Versatile printer HP Photosmart C309 is a printer copier scanner cum fax. It uses thermal inkjet technology to deliver good quality prints. It is good in appearance with round corners and is compact. It is easy to carry the printer by hand with its weight 22.92 pounds. It measures 18.4 inches by 18.6 inches by 11.1 inches. It makes office works easy as it can print documents, brochures, labels, envelopes and photo prints.

Fax performs well for black and color. Fax provides prints at 3 seconds per page speed. It has memory to hold up to 90 pages in 8.5 inches by 11.7 inches size. It can retain a maximum of 90 numbers for speed dialing and has capacity for 20 broadcast locations. It has auto redialing and delayed faxing facility. It supports fax polling. It has junk barrier capability and fax forwarding facility.

Black prints of HP 338 ink cartridge are crisp and dark. Prints do not get spoilt if highlighter is used on black prints. Five individual cartridges are used in the printer. It delivers good quality color photo prints with fine grain. Option is available to use high capacity XL cartridge for voluminous printing. Prints are cost effective as only one color cartridge can be replaced when dry.

The printer has memory card slot. Printing can be made without a computer but from a memory card. Memory cards supported by the printer are CompactFlash, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Duo, Secure Digital/MultimediaCard, Secure Digital High Capacity Card and xD-Picture Card.