New HP Home Ink Jet Line Hewlett-Packard has announced a new series of color ink jet printers for the home. The new printers feature HP's RealLife Imaging System, which is an integrated set of technologies providing, according to HP, the most vivid colors and sharpest blacks available in ink jet printing as well as foolproof high-quality color on a variety of media including plain paper. HP hopes the new DeskJet 680 series products will appeal to the installed base of customers that print banners and continuous forms output on their dot matrix printers. The printers are HP's first color inkjet printers custom-engineered exclusively for Windows users. The DeskJet 820Cse printer comes with HP's quick-start CD that includes Microsoft Publisher, a popular desktop publishing software program that allows users to create newsletters, logos, brochures, letterheads and other business documents.
Data flows directly to the printhead from the host PC, improving print speed performance.
The average cost per page is 3 cents for black and 8 cents for color. The printers can handle letter, legal and custom paper sizes, as well as labels, envelopes magnets, frames, string and suction cups. A special media kit, including HP greeting card stock, envelopes and HP's new banner paper, allows banners to be printed on a single, continuous sheet of paper instead of individual pages that must be taped together. The DeskJet 680C is basically the same printer as the DeskJet 682C without the software and media bundle. The new DeskJet printers print at up to 5 ppm in black and 1.5 ppm in color, and support two-sided printing.