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The Deskjet F4580 is a full wireless all-in-one available for under £45. Aimed at the home user who is more interested in printing documents than photos, it nonetheless can still handle the occasional photograph .
All cased in textured and gloss black, the scanner is well integrated into the case and the lid lies at the same level as the surrounding rim of the machine. At the front.
There are no memory card readers as expected I suppose in an all-in-one intended primarily for document printing, no PictBridge socket either, just the standard usb on the back of the machine.
Unlike Epson printers, the quoted print speeds are a little more realistic, gone are the 30 odd pages per minute. The HP machine quote a modest 9 ppm in text mode and 6ppm in colour mode. Even these figures though were hard to achieve.
Our five-page black text print took just under a minute to complete, which is equivalent to a speed of about 5 pages per minute . The 20 page print out faired no better, averaging out at just over 5ppm . A 15 x 10cm photo print on A4 paper took a not to bad time of 1 minute 30 seconds.
The quality of the print reproduced, as you might expect, for a budget all-in-one machine. Black text is dark and dense, but there is some fuzziness around characters, especially when printed in bold mode, indicating feathering into the paper fibres. This is only slight, though.
Colour graphics are bright and attention-grabbing, with no obvious signs of dither patterns though a colour photocopy did show some lightening of colours, but is still very usable. A photo, on HP’s Advanced Photo Paper, was well reproduced, with natural colours, smooth gradations and good levels of detail, even in darker, shadowed areas.
The HP ink cartridges for this machine are the HP 300 range, which are available in standard or high capacity sizes. We generally find Epson printers using compatible epson ink cartridges a little cheaper to run. But everybody has there preferences. Remanufactured ink cartridges are available for the HP Deskjet F4580.
Verdict
The Deskjet F4580 all-in-one is good value, but you have to take into account running costs and this is where HP makes its money back . Even so, in all other respects, this device punches well above its weight and has to be a contender for anybody after an all-in-one at under £50 .
