The HP Color LaserJet 1600 family is a basic color laser printer designed for home users or very small workgroups with light printing needs. The 2600n and the 1600 both feature 264MHz processors and 16MB of memory (the memory cannot be expanded). Both ship with a single 250-sheet input tray and a 125-sheet output tray; a second 250-sheet input tray is optional. Both printers have a rated output of 8ppm for black or color.
The Color LaserJet 1600 uses an in-line engine, which means black and colour prints should take pretty much the same time. This is borne out by our test results, where our five-page mono text document took 56 seconds to complete and our five-page colour text and graphics piece took 57 seconds. This gives a print speed of around 5.3ppm, a little way off the 8ppm claimed by HP. Subjectively, print output appears slow, too.
Printer Specification:
- Print technology - Laser
- Print quality, black - Up to 600 x 600 dpi
- Print quality, color - Up to 600 x 600 dpi
- Cartridge colors - Black, cyan, magenta, yellow (introductory cartridges in box)
- Print speed, black (best quality mode) - Up to 8 ppm
- Print speed, black (normal quality mode) - Up to 8 ppm
- Print speed, color (best quality mode) - Up to 8 ppm
- Print speed, color (normal quality mode) - Up to 8 ppm
- Recommended monthly print volume - 250 to 1000 pages
- Paper tray (s), standard - 1
- Paper tray (s), maximum - 2
- Input capacity, standard - Up to 250
- Input capacity, maximum - Up to 500
- Envelope feeder - No
- Envelope input, standard - Up to 10
- Output capacity, standard - Up to 125
- Output capacity, maximum - Up to 125
- Duplex printing (printing on both sides of paper) - Manual (driver support provided)
- Document finishing - Sheetfed
- Media sizes, standard - Letter, legal, executive, envelopes (No 10, Monarch)
- Media sizes, custom - 250-sheet input trays, priority feed slot: 3 x 5 to 8.5 x 14 in
- Media types - Paper (plain, letterhead, prepunched, bond, color, rough, preprinted, recycled), HP Color Laser Glossy Photo Paper, HP Color Laser Glossy Brochure Paper, HP Color Laser Matte Brochure Paper, HP Color Laser Matte Photo & Imaging Paper, HP Color Laser Soft Gloss Presentation Paper, HP color laser transparencies, labels, envelopes, cardstock
- Memory, standard - 16 MB
- Hard disk - None
- Print languages, standard - Host-based
- Typefaces - Based on installed typefaces on host computer; print engine only has fonts for internal pages and ASCII
- Connectivity, standard - Hi-Speed USB 2.0 port
- Print drivers, standard - Host-based (uses the processing power and resources of your computer to process the print job. No PCL or PostScript)
- Minimum system requirements - PC: 233 MHz processor, 64 MB RAM, 150 MB hard disk space, CD-ROM drive, available USB port
- Compatible Operating Systems - Windows 98 SE; Windows 2000; Windows Me; Windows XP Home; Windows XP Professional; Windows Vista (TM) Ready; Windows Server 2003
- Dimensions, W x D x H - 17.8 in
- Weight, U.S. - 40.5 lb
- What’s in the box - HP Color LaserJet 1600 Printer, power cable, CD (includes User’s Guide and printer software), Getting Started Guide, output tray extension, paper tray cover, 1000-page HP Color LaserJet cyan, magenta, yellow, and black print cartridges (approximate page yield based on 5% coverage)
- Cable included? - No
- Software included - Toolbox configuration software and status application
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