Ergo, if your business is likely to print more than 50 pages per month, you might be better in the long run with a more expensive printer that has a cheaper running cost – we recommend the Epson EcoTank ET-1810. With HP's XL color cartridges costing £19 (inc VAT) and £21 for the black, yields of 200 pages and 240 pages respectively works out to almost 9p per black and white page and up to 20p per color page. HP Deskjet 2710e review: Pricingįor the minimal fee of £55 ($70), the 2710e is a very affordable machine, however, it is worth taking a look at print supplies. However, the lightweight lid makes it hard to scan, say, a magazine or book without keeping one hand on the lid to stop it slipping or too much light getting in. The output’s good enough for a quick print of a smartphone snap, but you wouldn’t want to frame it.Īs for scanning, there’s little wrong with the scans or the time taken to scan them – roughly 24 seconds for an A4 page at 300dpi. Brighter colours reproduce quite well, but softer tones tend to look faded and you don’t get the clarity or detail you’ll find on prints from more expensive models like the Envy Inspire 7224e. Photo printing speeds aren’t painfully slow, at around 80 seconds for an A5 photo or two minutes for an A4 photo print with quality set to high, but the prints themselves are more usable than impressive. The Deskjet 2710e will also print photos, though we found it touch and go working with heavier photo papers, often refusing to feed them in on the first try and waiting until we’d pulled them out and reinserted them. Speeds aren’t great, at around 20 seconds for a mono A4 page or 34 seconds for colour, and the reproduction is patchy in areas, with the printer delivering thicker, darker text than you’ll find in the original or struggling to match vibrant greens and reds. It's a similar story for mono and colour copying. The output is good enough for casual use or a quick draft for checking and proofreading purposes, but if you’re after professional-quality printing then you’re going to want to spend more. In Better and Best quality modes you get sharp black text, but the definition isn’t as fine or as consistent as you’ll get from models further up the HP range like the Envy Inspire 7920e, while draft text is greyer with a slightly fuzzy look.Ĭolor business graphics are punchy, but you can see slight signs of banding and dithering on gradients, while text overlaid on a blue or yellow box looks somewhat murky. These results put the 2710e behind even its stablemate, the Deskjet 4120 – itself a fairly slow printer.Īs for the print quality, it’s fine for the price but nothing more. This improved to 15.9ppm with the print quality switched from Better to Draft, but the wait for the first page was still over 16 seconds.Ĭolor performance is worse, with the first page taking up to 50 seconds to put in an appearance, and the page rate from there stuck at around 5.7ppm. With our 24-page monochrome document, it took nearly 19 seconds for the first page to hit the output tray, with subsequent pages appearing at a rate of 9.87ppm. You won’t be surprised to hear that the Deskjet 2710e is no speed demon. This has worked brilliantly on other HP printers we’ve tested, but with our test 2710e things fell apart.
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Turn the printer on and install the two cartridges, and you can add the printer to the network from the Windows or smartphone HP Smart app, run the alignment routine then get to work. Simplicity has been a hallmark of HP’s setup process over the last couple of years, and the Deskjet 2710e takes the same app-based approach as most of its recent stablemates. There is a realistic shout that this is the smallest all-in-one around. Hight-wise, the light, low-profile lid on the scanner keeps it short, and the LCD display controls on the left hand-edge keep it all neat and tidy. Its dimensions are 425 x 30 x 15.4cm but there is an extra 42 x 23cm due to the way the unit tapers, so you lose a little bit more deskspace than you would expect. HP Deskjet 2710e review: DesignĪ big part of the appeal here, and one of the reasons it's more suited to a home office, is the compact design of the 2710e. HP claims the 2710e is capable of plowing through monthly duty cycles of up to 1,000 pages, though the recommended monthly page volume is just 50 to 100. All though it is an all-in-one machine, the 2710e is decidedly a home office printer, largely aimed at a job role that requires little-to-medium printing requirements.
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