HP DESKJET 420C User Manual

The affordable friend

HP DeskJet 420C printer

Great colour and black printing
at an affordable price

The affordable friend that makes a great printer.
Ready to handle correspondence and fun projects
right out of the box.

Convenient colour printing

● Vivid, full-colour output perfect for letters, schoolwork and home finances

● High-quality black-and-white documents with optional HP Black Print Cartridge

● Great-looking results on plain paper

Compact design

● Stylish, small size fits neatly into crowded spaces

● Paper tray folds up for more convenient storage

● Automatic 50-sheet paper feeder saves paper handling and waiting

Simple to use

● Quick and easy printing with up to 3 ppm in black

● Helpful onscreen answers to your printing questions

● Backed by HP quality and reliability

420C

Technical Specifications: HP DeskJet 420C printer

Print Method Drop-on-demand thermal inkjet printing

Black Print Speed* Letter quality: 2 ppm

Colour Print Speed* Full-colour graphics: 4 to 7 minutes per page

Black Resolution Letter quality: 600 x 300 dpi

Colour Resolution Letter quality: 300 x 300 dpi

Media Sizes Paper: plain, inkjet, photo, glossy; A4 210 x 297 mm; legal 216 x 356 mm;
and Types executive 184 x 267 mm

Recommended Paper: 60 to 90 g/m
Media Weight Envelopes: 70 to 90 g/m

Media Handling Paper tray: up to 50 sheets of 60 g/m

Memory 16 Kbyte, 48 Kbyte receiver buffer

Interface and Centronics parallel, IEEE 1284-compliant with 1284-B receptacle
Connectivity

Printer Command HP PCL Level 3
Language

Built-in Fonts Portrait and Landscape: Courier

Power Requirements Power modules: Input voltage 100 to 240 VAC ±10%, 50/60 Hz ±3 Hz

Power Consumption 4.5 watts maximum when idle, 12 watts when printing

Operating Environment Maximum operating temperature: 5° to 40° C (41° to 104° F)

Dimensions (W x H x D) 368 x 178 x 186 mm (14.5 in x 7.02 in x 7.34 in)

Weight 3.2 kg (7.04 lb)

Duty Cycle 20,000 hours MTBF; 67 colour and 416 total black pages per month

Minimum System Microsoft Windows
Requirements 2 MB RAM minimum for monochrome imaging, 4 MB RAM minimum for colour imaging,

Software Compatibility Microsoft Windows®compatible (3.1x, 9x); MS-DOS applications

Product Certifications Safety Certifications - Power Module: UL, CSA, TüV, SEMKO, KEMA, FIMKO, LCIE, SECV,

Warranty One Year Limited Warranty

* Approximate figures. Exact speed will vary depending on the system configuration, software program and document complexity.

Draft quality: up to 3 ppm

Draft quality: 150 x 300 dpi

Draft quality: 150 x 300 dpi

Envelopes:

DL 220 x 110 mm, C6 114 x 162 mm,

A2 Invitation 111 x 146 mm

Transparencies: A4 210 x 297 mm
Labels: A4 210 x 295 mm
Greeting cards: A4 210 x 297 mm

2

on auto-feed (16 to 24 lb), up to 135 g/m2on manual feed (36 lb)

2

(20 to 24 lb)

Cards: 110 to 200 g/m2index maximum (110 lb); 8.5 pt maximum thickness

2

paper

Manual feed: for labels, postcards and envelopes

Portrait only: CG Times and Letter Gothic

Relative Humidity (RH): 10% to 80% RH noncondensing
Recommended operating conditions for best print quality: 15° to 35° C (59°to 95° F),
20% to 80% RH noncondensing
Storage temperature: -40° to 60° C (-40° to 140° F)
Noise levels per ISO 9296:
Sound power: L
Sound pressure: L

wAd

: Letter Quality 6.1 B(A), Draft Quality 6.4 B(A)

pAm

: Letter Quality 46 dB(A), Draft Quality 49 dB(A)

®

3.1x, 95, or 98: 80386 processor or better, MS-DOS 3.3 and above,

10 MB of free hard disk space MS-DOS environment: 8088 processor or better, MS-DOS
(compatible with HP DeskJet 500C driver)

PSB, DEMKO, SEV, NIQT, MITI & NOM1; Safety Certifications - Printer with Power
Module: UL, CSA, TüV, NOM1
EMC Certifications - Printer with Power Module: FCC Class B computing device (USA),
EMC Directive 89/336/EEC (European Community), SABS (South Africa)

Ordering Information

Number Description

Standard Unit

C2642E HP DeskJet 420C inkjet printer

Print Cartridges

HP 51626G HP Black Print Cartridge

HP 51626A HP Large Black Print Cartridge

HP 51625A HP Colour Print Cartridge

Accessories

C3835A HP Premium Inkjet Transparency Film

C3832A HP Premium Inkjet Transparency Film

C6053A HP Premium InkJet Rapid-Dry

51634Z HP Premium Inkjet Paper

C1825A HP Bright White Inkjet Paper

C5977A HP Bright White Inkjet Paper

C6042A HP Greeting Card Paper

C6045A HP Glossy Greeting Card Paper

C2950A/51A IEEE-1284-compliant A-B Parallel

HP has custom-designed the HP DeskJet 420C
printer and its supplies to work together to optimise
print quality

(includes power cable, colour print
cartridge, storage container, printer
software and User’s Guide)

(50 sheets)

(20 sheets)

Transparency Film
(50 sheets)

(200 sheets)

(500 sheets)

(200 sheets

(20 sheets, 20 envelopes)

(10 sheets, 10 envelopes)

Cable 2m/3 m

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