HP Photosmart Premium C309 printer ink cartridges

The HP Photosmart Premium C309 Fax All-in-One is designed for busy home users looking for a wireless all-in-one that will help them do more in less time – from multi-page printing, scanning, copying and faxing to photo, CD/DVD and Bluetooth printing.Ink cartridges for this printer are available in two capacities, Cartridge Concept offer both the standard HP364 cartridges and the high yield HP364XL cartridges at discount prices. To achieve the most effective cost per page prints it is best to purchase the high yield HP364XL version.

HP Photosmart C309a Review

The HP Photosmart C309a seems much more like a workplace device as opposed to anything you'd probably make use of for arts and crafts jobs sporting an eggshell white external surfaces and in excess of two dozen buttons. Presuming you modify your photographs on your computer before printing them, you won't need to push most of these buttons except when you happen to be copying or faxing. If you would rather print straight from the camera, you can preview your photos making use of the integrated 2.4-inch display as well as make rudimentary edits-including automatic red-eye removal-without at any time firing up your computer.

The unit boasts USB, wired Ethernet, and Wi-Fi connectivity, plus supports Bluetooth networking, as well. Adding the printer to a home network was in fact easy. The Photosmart has both a PictBridge interface as well as an integrated media-card reader which can accommodate pretty much any of the common platforms, like CompactFlash, MMC, SD, XD, as well as Memory Stick. The Photosmart can print on plain paper (up to legal size), up to 110-pound card stock, envelopes, labels, photo paper, as well as CDs. Additionally , it incorporates a built-in duplexer for two-sided printing.

The device employs HP's Vivera-series ink, which is available in cyan, magenta, yellow, and also two forms of black cartridges (photo black as well as black, the second of which has a greater quantity of ink. That is a huge plus if you think you print more documents compared to photographs. HP in addition provides multi-packs and XL cartridges at a lower price (on a cost-per-page basis).

HP suggests making use of its own photo paper, which gives you a feature that HP calls Auto Sense. Special symbols at the back of the paper inform the unit of the kind of paper being employed, the dimensions of the paper (to a maximum of 8.5 x 11 inches-but not the more picture-frame-friendly 8×10), and also the print quality settings the unit ought to make use of. The paper will even alert the unit in the event that it has been loaded upside down within the paper tray. HP supplies a few sheets of this paper with the unit, yet we learned that we obtained much better outcomes tweaking the printer settings on our own.

When using the printer's normal settings (600 DPI) with HP's Photosmart software and Advanced Photo Paper, the HP made prints that ended up being significantly grainy. The ensuing loss of fine detail was not obvious with a casual glimpse, nonetheless it showed up clearly when we looked at the print by using a magnifying loop.

We created far better prints employing HP Photosmart C309a printer cartridges as well as both HP's and Epson's photo paper soon after loading our sample photo into Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 and consequently making the machine to print employing its higher-quality settings (1,200 DPI). These prints displayed significantly less grain when analyzed using the loop. It created a 4×6-inch print in two minutes and 20 seconds, which is not especially quick. Should your primary printing demands centers around documents, nevertheless it produced fine print quality text.

HP's CD-printing solution calls for you to tug a tray from the base of the printer, slide in the CD, open a drawer up top, and after that put the tray in however its paper tray appears pretty durable, because of its heavy duty plastic construction.

HP's Photosmart Premium Fax All-in-One C309a makes a fantastic document printer which produces extremely good - but not fantastic - photos. It possesses a duplex functionality and also supports Bluetooth out of the box.