Design and features
The Deskjet D2660 departs from HP's standard gray overtones, opting
instead for a black finish that you won't have a problem fitting into
your desk space, thanks to its tiny footprint. With few bells and
whistles inside the machine, HP managed to whittle the footprint down to
17.83 inches long, 8.15 inches wide, and 6.77 inches deep. In addition,
the whole printer only weighs 6 pounds, which makes it easy to move
around a room. Like the
HP Officejet 6000,
another simple inkjet printer, the D2660 doesn't have an LCD screen to
update you on the status of a job. Instead, you get three separate
power, paper feed, and cancel buttons all available to the left of the
paper trays. The back of the printer houses the USB 2.0 connection port
as well as a small plug for power.
A dual 80-sheet paper input and output tray on the bottom of the D2660
is responsible for corralling all outbound prints, and you can also fold
it up out of the way while the printer is dormant. We especially
appreciate HP's innovative corral arm that actually extends from the
side of the fold-up tray to reduce the amount of bulky plastic
protruding from the housing. Inside the cartridge bay, you'll see two
separate ink tank cartridges: one for standard black ink and another for
HP's tri-color tank. At the $50 price point, we didn't expect separate
cartridge bays for each color, but you can also save money by purchasing
HP's XL cartridge capacities available for both black and tri-color on
the HP Web site. Using HP's XL page yield and cartridge costs, we
calculate a page using black ink alone to cost 5.8 cents and a page of
color to cost 9.3 cents. Both prices are higher than the average
printer, which we suspect is a trade-off for the low initial retail
cost. That said, if you do plan on printing a large volume on a single
function, we recommend the HP Officejet 6000. It's double the price of
the D2660, but the cheaper cost per page (2.7 cents per black, 2.1 cents
per color) will definitely save you more money over time.
Performance
The Deskjet D2660 offers snappy output speeds compared with several
other single function inkjets and one multifunction printer. While it
couldn't quite surpass the text, photo, or graphics speeds of the
pricier HP Officejet 6000 or the
Lexmark Z2420, it did jump ahead of the older, bulkier
Canon Pixma iP2600 even beat out the favorably reviewed
Canon Pixma MX330
by a slight margin in text and color graphics speeds. Overall, the
differences in the chart below are less than one or two pages per minute
apart, so unless you regularly print large documents, you won't notice a
big difference in output speed.
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