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HP OfficeJet 5610 Review

The HP OfficeJet 5610 multifunction will do the job with regard to a home office, even though you will have to skimp on efficiency and also convenience. This particular do-everything gadget can certainly scan, copy, print photos and other documents, and also send and receive faxes. Sadly, it prints slowly plus gives mixed output quality. Digital photo enthusiasts should consider a multifunction printer having memory-card slots and also superior output quality. In case your home office demand business-class features however will not require colour, look at a greyscale laser multifunction printer as an alternative.The tan and brown HP OfficeJet 5610 appears serious and fits a pack of options in its 18-by-16-by-9-inch (WDH) shell. However, this specific design presents short shrift to some basic features. For example, the output tray sits over the input tray, thus you'll have to remove finished prints and also lift the tray out ahead of installing or altering paper. Additionally, the scanner lid doesn't detach to create space with regard to scanning or copying large documents. This specific printer can perform with black, ordinary colour and also photo inks, but as it holds merely two of them at any given time, you must change the black and photo ink tanks when you swap between printing photos and text documents.

The control panel of the 5610 fittingly divides fax and copy options into individual areas, however the 16-by-2-character LCD doesn't have backlighting. Nevertheless, it's a snap to use the menus, and every single mode has its own button for making choices linked to printing, scanning, as well as copying. An over-all Preferences menu enables you to manage a few basics that most multifunction printers don't allow, like the speed that text scrolls across the Liquid crystal display and how long the system waits for you to react to prompts. Alongside a number keypad are five buttons for one-touch speed-dial numbers along with a label space intended for writing and saving often faxed numbers. The copy function has separate buttons with regard to black and colour, therefore the easiest copy requires merely one button push. The 5610 prints, scans, photocopies, as well as faxes, however the deficiency of memory-card slots stops you from deploying it as being a stand-alone printer. A great deal of this particular machine's abilities depend on HP's bundled software (for Windows 98 or later as well as Mac OS 10.2.8 and up). HP's scanning utility has the ability to auto correct colour on faded originals and get rid of scratches and dust specks. It's possible to manually apply settings in order to lighten or even darken the scan and to manage the colour saturation. The HP Image Zone utility, a mix of photo archiver as well as photo-album designer, provides tools with regard to editing as well as applying special effects. Nevertheless, it is recommended that you not mess your hard drive by installing this specific big software if you currently have photo-editing software. Employing a free software download, it is possible to scan pages and convert them to text via optical character recognition (OCR). HP in addition offers software with regard to faxing documents from your pc, although the 5610 simply cannot receive digital faxes and park them on your computer.

Though it does not print photos without your pc, the 5610 will execute a number of other stand-alone jobs. You can send faxes instantly or delay them; you are able to enter in a forwarding number for incoming faxes; additionally, the 5610 can perform poll faxing - that's, call a different fax machine in order to ask for a waiting document. The 5610 prints reports to ensure that you will realize when your faxes are going astray, and it has caller ID, a junk-fax barrier, as well as distinctive-ring-detection capabilities.

HP delivers the OfficeJet 5610 with a standard-size black-ink HP OfficeJet 5610 ink cartridge plus a tricolour cartridge. The photo ink does not come in the box. HP claims the standard-size black cartridge lasts for 220 pages. There's furthermore a high-capacity black cartridge, perfect for approximately 450 pages.

The 5610 presented slow overall performance on the majority of functions in our tests. It printed text at a poky 4.08ppm (pages per minute). The 5610 required some three minutes to print a photograph, common with regard to a unit in its class. Nevertheless the 5610 finished a black-and-white scan at the speed of 7.59ppm.

We awarded the HP OfficeJet 5610 good marks to its print quality, since it turned out text that was well-defined, nice and clean, black, and legible at smaller point sizes. Colour artwork showed very good detail, shapes as well as geometry ended up free of distortion, and also colours looked accurate as well as saturated. The glossy photo prints included such high-quality formation that we weren't able to discern the ink dots under magnification. The 5610 created razor-sharp information in pictures, however the colours appeared flat. The big letdown was the scan quality: colour scans ended up being among the list of poorest we have observed lately - they looked gritty and also blotchy, together with noticeable banding and also muted colours. Greyscale scans were more complete and displayed adequate fine detail with a decent selection of greys as well as no artifacting.