The HP Smart Tank Plus 651 printed the same document at a glacial pace of 3 minutes and 30 seconds, or 1.7 ppm. The EcoTank printed our six-page color PDF of mixed text and graphics in just 32.8 seconds-a blistering pace of 11 ppm that's a fraction of the category average of 2.6 ppm (or, 2 minutes and 19 seconds). Business workgroup inkjets averaged 22.1 seconds, or 13.6 ppm in our tests. The average for ink tank and high-yield cartridge models was 31 seconds, or 9.7 ppm.
That was significantly faster than the HP Smart Tank Plus 651, at 34 seconds, or 8.8 ppm, and a little slower than Canon Maxify MB5420 (our previous Editor’s Choice for small businesses), at 17.5 ppm. It printed our five-page text document in 19.6 seconds, or 15.3 pages per minute (ppm). The ET-5850 put the pedal to the metal in our tests, delivering very fast performance in every print, copy and scan test. Wi-Fi networking and Wi-Fi Direct are supported. On the back panel are the USB, Ethernet, and phone line (fax) ports. There are no physical navigation buttons. Help screens and animated instructions are well organized and easy to follow. The large on-screen buttons make menu selections simple, and you can swipe the menu icons across the screen, like you can with a smartphone. OCR (Optical Character Recognition) capabilities make every document searchable for easy retrieval and sharing.The large, 4.3-inch touch screen operates smoothly. Why waste time feeding a two-sided document through your device twice? Save time by defaulting to two-sided scanning.Ħ. Scanning a color document in black and white can result in images that contribute little or no value to the document's content.ĥ. Be sure to take advantage of the feature if your device includes color scanning capabilities. Set your multifunction printer or scanner to detect and delete blank pages for a more concise document.Ĥ. Your final file size will be larger, but the resulting documents will be much better quality.ģ. If your scanner is set to a default resolution of 200dpi, bump that up to a minimum of 300dpi. If the paper copy ends up in the shredder, you may have a serious situation that can't be remedied.Ģ. It's much better to repeat the scanning process rather than share a document that no one can read. It may seem too obvious to mention, but checking your scanned documents is a must. Check out our tips for successful scanning the first time through, saving your company valuable time and money.ġ. The good news is, it doesn't take much effort to make sure the text and images in your scanned documents are sharp and readable. A botched scan is as useless as a paper document that's been through the wash-and just about as readable. Scanning can deliver some valuable benefits to your organization, but not if the resulting scans are poor quality.
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