With the advent of the Color LaserJet, Color LaserJet 5, and Color LaserJet 5M, vibrant, professional looking color printing was placed within the reach of individuals and small businesses. The difference is HP's Image Resolution Enhancement technology 1200 (HP Image REt 1200), which not only produces outstanding text but photorealistic images and millions of solid colors. And it does this with the same day in, day out reliablilty that you expect from every HP printer.This Color LaserJet series provides outstanding print quality for both text and graphics, including photo realistic images and millions of solid colors. HP Resolution Enhancement technology (REt) took another leap forward with version 1200, bringing you precise one-pass color printing technology for vibrant, winning color and monochrome documents. Color output is fast, as 2-3 ppm, while monochrome output is as fast as 10 ppm. Of course, they also perform with the steady reliability of all HP printers. They are network friendly, with automatic protocol switching and a modular I/O slot that accepts HP JetDirect cards. A 250-sheet input tray handles paper and transparencies. Optional trays support 11x17 (monochrome only), executive, and A4 sizes.

   The Color LaserJet 5 comes with 20 MB standard installed memory, expandable to 84 MB. The Color LaserJet 5M comes network ready, including the Macs, with a preinstalled HP JetDirect card for Ethernet and LocalTalk environments, as well as Adobe^™ PostScript^™ Level 2 software and 36 MB of memory.