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- #HP PHOTOSMART 6510 SCAN SOFTWARE SOFTWARE#
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There’s no doubt that the HP Photosmart 6510 will look better on your desk than most competitors will. On glossy photo paper, color graphics show considerable detail in dark areas and are overall quite nice, with the same warm color scale. The color palette overall has a slight lean toward yellow, giving graphics a warm and friendly, if not completely accurate, vibe.
At standard settings, text appears sharp and black, though color graphics tend to be a little grainy on plain paper.
Output from the Photosmart 6510 is very good.
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Full-page photos printed on the Mac arrived at a rate of about 0.4 ppm–a bit slower than average. Single-page copies came out around the norm at 3 ppm. A half-page photo printed at a slightly above-average rate of about 3.16 ppm, while the same image printed at a slightly below-average rate of about 1 ppm to glossy photo paper.
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Text and monochrome graphics exited at a sprightly 7.7 pages per minute on the PC and 7.2 ppm on the Mac–nearly a page per minute faster than the median rate. In our tests, the Photosmart 6510 posted average to slightly above-average print and scan speeds.
However, the $23 XL black lasts for only 550 pages, or 4.2 cents per page, only slightly less than the standard black. You can reduce the color ink costs appreciably with the XL cartridges, which are $18 for 750 pages, or 2.4 cents per page–almost a cent per page cheaper per color. That’s about 15 cents for a four-color page. The standard black cartridge costs $12 and lasts for 250 pages (4.8 cents per page), while the standard cyan, magenta, and yellow color cartridges cost $10 each and last for 300 pages, or 3.33 cents per page. The Photosmart 6510’s ink costs are merely average. Unfortunately, HP seems to have abandoned the notion that users will ever scan anything thicker than a letter: None of the Photosmart units we’ve tested have a telescoping lid to facilitate the scanning of pages from magazines or books. You don’t get an automatic document feeder here, but you can find an ADF on a slightly higher-priced cousin, the Photosmart 7510. The output tray holds 50 sheets, and the MFP offers automatic duplexing (two-sided printing). The 80-page paper cassette has an integrated 20-sheet photo tray. Paper-handling features for the Photosmart 6510 are fine for low-volume printing and the occasional scan.
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The Photosmart 6510 supports HP’s Web-based apps and remote Web printing, as well as local printing via Wi-Fi from Android and iOS devices. It also allows you to scan from the control panel to a PC or a Mac, even if you’re using Wi-Fi some competing models require a USB connection for this function.
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HP’s bundled software for the Photosmart 6510 is simple to use and supports all of the unit’s capabilities, including scanning and copying. The MFP does support USB and Wi-Fi, though, and the installation routine is concise. Connectivity falls a bit short: You’ll find only SD and Memory Stick card slots behind a front panel, and the machine has no USB/PictBridge port–an unusual omission. The screen is large enough to read and tap easily, too, making the unit as a whole very easy to use. The Photosmart 6510’s good looks are partly due to its 3.45-inch touchscreen control panel. But it’s also a good printer, with first-rate output quality and better-than-average print speeds, though ink costs are just average. The first thing you’ll notice about the $150 (as of February 6, 2012) HP Photosmart 6510 e-All-in-One color inkjet multifunction printer is that it looks better than the competition.