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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