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HP Toner Cartridges
Unlike some colour lasers, which have all four toner cartridges cyan, magenta, yellow, and black arrayed along the inside bottom of the printer, the HP LaserJet 1500L's engine uses a carousel that rotates to lay down each colour separately. On the control panel, four lights--one for each toner colour--indicate when toner levels run low. To change a cartridge, open the front panel, press a button on the side control panel to rotate the carousel, then lift out the expired cartridge. Setup is simple. The printer has a high-speed USB 2.0 interface, but unfortunately, the cable is sold separately. In our tests, both Windows XP and Windows 2000 easily recognized the new hardware and prompted us to install the drivers from the included CD. The 1500L also is compatible with Windows 98 and Me and Mac OS 9 and X. Installation takes a few minutes and asks you some basic questions, such as whether you want to share the printer on a network. The LaserJet 1500L is also Mac compatible. Colour printing is slower, in part because the printer must make one pass per colour. With the LaserJet 1500L, we also noticed a 30-second delay before the first printed page appeared. Most of this time seemed to be spent "thinking" about what to print. The actual printing took seconds; our tests showed an average colour graphics print speed of 3.4ppm, which is very close to HP's advertised 4ppm
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