subject: HP PSC 1350 Review [print this page] If you'd like a multifunction printer for enjoyment rather than for work, HP's PSC 1350 may well suit you perfectly. This piece of equipment will scan, copy, as well as print, and it has built-in slots with regard to reading most popular digital-camera memory cards. Created for personal use, the PSC 1350 features merely a straightforward strip of buttons instead of an LCD-equipped control panel. But what the 1350 does not have in hardware it compensates for in software, with a great deal of interlocking programs geared towards scanning as well as having fun with photographs.
Symmetrically shaped, it is similar to an attractive grey shoebox having a silver top enveloped in a sheet of rigid plastic. The plastic sheet is in fact the scanner lid, which lifts at the long edge to reveal a letter/A4-size glass. The scanner lid's left edge exhibits a line of buttons that will run the 1350 with no pc. Four flash-memory slots inserted in the 1350's front read six common digital-camera card types.
The printer element includes a shallow paper tray together with flaps that may withdraw if the tray is unfilled to regenerate the shoebox look. Its paper path deposits prints and copies on top of the paper tray. A panel at the back enables rigid paper to exit down a direct path. A gaping hole over this paper tray provides cramped entry to the HP PSC1350 ink cartridges. Sadly, the 1350 holds merely two ink cartridges at a time, thus you might have to swap cartridges often. HP doesn't supply a photo cartridge; that is an extra.
The PSC 1350 provides a lot of useful options with regard to picture hounds. One is the ability to print photographs coming from CompactFlash, SmartMedia, Memory Stick, Secure Digital, as well as xD-Digital cards without a Computer.
An incorporated software application known as Photo and Imaging Gallery includes a vast selection of layouts grouped under cards, album pages, and also flyers. Photo and Imaging Gallery includes tools intended for cropping, enhancing, and cleaning pictures. Another utility, called HP Memories Disc,will move photos from memory cards straight on to writable optical media, such as CDs.
Unfortunately, the PSC 1350's does not perform well, speedwise. It prints text at a nearly unbearably sluggish 1.4 pages per minute (ppm) and photo prints took in excess of 13mpp.
The PSC 1350's print as well as scan quality fares much better. Normal text appears well-defined as well as black with plain paper. Some closed parts fill in on very small type sizes, but normal-size text looks just like that of virtually any inkjet. Collared documents on plain paper have got excellent fine detail and also remarkably clean textures, without any banding or even artefacts; the sole weak spot is the fact that colours, even though precise, never appear as saturated as they ought to. Also high-resolution photos with glossy paper turn out spectacular, having excellent colour, outstanding detail and no dottiness, banding, or other detractions. The 1350's greyscale scans record great detail as well as differentiate in between tones of grey. The 1350 is considerably less able dealing with colour scans: textures appear abrasive as well as dotty, plus delicate information as well as shading tend not to get through, although the device records colours pretty effectively.
The PSC 1350 scanned black documents at a very zippy 5.7ppm and also colour documents at 1.7ppm. It makes copies at around half a page per minute, and that is commonplace for inkjets.
The PSC 1350 can make outstanding prints as well as fair scans, however it does so at a very slow print speed which makes it less useful in office situations.
