What You Need To Know About The HP OfficeJet 5610
Posted: Tuesday, July 21, 2009
by Rory Callahan
http://www.juliasbargains.com/
Officejet printers by HP are one of the leading printing and imaging machines that are geared for use by homes and small offices. The HP Officejet 5610 is an exceptional printer. The HP Officejet 5610 is a printer built for reliability, which is user friendly and easy to set up. It has very good regular print quality and prints good photos also. One feature of the HP Officejet 5610 which separates it from other all-in-one printers is that it is built with separate black and color ink systems, which means you don't have to have all of the color ink cartridges installed to print out pages of text.
The HP Officejet 5610 is not built with photo printing in mind, and does not have features one would expect from photo printers such as the separate paper tray and LCD screen. The HP OfficeJet 5610 is affordable and takes care of most of the standard functions for your home-office, but it doesn't separate itself from the more feature-rich multifunctions.
The HP Officejet 5610 is a versatile four-in-one office machine for printing, copying, scanning and sending faxes. The HP OfficeJet 5610 prints, scans, photocopies, and faxes, but the lack of memory-card slots prevents you from using it as a stand-alone printer. The HP OfficeJet 5610 prints reports so that you'll know if your faxes are going astray, and it has caller ID, a junk-fax barrier, and distinctive-ring-detection features. HP also provides software for faxing documents from your computer, though the 5610 can't receive digital faxes and park them on the computer.
The OfficeJet 5610 ships with a standard-size black-ink cartridge and a tricolor cartridge. The HP OfficeJet 5610 took about 3 minutes to print a photo which is average for this kind of device. It won't print photos without your computer, but the 5610 can accomplish a number of other stand-alone tasks. The not so good: The HP 5610 uses expensive ink, has poor scan quality, prints slowly, and has no PictBridge port or memory-card readers. Digital photo enthusiasts should consider other multifunction printers with memory-card slots and better output quality, like the Canon Pixma MP130 or the more expensive Canon MP760.
We gave the HP OfficeJet 5610 high marks for its print quality, as it turned out text that was sharp, clean, black, and legible at small point sizes. It has gone through a rigorous testing and quality assurance process and run through an actual print test.
The HP Officejet 5610 is, by all measures, a remarkable machine. The HP OfficeJet 5610 is affordable and provides most of the home-office basics, but it doesn't stand out from the crowd of better-equipped multifunctions. The HP OfficeJet 5610 is a little bit more (you can find it for $125 or so), but works fine with MEPIS as a printer/fax/scanner.
Unlike many of the all in one printers, the HP Officejet 5610 is built with separate black and color ink systems, which means you don't have to have all of the color ink cartridges installed to print out a simple page of text. The HP Officejet 5610 is not constructed with photo printing in mind, and does not have features you might expect from a photo printer such as the separate paper tray and LCD screen. The HP Officejet 5610 is an overall good printer with a small price tag and is brimming with features.
Rory H. Callahan has been a professional reviewer and commentator on technology and consumer products for more than ten years. Make sure to check out Rory's excellent information on selecting an hp printer or a laser printer
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