Thread: HP Photosmart D5468

The HP Photosmart D5468, HP's one and only entry in this test, is part of its D5400 series. The printer has a nice rounded edge design with grey and white colours. There is a front facing silver bezel, atop which a 1.5-inch display is present. Next to this are the printer controls, Print photo button, red-eye removal button, cancel and power buttons.

Along with this printer being the only one in this test to have a display, other than the compact photo printers, the Photosmart D5468 also has memory card support and a USB port that can be used as a PictBridge connect; it also supports USB flash drives, another feature missing from the other photo printers.

This printer comes with two paper trays arranged one above the other, the top tray being used only for 4 x 6 photo prints, while the lower paper tray can be used for other paper sizes, including A4. The top paper tray can be removed to make the bottom tray more accessible. This printer can also print images straight onto a CD or DVD. To do this, there is an extension located at the base of the bottom tray where the CD or DVD has to be placed.

This HP Photos mart D5468 gave us the most balanced colours of all the non-compact photo printers that we tested. The first image shows that the colours were nicely reproduced, but there was a slight concern with the greens, as two shades looked as though they were merging. This photo printer was the only one to differentiate all the colours of the black and white chart that is present on the test image. The overall reflections. and ripples in the water were' also much better than with the other printers.