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HP Photosmart Premium Fax All-in-One Review
The HP Photosmart Premium Fax All-in-One does have an automatic document feeder, so if you have several pages to scan, you'll appreciate this feature. At high quality, a scan takes about 12 minutes to complete. If you're using the ScanPro software, you're limited in file size - I was only able to scan an 8x10 image at 200 dpi. Using the TWAIN driver gets around this issue though and lets you scan at the full hardware resolution of the printer.
I scanned the same image with both programs, using the same image settings - 200 dpi, 8-bit color. The results were very interesting - neither program generated a particularly accurate scan in color tone (See Figures 4 and 5), although the TWAIN driver was significantly more accurate in color balance with lighter tones. The ScanPro software was much darker in overall tone and exhibited significant noise in the scan that required a fair amount of cleaning up in Photoshop after the scan. Overall, the HP Photosmart Premium Fax All-in-One did a good job with scanning - it's not up to the standards of a dedicated scanner, but for the odd job, it'll do fine.
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Figure 5
Printing
The primary reason you'll be looking at one of these devices though is most likely the printing. The HP Photosmart Premium Fax All-in-One includes automatic duplex printing, making it easy to print on both sides of the page, and is reasonably fast at printing normal documents. The key though is photo printing and the quality level generated. And, in this area, the printers did a very good job. I ran both glossy and luster photo papers through with a series of test images that include hard to reproduce colors like red and blue, as well as grayscale tones to check for neutrality in the prints.
The HP Photosmart Premium Fax All-in-One is designed for printing on normal weight papers. There are two paper trays for the printer - a full size tray that can hold regular paper or photo paper, and a dedicated 5x7 tray for photo papers in 3.5x5, 4x6, or 5x7 sizes. Both trays can be left loaded, and the printer will select automatically based on the paper size chosen in the print driver.
HP includes profiles for their Advanced and Premium photo papers. You'll have much better results with the Advanced paper than the Premium papers, which I found to have a strong color shift and general lack of detail. I asked several people to look at the images and all found them pleasing to the eye with accurate colors. Personally, I felt the prints were a bit saturated, but that is what most people prefer (don't believe me? Take a look at a JPEG image straight out of the camera).
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#1 Underwood
The cartridges contain a microscopic 7 cc of ink. The machine starts to nag you when only 4 cc have been used. The maximum ink you can get out of a cartridge is about six thousanths of a litre for about 14 quid. If this was petrol it would cost you about ten thousand five hundred pounds per gallon. You could fill up a car with a couple of gallons and throw the car away after it had driven sixty miles, at these prices. No wonder the printers are so cheap. The ink is a rip off.
5:53 am - Monday, July 13, 2009
#2 printer
Stinkyink now offer ink cartridges for the HP Photosmart Premium Fax ink. Oh and it’s free delivery too!
9:37 am - Thursday, July 30, 2009
#3 grüner tee
I have read the article based on the HP photo-smart Premium printer which has many facilities , we can say All in one functionalities.The maximum ink you can get out of a cartridge is about six thousandths of a liter for about 14 quid.I want to know suggestion from others.
9:28 am - Saturday, December 5, 2009
#4 Jinger Studios
I really like this printer - just bought it last week but think I paid way too much - $199 at cosco I thought I was getting a bargain.
1:07 am - Tuesday, December 8, 2009
#5 rm campos
dont know what url means just bought a HP PHOTO SMART PREMIUM PRINTER/SCANER/COPIER/FAX ITS SILL IN THE BOX I WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT TO SETTING IT UPIF ITS TOO DIFFICULT I WII RETURN IT
5:53 am - Tuesday, December 8, 2009
#6 MervynG
If you use Mac Snow Leopard (10.6) and Photoshop you will find the the driver seems unable to offer the full selection of media e.g. I couldn’t choose to print onto card media. Wish I hadn’t bought it.
5:11 pm - Thursday, January 14, 2010
#7 Richard Martin
My HP C309A fax is a stand alone model. The fax has been checked out with the equipment status, and it passed all tests. I have received faxes from HP support office in India, and a friend in Hawaii. I have received a long distance fax from AT&T, which has set up the fax line for this equipment. However, I have received a number of rings from other fax machines, and my fax connects, but then there is never any incoming fax message. For some unknown reason, the distance end fax then cancels the transmission, and there is never any fax. I have lowered the speed from 33600Kbps to 14400 Kbps, to see if they will help in receiving fax messages from other fax machine. I have checked out the Internet, and received information on what to do when you cannot receive faxes. However, I still have the same problem. I think it depends upon the kind of fax machine that is trying to communication with my HP C309a fax machine.
Any comments or suggestions about this problem.
10:52 am - Wednesday, May 12, 2010
#8 internet based fax
Very awesome! That’s the printer I’ve seen a while ago in a post.
Well, look at the print results. I think it really looks good. It’s not bad.
9:05 am - Tuesday, August 3, 2010
#9 internet faxing
@Underwood: Is that true? With the price, I don’t think it’s cheap because I can hardly get that one. :D
Based on what I’ve read about this hp smart fax all-in-one, it’s doing well. Plus, it’s offering all you need.
1:30 am - Wednesday, August 4, 2010
#10 email fax services
@Jinger Studios: I agree with you Jing. Thumb’s up for you. So how it works? Does it give the service you expected?
Now you’ve learn a lesson that you have to check first who’s going to give you the best price for the best machine. What do you think?
4:21 am - Wednesday, August 4, 2010
#11 email fax
. I have received faxes from HP support office in India, and a friend in Hawaii, It was great!!
3:19 pm - Sunday, February 13, 2011
#12 Tulsa Bankruptcy
Well ,I don’t think it’s cheap because I can hardly get that one, thanx for the share.
10:36 am - Sunday, February 20, 2011
#13 Meladerm
This Hp is the complete package, and for that price I will call it a bargain.
1:40 pm - Sunday, March 6, 2011
#14 lezerski
This is the worst printer I have ever owned. I upgraded from the previous HP 4-in-1 printer because of problems, but this is terrible. In the beginning it worked great. Then the multiple sheet feed scanner/copier quit working after a few months, and now less than a year later the photo tray won’t advance the paper so I keep getting a message to add more paper. In addition, it is the noisiest printer and has very slow start up times. Whatever happened to HP having the best printers? DO NOT BUY!!!
9:46 pm - Wednesday, March 30, 2011
#15 bean bag
I don’t think it’s cheap because I can hardly get that one, thanx for the share.
5:16 pm - Wednesday, July 20, 2011
#16 traffic empires
Awesome I don’t think it’s cheap because I can hardly get that one…
4:24 pm - Thursday, July 28, 2011
#17 auto power blogs 2.0
Wow, That’s the printer I’ve seen a while ago in a post and looking so nice.Thanks
5:10 am - Sunday, July 31, 2011