Why a Laser Printer?
I had been a staunch supporter of Inkjet printers for years. Inkjets were cheap, printed in color, and got the job done, albeit at their own relatively stodgy pace. Besides, I always considered laser printers to be prohibitively expensive. Spending $600 for black and white pages didn’t seem economical to me. Poor college students like myself couldn’t handle the price. Recently though, the prices have been falling quite aggressively on lower-volume laser printers such as HP’s LaserJet 1012. In fact, they have fallen to low enough levels to let the average Home/Home-Office user to have one. I just became the proud owner of this printer, and I’ll be happy to let you in on the low-down of this fine peripheral. Considerations and Observations After reading up on the 1012’s specs, it sounds impressive. The 1012 prints 15 pages per minute and has a first page out time of 10 seconds, very nice. Text is crisp and looks amazingly sharp, pictures actually come out decent, considering it’s a monoc
