While printing, an HP status window pops up displaying print progress and toner levels, but in our testing it never acquired toner level data from the printer. Alternatively, you can manually set driver parameters like paper type to customize your output. Still, the HP printer driver is full-featured with many presets of task-oriented goals, like “general everyday printing”, “envelopes”, “cardstock”, “labels”, “photos” and so on. On the Mac this process is a little more streamlined. Drivers are available for PCL 5, PCL 6, and Postscript Level 3 emulation. The PC software installation, however, takes you through a long series of steps, which ultimately install the necessary printer drivers.
Navigating the CM1312nfi’s menus and customizing the many configurable printer features – from copy count and size to contrast and networking – is intuitive and easy to use and hardly even requires reading the manual. With its simple setup, you’ll have this printer up and running in less time and angst than it took to remove it from the box. An incoming telephone line can be plugged into an RJ-11 jack for faxes, and a second RJ-11 jack lets you daisy chain additional phones through the unit. You connect a PC or Mac to the CM1312nfi using either its USB 2.0 port or Ethernet jack, both located at the rear. The CM1312nfi uses one black and three color (cyan, yellow, magenta) cartridges. The four toner-ink cartridges arrive pre-installed in their own tray. Setup is literally a snap-you snap the keypad bezel onto the unit’s face, snap in the automatic document feeder tray and paper input tray. At just over 50 pounds, the machine weighs about ten pounds more than a comparable multi-function inkjet. Still, the unit maintains a modest 17-inch footprint. Like most multi-function printers, the CM1312nfi looks a bit like someone welded a flatbed scanner onto a printer. Here’s hoping you only have to do it once. Getting to the product inside involves more effort and puzzle solving than it should. The good news is that the CM1312nfi’s weakest feature is the box it comes in. The HP CM1312nfi, which sells for an impressive $499, certainly puts the “multi” in multi-function – including a flatbed scanner enhanced with an automatic document feeder, Ethernet networking, fax line and a built-in memory card reader for photo printing without a PC.
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