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HP Deskjet 5940

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Pros
Good quality text output
Cons
Dissapointing glossy photo prints
Lacks media card slots

$76.99 - $137.99
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HP Deskjet 5940 Review

by Paul Jasper

- The $100 HP Deskjet 5940 works a lot like its sibling, the HP Deskjet 5440, but has a more attractive metal cover and costs $20 more. The main things you get for the extra $20 are slightly better speed and greater productive capacity (3000 pages per month versus 1000). Both models come with a pair of ink cartridges that supply four HP Vivera inks between them, but the 5940 accepts larger-capacity cartridges. The 5940's plain-paper output quality wasn't as good as the 5440's, and both printers' color photo prints on special photo paper were disappointing.

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User Reviews for HP Deskjet 5940

Reviewed by: LovePharmD

Duration of ownership:

Strengths: 30 black and white color print per minute, high resolution: 4800x1200 DPI, give me a smooth and nice picture. Small size: easy for moving or carry with me.

Weaknesses: Too expensive HP color Inkjet Print Cartridges. So, I had to refill my cartridges after it was out.

Overall Evaluation: After I searched around for few weeks, I decided to buy this Photo Printer from Meijer. I bought this Photo Printer to print many pictures of my newborn son. Because of its high qualification, printing nice and high-qualified pictures, I printed many picture without thinking about the expensive Print Cartridges I had to buy later. After a day long, I checked its price in the store and online, its cartridges cost about $62.99 for the HP 97 Tricolor Twinpack. I decided to go with refill the all my Cartridges. So, if you don't care how much of this print cartridges, you can buy this Photo Printer.
Reviewed by: ahenon

Duration of ownership:

Strengths: good quality printing, fast if noisy

Weaknesses: absolutely awful paper handling -- grabs paper unevenly, jams, grabs more than one page at a time, claims the paper tray is empty -- name it

Overall Evaluation: I usually like HP products, but this one is a bust. Have been using it for +/- 6 months and am about to give up. I would not buy it again, and I look askance at other HP products with the same type of paper feed.

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