Quick Takes: Make Colorful Flyers In A Hurry with the HP Business Inkjet 1100 Series Printers

It was about 4 pm. I'd forwarded all of my calls to voice mail so I could gather up everything I needed for my booth at a local small business trade show the next day. I had my tabletop display, literature holders, advertising giveaways, business cards and most of my product literature ready to load into my SUV. But I discovered that I only had 3 or 4 copies of the color flyer most people pick up first – the promotional copy for the Business Know-How web site. What now?

Thanks to the new HP Business Inkjet 1100 printer I was testing, the solution was simple:

I printed dozens of flyers while I was loading everything else into the SUV. I printed the flyers on 24-pound inkjet paper using the printer's Normal mode. The resulting printouts had crisp, clear text and solidly filled colored lines and bars. Photographs on the flier weren't as sharp as they would have been if I had had the flyers created by a commercial artist and printed by a commercial printer. But they were acceptable, and instead of spending thousands of dollars for handouts that change fairly often, I spent about 16 cents per printed piece. And had I really needed photo quality (and wanted to wait longer for the flyers to print) I could have printed the flyers on photo paper in 4800 x 1200 optimized dpi mode.

In addition to printing flyers, the HP Business Inkjet 1100 does an excellent job on a wide variety of color documents. It's a fast, and cost-effective way for printing labels and letterhead in the small quantities most smaller offices need, and it's perfect for printing out color capabilities brochures or sales literature customized for individual prospects. Bind the printed pages with a spiral binding, and for roughly 20 cents to 50 cents a page (depending on the paper you use and the ink coverage) you'll have a product as professional as any major corporation produces.

In addition to being able to spit out color pages quickly, the printer can print on two sides of the same sheet of paper (without manually reloading the paper.). The printer prints the first side, and then " sucks" the printed page back into the machine and prints on the second side. It's fun to watch, but it's a bit slow, and is only useful if you are using heavyweight stock. Even with 24 pound ink jet paper, the printing from the first side showed through onto the second side.

The HP Business Inkjet 1100 has a 150-sheet input tray. (The 1100 dtn version has a 250-sheet input tray and an internal print server.) It has a duty cycle of 6,250 pages per month – enough for most small offices. It uses four separate color cartridges, which are available in most retail outlets that sell inkjet ink. The printer is available on the Hewlett Packard web site at prices that start at $199.00. It’s a good investment for any small office that needs fast, reliable inkjet color printing.

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Janet Attard is the founder of the award-winning Business Know-How small business web site and information resource. Janet is also the author of The Home Office And Small Business Answer Book and of Business Know-How: An Operational Guide For Home-Based and Micro-Sized Businesses with Limited Budgets. Follow Janet on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/JanetAttard.

Make Colorful Flyers In A Hurry With the HP Business Inkjet 1100 Series Printers

Make Colorful Flyers In A Hurry
With the HP Business Inkjet 1100 Series Printers