HP LaserJet Pro M1536dnf

Quickly print speedGood crisp featuresProduces range and textFast own copy of print speedNo Wi-FiGraphics quality could be better

If you need a printer Fast monochrome laser with bags of other features, including scanning, copy and fax, the HP LaserJet Pro M1536dnf appears on paper. Price approximately £ 210, it also includes support for double-sided and an Ethernet port, then you can plug into your network and share between multiple computers around your House.

Printers are never exactly things of beauty, but the M1536 is uglier than most. This is all strange shapes and angles clumsy and because all these functions must be packed in the chassis, HP had to make quite a tall machine (it measures 373 mm high), even if his (441 x 343 mm) footprint is not all that big standards multifunction.

On the front panel includes two lines LCD screen, monochrome with a host of controls for scanning and copying, and a keypad for entering fax numbers. There are also buttons from speed dial on the extreme left of the Panel that allow you to instantly fax numbers recall commonly used. Despite the limited amount of information that can be displayed on the screen at any time the printer menus are intelligently arranged and are therefore easy to navigate autour using the directional pad.

Sitting at the top of the parser, it is an automatic document feeder that can accept up to 35 sheets of paper. This allows to copy automatically or by fax of the multipage documents without having to manually feeding paper scanner one at a time. It may be a great time saver when it is used in the offices occupied the House.

The cracks of deep low toner cartridge in the underside of the printer.

Set up the printer not as easy as it should be, as the instruction manual is fairly obtuse and likely to be confusing if you have never used before laser printer. Instructions for preparation and installation of the toner cartridge are particularly poor, as he awkwardly must be placed in the belly of the machine. Wi - Fi, built in does not have the printer, but it has an Ethernet port to the standard USB port sides, it is easy to share with multiple computers on your home network. Configuration of the network connection is also very simple.

The M1536 scanner has an optical resolution of 1200 dpi and unlike many multifunction models, the scanner lid is double articulated so it can lift to accommodate the thicker books, which is very practical. It is extremely fast copy, taking only ten seconds to photocopy our test page. However, the results of the copy were not as good as we like. For example, it has dropped many of fine graduation gray fills and text looks much more rough than the original document.

Paper is fed into the printer of a fold on the bottom status bar that can contain a maximum of 250 sheets. There is also a versatile feeder of ten-fact sheet on top which is useful for the printing of cards or envelopes.

Once on the rise and being implemented, the printer is quite pacey interpreter. It took 35 seconds to print our document of 10 pages of black and white printing, our presentation of the company of ten pages was a mere 43 seconds faster. Our test graphic black and white document has been similarly rapid taking 32 seconds. These results compare quite favourably with other laser multifunction market at the present time.

We have no complaints about the quality of printing text nor, because it produces pages with own but dark for black text that is defined and net. Graphical results are not enough blank as there were few visible speckling on the grey bands in our test page.

Apart from the paper, there is a consumable only worry with the M1536: the toner cartridge. This model uses a CE278A toner cartridge, which is evaluated at 2100 pages and approximately 60 books. Who works at a current cost of 3.55 p per page, including 0.7% for the costs of paper. It is very expensive for a laser model, nor especially cheap if it locations in somewhere towards the middle in terms of cost of ownership.

Overall, the HP LaserJet Pro M1536dnf is an accomplished laser multi-function model. It is reasonably quick to use and produces crisp text and inky you would associate with a model of good laser. However, it does not really all that we have not seen before and its operating costs are nothing special.