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HP DeskJet 720C & 722C Specifications
DeskJet 720C / 722C (select link to check price & availability or to order)

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The DeskJet 722C was a wildly successful printer for HP. Many millions of them were sold between 1998 and 2000. (The 722C is essentially the same printer as the DeskJet 720C.) See specification table below. This remains one of the best color printing solutions available today. The suggested retail price was originally $377. The actual street price varied between $249 and $299.

The print quality of the 722C/720C is superior to the 400, 500, 600, 820/850, 1200, and 1600 series printers, even though not quite as good as the latest 900 series. The 722C's tricolor cartridge has a higher frequency (12 KHz) and fires much smaller ink droplets than any previous printer, which lets the machine lay down far more drops per pixel, expanding the range of colors that can be printed without halftoning. HP calls it Photo Resolution Enhancement technology II (PhotoREt II), and it was originally developed for the 722C. What it means to you is that the 722C can produce 30 times the number of colors of these other printers, with more color depth and brilliance, even on plain paper. On HP's Premium Photo Paper, or the Deluxe Photo Paper developed by HP & Kodak (together with a special set of color-matching tables in the printer driver), the results are spectacular.

Of course, the 722C/720C also incorporates HP ColorSmart II, which recognizes text and graphical page elements to ensure perfect printing every time by automatically adjusting settings. It also contains a number of other features, such as "Smart Focus", which automatically sharpens images such as those found on the Internet and on CDs, to give you the best prints possible from such low resolution images.

The 722C/720C prints up to eight pages per minute in black and four pages per minute in color. Plus, you can print on a wide variety of paper types including plain and premium papers, transparencies, envelopes, cards, labels, banners (a special banner printing mode is provided), specialty photo papers and iron-on transfers.

The HP DeskJets 720C and 722C are designed for Microsoft® Windows®3.1x, Windows95 and Windows®NT 4.0. And they use host-based technology that takes advantage of your computer's processing capabilities, including support for Intel's MMX technology found on many Pentium and Pentium Pro microprocessors — which can boost processing speeds by up to 200%!


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Print Speed Black:
Best Quality
Draft Quality
Normal Quality

4 ppm
8 ppm
5 ppm
Print Speed Color:
Best Quality
Draft Quality
Normal Quality

4 ppm
7 ppm
4 ppm
Duty Cycle, Pages Per Month 1,000 pages black
Paper Trays, Std 1
Input Capacity, Std 100 sheets
Envelope Input, Std 15
Media Types Plain and premium papers, photo papers, transparencies, cards, envelopes, labels, banners, and iron-on transfers
Memory, Std. 512 KB
Memory, Max. 512 KB
Scalable Typefaces None, font support via Windows
Connectivity, Std. Centronics parallel, IEEE 1284-compliant with 1284-B receptacle
Connectivity, Opt. None
Print Quality:
Black Best
Color Best

600 x 600 dpi
Color Resolution PhotoREt II
Technology: Black Print Resolution REt, HP PhotoREt II
Print Cartridges 2
1 black, 1 color (cyan, magenta, and yellow)
Technology, Color Colorsmart II
Print Languages, Std. Printing Performance Architecture
Print Languages, Opt. None
Automatic I/O Switching No
Automatic Language Switching No
Warranty One-year warranty from The Printer Works
Dimensions
(W x D x H)
17.5 x 7.3 x 14 in

The Printer Works
Quality Printers, Parts, and Service since 1982
Telephone: 510 670-2700; or toll free (within USA): 800 225-6116

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