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version (the HP CopyJet M) with a JetDirect card so that workgroups can share the device. The printer has a 180-sheet, front-loading paper-input tray.
The CopyJet uses the same print engine for both printing and copying. As a printer, the CopyJet receives text, graphics, and images as digital objects to be placed on paper. As a copier, the device uses its 8 1/2- by 14-inch flatbed scanner to digitize the original into a single raster image. You just raise the cover and insert a document on the scanner bed to make a copy. The machine has several print options on the front panel: photograph, black only, high quality, and emphasize light color. There are also color controls, and document scaling ranges from 50 percent up to 400 percent.
HP's two-headed device makes 300- by 300-dpi copies and prints 600- by 300-dpi text documents. Fifth-best among the ink-jets in our print-quality tests, the CopyJet does a good job of copying color documents. We inserted several CD art covers on th
e scanner, and the reproduction on plain paper was almost flawless, if not a little too dark. An internal heater dries the ink while printing to help prevent smudges.
Color copying and printing isn't cheap with the CopyJet. It has four print cartridges (cyan, yellow, magenta, and black) that cost a bundle to replace: $135 in retail outlets. You may want to consider using color sparingly in your documents. It costs only 7 cents a page for a document with 15 percent color, while it costs 42 cents a copy with 100 percent color, according to HP.
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A two-in-one printer, the Hewlett-Packard CopyJ
et lets you print and copy documents.
HP's CopyJet Does It All
