The HP LaserJet 3015 is all-in-one multifunctional printer that offers printing, copying, scanning, and faxing. It offers speed and text quality of a laser printer along with a basic sheet-fed scanner.
The sheet-fed scanner on the printer includes a 30-page automatic document feeder. The scanner and ADF are mounted on top of the laser printer that makes the unit look like a laser-based fax machine. With dimensions 17.5 by 16.8 by 18.5 inches (HWD), it's compact enough to be a comfortable companion to one’s personal desktop. The front panel offers a menu-based LCD, a numeric keypad, and several other buttons nicely divided into groups that make faxing, scanning, and copying an easy task.The control panel manages to be intuitive and easy to use, and one can even access it via PC.
Print speed and text output are among strong points of the printer. With HP Laserjet 3015 toner cartridges, text quality is nothing less than excellent as most of the fonts are easily readable at 4 points. But its graphics and photo output are not in the same class as of its text output. Graphics output are just acceptable, showing obvious dithering and photos are worse, with some photos showing unacceptable posterization. So if one is intended to print high-quality pictures, newsletters, copies and scans, it can fall a little less than the mark.
Advantages:- The control panel is a powerful interface
- Network-ready and has a full range of PC-fax features
- Excellent text output with HP Laserjet 3015 toner cartridges
- Excellent scanning, faxing, and copying capabilities
- 30-sheet ADF for scanning and faxing multipage documents
- Intended primarily for text printing
- Some quality issues when it comes to photos, graphics and scanning
- Sheet-fed scanner only
- Graphics output is merely acceptable
The compatible HP Laserjet 3015 toner cartridges are:
- HP Toner Cartridges Q2612A (12A) XL Version
- HP Toner Cartridge Q2612A (HP 12A)
- HP Toner Cartridge Q2612X (HP 12X)
Despite the shaky photo performance, the HP Laserjet 3015 remarkably capable for the given price. If one is looking for a low-cost personal multifunctional printer with printing, scanning, faxing, and copying capabilities and don't need to scan photos or pages from books this is one of the models one should consider.