HP LaserJet 5L, 5L-FS, and 5L Xtra Printers

HP LaserJet 5L, 5L-FS, and 5L Xtra Printers - Product Specifications

TABLE OF CONTENTS

MODEL NUMBERS

SERIAL NUMBER LOCATION

HP LASERJET 5L PRINTER DESCRIPTION

HP LASERJET 5L PRINTER FEATURES

INTERFACES AND NETWORK INFORMATION

RECOMMENDED CABLES

FONT INFORMATION

MEDIA SPECIFICATIONS

MEDIA HANDLING

TONER INFORMATION

MEMORY INFORMATION

PERFORMANCE

PHYSICAL SPECIFICATIONS

ELECTRICAL SPECIFICATIONS

ENVIRONMENTAL SPECIFICATIONS

WARRANTY

SAFETY CERTIFICATIONS

Model Numbers

Description	Model Number**
HP LaserJet 5L printer - Enhanced PCL 5, Bitronics parallel interface, (U.S.) 100 or 115 V +/- 10 percent, 50 or 60 Hz +/- 2 Hz.	C3941A #ABA
HP LaserJet 5L FS printer - (with FontSmart software) Enhanced PCL 5, Bitronics parallel interface, (U.S.) 100 or 115 V +/- 10 percent, 50 or 60 Hz +/- 2 Hz.	C3941B #100 U.S. only
HP LaserJet 5L Xtra printer (with HP Xtra CD containing 16 popular software packages) Enhanced PCL 5, Bitronics parallel interface, (U.S.) 100 or 115 V +/- 10 percent, 50 or 60 Hz +/- 2 Hz	C3941C US only

**NOTE: The HP LaserJet 5L printer (C3941A) has options that are country specific. The following lists all country options available.

Option	Country	Language	Voltage
ABA	U.S.	American English	110/115 V 50/60 Hz
AB0	Taiwan	Taiwanese	110/115 V 50/60 Hz
AB1	Korea	Korean	220/240 V 50 Hz
AB2	China	Simplified Chinese	220/240 V 50 Hz
AB3	Thailand	Thai	220/240 V 50 Hz
AB8	Turkey	Turkish	220/240 V 50 Hz
AB9	Portugal	Portuguese	220/240 V 50 Hz
ABB	Europe	European English	220/240 V 50 Hz
ABD	Germany	German	220/240 V 50 Hz
ABE	Spain	Spanish	220/240 V 50 Hz
ABF	France	French	220/240 V 50 Hz
ABG	Australia	European English	220/240 V 50 Hz
ABH	Netherlands	Dutch	220/240 V 50 Hz
ABJ	Japan	Japanese	110/115 V 50/60 Hz
ABL	Canada	English	110/115 V 50/60 Hz
ABM	Mexico	Spanish	110/115 V 50/60 Hz
ABN	Norway	Norwegian	220/240 V 50 Hz
ABP	Switzerland	German	220/240 V 50 Hz
ABQ	Switzerland	French	220/240 V 50 Hz
ABS	Sweden	Swedish	220/240 V 50 Hz
ABU	United Kingdom	European English	220/240 V 50 Hz
ABX	Finland	Finnish	220/240 V 50 Hz
ABY	Denmark	Danish	220/240 V 50 Hz
ABZ	Italy	Italian	220/240 V 50 Hz
AC4	Brazil	Portuguese	110/115 V 50/60 Hz
AC8	Argentina	Spanish	220/240 V 50 Hz
ACB	Russia	Russian (Cyrillic)	220/240 V 50 Hz
ACD	Switzerland	English	220/240 V 50 Hz
ACJ	India	Indian	220/240 V 50 Hz
ACN	Switzerland	Italian	220/240 V 50 Hz
ACQ	South Africa	European English	220/240 V 50 Hz
AKB	Czechoslovakia	Czech	220/240 V 50 Hz
AKC	Hungary	Hungarian	220/240 V 50 Hz
AKD	Poland	Polish	220/240 V 50 Hz
AKJ	Israel	English	220/240 V 50 Hz
AKV	Latin America	Spanish	220/240 V 50 Hz
AR2	Greece	European English	220/240 V 50 Hz
AR3	E. Central Europe	English	220/240 V 50 Hz
ARG	Saudi Arabia	Arabic	110/115 V 50/60 Hz
ARS	Asia Pacific	English	220/240 V 50 Hz
ART	North Asia	International English	220/240 V 50 Hz
ARU	Mid East	Arabic	220/240 V 50 Hz
ARV	Caribbean	American English	220/240 V 50 Hz
ARW	Jordan, Lebanon, and North Africa	Arabic	220/240 V 50 Hz

Serial Number Location

Located on the bottom of the printer near the front edge.

