HP Combines Color Copying with Printing

Martha Hicks

Color images are an integral part of business documents, but for many businesses, buying both a color copier and a color printer has been too expensive. Now, Hewlett-Packard has designed a combination color ink-jet printer and digital color copier for departments that use one or more color printers and have occasional need for color copies. The first-of-its-kind CopyJet is based on an enhanced DeskJet 1200C color-printing engine and the ScanJet 3C scanning engine.

You use the CopyJet's copier function like a traditional copier. On the top, it has a double-hinged removable document cover and a full-size flatbed copy surface, which can handle documents of up to 8.5 by 14 inches. The front panel, which has print settings grouped o n the left side and copy settings grouped on the right side, lets you adjust color, reduce originals by 50 percent or enlarge them by up to 400 percent, adjust lightness and darkness, and make up to 99 copies. The front-loading paper tray holds up to 180 sheets of plain or glossy paper or 50 sheets of transparency film. The output tray, which is located on the front of the unit, holds 100 sheets of paper. The standard CopyJet has 5 MB of memory. The unit BYTE tested had 8 MB of extra memory.

The CopyJet makes copies at a resolution of 300 dpi. We copied a color document in normal mode and found it to be near-photographic quality, which should be more than adequate for most businesspeople. The CopyJet offers buttons for Original Is Photo, Emphasize Light Colors, and High Quality, so you can make adjustments for better-quality copies. Next, we printed a bit-map screen capture, which included a color bar graph, monochrome text, and four scanned color photographs; an eight-page Excel spreadsheet; and a docu ment with monochrome text -- all in normal mode. The CopyJet took 1 minute and 52 seconds to print the screen capture, 8 minutes and 34 seconds for the eight-page spreadsheet, and 19 seconds for the one-page document.

The CopyJet provides high-quality color copies and color ink-jet printing for companies that now take their color copying jobs to service bureaus or for individual departments who want more color capability.

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PRODUCT INFORMATION

CopyJet Color Printer-Copier
  Base price.............................$2949 
  as configured for testing 
    with 8 MB of extra memory............$3074

Hewlett-Packard Co.
Santa Clara, CA
(800) 752-0900
Call local HP dealer
fax: (800) 333-1917

http://www.hp.com

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