HP Officejet 6600 e-All-in-One Printer Review: No Duplexing, No Dice - tranwhempos60

At a Glance

Expert's Valuation

Pros

• Decently fast
• User-friendly-to-practice LCD control panel

Cons

• Small starter supplies
• Absolutely no two-sided printing process support

Our Verdict

A complete miss of support for double-faced printing is a deal-killer for this other competent small-role multifunction.

The HP Officejet 6600 e-Each-in-One Printer color inkjet multifunction (simulate/scan/publish/fax) is a puzzler, and a huge disappointment. Priced at $150 (as of June 11, 2022), it's handsome, information technology has an wanton-to-use LCD control panel, and it offers first-class performance besides as decent output. However, for some bizarre reason HP has removed blue-collar duplexing financial backing–a simple software package feature that allows relatively easy double-faced printing on printers that lack an automatic duplexer–from the printing machine driver.

H.P. has also removed multi-rising (thumbnail pages) and every other gentle of layout from the print driver. Such features are so commonplace that umpteen consumers just assume that they are available. Put simply: $150 for a multifunction that North Korean won't help you print two-sided to save paper? I think not. For the same amount, you can buy a unit with automatic duplexing.

Still reading material? The Officejet 6600 would be a nice midvolume office unit if not for the stunted device driver. IT has a 250-sheet input tray, a 75-sheet turnout tray, and a 35-sheet automatic document feeder for the A4/letter-size up scanner. Despite the ADF, though, I plant no option in the control panel to scan Oregon copy in duplex.

The Officejet 6600's Liquid crystal display is an odd duck, but at long las it is satisfying. It's not a touchscreen, but a press-riddle (resistive): You must depress the natural covering softly, as you would with a membrane keyboard, to register selections. Once you get secondhand to IT, the tactile feedback is good.

Other than the hobbled driver, the HP-provided software is quite an good. It supports push-scanning (scanning from the control panel to a PC), as well as printing process across the Internet via the company's ePrint service.

In our tests, text output from the Officejet 6600 was very gracious–black and sharpened. Photos written to plain paper had a washed-out appearance. Glossy-paper photos exhibited a high level of line, which applied a slightly unrealistic cast to human faces; however, at least for apelike subjects, the high line elicited a sense of impact.

The Officejet 6600 is a good performer. In our tests, monochrome pages written at 10 pages per minute on the PC and 9.6 ppm along the Mac. Snapshot-size (4-by-6-inch) photos printed to plain paper at 3.4 ppm and to glossy theme at virtually 1 ppm. Brimfull page photos printed at 0.4 ppm, and copies exited quickly at 5.1 ppm.

As for consumables, the Officejet 6600 uses a four-cartridge ink system (cyan, chromatic, yellow, black) that's basically average in cost with the regular-capacity supplies, but cheaper than near printers in this classify when using the high-capacity cartridges. The regular, $20 black cartridge lasts for 400 pages, for a slightly to a lower place-average be of 5 cents per page. The $11 cyan, magenta, and sensational cartridges each last for 330 pages, impermanent out to 3.3 cents per page, per color. Add whol of that up, and you get a slightly pricey 15 cents for a four-color page. The $32 XL black, connected the other bridge player, lasts for 1000 pages (3.2 cents per foliate), and the $16 XL color cartridges each last for 825 pages (1.9 cents per page, per color). Nine cents for a four-color page is quite inexpensive. The unit ships with starter-size cartridges, which are the day-after-day-size up cartridges with some extra ink slated for habituate during the low-level formatting process.

Despite good performance and cheap high-capacity supplies, a $150 multifunction without some sort of duplexing support should be avoided (unless you actually want to threefold your report usage, mailing costs, storage quad, and so much). Or else, choose a equivalent-priced competitor, such as the Canon Pixma MX512 or the Brother MFC-J825DW.

Source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/465262/hp_officejet_6600_e_all_in_one_printer_review_no_duplexing_no_dice.html

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