HP OfficeJet 7410 All-in-One Cartridge Review

If you are prepared to chance it with an all-in-one at two times the price of its lesser-endowed peers, your bet is safe with the HP OfficeJet 7410 All-in-One.

Because it is able to do a great number of feats, the HP OfficeJet 7410's control panel seems to be covered in silver buttons, although they are well organized. A pale-silver rectangle frames the central 12-key alphanumeric keypad and the 2-by-1.5-inch colour LCD, next to an OK button ringed by four arrow buttons designed for navigating the menus. Capabilities are divided by task, with Scan and Fax keys on the left plus Copy, Photo, and Print on the right.

When you raise the control-panel ledge from underneath, the top opens backwards to reveal two ink-cartridge holders: one for tricolour printing and a second for the purpose of black text, greyscale photo, or colour photographs. Unfortunately, every time you switch between text and picture printing, you will also have to exchange cartridges.

Two input trays, one storing 150 sheets and one additional for 250 pages, reside at the base of the 7410, only just over a 50-sheet volume tray for acquiring faxes, copies, as well as prints. Right of the paper trays sit built-in slots for digital-media cards and a PictBridge port for connecting a digital camera. At the rear of the HP OfficeJet 7410 you will find automatic duplexer as well as ports intended for Ethernet, USB 2.0, and also two telephone jacks. Next to them is the electricity cable.

This HP can function as a stand alone copier and also photo printer with a spacious 96MB of RAM for keeping documents and pictures. Direct digital-photo printing at anywhere up to 4,800x1, 200dpi comes thanks to a PictBridge port for connecting to modern digital cameras, and also slots intended for Compact Flash, Memory Stick, MultiMediaCard, Secure Digital, SmartMedia, along with xD-Picture digital-media cards. The legal-size scanner flatbed scans in greyscale as well as colour at up to a whopping 2,800x4, 800dpi, in comparison to the 1,200x2, 400dpi scans of the majority of other all-in-ones.

The HP 7410 functions with Macintosh as well as Windows computers plus ships prepared to join an Ethernet or 802.11b/g wireless network. Two more benefits: the 7410 has a built-in duplexer to get double-sided printing as well as an automatic document feeder (ADF) for the purpose of multiple-page faxing, copying, as well as printing. It's also possible to fax in colour with out PC software with the 7410's well-powered 33.6Kbps modem.

Text prints in our tests, while using HP OfficeJet 7410 printer ink cartridges, appeared superb. Printed at the highest resolution of 1,200x1, 200dpi with coated inkjet paper; the text in the examination document ended up dark, even, and comfortably legible, even at small 3.5-point font sizes and littler.

Coded graphics were definitely not so remarkable but nonetheless decent. Likewise printed upon coated inkjet paper at 1,200x1, 200 dpi, the examination prints showed copious detail however appeared undersaturated and also experienced coded banding within the gradients.

The HP OfficeJet 7410 printed a number of the most clean pictures we have observed in a long time. Coded pictures turned out a bit cold by having a moderate cyan cast, but fine detail was fine. The opportunity to replicate tiny details, like the vibrant gloss from a small egg, was remarkable. Skin tones as well as other colours looked clean.

Regrettably, scans were less distinctive. Our black-and-white test scan ended up being pale and also overexposed, although precise as well as finely detailed. The coded scan was even worse: light parts disappeared completely, and colours strayed from the original.

Printing text, the HP OfficeJet 7410 All-in-One ended up being among the quickest all-in-one machines we've examined. It delivered seven pages of black text per minute.

The HP OfficeJet 7410 appeared to be considerably less quick when scanning. However in general, the 7410 scored really well in exams for its convenience and also effective capabilities in addition to its outstanding rates of speed at most tasks.

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