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Photograph: Rick Rizner
HP Color LaserJet 3600dn
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Media Handling
| Manual Feed Slot | Yes |
| Maximum Number of Input Trays | 3 |
| Maximum paper size, height | 14.0 inches |
| Maximum Sheets With All Paper Trays | 850 |
| Output Tray Capacity | 250 |
| Standard Number of Input Trays | 2 |
| Maximum paper size, width | 8.5 inches |
| Standard input sheet capacity | 350 |
| Duplex printing | No |
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Pros
Competitive costs per page
Small footprint
Cons
Text output looked a little thin
Bottom Line
Speedy graphics printer generated slightly thin-looking text. Easy to use and maintain, and offers reasonably priced options.
HP Color LaserJet 3600n
Color LaserJet 3600dn Review, by Paul Jasper November 2, 2005
Photograph: Rick RiznerThe HP Color LaserJet 3600n printed color graphics faster than any other model and earned high marks for its paper handing. The 3600n has a vertical one-pass engine, which keeps its footprint small. The front of the machine folds down to expose the toner cartridges.
The main paper drawer holds up to 250 sheets of paper. Folding down the multipurpose tray at the front lets you stack another 100 sheets. For heavy-duty printing you can attach an optional 500-sheet bin for a reasonable $300. HP doesn't offer a duplexer for the 3600n; to get that feature you could buy the 3600dn instead.
While text pages in our tests printed at an about-average 13.0 ppm, color graphics arrived at a remarkably speedy 5.6 ppm.
The 3600n's crisp text would have been more readable if it had printed slightly heavier. Large fonts appeared blotchy. Despite accurate hues, our color graphics came out too dark, with unnatural-looking shadow areas. The same images also looked too dark when printed on glossy photo paper, and objects had fuzzy, colored fringes.
The estimated cost per color page is low--11.5 cents. Better yet, HP ships the printer with full-size cartridges that are rated to print 6000 black pages and 4000 color pages--a $501 value.
Upshot: A small footprint, reasonably priced options, and competitive costs per page make this model worth a look, though print quality isn't top-notch.
Paul Jasper
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PCWorld Lab Results
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Performance
| 5 x 7 Photo (secs) | 33.01 |
| Color Output Quality | Fair |
| Color Photo (secs) | 21.41 |
| Color Photo Quality | Poor |
| Color Photo, Best Quality Settings | 33.01 |
| Color Photo, Normal Settings | 21.41 |
| Grayscale Output Quality | Fair |
| Line Art Output Quality | Good |
| One-Page Grayscale Graphic | 17.02 |
| One-Page Grayscale Graphic (secs) | 17.02 |
| Output Score, Color Graphics, Default Settings (formerly pf-Output-Print-Color-Default) | Fair |
| Output Score, Color Photo, Best Quality Settings (formerly pf-Output-Print-Color-Best) | Poor |
| Output Score, Grayscale Graphics, Best Quality Settings (formerly pf-Output-Print-Grayscale-Best) | Fair |
| Output Score, Line Art, Default Settings (formerly pf-Output-Print-LineArt-Default) | Good |
| Output Score, Text, Default Settings (formerly pf-Output-Print-Text-Default) | Fair |
| Ten-Page Word Document | 46.07 |
| Ten-Page Word Document (secs) | 46.07 |
| Tested Color Graphics Speed (formerly pf-PCWColorSpeed) | 5.6 |
| Tested Color Speed (ppm) | 5.6 |
| Tested Glossy Photo Speed (ppm) | 1.8 |
| Tested Photo Speed (formerly pf-PCWPhotoSpeed) | 1.8 |
| Tested Text Speed (formerly pf-PCWBWSpeed) | 13 |
| Tested Text Speed (ppm) | 13 |
| Text Output Quality | Fair |
| Three-Page PowerPoint Document | 25.09 |
| Three-Page PowerPoint Document (secs) | 25.09 |
| Two-Page Excel Document | 17.73 |
| Two-Page Excel Document (secs) | 17.73 |
Text Printing
| Text output quality | Fair |
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