Original HP 303 Black Ink Cartridge by HP Envy Photo 7830 All-in-One Printer

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Rather than relying on the manufacturer’s quoted figures, we time the first page out and print speeds in single sheet and duplex mode using a standard ten-page document and a stopwatch app. The Envy Photo 7830 turns out to be a great all-rounder, pumping out everyday black-and-white or colour prints at decent speeds and delivering consistently good output. Speeds are surprisingly good for a home rather than home office printer, with the Envy Photo printing out black text documents at 16ppm and colour documents with inlaid graphics at 4. What’s more, it’s a printer that’s at home with smartphone printing, with Bluetooth and NFC pairing plus photo printing direct from the cloud or HP’s smartphone app.

Black text looks crisp and really dark, graphics print bright without any sign of banding or the ink smearing, and whether you’re printing out homework or a draft of a small business plan, you’re going to get great results. Though more expensive initially, the Epson EcoTank ET-7750 and Canon Pixma G4510 are superior machines that will save money in running costs in the long term.The USB Type-B, 100Mbit Ethernet and fax modem sockets sit just where you’d expect them at the rear, while a USB Type-A port and an SD card slot are concealed behind a revolving circular flap near the front-left corner.

Windows Vista (32-bit only): 800 MHz (x86) processor, 2 GB available hard disk space, CD-ROM/DVD drive or Internet connection, USB port, Microsoft Internet Explorer 8. These costs aren’t horrific by low-volume, home printing standards, but you might want to hold back a little on those 8 x 10in colour photos. If your business needs to print that frequently, we would recommend spending more money on a more reliable printer. per month (for up to 300 pages), with no difference in cost between black and white and colour prints. It’s not hard to find other inkjets that beat the 7830 in specific areas, with our recommended mid-range all-in-one, the Epson Expression Premium XP-6100, beating it for both scans and photos.

There’s an SD card slot and a USB port in the front panel and separate feeder trays for photos and plain paper.

Another welcome feature is the colour touchscreen interface that has even been designed to look a little like an iPhone embedded in the panel.

Windows Server support is provided via the command line installer and supports Win Server 2008 R2 and higher. It’s a similar story when printing; you have to dive quite deep to find the options to set resolution to maximum and make sure you’re getting the best quality. On the whole though, the abundance of curvaceous, glossy black plastic seems unnecessary, and the result is a printer with a larger-than-average footprint which takes up too much desk space in a cramped home office. A total of 125 sheets can be preloaded, but the out tray can only handle one or two pages at a time.

After editing the tech section of Wired UK magazine, he is currently specialising in IT and voyaging in his VW camper van. Of course, printing photos might seem like something nobody does anymore, but it’s still a big thing for homework, filling non-digital photoframes and sending snaps to those who aren’t au-fait with photo-sharing services and apps. With the latter, HP has prioritised ease-of-use over all else, with the result that you can’t set the resolution or colour depth of a scan, only the type of scan, which left a 10 x 8in photo scanning at just 200dpi.HP wins points for smooth tones and natural colours, but you won’t get the depth of colour or dynamic range that you’ll see from more expensive photo printers. The touchscreen is smaller and considerably less sensitive than that of the Canon Pixma TR8550, but the menu system is very intuitive, so you shouldn’t find yourself wasting time trying to figure it out. bit), Windows 8 (32/64-bit), Windows 7 (32/64-bit), Windows Vista (32/64-bit), Windows XP (32-bit) (Professional and Home Editions); Mac OS X v 10. Along with the basic print, scan and copy capabilities you’ll find in HP’s DeskJet, OfficeJet and Envy printers, it packs in a dedicated photo paper tray along with the promise of authentic colours and lifelike detail from professional quality photo inks.