The notable HP LaserJet P1005 printer using HP LaserJet P1005 toner seems to have been designed and manufactured by Hewlett-Packard for the purpose of delivering excellent black-and-white laser printing at a fairly good speed and with a lot of durability to go with typical HP reliability. It comes with a series of simple and intuitive controls and it can be hooked up to most any PC in a variety of ways. This makes it personal, as well as price-competitive.

As far as that print speed, most users will proclaim themselves satisfied with its 14 pages per minute. While not the speediest laser printer on the market (either by price or within segment) most users will be able to come upon typical Hewlett-Packard reliability. Additionally, pages will feed into the printer smoothly and will come out fairly rapidly. In fact, this device just looks nice and competent.

It’s obvious that the 1005 series was intended for mostly personal use on a desktop work area. It connects to a computer via USB or parallel ports, which is still around though most computer users today will prefer to use the very nice USB option rather than the slightly more bulky parallel porting option. The USB cable needs to be purchased separately, though.

The LaserJet P1005 is also a nicely compact printer, and Hewlett-Packard has set up to work — if needed — as a kind of network printer through its included Windows Sharing suite. Once it’s installed, other users will have all of the same printer software options available to them. In reality, this printer would probably be used far more in a personal context rather than as a shared network computer.

Print resolution is standard Hewlett-Packard fare, coming in at a decent 600 dots per inch. Effective resolution can be as high as 1,200 dots per inch when HP’s image enhancement technology tool is employed. At any rate, when it comes to most general business applications, 600 dpi should be more than enough for almost any print job this device might be given.

Up to 250 sheets of paper can be stored within its included auto load input tray. The output tray — meaning the tray that holds what the printer has put out — can hold about half that amount. Both trays can handle a variety of different-sized paper and other media stock. It’s no problem to print out on transparencies, business cards, envelopes and certain custom-sized paper stock, as well.

As far as durability is concerned, a 7,000 page per month duty cycle is standard and is probably more than enough for the kind of print environment this machine has been intended to live within. After 7,000 pages have been reached or exceeded, the printer will need to be serviced with minor or scheduled maintenance, but this is par for the course for most such printers anyway.

There seems to be a substantial amount to like about the HP LaserJet P1005 printer. For one, it comes in nicely priced at about $165, meaning that any quibbles over any sort of performance issue will be canceled out by the fact of low price. In addition, it can connect fairly easily to most any PC and can utilize most Windows operating systems. It has nice durability and excellent print quality to go with decent print speed.

The HP LaserJet P1005 toner cartridges performs as one would expect from HP toner cartridges coming from a company with the standards Hewlett-Packard sets.  Those who do quite a bit of printing will appreciate ordering compatible toner cartridge online at the great prices available there.