HP LaserJet 5L Printer Description

The HP LaserJet 5L printer is an inexpensive 4 page per minute laser printer designed for small office or home environments for use by individuals or small workgroups. The HP LaserJet 5L printer uses HP's Enhanced PCL 5 printer language for use with (IBM compatible) PCs.

The printer meets high document quality expectations with true 600 x 600 dot per inch (dpi) resolution, Resolution Enhancement technology (REt), 210 levels of gray at 106 lines per inch in Windows, and 26 scalable typefaces to choose from.

Two trays (one holding 100 sheets and the other a priority single sheet input slot) allow for the use of specialty papers from postcard to legal sizes. A straight through paper path allows for printing up to 42 lb. bond weight.

One empty memory slot allows for memory expandability for a total of 9 MB. Linking the HP LaserJet printer directly with a LAN is easily done with HP's external JetDirect EX print servers, and the HP Printer Pal lets you receive faxes on plain paper.

The HP LaserJet 5L-FS and 5L Xtra printers are exactly the same as the HP LaserJet 5L printer with the exception of the software included in the box. The HP LaserJet 5L-FS printer comes with HP FontSmart software in addition to the normal software included with the HP LaserJet 5L printer. The HP LaserJet 5L Xtra printer has all the software, including HP FontSmart, on a CD-ROM. This CD also includes additional software from 16 different software companies.

HP LaserJet 5L Printer Features

High Quality Printing

* 600 dots per inch

* 26 scalable fonts

* 210 selectable levels of gray at 106 lines per inch in Windows

* Enhanced HP PCL 5

Easy to Use

* Straight through paper path for printing heavier media

* Small footprint and quiet operation

* One button front panel operation

* Prints on a wide range of paper sizes (3 x 5 to 8.5 x 14)

Efficient

* 4 pages per minute output

* Memory Enhancement Technology (MEt) allows full page 600 dpi printing with only 1 MB of memory

* Economode setting for toner conservation

Interfaces and Network Information

The HP LaserJet 5L printer has one high speed bidirectional IEEE 1284 compliant parallel port (large B type connector).

The following network operating systems are supported with an optional HP JetDirect External Network print server:

Novell NetWare, Microsoft (R) LAN Manager, Windows for Workgroups, Windows NT, Windows 95, IBM LAN Server, HP-UX, SunOS, Solaris, SCO UNIX (R), IBM AIX, and Apple EtherTalk.

Recommended Cables

HP recommends the use of an IEEE-1284 compliant parallel cable with the HP LaserJet 5L printer.

Cable	HP Part Number
Two meter A to B connector	C2950A
Three meter A to B connector	C2951A

Font Information

Built-in Scalable Fonts

Albertus Medium, Extra Bold

Antique Olive, Italic, Bold

CG Times, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic

Coronet

Courier, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic

Letter Gothic, Italic, Bold

Univers Medium, Medium Italic, Bold, Bold Italic

Univers Condensed Medium, Italic, Bold, Bold ltalic

Wingdings

NOTE: Additional fonts are included with the HP LaserJet 5L-FS and 5L Xtra printers with the use of HP FontSmart software.

Font Cartridges

None. (The HP LaserJet 5L printer does not have a font cartridge slot.)

