All You Need To Know About HP Photosmart C6300

Hewlett-Packard's C6300 series colour printers fulfil more than a few business requirements, mainly wireless colour printing. The piece of equipment also excels at small-batch photo printing, scanning and copying. The device's fast (33 black pages per minute) printing and reliability (the unit is rated for 2,500 printed pages per month) make it a cost-effective fit in many small organisations.

The HP Photosmart C6300 series all-in-one printer targets small organisations requiring low numbers of high-quality colour (comprising lab-quality photographs) prints using HP 364XL black ink cartridge. With equipped wireless and scanning and copying capacity, the C6300 also fulfils other essential requirements small businesses usually need.

Many economical inkjet printers offer printing, copying and scanning functions within a single device. The HP Photosmart C6300 includes wired and wireless Ethernet printing as well as high-quality photograph printing to the package. The built-in HP Solution Center software makes it effortless to scan photographs and documents for non-technical users, print files and photographs and move pictures from memory cards through a number of operating systems.

Some interesting features

High-quality colour printing - HP Photosmart C6300 series printers are capable of producing colour prints up to 9600 x 2400 dpi, while black page print quality can be set as high as 66 x 600 dpi, using HP printer ink. The gadget produces lab-quality photographs, and holds an individual photo tray (accommodating 3 x 5, 4 x 6 or 5 x 7) is integrated.

Small-business scalability - The Photosmart is a desktop printer focussed on small businesses. As such, cost and quality are stressed over quantity. The Photosmart 6000 series printers have a monthly duty cycle of around 2,500 pages, and the HP printer can generate up to 50 copies in one go. That said, it excels as a photo printer which is also frequently used to print colour reports, handouts and several other materials. Businesses that require greater production of around 3,000 monthly pages may consider it.

Performance - The Photosmart printer offers pages relatively quicker. Following first page production, the printer prints/copies up to 33 black pages and 31 colour pages per minute.

Multiple OS support - HP offers software drivers for Macintosh Tiger (version 10.4), Leopard (version 10.5) and Windows XP as well as Vista, also for some Linux distributions through its HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) software.

Wireless printing standard - Wireless 802.11 b/g Ethernet printing is integrated as a standard attribute, as is wired Ethernet printing. HP's built-in software facilitates printing to Photosmart printers using both dynamic as well as static IP addresses on supported Windows and Macintosh platforms.

Flatbed scanner - Small organisations that require to frequently copy or scan odd-size documents and photographs will find the ease of the 6000-series flat-bed scanner handy.

All these above mentioned features make it an amazing device, however it doesn't offer fax facility, flatbed scanner and also doesn't support older operating systems.