All-in-one products have outstripped sales of single-function printers in the ink-jet market place, yet have been slower to show up with laser engines. HP has begun to redress this balance and the LaserJet M1120 MFP, an entry-level, mono laser all-in-one, has been designed for home and also small office use.
For those who are accustomed to utilizing inkjet-based all-in-ones, the LaserJet M1120 MFP is surprisingly tall. The laser engine in the lower part of the appliance takes up considerably more space compared to an ink-jet engine, however the machine looks sturdy with its slate grey columns down both sides.
A 250-sheet paper tray has a 10-sheet multipurpose tray arranged above it. Paper feeds out to a 'balcony' projecting from halfway up the device, giving the whole machine a rather piecemeal appearance.
A significant way higher than the output tray is the flatbed scanner section which hinges up-wards close to 30 degrees, to supply entry to the toner cartridge. It is held by sprung hinges, so stays exactly where it is put, when open.
On top of the machine is a two-line LCD display - without any backlight - as well as a collection of eight buttons that are adequate to control every one of the device's functions. The sole connection behind is a USB 2 socket and there's not any internal alternative for a network interface. Nevertheless, a network edition of the device, can be obtained for approximately £20 more.
HP provides a copy of ReadIRIS OCR software and a utility known as LaserJet Scan, which will simplify scanning to files, e-mail in addition to other applications. The driver itself is pretty sparse, although it does have scaling, watermarks as well as instructions regarding manual duplexing.
The LaserJet M1120 MFP is said to print as much as 19ppm but in our tests finished the five-page text print, and also the text and graphics prints, in 22 seconds, each. One single page, 15 x 10cm picture print finished in 8 seconds, a fantastic end result for a printer in this particular class. Lastly, a solitary page photocopy needed 15 seconds, that's yet again a very reasonable fair time.
Print quality was good, creating sharp characters right down to small point sizes and no sign of stray toner. Greyscale patterns, normally used for recreating coloured tints in originals looks good as well, with very little apparent banding along with a very good variety of dither patterns recreating distinct tones. This is likewise true for printed photos, which looks clear as well as sleek, specially with the device's top resolution, which can be improved to 1200dpi.
Regrettably, the same cannot be stated for copies of greyscales. When using the flatbed scanner to create photocopies works effectively for black text, although not for any kind of greyscale material in which shades of grey come through looking grainy and also uneven. The scanner itself is a colour device, and therefor it can be used to scan photo prints, along with working with the supplied OCR software.
The HP LaserJet M1120MFP toner cartridge is rated at 2,000, five per cent pages.
For anyone who requires the additional features of an all-in-one printer, yet has no desire for colour print, this is an excellent personal device, that's convenient to use and produces high quality black print. It isn't so great on photocopying greyscales, on the other hand, and the 2,000 page capacity of its drum and toner cartridge is not a lot more than from a number of inkjet cartridges. At the price range, various ink-jet all-in-ones offer you equivalent worth as well as put colour in to the value mix and even though cheaper servicing really should be an effective differentiator for lasers, it isn't so apparent here. HP toner cartridges are available here.
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