subject: HP Deskjet D2660 Printer [print this page] At under 40 the HP Deskjet D2660 is a cheap, basic printer with no frills. Another selling point is the fact that it is made from 50 percent recycled materials.
The Deskjet D2660 has a footprint of just 17.83 x 8.15 x 6.77 inches and weighs all of six pounds. The D2660 departs from HP's usual grey overtones by going for an all black finish. It has a small, three button control panel located on the top left and the one-touch buttons consist of: power, resume and cancel for easy operation and it also has two ink level lights that alert users when the ink needs to be replaced.
The two HP Deskjet D2660 ink cartridges can be accessed through the pull down panel to the right of the control panel.| Two capacities of cartridge are available for the HP Deskjet D2660: the black HPCC640EE is rated at 200 pages and the HPCC641EE at 600 pages while the colour HPCC643EE will do up to 165 pages and the HPCC644EE is rated at 440 pages. The XL inks offer the best value for money.
The D2660 has a paper tray at the front that will hold up to 80 sheets of paper and will also cope with other media such as envelopes and copy paper. The tray can be closed when not in use to reduce the amount of space it takes up. The back of the HP Deskjet D2660 houses the USB 2.0 port, although no USB lead is supplied, as well as a small plug for power.
Because the D2660 is a simple, single function printer it is easy to setup. It is not networkable.
When printing black text documents in the normal mode the HP Deskjet D2660 printed about seven pages per minute (ppm) and five ppm in colour. Switching to draft mode almost doubled the speeds.
The D2660 produced very impressive black and white and colour text prints in both standard and draft modes. In fact the quality of prints was comparable to much more expensive machines. Sadly photo prints were not as good. They weren't actually bad, just not as sharp or clear as they might have been.
The HP Deskjet D2660 is, for the most part, a very good printer for about 40. It produced high quality black and colour prints, is easy to setup and use and, for the environmentally conscious, is made of 50% recycled materials. On the down side it did not print great quality photos and is limited in scope.
