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HP office jet: Desktop Triple-Play Peripheral

 

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If you’ve got a typical small office, you have a computer, a printer and a fax machine. The Hewlett-Packard Office Jet combines a plainpaper fax, ink jet printer and a copier into one convenient package that can save space.

The office Jet looks as if someone sawed off the front panel of a fax machine and grafted it onto an HP Desk Jet 520 ink jet printer. It produces high-quality 600-by 300-dot per inch resolution output.

The front panel includes a scanner (with a 20 sheet input tray) as well as buttons that you can use to configure the printer and fax, to send faxes and to make copies. If a fax is received while the printer is out of ink or paper, the machine will store up 24 pages of incoming faxes for later printing.

In addition to faxing documents, you can also copy them; the office Jet prints the scanned images instead of sending them out through the phone line. You can make from 1 to 99 copies, and reduce the image by as much as 70 per cent.

The print quality on duplication paper was surprisingly good and excellent on high-quality paper, where it looked as good as the output from many laser printers. Output for images with lots of dark or black areas tended to be a bit too dark, but there was little or no banding. Photo mode, copies of photographs were as good as or better than copies made on a personal photocopier.