About the HP Color LaserJet 3600n

Design with a price of £ 480, the new HP Color LaserJet 3600n is small, weighs 27 kg and depth has handles, so that a person can easily carry it. 15.7 15.7 17.7 Inch (HWD) that laser printer can easily fit into a busy home office or individual Office in a large company, should require capacity this level of speed and paper. Its simplistic design makes easy jam clearing and maintenance. However, the wall and hinges seem also robust. It can be set up in the standard manner to his class of printers and network installation routine is fully automated.

Paper handling the HP Color LaserJet 3600n offers speed performance, white with a motor with 17 pages per minute (ppm) for both the color, good picture quality, still rated better text and photographs, are good enough for client newsletter and how. HP has included an Ethernet connection for easy sharing over a network.

However, the main paper tray feels a little unsure, and it took him nothing if pulled out, to stop so that users in one drop gently should be. The paper length and width guides are easy to customize. The printer has a 100 - sheet - auxiliary feed in addition to the included 250-sheet tray. Can this number to 850 boost by a 500-sheet drawer for £ 280.

Features A two-line backlit LCD display on the 3600n's top panel shows a complete set of menus that is easy to navigate through with buttons for menu, select items and go back.

This printer comes with 64 MB of memory and unfortunately you can extend that you add a duplex unit, allowing extensibility options that very limited. If you need additional storage, you should then HP's 3600dn, a £ 670-a duplex unit and twice the memory model.

Performance the 3600n prints on a reasonable 13 ppm black text and color of graphics a bit faster at 13.5 ppm. In contrast, the Lexmark C522n prints text at 14.2 ppm and graphics at 12.3 ppm. However, if save is your real priority and print much color, if Ricoh Aficio G700 that ppm print fine text at 12.1 but missed the cut on graphics speed and quality.

The 3600n disappointed the user with the print quality. In a few tests of popular technology magazines, the text, which saw greyish instead of black, showed some roughness in larger point sizes and lost fine strokes. This is the case with some of the 4-point output looked slightly grey instead of black. Color graphics not negotiate ramps smoothly shading and produces blockish transitions. The printer but makes the cut color accuracy and detail. In addition, it prints greyscale photos very well with fine details and subtle shading.

Graphics are just good enough for internal business purposes, but not satisfactory for delivery for important customers or clients. The most important issue in a series of tests was misregistration with the colors slightly out of alignment. It was a significant gap between some blocks of colours to some lines and some color white text on a background color. Also tend to be thin lines disappear. It also tends to colors in direction to darker colors, details in darker areas lose and make some colors look the muddy to relocate.

Overall the 3600n's has text output high enough quality for most purposes. If you have an unusual need for small font sizes, it is unlikely that you print any text, the 3600n can not process. Lexmark's similar C522 sells for around £ 100 less and offer speed and better quality although Lexmark's cost per page is slightly higher than HPS and sum up the difference in time can.