Tuesday 2 August 2011

HP Laserjet 1020 Printer Review And Drivers Download With Installation Guide

The bad: No built-in duplexer; not network-ready; graphics print quality needs improvement.

The nice: Very inexpensive; nice text quality; print costs are low; manual feed tray for one-off prints.

The HP LaserJet 1020 is an cheap monochrome laser printer for home users with light printing needs. Its print speeds and quality are not stellar, but at $180, it is hard to fault it much. For that cost, you get a very basic and compact printer that does a serviceable job. In the event you can spare an additional $20, however, the Lexmark E250d comes with a duplexer, while the Samsung ML-2571N is network-ready. Both also offer better print quality.

The bottom line: The HP LaserJet 1020 is a nice deal for home users who have light print needs, but a small bit more funds can get you more features and better print quality.

The compact LaserJet 1020 measures 14.6 inches wide, 9.5 inches deep, and 8.2 inches tall, and weighs a light 11 pounds. The front panel folds open to reveal a 150-sheet input tray and a single-sheet manual input tray, both of which have adjustable paper guides. The output tray resides on the top of the printer and includes a fold-out paper support.

It comes with a 234MHz processor and 2MB of onboard memory, far short of the 32MB offered by the Samsung ML-2571N. It's a USB connection, so it is better for single users than a multiuser surroundings.

The LaserJet 1020's diminutive size is due to the fact that it is a mono printer, and therefore contains toner cartridge. You can access the cartridge by popping open the printer's top panel. Replacement cartridges cost $70 and are nice for up to about two,000 prints, which comes out to about three.5 cents per page--not bad for a budget laser printer and in line with the Samsung ML-2571N's two.6 cents per page and the Lexmark E250d's three.8 cents per page. The recommended every month duty cycle is five,000 prints, so the LaserJet 1020 is best suited for home users with low to moderate print needs.
The LaserJet 1020's text quality was excellent, though not ideal: on very close examination, they noticed that some characters had edges that weren't perfectly sharp and, overall, the text could stand to be a bit darker. Again, they were looking very closely. The graphics print didn't fare as well as the text print, though. Solid blocks of toner showed a blotchy quality that they didn't see with the Lexmark E250d or the Samsung ML-2571N. The picture elements on the page weren't as smoothly rendered as they would've liked. They preferred the quality of both the Lexmark and Samsung printers over that of the HP, but overall, the HP LaserJet 1020 is nice for casual home users.
HP backs the LaserJet 1020 with a standard one-year warranty, which is on par with the competition. While under warranty, you can get toll-free phone support 24-7, at no cost. HP's Web-site has downloadable drivers, application, and manuals; e-mail and online chat tech support; FAQs; and a troubleshooting guide.

Click Here For :  HP Laserjet 1020 Printer Drivers

1 comment:

  1. Thanks for giving drivers download for HP Laserjet 1020...but i need driver installation guide.....

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