, as well as clean, professional looking text thanks to automatic print quality adjustments that do not reduce overall print speed.
In the interest of further reducing costs, the HP LaserJet M1120 comes equipped with an optional economy mode that reduces the use of toner by adjusting darkness, and quality, which further cements the HP LaserJet M1120 as one of the most cost effective MFPs on the market.
