I just bought an HP5520 wireless printer. Since getting it home last night I've read some iffy reviews. I had actually done some research and Consumer Reports had recommended the 5510, but Best Buy didn't have that one. I guess the 5520 is the replacement to the 5510. Before unboxing it, I was wondering if anyone has one and can let me know wether you're satisfied with it or not. If you're not, which printer do you like? Keep in mind, I need one that supports Apple's Air Print.
Anyone use an HP 5520 Printer?
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I picked up a HP 8600 plus a few months back and I love it. I previously had a cheap mono laser printer as I print a large number of articles and documents for work. I was hesitant to go back to an inkjet but the 8600 will print 2500 black and white pages on a single black XL cartridge as well as 1500 odd colour pages. Replacement cartridges are not all that expensive given the yield. It's not a great photo printer but good enough for my needs.
It supports airprint for my Ipad and I have an app for printing from my Galaxy S3. It can print two sided, scan, fax, and connects seemlessly to my home network.
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It supports airprint for my Ipad and I have an app for printing from my Galaxy S3. It can print two sided, scan, fax, and connects seemlessly to my home network.
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I have a 5510, not a bad printer, but I was never able to get it to print wireless, maybe I am the problem....
a lot of people are not aware that printers have a monthly duty cycle. Which is the amount of pages that the printer is rated to handle per month. the 5520 is up to 1,000 pages per month but recommended 300-400 pages. Don't go crazy printing and it should last you quite a long time. Just imagine you bought a brand new sedan and take it to the race track every day and max out the RPM around the track all day long. Sure it will handle it at first but it's not a NASCAR and eventually you are going to have problems because that's not what it was designed to do.
Aslo when it comes to ink cartridges and their claim that it will print "1,000 page yield". That is tested at a 5% coverage rate in draft mode. Meaning the printer is on the lowest quality setting and only 5% of the page printed on. Now if you take a standard page of text...and combine all that ink it might actually only cover 5% of the page....but when you take a 8x10 full color photo at the best quality...you won't come anywhere close to 1,000 page yield.
I worked for Office Depot and Officemax for a combined 10 years. I would hear it every day "i just bought this cartridge and it's already out of ink, didn't even come close to the 800 pages its supposed to print". ok tell me what you were printing and what settings the printer is on.......ahhhhh ding ding ding..
HP makes some really nice printers and if you take care of them they will last forever. We sold more HP printers than any other printer available. Now that could be because HP paid a premium price to have their printers showcased in the first couple asiles and end displays. But compared to the other printers that we would get returned all the time...HP was bought and kept.
Aslo when it comes to ink cartridges and their claim that it will print "1,000 page yield". That is tested at a 5% coverage rate in draft mode. Meaning the printer is on the lowest quality setting and only 5% of the page printed on. Now if you take a standard page of text...and combine all that ink it might actually only cover 5% of the page....but when you take a 8x10 full color photo at the best quality...you won't come anywhere close to 1,000 page yield.
I worked for Office Depot and Officemax for a combined 10 years. I would hear it every day "i just bought this cartridge and it's already out of ink, didn't even come close to the 800 pages its supposed to print". ok tell me what you were printing and what settings the printer is on.......ahhhhh ding ding ding..
HP makes some really nice printers and if you take care of them they will last forever. We sold more HP printers than any other printer available. Now that could be because HP paid a premium price to have their printers showcased in the first couple asiles and end displays. But compared to the other printers that we would get returned all the time...HP was bought and kept.
Very informative post, I need to keep these points in mind when I need a new printer.
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Thanks for that Toothpick. I didn't know that. We don't do a lot of printing. We don't do anywhere near 300 pages a month. We probably don't even print that many in a year. I think the last time I bought a ream of paper was about a year and a half ago, and it's just getting low now.
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That printer should be just fine for you then. It might be a good idea to familiarize yourself with changing the print quality such as draft mode & greyscale. It will stretch the life of your cartridges. For instance if you are printing something that will likely be used once and then hit the trash can does it really need to be in full color and best quality? Same with making copies, you can change the quality right on the printer.
Also I like to tell people to focus on the features they want, rather than the price of ink. at around $3,500 per gallon of black ink (maybe more by now) there really isn't a lot of room for "saving money on ink".
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