Sunday, December 1, 2013

HP Photosmart Wireless E-All-In-One Printer B110 Review

After putting in a bit of time utilizing the HP Photosmart Wireless e-All-in-One Printer B110 we are currently hopeful for the long term future of cloud-based printing, however it would seem there are currently some kinks which require to be ironed out.After unboxing the B110 appears to be your regular All-in-One (AIO) printer having a pleasant piano black finish. Certainly no complaints there, but nothing to write home about either.Given that HP is pressing the wireless features of its new models we decided we would attempt setting up the B110 without hooking up by means of USB and find out exactly how things went. This meant relying on the B110's 2.36-inch (5.9cm) LCD display, which regrettably isn't really as instinctive as a complete touchscreen display. HP calls it a "Touchsmart frame" which means just the predefined buttons round the exterior of the frame are touch sensitive - these will furthermore just be illuminated when they are selectable for the presently exhibited menu. Still, the menu was basically fairly uncomplicated and guides users through the actual setup operation fairly well.The unit detected my home network (the B110 boasts 802.11b/g/n) without any problems and having the printer's email address now at hand I was in a position to log on to the ePrint Centre and set up the unit to be able to obtain ePrint work.To experiment with the email printing we sent a handful of types of attachments in order to find out exactly how it fared. PDF, Word documents, GIFs as well as many JPEGs printed alright.Nevertheless, if you need admittance to the printer's full capability you are going to need to install the drivers, if not the computer software, which comes included on a CD-ROM simply because printing by means of email does not permit management of options including print quality. This may also be carried out wirelessly over the home network without fuss.The printer applications, which may be obtained either on the printer or chosen via the ePrint Centre making use of a web browser, all functioned with no hassle. Many of these are actually directed at youngsters - colouring pages and puzzles - so did not really hold a lot of appeal.Being situated within the cheaper part of HP's internet capable units; the print quality of the B110 wasn't extremely remarkable. Small fonts are inclined to bleed a little plus blacks in photographs may well contain a slightly green touch, but it is pretty much what you'd be expecting with respect to a model at this particular price point. The technical specs show the unit as printing as much as 32 ppm when it comes to draft quality in black as well as up to 30 ppm with regard to colour nevertheless things obviously reduce speed substantially when you are mailing a big picture using ePrint - a 6 x 4-inch 2.8MB picture took over a minute to be able to print, while the very same picture crunched way down to 512kb took about 30 seconds, however the reduction of quality was in fact evident.The HP Photosmart e B110 ink cartridges are cyan, magenta, yellow and black - and may also use XL cartridges, that will cost more but they are considerably more economical.If you want an every day printer designed for non-critical documents and also photographs then the B110 is actually comparable to likewise costed products from various other makers print quality-wise, thus this would not end up being a determining consideration. Assuming, however, you'll probably use the ePrint functionality then this ought to tip the scales in HP's favour due to the fact not one other manufacturer provides this capability. The ease of use of the ePrint system - when it functions - helps it to be a hassle-free means by which to print (an undoubtedly still rather restricted assortment of documents but the main ones are taken care of) without needing to be tied geographically to the machine.



HP Photosmart eB110 ink cartridges are available here.I am a long time member of the Cartridge Concept team which specialises in printer cartridges.

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