Printer Review HP M4345
Last Updated on October 19, 2022 by Christian Ralph
In the electronics market HP is a ruling name. Its products are time tested quality approved and hence accepted worldwide without a second thought. HP LaserJet M4345 Monochrome Laser Printer lives up all the above mentioned criteria with much aplomb.
HP LaserJet M4345 Laser Printer is a multifunctional printer which performs black-and-white printing, black-and-white copying and colour scanning. It has laser monochrome technology. It prints with a speed of 45ppm. The monthly duty cycle is 200000 pages per month. The recommended monthly print volume is 5000 to 20000 pages. You get the first print in just 10 seconds. The print quality and resolution is 1200 x 1200 dpi. It is offered with 1 black cartridge.
It is installed with a processor with a speed of 480MHz. It supports automatic duplex printing. It has a standard memory of 256MB. It is installed with a standard hard drive.
There are 2 standard paper trays while the maximum number possible is 5. Its standard output capacity is 600 sheets. It has an envelope feeder which supports up to 10 envelopes. The standard output capacity is 500 sheets while maximum is 700 sheets. It has an automatic document feeder the capacity of which is 50 sheets. The standard media capacity is 600 sheets while the maximum media capacity is 2100 sheets.
The standard media sizes supported are letter, legal, executive, statement, 8.5 x 13 in and envelopes (No. 10, commercial). The custom media sizes are tray 1, optional 3-bin mailbox or stacker part of stapler/stacker 3 x 5 to 8.5 x 14 in; tray 2, optional Tray 3, 4, 5: 5.8 x 8.3 to 8.5 x 14 in. The possible various media types are paper (plain, pre printed, letterhead, pre punched, bond, recycled, colour, rough), transparencies, labels, envelopes and card stock.
The standard print languages used are HP postscript level 3 emulation, PCL 5, PCL 6 and PDF1.4. The digital sending features include Send to e-mail, send to network folder, LDAP and SMTP authentification and LDAP addressing. The supported file formats are PDF, TIFF, JPG and MTIFF.
It is equipped with a flatbed scanner. The enhanced as well as hardware scan resolutions are 600 x 600 dpi. It is supplied with a 30 bit depth. The level of greyscale is 256. The maximum afforded scan size is 8.9 x 11.9 in.
For copier the resolution is 600 x 600 dpi. The copy reduce/enlarge settings lie between 25 to 400%. You can get up to 1000 copies. For faxing the given resolution is 300 x 300 dpi. There is 100 fax broadcast facility. Other faxing functions include: fax forwarding, junk fax barrier, polling, remote retrieval, distinctive ring detection, up to 100 numbers of speed dialling. It has a maximum transmission speed of 33.6 Kbps.
The provided connectivity are1 USB, 1 network port (HP fast Ethernet embedded print server), 1 open foreign interface harness (FIH) port, 1 open EIO slot and 1 open jet link for paper handling accessories.
This HP Laser printer is Mac compatible. The compatible operating systems include windows 2000; windows XP home; windows XP professional; windows XP professional x64; windows server 2003; windows vista and Mac OS X v 10.2 or higher.
Its dimensions are 29.9 x 22.3 x 21.6 in. It weighs 113.7lbs. It is offered with a one year warranty. The contents of the box are HP laser jet m4345 MFP multifunction printer (with hard drive), support flyer, toner cartridge, power cord, control panel overlays, software/documentation CD, getting started guide and wall poster.
While operating it emits a sound of 56dBA. The minimum operating temperature is 10 °C while maximum is 32 °C. It consumes a power of 1265w.
