HP DeskJet 1220C
Price: AU$949
Distributor: Hewlett-Packard Australia
Ph: 03 9272 2895; Fax: 03 9898 7831
www.hp.com.au
Stretch a 970Cxi to cater for A3 paper and add a few more bells and whistles (and an additional $190), and what do you get? HP's 1220C. Admittedly, this is a gross oversimplification but as far as functionality goes its comes pretty close to the truth. The only feature missing on the 1220C is the neat duplexing attachment. There is a removable rear panel to facilitate clearing of paper jams but sadly there are not facilities to attach a duplexing unit. There is, however, a rear manual paper feed that can cater for stock up to 250gsm while the front ADF is simply a larger version of the 970Cxi paper feeder, again with up to a 150-sheet capacity. Also calling the printer an A3 printer is underselling it, HP's term -wide format" is more accurate as the printer can cope with 33cm x 48.3cm sized paper, A3 for comparison is only 29.7cm x 42cm.
Front panel controls, while cosmetically different, are nevertheless functionally identical to the 900 series. Standard I/O includes parallel and USB ports and the 1220C's duty cycle is the same as the 970Cxi at 5000 pages per month. HP does have a 1220C/PS version of the printer that includes Postscript and Adobe PressReady Basics software.
Documentation is typical of the HP range of printers and it is worth mentioning that the printer is certainly built to last with very robust construction.
The 1220C was fitted with the same black cartridge used in the 900 series printers tested and page life was commensurate at 760 pages. The tri-colour cartridge fitted however was the -high-yield" version and it came up with a staggering 667 colour pages. It was not surprising that the cost per black page was 9 cents but at just 19 cents for colour, the high-yield cartridge proved very cost effective.
In our testing we found the 1220C's print speed to be almost identical to the 970Cxi with peak and average throughput speeds of 6.7ppm and 1.05ppm respectively for A4 pages. However, what was surprising, given the two printers identical resolution specifications and the similarity of printer drivers, is that the 1220C's character formation was not as clean as the 970Cxi at identical driver settings and this was quite noticeable. We found the white on black text to be not as sharp and the character formation a touch ragged. That's not to say the print quality was poor, it was still quite good, and the black characters and fill patterns on plain paper were still sensationally rich and even and graphics at the -normal" driver settings were on par with the 970Cxi.
Outputting the photo tests proved to be marginally quicker on the 1220C than the 970Cxi, but only by a scant 0.02ppm, again for an A4 page. And, while the colour was still a tad over saturated the 1220C's output was not as -blue" and cold as the 970Cxi's, with colours more true to the original at the driver's default settings.
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