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

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Typing in a wi-fi password on a tiny onscreen keyboard is no picnic while swiping through the icons left to right can be frustrating. It turns out pages at an unhurried pace, somewhat below the quoted speed of 15 per minute for black and white single-sided and considerable slower when printing on both sides, or in colour. However, if you print that frequently, we would recommend one of the far more cost effective and rather less environmentally damaging ink tank systems. 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.

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. 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. You can print photos directly from your phone or the Photos/Gallery app, or even from social networks and cloud services, including Dropbox, Instagram, Facebook, Google Drive and Google Photos. capacitive screen on the Envy Photo is a lot easier to use and more responsive than the old-school resistive horrors you used to find on HP’s all-in-ones, but it’s still not great. This will give you enough ink for 300 pages per month and if you know you are going to print that much, it is worth it.

Looking for a home all-in-one that can tackle all the usual family printing tasks but also output decent photos? These twelve test pages include text of varying font sizes and colours, mixed image and text pages, a set of photos and a series of test patterns designed to assess sharpness, colour fidelity, contrast and grey scale.

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. 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.The Envy Photo 7830 doesn’t make a great first impression, just because it’s unusually big by home printer standards.