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The HP Photosmart C5280 shows how good design can tame inherently complicated machine. This MFP inkjet has some limitations and a host of benefits, all available for less than £ 100.

Installation takes almost no effort. The installation booklet is a bit difficult to three batteries worth reading because of the languages "of the narrative next to each illustration, but the process of CD-based installation procedure is fully automated. The HP Photosmart C5280 comes with a USB connection, but no ethernet port.

Control Panel The HP Photosmart C5280 is one of the best I've seen. Most of the buttons are clearly labeled with real words and icons, and all are grouped by major function. A 2.4-inch tilting LCD screen displays the options menu, the navigation buttons make sense. When you're working with photos, the LCD shows thumbnails and walks you through the editing and design options. A bud of red-eye removal automates this common correction. SD Card, Compact Flash, xD-Picture Card, and MS Pro Duo card slots are located in the front of the machine.

As usual, the printer comes with low capacity cartridges, the black HP350 and Hp350 color, they must be replaced at the time of renewal for cheaper and HP350XL cartridges Hp351XL.

For paper handling HP Photosmart C5280 offers a 125-sheet tray entry, whose lid serves as the output tray 50 sheet. Located in a slot beneath the input tray is a special tray for printing CD / DVD. Snap on a disk with a special coating, then slide the tray into a feeder that drops from the starting area. Roxio Express Labeler software (usually installed automatically during installation, but is also available on CD) helps you create the image for the disc (pages per minute) - a bit below average for this category, color documents averaged 2.4ppm overall, also slightly below average. In the default settings on plain paper, text looked a bit feathered, toothed, photos looked a bit grainy. Special paper and gave soft settings, photos in more subtle colors. Cost per printed page (calculated performance using HP cartridges estimated) are reasonable.

The HP Photosmart C5280 produced scans and copies quickly, and they looked good in general. Exploration includes the HP lets you preview and edit images before saving a file. Copies looked a bit thicker than the originals, but not distractingly so.

The HP Photosmart C5280 has the quantity, size and other copy that most home and small office users will have, unless the letter/A4 flatbed scanner can not elevate its lid to accommodate books or other thick media, and can not scan film or slides.

The Photosmart C5280 comes with a large amount of software and utilities, largely afloat the buttons on the HP Solution Center screen interface. In addition to Roxio's disc, labeling software, you the HP Photosmart Essentials for editing and managing digital photos, plus maintenance utilities and links for reordering supplies directly from HP. An HTML-based manual complements Flash videos that explain common tasks like cartridge replacement.

Unfortunately, the manual is the Photosmart HP C5280 on various topics are inadequately linked. For example, the description of how to copy from the control panel does not link to a description of how to copy from the PC. But in this case, the disconnect is real. You can manage scan and copy settings from the HP Solution Center or from the control panel, but does not reflect the other - to create a completely different configuration for the same job in each place. The place to send the copy command from wins in the battle, but the two must be synchronized.

Mediocre speed HP Photosmart C5280 and connectivity options restrict limited to a small office or home. Users, however, enjoy a large capacity, easy to use device with excellent photo output.

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