![]() ![]() Considering the difference in cost I am willing to live with that. Apparently this is due to some sort of copyright problem. You just have to wait for the printer to stop working to know when to replace the cartridge. Pros: Print quality including color is indistinguishable from the manufacturer supplied cartridges.Ĭons: The ink level chip cannot be reset so the remaining ink indicator does not work. I have had no problem with these cartridges and intend to order them again. The quality control of this cartridge seems to be up to the task. ![]() ![]() However, third party cartridge refills are the answer only if they don't damage the printer by clogging up the print head. Well if I don't have to play that game I won't. I know that manufacturers are willing to take a loss on the printer price because the machines will only accept their ink cartridges and that is where they make their money. My biggest gripe with consumer quality printers is the cost of ink. Canon’s Pixma MX892 is a similarly straightforward and competent choice.Excellent print quality but you can't tell if you are low on ink This slightly lagged the HP PhotoSmart Premium e-All-in-One (199 direct, 4 stars), which finished the same tests in 4:03, but it's faster than the Lexmark Platinum Pro905 (399 direct, 3.5 stars. It’s definitely worth consideration–especially by photo mavens. HP’s Photosmart 7520 offers outstanding print quality and ease of use, with all the features most small or home office users need. The photo black cartridge costs $10 for 130 photos (7.7 cents per photo), or $18 for 290 photos (6.2 cents per photo). The Photosmart 7520 is an excellent printer for home offices and for families who will take advantage of its wireless printing features like ePrint and Google Cloud Print. The XL black offers only slight savings at $23 for 550 pages or 4.2 cpp. You can reduce color ink costs significantly with the XL cartridges, which are $18 for 750 pages, or 2.4 cpp. That’s just shy of 15 cents for a four-color page. The standard cyan, magenta, and yellow cartridges cost $10 each and last for 300 pages (3.3 cents per page), while the standard black costs $12 and lasts for 250 pages, or 4.8 cents per page (cpp). ![]() Ink costs for the Photosmart 7520 are about average for a mainstream inkjet. Even draft-setting documents, which issue forth considerably faster, are more than legible. Text is sharp and dark at default settings, and nearly laser-like at best settings. Monochrome graphics lacked a distracting green or purple tinge. Photos, printed using a high-quality setting, feature an elegantly cool color palette and excellent detail in even dark areas. The Photosmart 7520’s output quality is among the best we’ve seen from an inkjet. Scanning and copying speeds are a tad faster than average compared with other inkjet MFPs we’ve tested. The HP PhotoSmart 7510 e-All-in-One (199.99 direct) is a multifunction printer (MFP) geared primarily to home use, though its automatic document feeder (ADF) and paper capacity give it some. A letter-size, high-resolution photo printed on the Mac to glossy paper took about 2.5 minutes (a middling rate of 0.4 ppm). The same photo on letter-size photo paper took 62 seconds (0.98 ppm). A 4-by-6-inch photo printed at default settings on plain (letter-size) paper took about 16 seconds (or 3.75 ppm). The HP Photosmart 6520 e-All-in-One offers reasonably high-quality output along with Web-based features that are available only if you connect it to your network by Wi-Fi. We chose a higher-quality setting for printing color photos, producing slower times but better output quality (see below). Monochrome pages of text and text with graphics emerged at 9.5 pages per minute (ppm) on the PC and 9 ppm on the Mac. The unit achieved average to better speeds in our tests. The Photosmart can print and scan in duplex (both sides of the page), but duplex scanning requires two passes. However, the lid for the A4 flatbed scanner doesn’t telescope to accommodate thicker materials. There’s also a 25-sheet automatic document feeder (ADF) for the scanner. The main paper tray holds 125 sheets, and integrated into its top is a secondary photo tray that holds up to 20 sheets of photo paper (5-by-7-inch maximum). While the Photosmart 7520 is photo-centric, its paper-handling features extend well beyond that. ![]()
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