{"id":247,"date":"2005-08-02T01:37:17","date_gmt":"2005-08-02T08:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2005\/08\/02\/miraculous-new-printer-hp-1020\/"},"modified":"2005-08-02T01:37:22","modified_gmt":"2005-08-02T08:37:22","slug":"miraculous-new-printer-hp-1020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/02\/miraculous-new-printer-hp-1020\/","title":{"rendered":"Miraculous new printer: HP 1020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought an HP Laserjet 1020 a few days ago. It sat outside my room gathering dust for a few days; I was worried. I&#8217;ve had an HP Laserjet 6MP for the last 8 years and it has performed flawlessly. Would this new printer be any good or has HP lost it. &#8220;They don&#8217;t build &#8217;em like they used to.&#8221; This new printer looks like a toy compared to the 6MP. Heck, that&#8217;s the main reason I didn&#8217;t bring it. The 6MP weighs in at roughly 25 lbs; this new printer is barely 5, consuming 1\/2 the desk space. How could it possibly print 3 times as fast at twice the resolution, printing envelopes and full size images with it&#8217;s wimpy 2 MB of RAM?<\/p>\n<p>Well, it does.<\/p>\n<p>The first thing that got my attention was how well planned out the setting up procedure was. From the pretty language-free notes to the amazing ease at which the toner slips into it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Driver software: excellent. It clearly walked me through printing double-sided&#8230; and it didn&#8217;t speak! Those speaking printers still freak me out.<\/li>\n<li>Speed: remarkable. The first text page comes out in 8 seconds, then 6 seconds per page. Full page photos come out just about as fast. <\/li>\n<li>Print quality: excellent. Not as good as a photo, or as a color photo but terribly sharp black and white. Better paper might help this.<\/li>\n<li>Envelopes: Fine. Since it doesn&#8217;t have an alternate paper path port, I worried that my envelopes would be all crinkled. It comes out only a tiny bit crinkled and the paper fully recovers after a few minutes. (better than my 6MP!)<\/li>\n<li>Footprint: tiny! When you&#8217;re not using it, you can fold up the front door and it takes up about 8&#8243;x15&#8243;x8&#8243;. Otherwise, it&#8217;s 15&#8243;x15&#8243;x8&#8243;, smaller than some inkjets.<\/li>\n<li>Aesthetic: Nice. Smooth, slightly curvy lines, respectable two-tone traditional beige and dark beige.<\/li>\n<li>Cost: A bit more than some other printers. I paid $179. Some other stores had a $30 rebate but I was lazy. Some other low-end laser printers are as cheap as $89 but buying the HP name seems to still be worth something. :-)\n<\/li>\n<li>Toner life and replacement cost: I think I remember reading that I&#8217;ll get 2,000 pages out of the $80 print cartridge. Probably more if I refill it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought an HP Laserjet 1020 a few days ago. It sat outside my room gathering dust for a few days; I was worried. I&#8217;ve had an HP Laserjet 6MP for the last 8 years and it has performed flawlessly. Would this new printer be any good or has HP lost it. &#8220;They don&#8217;t build [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}