Resident Symbol Sets

Symbol Set ID	Symbol Set Name
8U	Roman-8
7J	DeskTop
19U	Windows 3.1 Latin 1 "ANSI"
0N	ISO 8859/1 Latin 1
10U	PC-8*
12U	PC-850
10J	PS Text
12J	MC Text
13J	Ventura International
11U	PC-8 D/N (Danish/Norwegian)
14J	Ventura US
1U	Legal
9U	Windows 3.0 "Latin 1"
6J	Microsoft Publishing
17U	PC-852
9T	PC-8 Turkish
2N	ISO 8859/2 Latin 2
9E	Windows 3.1 Latin 2
5N	ISO 8859/9 Latin 5
5T	Windows 3.1 Latin 5
6M	Ventura Math
8M	Math-8
15U	Pi-Font
5M	PS Math
19M	Symbol
579L	Wingdings

NOTE: * The default symbol set is PC-8. This is a change from earlier HP LaserJet printers which defaulted to the Roman-8 symbol set.

Media Specifications

General Paper Specifications
Acid Content	5.5 pH minimum
Ash Content	Not to exceed 10 percent
Basis Weight	Using Paper Output Bin: 16 to 28 pound bond (60 to 105 g/m sq.) Using Front Output Slot: 16 to 43 pound bond (60 to 163 g/m sq.)
Brightness	83 percent minimum
Caliper	0.003 to 0.008 inch (0.09 to 0.2 mm)
Curl	ln-ream: flat within 0.2 inch (5 mm)
Furnish (Composition)	100 percent chemical wood pulp and/or cotton fiber
Fusing Compatibility	Must not scorch, melt, offset, or release hazardous emissions when heated to 392 degrees F (200 degrees C) for 0.1 second.
Finishing	Cut sheet to within 0.03 inch (0.8 mm) of nominal, 0.20 degrees square
Grain	Long grain
Moisture Content	4 to 6 percent by weight
Opacity	85 percent minimum
Smoothness	100 to 250 (Sheffield)
Stiffness	1.6 minimum machine direction, 0.6 minimum cross direction (Taber)
Packaging	Polylaminated moisture proof ream wrap
Wax Pick	12 (Dennison) minimum

Envelopes
Basis Weight	20 to 24 pound bond (75 to 90 g/m sq.) single thickness
Caliper	.0033 to 0.0058 inch (0.084 to 0.14 mm), single thickness

Adhesive Labels
Caliper	Must not exceed 0.007 inch (0.19 mm)
	Label material must not discolor, melt, offset, or release hazardous emissions when heated to 392 degrees F (200 degrees C) for 0.1 second

Transparencies
Caliper	0.0039 to 0.0043 inch (0.10 to 0.11 mm)
	Transparency must not discolor, melt, offset, or release hazardous emissions when heated to 392 degrees F (200 degrees C) for 0.1 second

Media Handling

Supported Media Sizes and Tray Capacities

Bin	Supported Media	Bin Capacity
Paper Input Bin (Load printing side forward, top side down)	Minimum paper size 3 x 5 inches (76 x 127 mm) Maximum paper size 8.5 x 14 inches (215.9 x 355.6 mm)
	Paper	100 sheets of 20-lb paper (75 g/m sq.)
	Transparencies	75
	Labels	50
	Envelopes	10 envelopes
Single Sheet Input Slot (Load printing side forward, top side down)	Supports the same Media types and sizes as the Paper Input Bin above	One sheet at a time
Output Bin Capacity	Paper output bin holds 100 sheets

Standard Supported Sizes for Either Input Bins

Executive (7.25 x 10.5 inches)

Letter (8.5 x 11 inches)

A4 (210 x 297 mm)

A5 (148 x 210 mm)

Legal (8.5 x 14 inches)

COM 10 Envelopes (4.13 x 9.5 inches)

Monarch Envelopes (3.88 x 7.5 inches)

DL Envelopes (110 x 220 mm)

C5 Envelopes (162 x 229)

B5 Envelopes (176 x 250 mm)

Other custom sized media

Printable Area

* Left/Right margin: 0.25 inch (6.4 mm)

* Top/Bottom margin: 0.17 inch (4.3 mm)

Toner Information

The HP LaserJet 5L printer uses an HP LaserJet toner cartridge with microfine toner (product number

C3906A). Its capacity is approximately 2,500 pages at 5 percent coverage.

