HP Photosmart C5280 is a printer which is better suited for graphic and photo printing than for text printing. This multifunction printer stands 17.8 inches wide, 15.2 inches deep, 8 inches tall, and weighs a mere 15.7 pounds . It’s better suited for graphics and photo printing than for text printing. Additionally, the CD/DVD print feature is easy to use and produces good-quality prints. This multifunctional printer consists of four memory card slots that are mounted on the front of the unit.
The Photosmart C5280 uses a two ink cartridges: one black and one tricolor. The black cartridge can be swapped out for an optional tricolor photo tank for six-color photo printing. Black text costs about 4 cents per page and a full color print costs about 10.7 cents per page–both numbers are low for an inexpensive inkjet printer. The scan and copy features of this multifunctional printer are standard.
Compared to similarly priced inkjet multifunction, the HP Photosmart C5280 is a middle-of-the-pack performer with printing. It produced black text at a rate of 5.53 pages per minute. The color graphics print of this cheap printer is impressive, with smooth gradients, smooth color saturation, and sharp and detailed photo elements. The 4×6 photo print of C5280 is equally good: sharp details and pleasing and believable skin tones. The Photosmart C5280 did its best work with the color scan. Overall, the Photosmart C5280 is better with graphics and photos than at text.
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Ink cartridge Claims
What is claimed is:
1. An ink cartridge comprising: an ink cartridge body having a plurality of ink chambers, said ink chambers being formed by two or more partitioning walls intersecting orthogonally with one another within the ink cartridge body; a nose formed integral with the ink chambers, the nose including a plurality of openings formed in the opposite sides of the nose, respectively, and a plurality of ink feeding channels, wherein each of said plurality of ink feeding channels is individually connected to at least one of said plurality of ink chambers; and sealing members for individually sealing said openings; wherein the nose comprises: a part for mounting a print head; one or more ink passages intersecting with the print head; and a carriage mounting datum; wherein the carriage mounting datum is formed on the surfaces of the sealing members.
2. The ink cartridge according to claim 1, wherein said plurality of ink chambers comprise: a front ink chamber; and a rear ink chamber separated from the front ink chamber by a first partitioning wall, the rear ink chamber being divided into a left ink chamber and a right ink chamber, by a second partitioning wall, the left and right ink chambers being symmetrically formed.
3. The ink cartridge according to claim 2, wherein the front ink chamber and rear ink chamber have lengths with a ratio of 1:2.
4. The ink cartridge according to claim 2, wherein said plurality of ink feeding channels comprise: a front ink feeding channel formed in an extended part of the bottom of said front ink chamber in such a way that the front ink feeding channel intersects with the front ink chamber; and left and right ink feeding channels connected to the left and right ink chambers at predetermined locations in the bottoms thereof to intersect with the left and right ink chambers, respectively, the left and right ink feeding channels being separated from one another in the nose by the front ink feeding channel and formed by sealing the openings with at least one sealing member.