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Fast wireless printer with auto-duplexing,discount inkjet cartridges and full range of bargain supplies available at cheap prices for this ink printer.

HP DeskJet 6980 Review

If perhaps you happen to be wanting to share an inexpensive inkjet, HP's WiFi-equipped DeskJet 6980 is a good option and additionally offers beautiful photo results.

The DeskJet 6980 does not need an outside print server or USB dongle to receive print jobs out of your wireless access point, hub, or router. Its outstanding setup guidebook describes and helps you select among three means of establishing a wireless network and getting all of your 802.11b/g equipment to connect.

If you would preferably stick to wires, the DeskJet in addition has a USB port (cable not included) and also Ethernet port (cable included). You may also load the software on a number of PCs, so that you can put the machine in a central location for all systems to share.

The 6980 has a sleek, angular profile and a high-gloss, bluish-charcoal chassis that is a considerable change for the better instead of the textured grey or beige associated with standard office equipment.

The 150-sheet input tray juts out from the printer's front. For higher-use environments, HP offers a 250-sheet second tray and a duplexer designed for automated two-sided printing however these only come as standard in the DeskJet 6980dt version.

Setting up the DeskJet 6980 is certainly straightforward. Fill up the paper tray, turn on the printer, slip in the ink tanks (one black as well as one tricolour), link up the USB cable, and load the software. Inside 15 minutes we were ready to go.

HP provides an intelligent printer driver which enables you to select print options like paper type and quality mode yourself, as well as pick a print job via a drop-down menu and let the DeskJet figure out the best settings. You can print directly from compatible digital cameras via a convenient, front-mounted PictBridge port.

The set up wizard in addition installs HP Photosmart Essential in order to make dealing with photographs a little easier. As soon as the program searches and produces a picture database from your My Pictures folder, you'll be able to add keyword tags in order to speed searches; carry out basic editing activities including cropping, eliminating red-eye, or perhaps modifying brightness as well as contrast; produce photo album pages, cards, along with other tasks; and also e-mail or share photos online.

If we printed in the highest quality configurations, a three-page Microsoft Word document was produced in 1 minute and 44 seconds; a five-page PDF leaflet which has text, graphics, and also photos needed an acceptable 6 minutes and 38 seconds; while a nine-page PowerPoint deck required almost 16 minutes.

Exactly where the DeskJet 6980 truly excels is in its end product quality. Serif and sans-serif fonts were legible even at very little sizes. Our Acrobat document revealed razor-sharp text as well as brilliant colours, plus our PowerPoint slides revealed absolutely no bleeding edges with nearby colour areas, even retaining slim white hairlines on a dark blue backdrop.

Whenever we exchanged the black HP DeskJet 6980 ink cartridge for HP's recommended photo cartridge to test six-colour printing, we ended up being surprised. A 4 by 6-inch photo shot with a 3-megapixel point-and-shoot digital camera boasted true-to-life skin hues and also decent fine detail both in highlighted and also shadowed parts. Additionally , it printed the picture in a reasonable time of 1 minute and 33 seconds, generating a frame-ready 8 by 10-inch picture enlargement in 3 minutes and 20 seconds. HP's grey photo cartridge intended for black-and-white prints demonstrated beautiful fine detail, in addition to depth as well as warmth that you do not generally see within a grayscale print.

Just like just about every inkjet, the 6980's small cost price conceals the cost of comparatively costly replacement ink cartridges yet we actually believe HP provides a success with the DeskJet 6980. The advantage associated with wireless printing coupled with outstanding end result quality help make this more than a workaday office printer.