Hp 6968 printer review pro#

While colours were also well reproduced in copies, fill textures became a little ragged in places. Colour graphics on plain paper are also very clear and bright, though we did notice slight banding in some colour fills.

Hp 6968 printer review pro#

HP Officejet Pro 6830: Print Quality and Costsīlack text is clean and sharp, near laser quality. They are a bit dark by default, though, so deeper hues in images can veer to black, but can be compensated for in software. The quality of the prints doesn’t suffer either, as they are as well-detailed and colours are natural. Photos of 15 x 10cm took between 1:04 and 1:13, which is a good speed. The five-page text and colour graphics printed at 4.6ppm, which is less than half the spec and a 20-page mono document printed duplex gave 7.1 sides per minute, which is fair, slowed only by the drying time between printing sides. This rose to 13.8ppm, around three quarters of the rated speed and a good throughput. In our tests, which measure from pressing Print to the last page arriving in the output tray, we saw 10.7ppm on our five-page mono test. HP claims the Officejet Pro 6830 can manage 18ppm mono and 10ppm colour.

It can represent very good value if you print a lot of photos, where there’s high ink use, but for business, with typically small amounts of text on a page, it may not prove that cost-effective. We’re undecided about Instant Ink for SOHO inkjets. A page counts, no matter how much is covered, and a duplex page counts as two pages of ink. The printer is eligible for InstantInk, HP’s subscription ink service, where you pay for a set number of pages per month. The four separate ink cartridges clip in under the scanner bed, when you fold that up out of the way and are available in standard and XL capacities. The Officejet Pro 6830 can be connected through USB, Ethernet or wireless, with the wireless option offering direct connection for mobile devices as well as for remote printing, through ePrint. HP Officejet Pro 6830: Connections and Cartridges Paper feeds from here onto a telescopic output tray above, but when fully extended, it increases the depth of the printer quite considerably. Sticking out at the bottom is a single paper tray, which can take up to 225 sheets. Slung underneath this, at a permanent slope, is a touchscreen control panel, with a good sized, 63mm LCD and several dedicated touch buttons.Īt the opposite end of the front panel is a USB socket which can be used to scan to, or print files, from a USB drive. The grey and black casing has a slight stealth-bomber look to it and the automatic document feeder (ADF) far from being built into the bodywork, like some of its rivals, has been made a feature of the design. HP Officejet Pro 6830: Design and Features HP’s Officejet Pro 6830 is a mid-range printer in the latter category and is surprisingly well equipped for a machine costing well under £100.

Most printer makers have two ranges of inkjet printers running in parallel, one aimed at the home photography enthusiast and the other at small and home-office customers (SOHO).