Giving the HP LaserJet 2200 printer and HP 2200 laser toner a look also gives one the chance to assess all of the functions and features of this workhorse laser monochrome printer. For one, it seems as if it’s intended be used in a small workgroup or as a printer-to-computer personal-type model. It works hard to deliver nice print speeds and equally fine printing quality and all at a price of about $130 before any discounts. It’s sure to be attractive to may prospective customers because of those facts.
Printer speeds delivered by this monochrome HP LaserJet 2200 toners printer are one of the 2200’s selling points. It can deliver a very nice 8 pages per minute of copy and at a price that most other competitor printers would be hard-pressed to match. Additionally, these same printers have a tough time getting within a couple of pages per minute of this HP printer, which should also be attractive to most anybody considering purchasing it.
Going hand-in-hand with the fine print speed of this HP printer, is its 1,200 dots per inch print quality. This means that the resolution of a product printed out by this particular Hewlett-Packard model will be excellent across almost all print criteria. Output should emerge looking sharp, clear and with no evidence of blurring or smudging. It also can print graphics-rich jobs as well.
In terms of physical size, the HP 2200 — at 10 inches high by 16 inches wide — will sit on any desktop unobtrusively and at a low weight. It matches up well against most of its competition for a fact. Given that it delivers both high print speed and excellent print quality, it’s only surprising that it’s not a big, bulky printer.
There’s a standard 8 MB of supplied memory, and it can be increased to about 72 MB if that’s what’s called for by the user or the workgroup to which it’ll be joined. It usually makes use of the computer’s own processing power to do all of its work, and is controlled via use of a 133 MHz processor. It might not be the speediest, but it’s able to keep everything moving along nicely and delivered with little real fuss.
When it comes to the versatility of this HP unit, it’s nice to know that it includes the ability to use a USB or a parallel port. Speaking of USB, keep in mind that a cable will need to be purchased as the LaserJet 2200 doesn’t supply one of its own. Spending the extra money to obtain a nice quality USB cable to run from the computer to the printer given this model’s price is a small price to pay, it should be noted.
This offering from Hewlett-Packard can hold a full 250 sheets within an included autoloading input tray out of a total of 350 sheets (the other hundred can be fed in through a separate manual feeder slot). It can also print on a number of different media stock, giving it an additional level of versatility that matches up with the versatility already evidenced by its connectivity and print quality.
The HP LaserJet 2200 printer comes to the game with nice durability, as far as these types of printers go. Monthly duty cycle is rated at 40,000 pages per month of print product. This means that it can print out about 40,000 sheets of product before needing any sort of required maintenance. It has the ability to run off of Mac OS 7.7.7 and most Windows OSs. For $120 retail and decent print speeds, it hard to find much to nitpick about when it comes to this HP LaserJet printer toner cartridges.
The HP 2200 printer toners, an ongoing consumable for this machine, can be obtained any place HP Toner is sold. However, surprisingly inexpensive printer toners can be found online with just a few mouse clicks.