What They're Saying About; The HP Photosmart 3310 All-in-One

There are a lot of photo all-in-ones hitting the shelves these days, and the HP Photosmart 3310 is one of the more impressive. Reviewers complimented the performance and the print quality (one enthused that it even produced great prints on normal inkjet paper). However, they all felt that an all-in-one should come with an automatic document feeder, especially at this price point.

Price: $399.99
Type: Color inkjet photo all-in-one
Max. Print Speed: Black: 32ppm; Color: 31ppm
Max. Print Resolution: 4800 x 1200 (interpolated)
Special Features: LCD preview monitor, built-in wireless networking, film adapter

CNET Review

Rating: 7 out of 10

Liked: The HP Photosmart 3310 is Wi-Fi and Ethernet ready; has built-in storage card slots; scans film negatives and slides; and delivers excellent text quality, good photos, and fine graphics prints.

Disliked: Lacks an automatic document feeder; scanning could be better; the HP Photosmart 3310's paper capacity is small for office use.

In Short: The HP Photosmart 3310's many useful features make it a good fit for a home office.

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HardwareCentral Review

Rating: 4 out of 5

Liked: When using decent inkjet paper, the 3310's output is gorgeous enough to shame some color laser printers. Even normal mode on inkjet paper produced an almost frame- rather than thumbtack-worthy 8 by 10 inch image. Normal-mode output on plain paper is a match for most inkjets' in best-quality mode or on coated inkjet paper or both.

Disliked: Printing only 100 sheets before running out of paper is OK for family projects, but not for small-office workers. Any multifunction that adds the fourth feature -- faxing -- is crippled without an automatic document feeder

In Short: All in all, the HP Photosmart 3310 combines superb text and image quality with versatile yet reasonably intuitive and user-friendly scanning and copying. In other words, think of it as an impressive six-color photo printer with a solid bonus copier and scanner on top -- which, as we said, is probably exactly how we'd describe the less expensive Photosmart 3210 model en route to giving it a five-star review. The 3310 aspires to go beyond that to small-office status, but its skimpy paper capacity and feederless fax limit it to four stars.

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PC Magazine Review

Rating: 4 out of 5

Liked: Printer, scanner, and standalone fax and copier. Prints from cameras and memory cards. Scans 35-mm slides and film. Scans over network. Dual paper feed. Excellent performance.

Disliked: No automatic document feeder.

In Short: The Photosmart 3310 has everything we expect to find in a photocentric all-in-one, including the ability to scan 35-mm slides and film. But it also works as a standalone copier and fax machine, and offers excellent speed and reasonably high quality for both business applications and photos.

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