HP 20ps Ink
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HP 20ps Printer Review

The HP DesignJet 20PS is a very bulky printer, weighing almost 40 pounds. It has a single sheet rear tray, a 250 sheet input tray and 10 sheet bypass tray. Its high resolution of up to 2400X1200 dpi using black and color HP 20PS ink produces high quality photos, text and graphic documents. This large-format unit produces slow printing speeds and a low monthly duty cycle that make it suitable for home and personal use.

Printing with PhotoREt III color layering technology, this device's printer ink tanks produce exceptional results. DesignJet 20PS ink cartridges come in 6 individual containers of black, cyan, magenta, yellow, light cyan and light magenta. Each HP 20PS ink cartridge has a high capacity of 1,450 pages that will, in the long run, save consumers an abundance of money.

Photo printing for this inkjet unit has relatively slow speeds. On HP glossy and coated paper, full color B-size images using DesignJet 20PS ink can take up to 4 minutes to print. It has an internal color sensor and automatic closed-loop color calibration for increased accuracy and consistency that improve the quality of images and graphic documents. Also, the 20PS includes software like Adobe PostScript that makes printing with this device efficient and effortless.

This inkjet printer works with both Windows and Mac operating systems, has a 128 MB RAM and 1 GB of available hard disk space. Its available connective options include a USB port, a parallel port, an EIO slot and an HP Jetdirect EIO internal print server. Inexpensive tanks of HP 20PS ink that have high yields help make the 20PS an affordable unit to use. Consumers looking for a simple and reliable unit will be content with the HP DesignJet 20PS's quality printer ink resolution and it variety of media handling options.