subject: HP LaserJet M1522n MFP printer Review [print this page] The HP LaserJet M1522n MFP is a nice, desktop, mono laser device, intended for the small or home office. Including providing full- colour scanning, it features HP's instant-on printing, meaning there isn't any warming up time period before printing commences.
In several ways it is a conventionally designed multifunction machine having an A4 flatbed scanner defining its width. There's a simple 50-sheet Automatic Document Feeder (ADF) on top, having a quite thin feed tray. Elevate the ADF to reveal a complete A4 flatbed plus front of this there exists a straightforward control panel.
As well as a keypad on the left for putting in how many copies, you will find control keys to the right of the two-line by 16-character Liquid crystal display that provide easy modification of lightness as well as darkness, quantity of copies as well as print quality. You can also expand and also reduce copies from the flatbed.
The laser printer section of the device includes a protruding paper tray that may take as many as 250 sheets and includes a somewhat cumbersome multipurpose feed on its top cover.
At the rear are sockets for USB 2. as well as Ethernet; this device may support a network in addition to being linked locally to an individual PC. Right after lifting the scanner area up, the HP LaserJet M1522m MFP toner cartridge slots down from the top to the rear of the machine.
The provided HP software covers printing, scanning as well as copying then there's another copy of Readiris OCR in both Windows as well as Mac versions. The setup utility supplies a total installation or express versions for just USB or simply network functionality.
Instant-on printing makes a stunning impact on the print and copy speed, printing begins nearly as soon as the 'Printing' message presents itself upon its control panel display and the very first page is finished inside of 15 seconds.
Mostly because of the fast start-up, the print speeds we saw were breathtaking for a unit priced at little beyond 200. Our own five- page text print finished in 22 seconds additionally, the five-page text and graphics test required one second less, giving print rates of speed of 13.6ppm and 14.29ppm, respectively. In certain ways, a lot more extraordinary were the 15 x 10cm picture prints, which completed in 11 seconds, and also the photocopies, from glass and ADF, which required 10 seconds and 14 seconds. These are among the better copy times we have seen.
The caliber of the prints was usually excellent by way of good, precise black text as well as dense black shades to lines and also fills. Coloured tints behind black text were also reproduced relatively well, with no symptoms of banding.
There's a weak spot in the LaserJet overall performance, though, and that's photocopy quality. Photocopy text is good, yet regions of fill, particularly copied from print as opposed to the continuous tone of a photo, are very poor. The textures break up and come through much lighter or much darker compared to the originals. It is actually progressively better if you choose text, mixed or photo modes, working with the quality button on the control panel, however it's still by no means that decent.
HP follows an unfortunate pattern, though, through delivering a 'starter' toner cartridge, which prints only 1,000 pages.
It is actually tough to figure out how to summarize the LaserJet M1522n MFP. We started off by truly being impressed with the printer's ease-of-use and striking printing rates of speed, but were brought back to earth through its dodgy copy quality. The majority of people investing in a multifunction printer intend to make use of it at least partially as a photocopier. As long as you're only photocopying text, this should probably be alright, however copying graphics is actually something of a letdown.
