It is difficult to determine the genuine photo quality printers available on the market, but you should try them to find out. To my extreme luck, I got the HP Photosmart Plus B210a Wireless e-All-in-One Printer, which is a fantastic photo printing device, and for a very low price, even. So I wrote this review because you might be interested in the device.
Design
This device is an all-in-one printer, but at its heart it is a photo printer. But for its multifunctional features, it is quite compact. It has the dimensions of 17.8” x 15.79” x 7.83” and a weight of 16.4 pounds, easy to carry and place on any shelf, table, desk, or computer table. It’s wireless-enabled, so you won’t have to worry about where you’ll put it. You can keep it in the family room and continue printing from your computer in the other room. Basically, you can access all computers as long as they are within the same network and maximum router coverage as your printer.
The printer has a 3.45” CGD touchscreen with TouchSmart control panel for easy navigation and access to your photos and documents, even without the use of a computer. It also has multiple slots for removable storage devices for flexible data sources. The printer’s black finish is aesthetically valuable and keeps your device looking good even after several years of use.
Printing and other functions
As a printer, it can produce black documents at up to 32 pages per minute and color documents at up to 30 pages per minute. The black print resolution can reach up to 600×600 dpi, but the color resolution is very high with 9600×2400 optimized dpi images. Print speed and quality is excellent, but it doesn’t have automatic duplex printing features and it doesn’t have a manual driver either. This makes the device unsuitable for consecutive mass printing.
If you compare it with other photo quality printers, this model is in the competition. You can print borderless portrait photos on paper up to 8.5” x 11”, and you can print with ease using the memory card slots. With the highest optimal color resolution of 9600×2400 dpi, you will definitely get the most beautiful, color-rich and detailed images that look as professional as photos developed in a studio.
The photocopier has the same copy production speed as the printer, and you can even reduce or enlarge your documents from 25% to 400%. The maximum number of copies that you can produce in one configuration is 50 copies.
The scanner is flat and can read documents up to a maximum size of 8.5” x 11.7”. It can read documents in either optical or enhanced methods, and both produce resolutions of 1200 dpi, a lower resolution number for an enhanced scanner, but quite good for optical.
Other features
You can print, copy and scan with this device without having to turn on your computer. The printer’s wireless connectivity also adds a lot of functionality because you can share it with multiple other computers. I especially need it because my family has a computer in each room, and getting a single printer for everyone is a very impractical idea. The best feature that really made me buy this is its Energy Star rating, which ensures that I not only benefit from using it, but Mother Nature as well.
Conclusion
I am completely satisfied with this device and I can say that I have no plans to change it for any other model. Other photo-quality printers can be good too, but the HP Photosmart Plus B210a Wireless e-All-in-One Printer has everything I need. For me, this is a highly recommended device and I can only advise you to get it if you have plans to buy an all-in-one or photo printer.