The HP LaserJet 1320, a compact home and office monochrome printer may not be the cheapest small-office laser available, but it delivers on the essentials and then some. It prints sharp, clean black letters and good graphics that suit professional manuscripts. This HP Laser jet include feature such as a built-in duplexer, a high maximum resolution for grayscale graphics, and the option to buy a model with wired or wireless networking preinstalled. This machine has a 14-by-14-by-10-inch (WDH) footprint and weighs 25 pounds.
The cheap HP LaserJet 1320 includes both a contemporary USB 2.0 port and an old-fashioned parallel port. The HP LaserJet 1320 merits applause for including a feature that’s rare in such a small machine: its built-in duplexer lets you print on both sides of a page without making you flip over the sheets one by one. Given that the advent of e-mail and the Internet have ironically created more paper waste, duplexers are a cost-effective, environmentally friendly must-have for any office. The HP LaserJet 1320 includes 16MB of RAM, which you can expand to 144MB. The Laser Jet 1320 has two control languages HP PCL 5e and HP PCL 6 for basic printing tasks and PostScript Level 2 emulation for users who create or work with more complex desktop-publishing and graphics documents.
Text became faint and spidery at 2.5- and 3-point font sizes, yet the letters didn’t glob together. The text looked excellent at normal, readable sizes. At the default setting of 600x600dpi, grayscale-graphics test document produced impressively smooth, evenly stepped shading from dark to light.