HP LaserJet M1005 MFP

The M1005 is a personal mono laser MFP with printing, copying and scanning

functions. A highlight of this product is that for a multi-page document, it

provides sequential printouts utilizing both sides of a sheet. Its flat bed

scanner scans upto A4 size docs, at an optical scanning resolution of 1200 dpi,

which is the best in its class. In our tests, M1005 provided 14ppm for printing

multiple copies of a text-intensive doc at 600 dpi, same as the rated speed. But

while taking multiple copies of the same doc at the same resolution, it could

not maintain such efficiency, ending up at 11ppm. This is 3 lower than the rated

speed. It comes bundled with Readiris Pro OCR software that provides, amongst

other things, details such as how long it took to scan and at what resolution.

The scanner took 17 secs to scan both an A4 text intensive color document and a

full color photograph at 300 dpi resolution. This reduces to 11 secs at the same

resolution for B/W documents. Its OCR utility took approximately 37 secs to

convert an image to an editable document at 300dpi. Though the printing quality

is good and is readable up to font size 4 easily, the contrast settings are by

default too dark and need adjustment each time you put in a separate page to

copy. Moreover, the LCD display is very diminutive and you really have to strain

your eyes just to read it.

Bottom Line: Overall, a good device for individual use with quite a

few convenient features.

Stephen Tunglut