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- <printer id="printer/HP-LaserJet_1200">
- <make>HP</make>
- <model>LaserJet 1200</model>
- <mechanism>
- <laser/><!--not "color"-->
- <resolution>
- <dpi>
- <x>1200</x>
- <y>1200</y>
- </dpi>
- </resolution>
- <consumables>
- <!--no comments--><!--one or more "partno" elements.--></consumables>
- </mechanism>
- <url>http://hpshopping.speedera.net/www.shopping.hp.com/shopping/pdf/lj1200.pdf</url>
- <lang>
- <postscript level="2" />
- <pcl level="6"/>
- <pjl/>
- <text>
- <charset>us-ascii</charset>
- </text>
- </lang>
- <autodetect>
- <general>
- <commandset>PJL,MLC,PCL,PCLXL,POSTSCRIPT</commandset>
- <manufacturer>Hewlett-Packard</manufacturer>
- <model>HP LaserJet 1200</model>
- </general>
- <usb>
- <description>Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 1200</description>
- </usb>
- <snmp>
- <description>HP LaserJet 1200</description>
- </snmp>
- </autodetect>
- <functionality>A</functionality>
- <driver>pxlmono</driver>
- <drivers>
- <driver>
- <id>Postscript-HP</id>
- <ppd>PPD/HP/HP_LaserJet_1200.ppd</ppd>
- </driver>
- </drivers>
- <!--verified-->
- <!--no "contrib_url"-->
- <comments>
- <en>
- Postscript level 2 out of the box, parallel and USB connection,
- 1200n with ethernet connection, scan extension available.<p>
-
- For basic printing functionality use the Postscript PPD. For advanced functionality such
- as printer status and maintenance features, use the
- <a href="http://hplipopensource.com/">
- HPLIP driver</a> (which includes HPIJS). <p>
-
- This printer is a good choice for a cheap laser printer (around
- 400$), especially when you print a lot of text documents, as
- letters, documentation, manuals, ... for these documents it is
- really fast, as advertized by HP. But when using it on complicated
- graphics (web pages rendered by Konqueror, photo
- "convert"ed to PostScript with ImageMagick) in
- PostScript mode, it is very slow. If you use it in PCL mode, it is
- fast in both text and graphics printing. Therefore we recommend to
- use this printer with a Ghostscript driver like
- "pxlmono" or "hpijs".<p>
-
- Here is a somewhat longer
- review from Robert (racsw at frontiernet dot net):<p>
-
- <i>My testing was done on a PIII / 600Mhz machine with 256K
- of RAM installed running Mandrake Linux 8.1. While I intended to
- use this printer as a USB connected device, I was never successful
- at getting it to work properly, and so switched over to a parallel
- port connection. In fairness, I don't believe this is the
- fault of the printer itself. I see no
- reason why it shouldn't work on USB (</i>ed: Mandrake
- 8.2 configures this printer.
- automatically<i>).<p>
-
- IMO, the 1200/1200se is an excellent high-volume document printer,
- and those folks like myself that need to print the normal volumes
- of documents, How-To's, Installation procedures, etc, that a
- typical Linux user requires will find this printer an excellent
- choice.<p>
-
- The printer itself comes with 8Mb of memory onboard, with a 100
- pin DIMM slot capable of another 64Mb, for a total of 72Mb. In the
- testing I performed with and without this additional memory
- installed, I could find no difference in speed either way. But
- for those who feel they want this memory anyhow, I would advise
- you purchase the Kingston module from <a
- href="http://www.pcconnection.com/">http://www.pcconnection.com/</a>
- for $39.00. HP wants a whopping $470.00 (more expensive than the
- printer itself, 12x the price of the Kingston memory) for the same
- module.<p>
-
- For those wanting to print graphics on this machine, I would
- suggest an Inkjet printer instead like a DeskJet or the popular
- and proven Epson Stylus C80. If attempting to print a WYSIWYG
- rendition of a web page, I would make two suggestions. First,
- don't use Konqueror. Konqueror has two disadvantages. For one,
- there is no selection for GreyScale, which, when used, cuts the
- printing time down from 10 - 15 seconds to about 2 - 3. Secondly,
- Konqueror also does some strange things with the image, which,
- when printed, will render your copy hard to read with respect to
- font sizes and such.<p>
-
- Here's what OpenPrinting founder Grant Taylor
- says:<p>
-
- "Konq appears to print using a Qt canvas widget feature whereby the
- canvas widget unifies the fonts - you'll see it flicker into
- small font for a moment - and generates equivalent ps code.
- Oddly, it unifies the fonts to some weird 6-point font that's
- mostly useless on paper; this is what you saw. One can only hope
- they'll fix this in KDE3."<p>
-
- I tested most of the browsers on this printer, and by far and away
- the most readable, highest quality WYSIWYG printing was from
- Netscape.<p>
-
- But that's not what this printer is designed for. For
- documentation and online manuals, it's hard to
- beat. It's very fast, quiet and smooth. Contrary to another
- user's report, I found the paper tray well constructed and
- easy to insert. It's strength was evidenced by finding my
- 10lb (near 5 kg) house cat sitting on it one afternoon.<p>
-
- As far as the rendering speed is concerned, I think it's
- fine. HP advertises a 10 second print time for this machine, and
- as long as you're not using Konqueror, I was able to meet this
- time consistently. If the user selects "GreyScale"
- instead of color for their particular application, the time takes
- a drastic nosedive to 2-3 seconds, with the same image on the
- page as you would have seen if you had selected "Color"
- instead. This 10 second time was also verified by another 1200
- user running SUSE 7.3.<p>
-
- If this printer takes longer to print, it's apparently not
- the internal rendering logic at fault, but the browser or
- application used instead.<p>
-
- </i>[...]<i> I think recommending this printer to
- others is a safe bet. It is working perfectly, and as long as I
- use it for what it's intended, it does it's job quickly
- and quietly. </i>[...]<i> People who want to print
- graphics would probably not select a LaserJet of any variety,
- unless it's for proofing. And then, it becomes a function of
- the application that creates and sends the job to the printer that
- determines what comes out on the page. This I have proven after
- all these tests.<p>
-
- I would also say that I used the CUPS printing system for the
- majority of my testing, and it seems to work fine. There was no
- bad test results that I achieved that I could attribute to the
- CUPS system itself. Usually, with Netscape, Mozilla, Adobe
- Acrobat, etc, I would specify "qtcups" as the print
- command. Using "lpr" worked as well with no discernible
- difference.<p>
-
- I give "two thumbs up" for this printer for sure, and because of
- the $399 price tag, I can now justify the speed and cost-per-page
- advantage of owning a high-volume LaserJet for home
- use.</i><p>
-
- </en>
- </comments>
- </printer>
-