The $150 Officejet 5610 printer can scan, copy, print photos and other documents, and send and receive faxes. The HP Officejet 5610 measures 18 inch by 16 inch by 9 inch (WDH). The control panel of the HP Officejet 5610 conveniently divides fax and copy functions into separate areas.
The HP Image Zone utility, a combination photo archiver and photo-album designer, offers tools for editing and applying special effects. Pages can be scanned and converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR) software. HP also provides software for faxing documents from computer, though the 5610 can’t receive digital faxes and park them on the computer.
The Officejet 5610 contain standard-size black-ink cartridge and a tricolor cartridge. The standard-size black cartridge costs $18, and HP says that it will last 220 pages, or a steep 8.2 cents per page. A high-capacity black cartridge, good for an estimated 450 pages, costs $20, or a more palatable 4.4 cents per page.
The cheap HP Officejet 5610 prints text at a poky 4.08ppm pages per minute. The text obtained from the printer is sharp, clean, black, and legible at small point sizes. Color graphics showed good detail, shapes and geometry were free of distortion, and colors looked accurate and saturated. The glossy photo prints of HP Office jet 5610 had fine texture that even the ink dots can’t be identified under the magnification. The 5610 produced sharp details in photos.