What You Need To Know About The HP OfficeJet 5610

What You Need To Know About The HP OfficeJet 5610
by Rory H. Callahan

Officejet printers by HP are one of the leading printing and imaging machines that are geared for use by homes and small offices. The HP Officejet 5610 is an exceptional printer. The HP Officejet 5610 is a printer built for reliability, which is user friendly and easy to set up. It has very good regular print quality and prints good photos also. One feature of the HP Officejet 5610 which separates it from other all-in-one printers is that it is built with separate black and color ink systems, which means you don't have to have all of the color ink cartridges installed to print out pages of text.

The new HP OfficeJet 5610 is small and doesn't take up much room on your desk. With an automatic document feeder, the HP OfficeJet 5610 is capable of scanning legal sized documents. The HP Officejet 5610 is an overall good printer with a small price tag and is brimming with features.

The HP Officejet 5610 is not built with photo printing in mind, and does not have features one would expect from photo printers such as the separate paper tray and LCD screen. The HP OfficeJet 5610 is affordable and takes care of most of the standard functions for your home-office, but it doesn't separate itself from the more feature-rich multifunctions.

The HP Officejet 5610 is a flexible four-in-one office machine for printing, scanning, copying and faxing. The HP OfficeJet 5610 prints, scans, photocopies, and faxes, but you can't use it as a stand-alone printer because of a lack of memory-card slots. The HP OfficeJet 5610 prints reports so you'll know if your faxes are going astray. It also has these features: caller ID, a junk-fax barrier, and distinctive-ring-detection. HP also provides software for sending faxing documents from your computer, though the 5610 can't receive digital faxes and place them on the computer.

The OfficeJet 5610 comes with a standard-size black-ink cartridge and a tricolor cartridge. The HP OfficeJet 5610 took around 3 minutes to print a photo which is average for this kind of machine. It won't print photos without your computer, but the 5610 can do many other things by itself. On the downside: The HP 5610 uses expensive ink, prints slowly, has poor scan quality, and has no memory-card readers or PictBridge port. Digital photo afficionados should look at other multifunction printers with memory-card slots and better output quality, e.g. the Canon Pixma MP130 or the pricier Canon MP760.

The HP OfficeJet 5610 gets high marks for its print quality because it produced text that was sharp, clean, black, and legible. It has undergone a rigorous testing and quality assurance process and run through a real print test.

The HP Officejet 5610 is a notable printer. The HP OfficeJet 5610 has a price you can afford and provides most of the basic function s for your home-office, but it doesn't stand out from the crowd of more feature-rich multifunctions. The HP OfficeJet 5610 costs a bit more (you can find it for $125 or so), but works fine with MEPIS as a printer/fax/scanner.

It should also be noted, that unlike a number of all in one printers, the HP Officejet 5610 is designed with a separate black and color ink systems, meaning that you do not have to have all of the color ink cartridges in place to print out a simple page of text. Keep in mind, though, that the HP Officejet 5610 is not designed with photo printing in mind, and does not have features such as the separate paper tray and LCD screen that you might expect from a photo printer. Therefore, the HP Officejet 5610 is an overall good printer with a small price tag and is pack loaded with features.

Rory H. Callahan has been a professional analyst and commentator on technology and consumer products for more than decade. Make sure to check out Rory's excellent information on choosing an hp printer or a laser printer