HP Deskjet D5560 Printer Review

HP’s Deskjet D5560 is aimed mainly at general, private correspondence.

The model is visually quite lovely in its textured and high-gloss black case. It is around the standard width for any personal inkjet machine, yet it is less deep compared to many. However, when you flip the paper tray and extend the remaining paper swing-out, creating an output tray, significantly expanding the machine footprint. This tray arrangement protrudes at the front of the computer over a sheet of A4 paper.

Paper or photo blanks feed out of this fold-down tray, flip through 180 degrees and so feed out on the surface of the input stack. There isn’t any cover for the feed tray; therefore, you’ll likely want to fold it up out of the way whenever not printing, meaning you will have to stash the paper somewhere.

The control panel is unusual because of its set up and also the specially fashioned mono Liquid crystal display panel. There are four buttons, one for paper feed, one for you to stop a printing job, a third to start up the printer’s wireless connection, and the fourth for you to switch the machine on and off. The display exhibits the wireless signal strength and also ink levels in 25 percent blocks making use of purpose-designed symbols.

At the back is the USB socket, along with a low voltage DC input that takes power from a little black block supply. USB is necessary briefly for set-up, even though you may choose to hook up the machine wirelessly.

The wireless set-up is very straightforward, and it is dealt with automatically by the set-up utility on the driver CD. Besides, you get copies of HP Solution Centre, Smart Web Print, and Microsoft’s Windows Live Photo Gallery. Drivers are provided for Windows as well as OS X and are attainable for Linux as a download.

The device uses two ink and head cartridges, one for black ink and the other tri-color. Should you pull down the front cover, the head carrier shifts to a handy central spot, and thus, clipping both the cartridges in position is fast and straightforward.

In normal print mode, the Deskjet D5560 concluded our five-page black text print in 1:06, which equals a rate of 4.55ppm. The longer, 20-page document needed 3:26, boosting the price to 5.83ppm, but still far more modest compared to the supplied technical specs. The five-page black text and color graphics document took 2:02, a rate of 2.46ppm. In comparison with other, likewise priced inkjet units, these rates are somewhat reasonable.

The quality of prints we got was in general good, although there was some minor feathering of ink on plain paper on black-text characters. Text is densely black, nonetheless and additionally, color business graphics are generally robust and vibrant, with little indication of dither patterns. Registration of black text over color backgrounds is perfect, plus there aren’t any hints of haloing.

Although not intended as a picture model, our test photo images on HP glossy photo paper ended up being very good. Colors are natural and shade smooth, without exhibiting print textures. Fine detail is exact and descends into the darker shades along with those in bright light.

As is standard practice for HP, the HP Deskjet D5560 printer cartridges can purchase in Standard as well as Value versions, with the Value cartridges supplying higher yields.