The HP LaserJet 3380 Printer In Its Entirety

Most anybody who gives a Hewlett-Packard office machine a chance, particularly when looking at the HP LaserJet 3380 printer using HP LaserJet 3380 toner in its entirety, invariably walks away pleased with the results. This particular office machine is classified as an all-in-one, meaning that it not only prints, but also faxes, copies and scans documents.  This ultimately will really save the home office or small business a lot of money over the long run.

The 3380 printer has been rated by most experts as being easy to use. It comes with a wide variety of helpful features and characteristics and it is relatively inexpensive to run and maintain. Additionally, print quality is good across the board and any business that doesn’t require color printing will be sure to be please with all that it can do.

As was said, this is a monochrome laser jet printer and it’s formally known as a digital copier when used in that configuration. In other words, it prints out using laser jet technology, but copies using digital formats. It has a more than acceptable printing speed of 20 pages per minute, which is excellent for an all-in-one office machine, no matter the manufacturer or brand.

Print resolution from the 3380 is also excellent  and comes in at 1,200 x 1,200 dots per inch (dpi). It can connect to a desktop PC by means of parallel or high-speed USB ports and is also compatible with an extremely wide range of operating systems, including several different Windows (including MS Windows NT) as well as a number of Mac, UNIX and Linux operating systems.

The duty cycle when it acts as a copier is set at 10,000 impressions, which should be more than enough to accommodate the needs of most small office/home office (SOHO) businesses. When the 3380 works as a scanner, expect it to be able to scan a document at 600 x 600 dpi with color depth set at 24-bit and black-and-white depth at 8-bit. Both are more than acceptable criteria for any scanner.

The 3380 also acts as a fax machine and comes supplied with a standard 33.6 kb per second internal modem. It can hold a total of 250 pages within its memory and can also print out received faxes at about 20 pages per minute. It has the capability to send out faxes received from the personal computer it’s hooked up to as well, which only adds to this particular Hewlett-Packard’s versatility.

Internal storage capacity, paper-wise, is a fine 250 sheets. Media sizes that can be accommodated are also fairly wide and varied. There is a bypass feeder capability of about 10 sheets and output trays can hold 125 sheets, all of which mean that it can serve as a fairly robust platform upon which a small business can base all of its office machine uses.

The HP LaserJet 3380 printer is normally priced at around $480 before any retail discounts. Used and refurbished models have been found for under $150, and certain high-volume discount online outlets have been selling the machine for about $280. It is, in all, a very versatile all-in-one printer/fax/copier/scanner, and it comes with legendary Hewlett-Packard reliability. In short, there’s a lot to like about the 3380.

You’ll also like the HP LaserJet 3380 toner, if you like crisp, clean prints, that is.  The level at which HP toner performs is well known.  What you might not know is how low replacement toner can be online.