The unit achieved average to better speeds in our tests. The Photosmart can print and scan in duplex (both sides of the page), but duplex scanning requires two passes. However, the lid for the A4 flatbed scanner doesn’t telescope to accommodate thicker materials. There’s also a 25-sheet automatic document feeder (ADF) for the scanner. The main paper tray holds 125 sheets, and integrated into its top is a secondary photo tray that holds up to 20 sheets of photo paper (5-by-7-inch maximum). Overall, the machine is good value and should be on your short list.While the Photosmart 7520 is photo-centric, its paper-handling features extend well beyond that. Running costs are reasonable and print speeds on plain paper are good, except for duplex prints. It’s easy to set up and use, thanks in part to its effective touchscreen controls, and produces very good quality prints and photos. The HP Photosmart 7520 is a well-designed all-in-one for home and home office use. The Canon PIXMA MG6350 is also a contender, with its ice-white case, twin trays and six-ink print, though it’s hampered by the unpredictable print times its continual housekeeping forces on it. At £130, though, there are other choices, such as the Epson Expression Photo XP-750 with faster photo prints and a useful CD/DVD tray. There are plenty of reasons to buy a Photosmart 7520, including its print quality, and feature set. These are reasonable, compared with the competition, without turning any heads.
The five ink cartridges are available in two capacities and using the XL versions gives pages costs of 3.0p for black and 8.1p for colour. Photos are bright, but never unnatural, with good rendition of detail in a range of hues. A full-colour copy is also unusually close to the original, though loses some definition. Colours on plain paper are bright and solid and even reversed text, white on black, is very readable. Print quality is very good, with clean, sharp text, looking close to laser quality. HP Photosmart 7520 – Print Quality and Costs Photo prints took between 1:02 and 1:27, depending on where we printed from, but even the slowest time is fine. The control panel offers 2-sided to 2-sided copies, but it turns out you have to feed the source sheets twice there’s no duplex scanning.
Why doesn’t HP just tell you the page image is too big, so you can make your own adjustments?Ī colour copy from the flatbed took 22s and a 5-page black copy from the ADF took 1:02, both of which are reasonable. We assume this is because of increased print margins required by the duplexer, but other makes of printer don’t do it and it makes a nonsense of any form of page layout. The height and width is reduced by about 10 percent, in comparison with the same pages printed single-sided. This machine exhibits an old HP trait, where pages are automatically reduced in size when printed duplex. Few people will opt to print duplex, at less than a third the speed of single-sided print. The 5-page black text and colour graphic document gave only 5.7ppm, though, only just over half the rated speed and the 20-side, 10-page duplex test gave a slow 3.7 sides per minute.
We saw 7.7ppm for our 5-page text test and this increased to 11.3ppm for the 20-page document, not far off spec. Although we didn’t reach those speeds under test, subjectively the printer seemed fast. HP rates the Photosmart 7520 at 14ppm for black print and 10ppm for colour.
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