Type: Color inkjet
Max. Print Speed: Black: 20ppm (draft), 7ppm (normal). Color: 15ppm (draft), 4ppm (normal)
Max. Print Resolution: 4800 x 1200 dpi (optimized)
Special Features: Wide-format (11 x 17-inch) printing
PC World Review
Rating: N/ALiked: The 9650's sturdy output support flips up and stays open, providing free access to the input tray.... With photo inks on glossy paper, the 9650's prints of gray-scale photos exhibited uncanny depth despite having a somewhat scratchy texture, and color photos came out in sharp focus with smooth textures and realistic colors.
Disliked: You have to swap the printer's black and photo cartridges, depending on what you're printing; and the first time you do this, the printer runs an alignment routine.... The 9650 has neither a PictBridge port nor memory card slots.... Printing plain black on the Deskjet 9650 cost a steep 5.1 cents per page (the average number for general-purpose models tested for our August 2004 issue was 4.3 cents).
In Short: The wide-format Deskjet 9650 delivers consistently good print quality on many kinds of documents. This printer is no speed demon, however, and its costs per page are quite high.
PC Magazine Review
Rating: 3 out of 5Liked: Print quality was generally good.... Reasonably good business graphics and large-format printing
Disliked: We saw ragged lines in some of our graphics output and slight problems with color shading in photos
In Short: If you don't need wide-format ability, a low-cost color laser printer is a better choice. But if you need reasonably good business graphics and large-format printing in an affordable office printer, these two HP models are a good bet.
