HP Offers a More Rugged Portable Printer The Officejet 100 is a printer that you can check into your luggage and can either plug into a wall outlet or run off a battery.

Mobile printing is one of the storied death zones in small-business technology. Imaging tools svelte enough for road duty usually are royal pains to use, and print--at most--a few awful-looking pages per minute.

HP is trying to fix that with its new Officejet 100 ($280). The 6-pound, 7-by-14-inch printer, while far from feather-light, is portable enough for checked luggage and prints a surprisingly high-quality 22 pages per minute in black and white and 18 pages per minute in color.