HP Laserjet 3000 toner cartridges

Fast, reliable mono printing with great colour from the HP Color Laserjet 3000 printer. Supplies of HP laser toner cartridges at discount prices offered here.

HP LASERJET 3000 REVIEW

Colour laser printing is taking over from its monochrome counterpart in lots of places of work plus although lots of documents may be produced in monochrome only, the opportunity to include colour is more and more essential. This latest, compact workgroup laser printer coming from HP was created to provide the speed required if your printing resource is shared among several individuals.

Encased inside a cream and charcoal grey cover with a slight curve to the front panel to alleviate the 'big cube' appearance, the Colour LaserJet 3000 is actually a big unit, although still lightweight enough for being shifted about by one, muscular individual. Aimed at the workgroup situation, it is a little unusual that the primary paper tray can just carry 250 sheets at any given time, but there's a 100 sheet, multipurpose tray, also, that folds down from the front panel.

The simple front panel utilizes a backlit two-line LCD display screen and also a set of seven buttons for the purpose of control, though almost all comes from the USB 2. connection to a Personal computer. Neither parallel or network connections are supplied with this version of the machine, though both of these can be found as standard, further up the series.

The printing device driver is quite comprehensive. Apart from the driver, HP provides its EasyPrinterCare software.

HP promises 29 pages per minute in mono and 15ppm in colour with the Colour LaserJet 3000. As typical, they're with respect to draft prints and we saw our five-page text print finished in 21 seconds, providing a normal mode mono speed of 14ppm and a colour rate of 3.75ppm. By themselves, these aren't poor rates of speed for a colour laser printer in this group. In real conditions, however, for normal small print runs, you're talking under 10 seconds more quickly than a less costly printer, printing at, say, 20ppm.

The print quality can be a bit variable. Mono text pages, although precisely printed and as a consequence easy to read, come out a darker grey, rather than a true black. In contrast, colour fills, such as graphs and charts, print out darker when compared with their on-screen equivalents by default (though you may fine-tune this). Photograph prints also display a little colour shift, with blues veering a bit towards the purple, and also miss plenty of details inside dark parts.

Yet again it is possible to compensate for these problems, most directly aided by the digital adjustments provided in the driver for contrast and digital flash, yet it would definitely be great to see better reproduction straight away from the box.

HP does not quote the noise level produced by the LaserJet 3000, nevertheless we measured it at 64dBA, that is certainly noisy. While it could possibly go undetected within a rather busy workplace, it could cause it to be difficult to take a telephone call, if it were printing next to your desk.

The HP Colour LaserJet 3000 printer cartridges include photo conductor drums to develop the image in each colour, prior to when the entire image is transferred to the paper using a transfer belt. The black cartridge should print 6,500 pages at five percent, while the colour cartridges are available in standard as well as high-yield variations. The standard yield cartridge generates 3,500 pages while the high-yield one, 6,000 pages, both at five per cent cover per colour.

Even though the Colour LaserJet 3000 uses HP's new Colorsphere toner, we weren't that amazed by the print quality. The printer's speed is impressive, however you are spending quite a bit extra for the elevated throughput. As a workgroup device we'd anticipate a network connection as standard, as well.