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HP Photosmart D7260: Thrifty Ink User

Feb 2, 2008 Printers

Printers and ‘saving ink’ don’t go well with each other, plainly going by experience. Printers are always meant to drink more and more ink and place a lucrative tab on the user. Well, HP is set to change the current trend. It has introduced Photosmart D7260 which claims to use ink frugally.

The D7260 is peculiarly different than all other printers in the ink saving domain, which attracts me to it the most. When we hit ‘clean printer head’, all printers use some portion of the ink to perform the action. The ink used for cleaning printer heads is a goner. With D7260, the printer reuses the ink that was used as a cleaning agent to print documents, thereby saving ink and hence money. This technology has already been used on the previous model, Photosmart D7160.

The printer moreover contains six individual cartridges which once again work in the favour of economical printing. The user can change the colour cartridge which has run out instead of the whole set.

The printing speed is excellent at 34ppm for black and 33ppm for colour. Photo printing speed is unmatchable at 10 seconds per 4” X 6” photograph.
It contains all other necessary bells and whistles that photo printers have these days. The D7260 is priced at £50 and is available in the retail market and also off HP store.