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Hewlett Packard Photosmart C5280 Printer
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The Multifunction-Device market is full of able products which will more than serve the needs of the average user and thus the question of where do new products innovate or improve rises. When it comes to the HP C5280 the answer falls mostly to the design of the printer in ice white and grey with attractive rounded lines and a useful 61mm colour display. At the front we find a 5in1 card reader, a front loaded 125 sheet loading tray as well as a 15 x 10cm feed tray for up to 20 sheets of photo paper and a slide-in CD/DVD holder for disc printing. The software bundle that comes with the C5280 is the standard HP package with software for managing printing and scanning jobs as well as picture management and also a handy tool for efficient prin...
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The Multifunction-Device market is full of able products which will more than serve the needs of the average user and thus the question of where do new products innovate or improve rises. When it comes to the HP C5280 the answer falls mostly to the design of the printer in ice white and grey with attractive rounded lines and a useful 61mm colour display. At the front we find a 5in1 card reader, a front loaded 125 sheet loading tray as well as a 15 x 10cm feed tray for up to 20 sheets of photo paper and a slide-in CD/DVD holder for disc printing. The software bundle that comes with the C5280 is the standard HP package with software for managing printing and scanning jobs as well as picture management and also a handy tool for efficient printing of web pages.
When it comes to printing quality the performance for black text was disappointing and not up to usual HP standards with some smearing and ink bleeding resulting in fuzziness. Printing of color/mixed content is also not well defined and the bleeding of the black ink often protrudes into color areas. The only printing results that were really satisfactory were photo prints which came out smooth. The C5280 uses a black and tri-colour cartridges with an optional photo-cartridge for better photo printing results. Printing expenses are rather on the high side at about 2.58p for black and 44.8p for colour pages. More on the downside is mediocre printing speed and rather loud operation making the C5280 rather disappointing.
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Reviewed by: Tom Hen on 30/10/07
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