Simply Wow, Feature rich beast.
Written: Oct 30 '03
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Pros: Wireless access point, LCD screen, photo quality pictures.
Cons: No sheetfed scanner like its predecessors, can kill your ink of course.
The Bottom Line: Very good multifunction printer if you don't need a sheetfed scanner which most of us don't.
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| fadywwf316's Full Review: Hewlett Packard PSC 2510 Thermal Inkjet Multifunc... |
Well just to let you guys know right off the bat, this isn't a HP 7960 by any means. You may think, well it takes the same ink and prints using the same resolution. However, the high end HP 7960 has one main difference, it takes your 57 tricolor ink, your 58 photo ink, and has a 3rd bay for either the plain old 56 black ink or the 59 grayscale ink.
However, since most of us aren't looking for 1948 photo quality prints of movie stills, who really cares about the grayscale. The 2510 will still support it, however the way the 2510 is set up is that it takes the 57 tricolor, then the 2nd tray either accepts the 3 color photo ink, the grayscale or the black. So basically, you know the drill...doing documents you throw your 56 black ink in there. If you are doing however what you really got the printer for...you are doing photo printing, you throw in the 58 photo ink (or 59 if there are a lot of blacks and grays) and of course put in those photo quality glossy sheets and print away.
The main addition between the 2410 and the 2510 is that the 2510 has a wireless access point. This makes a great attachment to your wifi enabled laptop because you can be within 100, 150 feet or whatever, then just print wirelessly. The 2510 also comes with an ethernet port if you want to link it up into an existing wired network. Why would you do that? Because basically you do not need to have any computer on (if you have it attached to a computer instead of a router) in order to print from another computer on the network.
Buyers beware...This more than anything is a tip...you do not need HP paper to work well with your HP photo printer. I purchased the $9.99 100pack of heavyweight 4x6 prints from best buy and they work perfectly fine...saving me $15 a pack. I heard however canon has superb photo paper...which is also cheaper than all HP paper, so you can get that at a price between HPs expensive paper and IBM's very value oriented paper.
The LCD Screen also provides a great addition to any MF printer as only the 2410 has had a LCD screen being a multifunction printer as well. Overall this is a superb printer and the ink prices aren't lexmark ludacrous either.
57 Tricolor $34.99 single and $63.99 dual pack
56 Black $19.99 single or $35.99 dual
58 photo $24.99 single only
59 grayscale $24.99 single only
I recommend of course buying dual packs whenever you can because you will always need the extra ink...you only run out when you need it the most.
Recommended:
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Amount Paid (US$): 399
Operating System: Windows
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