Some things just sound too good to be true. For example: Rs.l6,000 color laser. Surely at that price there must be something seriously wrong with it: impossibly slow speeds, poor output quality, an astronomically high cost per page, or ... something. Right? Well, no. The HP Color LaserJet 1600 is our new Editors' Choice. It's a good choice for a personal color laser printer for the home or any size office.

Graphics are easily good enough for any internal business use, and I'd feel comfortable giving them to an important client or potential client in anything short of an advertising handout. Overall, however, photo quality is better than most color laser printers can manage and easily good enough for things like client newsletters and printing Web pages.