This black-and-white laser printer using HP printer toner cartridge puts forth a great many features for the price, it has to be said. In fact, it’s difficult to feature how the typical small office or home office entrepreneur won’t pause for at least a minute to consider maybe giving it a try. Most start-up operations could do worse than to give the P1006 a try, especially considering the difficulty many businesses are experiencing because of economic circumstances.

When it comes to the printer’s ability to print out at a relatively high rate of speed, this HP model will do well enough at 17 pages per minute. Considering its price, this is actually quite impressive. Print speeds always vary according to the depth and richness of any print product, so don’t be surprised if the speed is either greater or lesser than advertised performance.

It is also a very light printer, coming in at about 10 1/2 pounds and in a compact size to boot. This means it will fit nicely on any desktop or on the shelf next to a computer, where it can sit out of the way and humming along nicely. HP seems to have designed this printer to do quite capably and ably under almost any print environment.

Quality of print product will also be excellent. It has a 1,200 dots per inch print resolution capability, meaning that the print output will be uniformly excellent. Many of the printers in the part of the segment this printer inhabits aren’t up to this printer’s print quality and usually come in at about 600 dpi. The HP does this easily enough, making use of an image enhancement tool that comes standard with the printer.

The HP P1006 can connect to a computer by means of an included USB port, though Hewlett-Packard doesn’t bother to include one with it (at the price it goes for, though, this is no big deal). After it’s been plugged into the computer it’ll quickly upload all the required drivers and software that’ll enable the printer to get up to speed and operating optimally in no time at all.

The printer comes standard with 8 MB of RAM, and it will use the computer’s processing power to do most of its work. An onboard microprocessor of 266 MHz keeps everything humming along speedily and with no fuss, by the way. It will take its 160 sheets of total paper storage capacity and put it to good use, taking advantage of its ability to work by using most Windows-based and Mac-based operating systems.

When it comes to reliability and durability, the HP LaserJet P1006 printer meets every expectation you would have with Hewlett-Packard. Durability is backed up by virtue of its 5,000 page per month duty cycle, and it’s a rare occasion indeed if it’ll ever need more than regular or scheduled maintenance. After taking stock of all of its functions and features — along with that nice price — it’ll be hard to see why anyone on a budget and needing a laser printer wouldn’t at least consider going with it.

The benefits offered by the HP P1006 replacement toners are just one additional selling point with this printer. As to be expected, Hewlett-Packard sets the bar on what you will get with HP LaserJet compatible toners. Quality and clarity are the main strong points with this ink and toner, along with eliminating costly reprints.