HP LaserJet 1320

There's a reason Hewlett-Packard dominates the market for business-class laser printers. The company knows what business users want: solid performance, no-fuss design, good manageability, and solid tech support. The HP LaserJet 1320, a compact home and office monochrome printer, may not be the cheapest small-office laser available, but it delivers on the essentials and then some. It prints sharp, clean black letters and good graphics that suit professional manuscripts.

Quality of HP LaserJet Printer(Model HP LaserJet 1320)

Text became faint and spidery at 2.5- and 3-point font sizes, yet the letters didn't glob together. The text looked excellent at normal, readable sizes. At the default setting of 600x600dpi, our grayscale-graphics test document produced impressively smooth, evenly stepped shading from dark to light. The graphical and photo elements of our test document were short of perfect--a little grainy and lacking in detail. They noticed extraneous white dots on the border between a dark gray object and its black background, but when they bumped the quality setting up to ProRes 1200 (with a high 180 lines per inch), the finer halftone dots greatly improved the detail and clarity of photos and graphics.
SpeedThe HP LaserJet 1320 performed well in CNET Labs' tests, averaging 17.4 pages per minute (ppm) for text and 13ppm for graphics. While it didn't rip ahead of every laser machine, the 1320 ranked among the top small laser printers in its class, such as the Brother HL-5140, which printed text at 15.97ppm and graphics at 16.46ppm. They found no glitches with the reliable and quiet performance of the HP LaserJet 1320.