Sturdy Inkjet Printer (HP InkJet CP 1700 D)

Member Name: Spooked

Product:	HP InkJet CP 1700 D
Date:	20/10/05 (131 review reads)
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Advantages: Good speed and clear prints

Disadvantages: Very bulky - no longer in production

HP no longer manufactures this product but you should be able to pick one up easily enough. My experience of this printer is through work where we have several dotted around in standalone and networked mode. They are quite big and bulky as they are designed to accommodate A3 paper as well as the usual assortment of A4 stationary.

The printer requires 4 ink cartridges, black, cyan, magenta and yellow and also 4 print head cartridges of the same colour which increases the cost of consumables.
The print quality is very good as you would expect from HP and the print speed is up to 16 ppm black and 14 ppm colour. The resolution is 2400 x 1200 dpi and it has a 150 Sheet Input Capacity. On board memory is 16MB and you have a choice of USB and Parallel connection.

The printer comes with a 1 year limited warrant but in my experience the printer usually starts to go wrong a week or two after this has expired.

The HP software supplied is very easy to install you can easily set the printer up on a network with a HP Jetdirect box.

In my opinion, there are much better (and smaller) printers on the market for home use.

Summary: Good quality print, too big for home use and now out of production

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