The HP LaserJet 5L printer is capable of Economode printing which uses up to 50 percent less toner.

Memory Information

The HP LaserJet 5L printer comes standard with 1 MB of RAM. One memory slot is available for a single DRAM memory upgrade. The printer is upgradeable to a total of 9 MB.

Memory Upgrade	Part Number
1 MB	C3939A
2 MB	C3938A
4 MB	C3148A
8 MB	(8 MB memory cards are available from third party vendors only)

NOTE: The HP LaserJet 5L printer accepts one 70 nanosecond or faster (such as 50 nanoseconds), 5 Volt, DRAM memory card (credit card style memory) meeting JEDIA* specifications rated at 1, 2, 4, and 8 MB. It is not compatible with PCMCIA memory cards or SIMM memory.

*JEDIA stands for Japanese Electronic Device Industry Association.

Performance

Maximum Duty Cycle	4,000 pages per month.
Pages per minute	4 (maximum engine speed, software application dependent)
First Page Out	23 seconds from receipt of a page of data
Warm up time	None (instant-on fuser eliminates warm-up time)
Processor	24 MHz Motorola 68030 processor.

Physical Specifications

Width	13.2 inches (336 mm)
Depth	12.3 inches (312 mm)
Storage Height	8.9 inches (226 mm)
Operating Height	14.6 inches (371 mm)
Net Weight (with toner cartridge installed)	15.9 lb. (7.2 kg)

Electrical Specifications

Voltage	100/120 v (+/-10 percent), 50/60 Hz (+/- 2 Hz) 127 v (+/-10 percent), 60 Hz (+/- 2 Hz) 220/240 v (+/-10 percent), 50 Hz (+/- 2 Hz) 220 v (+/-10 percent), 60 Hz (+/- 2 Hz)
Power consumption (approx.)	During printing 100 W (average) During standby or SleepMode 6W (Energy Star Compliant)
Minimum Recommended Circuit Capacity	3.5 amps at 120 volts, 1.8 amps at 220 volts

Environmental Specifications

Temperature (operating)	10 degrees C to 32.5 degrees C (50 degrees F to 90.5 degrees F)
Temperature (non-operating)	0 degrees C to 40 degrees C (32 degrees F to 104 degrees F)
Humidity (operating)	20-80 percent (no condensation)
Humidity (non-operating)	10-80 percent (no condensation)
Noise Level during printing	50 dB operator position, 41dB bystander, 5.5 Bels (Lwad) Sound Power Level (per IS0 9296)
Noise Level during Standby and SleepMode	Silent

Warranty

* Hardware: One year parts and labor through HP authorized service dealer or HP Express Exchange.

* Optional HP SupportPack is available for an additional two years Express Exchange coverage or on Site Service.

* Software: 90 day warranty

NOTE: Express Exchange is valid in the U.S. only.

Safety Certifications

* UL listed

* CSA certified

* Complies with IEC 825/EN 60825 and IEC 950/EN 60950

* FCC Class B certified

* CISPR-22 class B

* CDRH certified Class 1 Laser Product (safe for office/EDP use)

* Energy Star compliant

DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY ( ACCORDING TO ISO / IEC GUIDE 22 AND EN 45014 )

Manufacture's Name: Hewlett - Packard Company

Manufacture's Address: 11311 Chinden Boulevard

Boise, Idaho 83714 - 1021 USA

declares that the product

Product Name: Laser Printer

Model Number: LaserJet 5L, C3941A, C3941B, C3941C

Product Options: All

conforms to the following Product Specifications:

Safety: IEC 950: 1991 + A1 + A2 / EN 60950: 1992 + A1 + A2

IEC 825: 1984 + A1 / EN 60825:1991 Class 1

EMC: CISPR - 22:1993 / EN 55022:1994 Class B1

EN 50082 -1:1992

IEC 801 - 2:1991 / prEN55024 - 2:1992 - 3 kV CD, 8kV AD

IEC 801 - 3:1984 / prEN55024 - 3:1991 - 3 V / m

IEC 801 - 4:1988 / prEN55024 - 4:1992 - 0.5 kV Signal Lines,

1.0 kV Power Lines

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