Printers weren’t this cool, at the least until just a few years in the past. For properties, small companies and just about any use-case there could also be, there has all the time been a transparent separation between the comparatively extra inexpensive to purchase and keep ink tank (or inkjet, as you could recall them) printers and laser printers, relying on what they wanted. The latter, thought-about dearer as a result of prices in play (and continues to be so), is countering with a pitch of versatility and relevance. HP’s makes an attempt with the LaserJet Professional MFP 3303sdw ship on pace and reliability, however for small companies, they’ll nonetheless be paying typical laser printer recurring expenditure.
The HP Coloration LaserJet Professional 3303sdw print. (Official handout photograph)
Let’s discuss prices. The worth tag of ₹59,999 means house customers are unlikely to spend as a lot for infrequent, typically informal print use-cases. The LaserJet Professional MFP 3303sdw makes use of 4 cartridges — black, yellow, magenta and cyan. Every of those price between ₹7,300 and ₹8,500. How quickly you have to purchase these, will rely upon the variety of prints, and the frequency. Necessary to notice at this level, this laser printer is actually extra compact than many who went earlier than it, and that footprint discount hasn’t had any bearing on print efficiency, both high quality or pace.
The explanation I referenced prices first, is as an instance how real-world utilization pans out. I began out testing with all 4 HP TerraJet toner cartridges at 100%, and whereas the black cartridge estimated (this knowledge is inside the printer settings on the internet or the HP Good app) round 500 prints remaining, the three color cartridges indicated round 400 prints extra are on the agenda. Round 30 prints later, principally black color textual content with minimal visuals, the black cartridge estimate had decreased to round 300 prints remaining. Whereas these estimates are by no means extraordinarily correct, they’re a greater than useful indicator.
The worrying factor was, Cyan, Magenta and Yellow dropped that estimates to only a additional 50 prints earlier than the cartridges must be changed. The extent was down from 100% to 70% too, after this fast printing session. That’s one thing to remember. Inarguably, the standard of prints is pristine, whether or not color or black and white.
It have to be famous that print speeds from the LaserJet Professional MFP 3303sdw, are actually fast. On a median, it took 3 seconds for a traditional high quality color print (a mixture of textual content and visuals). By default, two-sided printing is enabled by default, which is an efficient factor — I haven’t observed this behaviour in most printers examined lately. At that tempo, you’re a formidable 20 pages per minute, when time is of the essence, at work.
One other aspect of safety that might be related for the office and the IT division, is the combination of HP Wolf Professional safety suite, very similar to HP’s enterprise targeted laptops. Other than the IT with the ability to management and monitor the printer’s operation within the office atmosphere, these dynamic safety enabled printers solely work with unique cartridges (whether or not newly bought, refilled or reused) which have a safety chip built-in.
The HP LaserJet Professional MFP 3303sdw has a 4.3-inch touchscreen, which makes setting this up and controlling common operations (connecting with Wi-Fi, firmware updates and print or scan instructions) slightly easy. The smartphone app provides to that comfort, significantly for situations the place you could be printing out of your cellular system on the identical Wi-Fi community.
There’s little doubt the HP LaserJet Professional MFP 3303sdw printer is nicely geared up for what it’s imagined to do, together with the pace and high quality of prints, ease of use and built-in safety features. That mentioned, there’s no denying the cartridges are costly, and from our testing expertise, you could run by the color ones slightly shortly too. For workplaces that want a printer that merely works for everybody within the workgroup, the HP LaserJet Professional MFP 3303sdw merely does that job with none inconvenience.