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HP PSC 1510 Review

The HP PSC 1510 all-in-one printer offers some nice touches, such as a removable flatbed scanner cover, stand alone copying, along with a PictBridge camera port. However in exchange for the reduced purchase price, you'll suffer slow picture printing and also having to manually swap ink cartridges. You may even have to put up with some design obstacles, for example a flimsy output tray along with a perplexing control panel. However, if you happen to be a photo dabbler and possess a PictBridge - appropriate camera, this can be a pleasurable appliance to have around the house for the purpose of unplanned printing, scanning, and also copying.

The PSC 1510 includes a polished two-tone grey body and curved edges. This lightweight 11.2-pound multifunction is actually a tight 17.1 inches wide and 16 inches high, nevertheless its length roughly doubles to 23.1 inches once you turn down and totally extend the front paper tray. Up to 50 printouts land on the 100-sheet paper tray, yet you will need to extend the tray to help keep these printouts from falling over the edge.

The control-panel control keys on top of the HP PSC 1510 are the same size and colour, which unfortunately doesn't help out to identify the functions. Although the LED is backlit, glare from overhead lighting and appliances can make it hard to read unless you stand over it. Fortunately, the flatbed scanner lid detaches to help you very easily scan books. Within the right side of the device, a flip-down panel opens to actually expose the black as well as tricolour ink cartridges. To obtain six-ink picture prints, you need to exchange the black cartridge for the optionally available photo ink cartridge.

You can use the PSC 1510 to copy, scan, as well as print text as well as photographs. With no computer, the 1510 makes copies at a range of quality settings. Connect a PictBridge camera by way of the 1510's front USB port to be able to print pictures.

Connect the HP 1510 to your computer, and one-button scanning offers a tweakable preview; having said that, this process ended up being sluggish on our Windows XP machine (you may need to reset the scanning defaults to boost the speed). You can scan to e-mail and to applications including Microsoft Word and Paint Shop Pro or share photos with other people via an ad-laden e-mail template on HP's photo Web site. Image Zone also allows you to create photo-album pages, DVD covers, and also panoramas that stitch together numerous photos. To get complete software support as well as ReadIris optical character recognition (OCR) software, choose the Full installation.

As with many inkjets,HP PSC 1510 ink cartridge expenses may well quickly exceed the 1510's price. The ink tanks give you a low yield of 210 pages with the black cartridge and also 160 pages in the colour one. Higher-capacity black ink cartridges possess a yield of 450 pages. Tricolour ink cartridges possess a yield of 260 pages. The photo ink cartridge is not rated.

In tests, when scanning or printing non-photo graphics, the PSC 1510 worked sluggishly. You must wait around 2.57 minutes (.39ppm) for the 1510 to print a letter-size photograph. We found the rates of speed of the HP 1510 common with regard to a device within its category even though it finished text prints faster than other budget all-in-ones.

The output quality of the HP PSC 1510 appeared to be decent overall. Text prints ended up being superb with regard to an inkjet - less than ideal yet smooth and also sharp, even at 2-point size. Graphics prints exhibited sleek gradients as well as curves which possessed very good colours and also detail. Picture hobbyists may well enjoy the detailing inside the picture prints, but fussy pros won't enjoy the visible dots or even the hefty utilization of cyan, making skin tones look not so rosy and fosters decreased contrast.