Monday, December 26, 2005
HP DeskJet 5440 Printer Review & HP Printer Ink
| HP 5440 Printer & HP Printer Ink Cartridges
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HP DeskJet 5440 Printer Key Features:
- 4.60lbs (LxWxH) 18.07"x 18.90"x 5.67"
- Black:Up to 1200 x 1200 rendered dpi black; Color:Up to 4800 optimized dpi
- Black (Draft):Up to 22 ppm; Color (Draft):Up to 21 ppm
- HP Auto Red-eye Removal, HP Adaptive Lighting
- Standard Connectivity USB
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Important Printer Buying Tip: ALWAYS check for the ink cartridge prices before you purchase a printer. Why? Sometimes cheaper printers end up costing more because its ink cartridges may be way expensive. You should calculate the "cost of ownership" per month. The math is simple: (number of prints per month) times (cost of the cartridge) divided by (the yield of the cartridge). Yield is the number of pages that can be printed with one particular cartridge. For example, assume that average home user prints 150 black pages per month using a black cartridge that yields 200 pages and costs $28. The monthly "cost of ownership" is (150 pages) x ($28) = $21 200 pages Also look at the printer ink alternatives; besides the original manufacturer's cartridges (OEMs), you may have the selection of remanufactured cartridges, compatible ink cartridges, and ink refill kits. |
Below is the list of HP DeskJet 5440 compatible printer ink cartridges:
) OEM #: C9361 Color: Color Yield: 410 |
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) OEM #: C9362 Color: Black Yield: 210 |
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) OEM #: C9512FN Color: Set |
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){kind=spacer} OEM #: C9512YAN Color: Black Yield: 420 |
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) OEM #: C9513BN Color: Set |
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OEM #: C9513YAN Color: Set |
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) OEM #: CC581FN Color: Set |
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OEM #: CC581YAN Color: Color Yield: 820 |
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) OEM #: C9361WN Color: Color Yield: 410 pages |
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) OEM #: C9362WN Color: Black Yield: 210 pages |
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Detailed Specs (HP 5440):
Product Description for HP DeskJet 5440 (From the Manufacturer, Hewlett Packard)
Hp deskjet 5440 is a versatile, professional-quality printer for true-to-life photos up to 4800-optimized dpi dpi1 or in optional 6-ink color,2 plus laser-quality black text. Enjoy fast document printing speeds up to 22 ppm black, up to 21 ppm color,plus 4x6 photos in as fast as 27 seconds. Print documents in laser-quality black that retains clarity for decades 3 and longest-lasting color photos with the look and feel of traditional photos photos4 using HP photo ink cartridge.Print custom-size photos 4x6 to 8.5x11 to 8.5x24 panorama size directly from PictBridge-enabled cameras¿cameras¿no computer needed.Automatically remove red-eye, enhance photo details and more with HP Real Life technology, plus organize, edit and print photos and photo project with included HP Image Zone software. Create and print brochures, flyers,postcards, greeting cards and more on a variety of paper types. Save time and print supplies with one-touch print cancel button and convenient, on-screen print mode menu for greater printing flexibility.
MSRP for HP 5440: $99.00
Street Price: $63.00 - $92.00
PCMAGAZINE.com Editors' review:
With a PictBridge connector for direct printing from cameras and support for six color inks to enhance image quality, the HP Deskjet 5440 Photo Printer was designed to print high quality photos.
At a relatively compact 6.7 by 18.1 by 8.7 inches (HWD), the 5440 should be easy to find a place for, and setup is mostly typical for printers that connect via USB: You simply snap in the included black and tricolor ink cartridges (or substitute a photo cartridge for the black one if you're doing six-color printing), load paper, connect the USB cable and power cord, and run the automated setup.
There is one additional—and somewhat annoying—step, though: The alignment routine, in which you choose the best settings in each of eight different sample sets, is manual. And you must run it every time you change a cartridge—even when switching between black and photo. Worse, choosing best-aligned samples is much harder than with similar routines we've seen. Making the process manual rather than automatic helps keep costs down, but introduces an extra chore that will likely discourage you from switching between four- and six-color printing very often.
The 5440's quality scores—the high end of good for text and graphics and very good for photos—are typical for both ink jets as a whole and those in the 5440's price range. You're unlikely to ever require text output the printer can't handle. Most of our test fonts were easily readable at 4 points. The only two exceptions were two highly stylized fonts with thick strokes, which needed 12 points.
We output photos using both four and six colors. For color images, using six colors is well worth the effort—you'll see a noteworthy increase in the subtle shading that yields more realistic skin tones and gives a better sense of three-dimensionality. The only problems worth mentioning—and the main issue keeping the 5440 from a higher photo rating—were with the monochrome test photo.
When we printed the monochrome photo using six ink colors, we saw obvious posterization and a slight reddish-purplish tint. In the version printed with four colors, we saw no posterization, but detected hints of red and green at light-gray levels. If you won't be printing monochrome photos, this obviously won't be an issue. Most of our color test photos were true photo quality, although reds tended to be a little more saturated than in real life.
Photo performance is far less competitive, averaging 3:44 for each 4-by-6 and 9:07 for each 8-by-10. The 5940 was about a minute faster for each 4-by-6 and about two and a half minutes faster for each 8-by-10. The less expensive Canon Pixma iP1600 was even faster, averaging 1:58 and 4:01, respectively. Ultimately, the HP Deskjet 5440 is a perfectly reasonable choice, but its stiffest competition is HP's own 5940, which is faster, offers essentially the same output quality, and costs only $20 more.
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