HP color DeskJets priced for offices: powered by 11-MHz i960 chip. (DeskJet 1200C, DeskJet 1200C/PS ink-jet printers) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)

Hewlett-Packard Co. this week will debut its next-generation color ink-jet printer, a device that could propel color to the corporate desktop.

"This printer will serve as a means for offices to introduce color into [business documents] at a reasonable cost, " said Marco Boer, senior analyst at International Data Corp., in Framingham, Mass.

The DeskJet 1200C and the DeskJet 1200C/PS offer 7-page-per-minute (ppm) monochrome printing speeds and 1 ppm in full color.

The printers sport 600-by-300-dot-per-inch resolution and are based on an Intel i960 11-MHz processor. Both come standard with 45 scalable fonts (35 Intellifont and 10 TrueType typefaces), PCL5 …