Color graphics didn't negotiate shading ramps smoothly and produced blocky transitions, though the printer acquitted itself on color accuracy and detail. Text looked grayish instead of black, showed some roughness in large point sizes, and lost fine strokes. The HP's print quality disappointed us on the important tests. ![]() But if saving money is your real priority-and you don't print much color-consider Ricoh's inkjetlike G700, which prints fine text at 12.1ppm but drops the ball on graphics speed and quality. The 3600n prints black text at a reasonable 13 pages per minute (ppm) and color graphics a bit faster, at 13.5ppm for comparison's sake, the Lexmark C522n prints text at 14.2ppm and graphics at 12.3ppm. If you need those extras, consider HP's 3600dn, an $849 model with a duplexer and twice the memory. The 3600n comes with 64MB of memory and unfortunately, you can't expand that, nor can you add a duplexer, which makes expansion options very limited. Lexmark's similar C522 sells for $200 less and provides better text quality, though Lexmark's cost per page is slightly higher than HP's and the difference may add up over time.Ī two-line backlit LCD on the 3600n's top panel displays a complete set of menus, which we found easy to navigate with buttons for drilling down through menus, selecting items, and backing out. Unfortunately, its text quality leaves something to be desired and its expandability options are limited. The $700 price tag on HP's Color LaserJet 3600n seems steep for an individual buyer but modest for a small workgroup seeking a network color laser.
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