Olivetti JP90 Portable Printer

Olivetti JP90

Extremely compact portable printer which comes with a range of battery options. Ideal for use alongside a notebook for monochrome and occasional colour. It's a bit pricey, but print quality is reasonably good.

Price £210 inc VAT; bundled with Colour Kit: £209.00 £245 inc VAT February 1997

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"The JP-90 has to be one of the cutest and certainly the smallest printers I've ever seen. Clearly intended to be a companion to a portable PC, the JP-90 has the shape and size of a large house brick.

Along with its size, the JP-90 has several other features that lend it to a life on the road. It has the ability to run from batteries. Ten alkaline cells last around 80 pages. For even more flexibility, you could choose from one of two optional rechargeable power packs: one based on NiCad which is good for around 80 pages (£37), the other NiMH, good for 140 pages (£70). You can even purchase a car cigar-lighter adaptor (£19), if you're desperate to feel productive in the M25 rush hour."

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"The JP90 is very compact. With a 30x13cm footprint, and a height of 6.5cm, it's not much larger than a brick (though not as heavy). Simplicity is the key - there's nothing on this printer that need not be there. While the plastic casing isn't the sturdiest I've ever seen, with some care the JP90 could cope with life both in and out of the office.

The top lid flips up to form a paper-tray capable of accepting 15 sheets of paper. The ink cartridge slots horizontally into the plastic cradle. Paper feeds through from the back and in a U-shaped path to appear again at the top of the tray, where a limited number of sheets can remain during multi-page print jobs. There's nothing particularly clever here but nevertheless, paper-handling on the JP90 was more than acceptable, though it can't handle thick media weighing more than 80gsm."

Our model complete with spare inks has a serial number of 40140X0505945 and was kindly donated by Kevin Meynell