HP Photosmart 5510 e-All-in-One Review: Nice Look, Nice Prints, Stunted Driver - mabreyyoulded

At a Glance

Expert's Rating

Pros

• Cheap to buy
• Good output superior

Cons

• Limited layout features
• No two-sided printing process

Our Finding of fact

Aft creating an affordable MFP with a nice touch screen and attractive output, H.P. spoils the deal with a dumbed-down driver that doesn't even support manual duplexing.

The healthy news about the $100 (as of February 17, 2012) HP Photosmart 5510 e-All-in-Unrivaled gloss inkjet multifunction printer (copy/print/scan) is that it looks uppercase in a small or home office, produces very good end product, and is exceptionally easy to set up and use. The risky news is that HP has paired it with a feature-deprived driver that doesn't even help with manual duplexing. American Samoa James Coburn said to Mel Gibson in the movie Payback, "That's just unornamented mingy." Not to mention environmentally irresponsible.

The Photosmart 5510 is like its cousins–the Photosmart 6510 and the Photosmart 7510–therein IT provides a color LCD touchscreen with contextually lit buttons that you use to assure the auto's functions. The touchscreen gives the unit a very modern look and makes it very slowly to use.

Report handling is rudimentary: A flip-out anterior instrument panel reveals an open bay with an 80-sheet input area. Output falls into the same space, with a cleverly designed catch that swivels outward. There's no mechanical duplexing, and there's atomic number 102 automatic papers feeder (ADF) to move out with the A4/letter-size scanner. The scanner lid doesn't telescope to accommodate thicker items much as books.

HP omitted a number of computer software features from the Photosmart 5510's number one wood. You can print and scan, but you can't specify layout options such every bit booklet, post-horse, or multiple cut-size pages on a single sheet. Mop up of all, this MFP doesn't support manual duplex printing. One round of printing the odd-page sheets in a batch, turning them over, dimensioning them correctly, and past printing the even-number sheets–will have most users ruing the day they bought this building block. Connected the other hand, civilized features much as thrust scanning (scanning to a PC using the printer's control jury) and printing via email using HP's ePrint are included. Go figure. You may also print photos from Secure Integer or MultiMediaCard memory cards inserted into a front slot.

The Photosmart 5510 prints normal, single-sided pages quickly. Text pages emerged at 9 pages per hour on the PC and 8.5 ppm along the Mac. Snapshot-size photos written to unembellished composition at about 4 ppm and to glossy photo paper at just low-level 1.9 ppm. Mark speeds for full-paginate photos printed on the Mac were a trifle slower than average at 0.4 ppm. The Photosmart 5510 produced in no time, and very nice-look, draft-mode documents. Scans were reasonably fast as well.

The Photosmart 5510's looked good when it arrived, excessively. Though a tad on the light side, photos had a realistic color palette connected both unembellished and glossy photo newspaper publisher. Schoolbook looked dark, crisp, and cutting. Scans had a slightly cool temperature and exhibited minor striation issues, simply overall they were more than acceptable.

The Photosmart 5510's replacement ink costs are about average. The standard black pickup costs $12 and lasts for 250 pages (which works out to 4.8 cents per page), while the standard cyan, magenta, and yellow color cartridges cost $10 for each one and live on for 300 pages (3.33 cents per discolor per page). The resulting 15-cent four-color page is a tad pricier than average. You can take down the color ink costs aside using XL cartridges, which cost $18 and last for 750 pages (that's 2.4 cents per color per page–almost a centime per page cheaper for each color. The $23 Twoscore black has a less dramatic effectuate on expenses: It lasts for just 550 pages and costs 4.2 cents per page–only when 0.6 cent cheaper per page than the criterial disgraceful magazine.

Removing software features that already exist, cost nothing, and save time and newspaper is misguided–and that's by far the kindest adjective I could think of. Hopefully, HP will reconsideration this decision and I'll be competent to recommend the Photosmart 5510 as the bargain information technology should be. Meanwhile, I'll call it the Photodumb and recommend that you opt instead for a basic inkjet MFP that carries a more right-hand, environmentally responsible driver–the Epson Stylus NX430, say, or the Brother MFC-J430w. Or cheque the otherwise identical HP Photosmart 5514, which includes an auto-duplexer for only $20 more than.

Source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/468525/hp_photosmart_5510_e_all_in_one_review_nice_look_nice_prints_stunted_driver.html

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