Whether you want a monochrome laser printer as your only printer in a compact home business office, as a custom printer in a larger office, or to combine with an inkjet to print impressive-looking letters and reports with superior writing quality, The HP LaserJet 1018 printer and HP 12A ink cartridge could satisfy your wishes. Also one of its best aspects is the fact that it takes up less space than other printers. However, in this ultra-competitive industry, there are plenty of monochrome laser printers that can do it.
This printer: takes up little space, is lightweight and portable, has high-quality text and standard monochrome laser quality for images and graphics.
The 1018 isn’t really the first monochrome printer you can see it’s more compact and portable compared to various inkjet printers however HP claims it’s the smallest size laser printer so you shouldn’t have any basis for distrusting it. It’s probably the smallest and most portable printer you’ll see, at 8.2 x 14.6 x 9.5 inches. (HWD), including a weight of just 11 lbs. The specific footprint plus paper plate is 14.6 x 13.8 inches, although you can save some flat space by allowing the plate to overhang the edge of the table.
Installation of the 1018 is uncomplicated and is standard for a custom monochrome laser. Just pop in replacement HP LaserJet 1018 toner, load paper, connect a USB cable and go through the computerized setup process, and you’re ready to print.
Acceleration isn’t really on the printer’s strengths list, though it’s not slow enough to be considered a major issue. The system’s rated speed is just twelve pages per minute, in contrast to twenty-two parts per million for the equally priced Samsung ML-2010 plus twenty parts per million for the relatively higher-priced Lexmark E120n (and network kit). Considering the lowest system fee, you may not be surprised to learn that the 1018 is the lowest speed monochrome laser printer in its cost range.
On the commercial software package (controlled with the proper components and computer software), the total time for the 1018 is eleven minutes and twenty-eight seconds, compared to around 8:50 for Lexmark and Samsung printers. Which is enough variation to be noticeable and quite tolerable, in case you’re worried about print speed. It also helps significantly in small documents, for example, letters of one or two pages, the speed change is only one or three seconds. It’s mostly longer in documents, especially 55-page Microsoft Word data files, and the slow engine speed becomes considerable in a simple sense.
The quality of the final product, in any case, is fully up to the laser benchmarks. Word quality just isn’t the best available, which means the 1018 can handle whatever text you want to print. The text was done correctly and was easy to proofread at four points in virtually all the sources we examined.