New Laser jet from HP – the P2014 September 05, 2007 09:25 by John Sollars
HP Laserjet P2014 Mono Printer
Just launched by HP the Laserjet P2014 is aimed squarely at the Small Office/Home Offcie environment.
There's little software other than the driver and this is fairly basic. There's no duplex facility on the machine, so the main software options are multi-page prints, watermarks - though no overprints - and resolution selection. The three print quality options are 600dpi, FastRes 1200 (emulated 1200 dpi) and ProRes 1200, progressively better and better. Selections are obvious and the layout of the driver is conventional and easy to work your way around.
HP claims the LaserJet P2014 can print up to 23 pages per minute and our five-page text document completed in 18 seconds, which equates to 17ppm. Considering this includes processing and rasterising time, which most printer manufacturers don't include in their print speed figures, 17ppm is pretty good. There's very little warm-up time to this printer, which starts printing quickly, even when it's been asleep for a while. This is an important feature, because a personal laser printer is unlikely to be printing anywhere near continuously. Typical use will probably see only a few documents printed each day, within long periods of sleep. This means most print jobs will include any start-up time and without the need to warm-up a fuser, the printer will be quicker overall than those that have to wait.
So, does the printer reduce its start-up time by keep it's fuser hot all the time, in which case it will be using lots of power, even when asleep? It draws just 7W in sleep mode, about half the consumption of an energy-saving lamp, so it'll use a unit in just under six days.
Print speeds for our text and graphics and the photo page files are both good, with 18 seconds for the former and a fairly blistering eight seconds for the photo print - 7.5ppm. Even when we switched to the higher resolution ProRes mode, it only took 11 seconds.
Using HP's Q7553 cartrdiges, the Q7553A version gives about 3,000 Pages and the Q7553X version up to 7,000 which gives a price per page of about £0.12. Stinkyink are offering a remanufactured cartridge(STQ7553X), which they claim gives an output equivalent to the manufacturers and works out at about £0.006 per page.
1 Response to “New Laser jet from HP – the P2014”
September 12, 2011 21:42
Another fantastic post! Definitely can’t wait for more!