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a bit too early to be included in devices in this price range. This is a shame, since it would fit well with the sales angle HP is using for this machine. Hp Deskjet 2540 – Print Quality and CostsPrint quality is high for a printer in this price bracket. Black text is clean and, while not laser quality, is sharp and dense. Colours on plain paper are also solid, with no signs of dither patterns and a colour copy is surprisingly close to the original, with less fading of colours than we often see. Photo prints are natural and have plenty of detail. Dark colours are better reproduced than by many printers costing More The HP 301 black and tri-colour cartridges are available in two yields, though the high-yield versions give 480 and 330 pages, respectively, which is still not a lot. At the best prices we could find, we calculate page costs of 4.4p for black and 10.2p for colour pages, including 0.7p for paper. These costs are high and, to an extent, counter the low cost of the printer itself. Should I buy a Deskjet 2540?The strengths of the HP Deskjet 2540 lie in its ease of setup and use and the high print quality, given its low cost. It can be used easily with Android and iOS devices, though we were a bit perturbed by the bands at the bottom of photos. |
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