The good-looking HP LaserJet 1022 offers quality prints and a small size to please space-strapped solo users and students. The printer measures 14.6 by 14.3 by 9.5 inches (WDH) and weigh a bit more than 12 pounds, this is also one of the smaller and lighter laser printers around.
The sleek, gray-and-black HP LaserJet 1022 looks smart with its input tray, dustcover, and simple two-button control panel. The HP LaserJet 1022 comes with a nonupgradable 8MB of RAM and 266MHz processor –adequate for handling text jobs but skimpy for graphics-intensive printing. This machine has a manual auto duplexer so to print on two sides of a page; you’ll have to flip the sheets over by hand. The 1022 suffers from a few operating glitches, such as overall noisiness–notably loud, grinding sounds when it runs out of paper. And toner runs a costly 3.5 cents a page with the $69.99 toner unit, according to HP’s estimates. The EconoMode setting in this cheap Laser jet 1022 printer conserves toner.
The HP LaserJet 1022′s speed falls in the middle of the pack for a basic laser printer. It creates text at 15.91ppm (pages per minute), some 3ppm faster than the popular Samsung ML-1740. Still, the HP 1022 lagged behind the cheaper Oki B4250 in both text and graphics
This printer created dark, crisp text and decent grayscale graphics–just what a laser should do to create professional-looking documents with legible fine print, sharp lines, and smooth curves.