1 Printer basics

Congratulations on your purchase of an HP LaserJet 9040/9050 series printer. If you have not done so, see the Getting Started Guide that was provided with the printer for setup instructions.

Now that the printer is set up and ready to use, take a few moments to get to know the printer. This chapter introduces the following information about the printer:

●Features and benefits of the printer

●Layout and basic operation of the control panel

●Printer software

●Embedded Web server

●Help system

Features and benefits of the printer

This section lists the major printer features.

Speed and throughput

●Transmit Once, Raster Image Processing (RIP) ONCE technology

●Eight-second standby to first page

●40 pages per minute (ppm) (HP LaserJet 9040 series printer) or 50 ppm (HP LaserJet 9050 series printer) on letter or ISO A4 paper

●Duty cycle up to 300,000 pages per month

●533 megahertz (MHz) microprocessor

Resolution

●600 dots per inch (dpi) with Resolution Enhancement technology (REt)

●FastRes 1200 provides 1200 dpi quality at full speed

●Up to 220 levels of gray

Memory

●64 megabytes (MB) of random access memory (RAM), expandable to 512 MB using industry standard 100-pin double data rate (DDR) dual in-line memory modules (DIMMs) for the base model HP LaserJet 9040/9050 printer

●128 MB of RAM, expandable to 512 MB by using industry-standard 100-pin DDR DIMMs for the HP LaserJet 9040n/9050n and the HP LaserJet 9040dn/9050dn printers

●Memory Enhancement technology (MEt), which automatically compresses data to use RAM more efficiently

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