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You've got to hand it to HP: once the organisation decides to think again about printing, it thinks big. Its HP Photosmart eStation weds a speedy, competent colour inkjet multifunction employing a one of a kind extra: the Zeen, the latest detachable touch screen control panel working the Google Android 2.1 operating system as well as providing certain modest, tablet PCs-like functionality, which includes web browsing as well as E-book reading.
At a point in time when both tablets as well as Google Android are very hot topics, all the same, the Zeen is apparently drawing far more notice than HP perhaps have preferred. Whether the Zeen will help sell additional HP Photosmart eStation mother ships is actually unclear - specially at 379 inc VAT. The Lexmark Genesis, another game-changing MFP, has equivalent lure and qualifying criteria.
As a control panel, the Zeen is effective. Its big, 7-inch colour touch screen helps make reading the on-screen menus simple. Sensitivity is certainly the primary weak point: in tests it seemed to be slow to understand taps, and it sometimes mistook a swipe for a tap. When you undock it, it is possible to still keep control of the HP Photosmart eStation e-All-in-One, and you have the ability to print from SD Cards filled inside the top-mounted slot, and even print website pages. The set up looks like a logical expansion of HP's Web-app strategy.
As an MFP, the HP Photosmart eStation is satisfactory with regard to use at home. It has a 125-sheet input tray that has an integrated 20-sheet photo tray, in addition to a 50-page output region above the input tray's top. Automated duplexing (printing on the two sides of the page) is industry-standard, and moreover is effective on both the PC and Mac. Similar to nearly all consumer-level MFPs, it includes no automated document feeder for you to scan multipage documents, just a letter/A4-size flatbed scanner. Utilising the Zeen control panel, you are able to scan directly to a memory card, although not to a Computer; HP's Scan software will deal with that task through a linked personal computer.
The HP Photosmart eStation is definitely an above-average performer. Plain-text pages printed at rates close to 8.4 pages per minute on the PC along with 8.3 ppm on the Macintosh. Prints of colour pictures on plain paper exited rapidly at 3.8 ppm. Our 22MB professional photograph needed slightly below 3 minutes to print with the Mac, and that is about par for the course. Regular scans and copies posted times within the upper-middle spectrum.
Print quality is definitely a plus. Text on plain paper appeared sharp and dark. Photo output with HP's own glossy stock was in fact excellent, having a somewhat cool colour temperature. Exactly the same images on plain paper looked somewhat washed out. The full-colour copy examination produced a darker reproduction together with wide banding.
We would assume a multifunction as pricey as the HP Photosmart eStation to have more-economical inks. Alas, its costs are simply average. The standard-size HP Photosmart eStation printer ink cartridges comprise a 250-page black and 300-page cyan, magenta, and yellow. The high yield cartridges work out considerably cheaper.
The HP Photosmart eStation as well as its Zeen tablet certainly out-gadget alternative high-end home MFPs such as the Canon Pixma MG8120 or Epson Artisan 835. Nonetheless, other touch-based phones and products are generally quickly making up ground to the Zeen's printing abilities. The chief justification to fork out this item's significantly greater price is actually for the Zeen's offering of simple tablet functions. If you'd like this particular MFP, buy it - but the truth is will get far more printer for the money elsewhere.
HP Photosmart eStation printer ink cartridges are available here.
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