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More…A travel printer like HP's Deskjet 460wbt has to be small, yet capable. This model meets most of the requirements, but its pedestrian print speeds might frustrate members of the frequent-flier set.
HP Deskjet 460wbt Mobile Photo Inkjet Printer (17PPM, 4800x4800 DPI, Color, 32MB, PC/Mac)
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Latest Price: $344.75
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Media Handling
| Manual Feed Slot | Yes |
| Maximum Number of Input Trays | 1 |
| Maximum paper size, height | 14.0 inches |
| Maximum Sheets With All Paper Trays | 50 |
| Output Tray Capacity | 0 |
| Standard Number of Input Trays | 1 |
| Maximum paper size, width | 8.5 inches |
| Standard input sheet capacity | 50 |
| Duplex printing | No |
General Features
| PostScript Type | PostScript |
| Printer Emulation Type | PostScript |
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| PictBridge compatible | Yes |
| Printer languages supported | HP PCL3 enhanced |
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Pros
Good overall print quality
Offers Bluetooth or Wi-Fi card
Cons
Slow printing photos
Setup poster is confusing
Bottom Line
This portable printer is nicely designed and easy to use, but somewhat slow.
HP Deskjet 460wbt
Deskjet 460wbt Mobile Photo Inkjet Printer (17PPM, 4800x4800 DPI, Color, 32MB, PC/Mac) Review, by Melissa Riofrio January 22, 2007
The Deskjet 460wbt's has a thoughtfully pared-down design that includes a battery pack and a Bluetooth card (the otherwise identical Deskjet 460wf comes with a 802.11g Wi-Fi card in place of the Bluetooth card). The top cover lifts up to serve as an adequate 50-sheet input tray. The paper width-adjustment slider nestles deeply in the input area, but that's a minor quibble in a portable printer. A token output tray--nothing more than a narrow flap, really--flips out from the bottom front.
The Deskjet 460wbt's completely pictorial setup sheet employs a multitude of arrows to stand in for words, and the result is often confusing--is the user supposed to look or move in the direction indicated? All of the other documentation--including a useful guide to printing wirelessly--is exemplary, however.
The Deskjet 460wbt's black and tricolor cartridges (it has one of each) printed smooth, black text on plain paper. Color and grayscale photographs looked slightly grainy on plain paper, but more natural on glossy paper. On both types of media we noticed some splotchiness in densely colored areas, as if the ink hadn't soaked in completely.
The Deskjet 460wbt's top tested speed of 6.3 pages per minute for plain text was about average for an inkjet printer, as were its times for printing various graphics. It choked on color photos, needing nearly 2 minutes to print a smallish, high-resolution image.
Travelers value portability but they also need efficiency. Though the Deskjet 460wbt packs the essentials into a small package, it's slower than it should be.
Melissa Riofrio
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Performance
| 300dpi Line Art Image (secs) | 26.47 |
| 4 by 6 Color Photo (secs) | 18.87 |
| 4 by 6 Grayscale Photo (secs) | 20.79 |
| Color Output Quality | Good |
| Color Photo Quality | Very Good |
| Grayscale Output Quality | Very Good |
| Line Art Output Quality | Fair |
| One-Page Webpage (secs) | 30.46 |
| Sports Action Shot (secs) | 112.01 |
| Ten-Page Word Document | 123.36 |
| Ten-Page Word Document (secs) | 123.36 |
| Tested Color Speed (ppm) | 2.3 |
| Tested Glossy Photo Speed (ppm) | 0.5 |
| Tested Grayscale Speed (ppm) | 2.9 |
| Tested Lineart Speed (ppm) | 2.3 |
| Tested Text Speed (ppm) | 6.3 |
| Text Output Quality | Very Good |
| Three-Page Word Document | 55.97 |
| Three-Page Word Document (secs) | 55.97 |
| Two-Page Excel Document | 56.22 |
| Two-Page Excel Document (secs) | 56.22 |
Text Printing
| Text output quality | Very Good |
User Reviews
Average User Reviews for HP Deskjet 460wbt Mobile Photo Inkjet Printer (17PPM, 4800x4800 DPI, Color, 32MB, PC/Mac)
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Reviewed by: g1ellst
Duration of ownership: 1 Year
Strengths: Overall it's a good printer
Weaknesses: I purchased this printer last year when I had windows XP. I purchased a new computer with Vista. The bluetooth addition that I purchased with thr printer will not work with Vista. None of the adds that I have seen state that. I have called HP and have not gotten any help from them
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