HP OfficeJet 7410 All-in-One Ink Review

If you are prepared to risk it with an all-in-one at two times the cost of its lesser-endowed peers, your gamble is secure with the HP OfficeJet 7410 All-in-One.

Since it is able to do so many feats, the HP OfficeJet 7410's control panel seems to be awash in silver buttons, however they're nicely arranged. A pale-silver rectangle frames the central 12-key alphanumeric keypad and the 2-by-1.5-inch colour LCD, alongside an OK button ringed by four arrow buttons designed for navigating the menus. Capabilities are separated by task, having Scan and Fax keys at the left plus Copy, Photo, as well as Print at the right.

When you lift up the control-panel ledge from beneath, the top opens up backward to reveal two ink-cartridge holders: one with respect to tricolour printing and a second for the purpose of black text, greyscale photograph, or colour pictures. Regrettably, each time you switch between text and picture printing, you will also need to swap cartridges.

Two input trays, one storing 150 sheets and another for 250 pages, reside at the base of the 7410, only just over a 50-sheet capacity tray designed for acquiring faxes, copies, and prints. Right of the paper trays sit built-in slots for digital-media cards and a PictBridge port in order to connect a digital camera. At the back of the HP OfficeJet 7410 are the an automatic duplexer and also ports designed for Ethernet, USB 2.0, and two phone jacks. Alongside them is a power cable.

This HP can function as a separate copier and photo printer with a large 96MB of RAM for saving files as well as pictures. Direct digital-photo printing at up to a whopping 4,800x1, 200dpi comes thanks to a PictBridge port for connecting to more recent digital cameras, as well as 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 anywhere up to 2,800x4, 800dpi, in comparison to the 1,200x2, 400dpi scans of most other all-in-ones.

The HP 7410 functions with Macintosh and Windows computers and additionally ships prepared to join an Ethernet or 802.11b/g wireless network. Two more advantages: the 7410 features 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, and printing. You may also fax in colour without having PC software using the 7410's well-powered 33.6Kbps modem.

Text prints in our tests, using the HP OfficeJet 7410 ink cartridges, appeared superb. Printed at the highest resolution of 1,200x1, 200dpi upon coated inkjet paper; the text in the test document turned out dark, clean, as well as effectively legible, even at very small 3.5-point font sizes and lower.

Coded graphics were definitely less impressive but still good. In addition printed with coated inkjet paper at 1,200x1, 200 dpi, the examination prints showed copious fine detail however looked undersaturated and had coded banding in the gradients.

The HP OfficeJet 7410 printed a number of the most clean photographs we have seen in ages. Coded photos came out a bit cold by having a moderate cyan cast, however fine detail was decent. Being able to reproduce fine details, like the vibrant shine of a little egg, was amazing. Skin tones as well as other colours appeared smooth.

Sadly, scans were significantly less notable. The black-and-white test scan ended up being pale and overexposed, although precise and comprehensive. The coded scan was worse: lighter parts vanished entirely, and colours strayed from the original.

Printing text, the HP OfficeJet 7410 All-in-One was basically among the speediest all-in-one devices we've examined. It generated seven pages of black text per minute.

The HP OfficeJet 7410 seemed to be not as zippy whenever scanning. However in general, the 7410 scored exceptionally in exams for its simplicity of use as well as robust features in addition to its outstanding rates of speed at most tasks.

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