HP's Photosmart C4680 color inkjet (MFP) at this inscription is priced to glance like a good deal. Its valuable inks as well as slow speeds, but, its top suitable for low-volume use.

The C4680 covers just the essentials. It has a USB connector but no ethernet or media-card slots. Its single input tray maxes out at 80 sheets. It has no output plate: Prints or copies only drop on top of the input stack-to an utmost of 15 sheets, according to HP. The input-tray panel open out uncomfortably as well as loudly; HP says this is common, but I thought it made the unit feel badly constructed. Physical duplexing is obtainable with on-screen quick from the printer driver.

The Photosmart C4680's top attributes are its control panel as well as support application. A 1.5-inch LCD displays menu options. You choose your choices using touch-sensitive, backlit LCD "buttons." HP's superb Solution Center program, which loads mechanically during the standard installation, offers an easy as well as smooth interface for printer status, tasks, as well as projects.

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The Photosmart C4680's output quality is improved than its speed. Plain, black text looked crisp. Color photos showed a small degree of banding and graininess but if not varied from washed-out fleshtones to exact contours along with shadowing in unresponsive objects. Scanned output showed quick detail with colors that were slight dark.

But it's just not very quick: using the printer's default ("normal") sort, the device managed only 7.4 pages per minute (ppm) printing plain-black text and 2.3 ppm printing graphics--below the standard of other inkjet MFPs, and far short of HP's declare of 29 ppm using just black ink as well as 23 ppm using all four colors.

The Photosmart C4680 would be a well-mannered selection for a light-duty home MFP, its good output along with friendly controls. But, if you print or copy a lot, look for a quicker device with much lower ink prices.