The holidays intend two thing : your family take pictures , and your household recruiting you to print said pictures . This annoyance , coupled with the huge improvements in inkjet technologies over the preceding few years , means that most Gizmodo parents are ready for an upgrade .
Watch the sub-$200 HP Photosmart D7360 and Canon Pixma MP500 duke it out for all the affection you never had in our innovative bar graph . Then strike the jump for the Frankenreview : what fall out when reviews from CNET , PCMag , PCWorld and PrinterSpot gibe to live in a house and have their lives intercept .
Design
“ The Canon Pixma MP500 is low , broad , and smooth , like an Italian sport car . ”
“ We like the dual - LED icon next to the feed switch , which facilitate you toggle between the paper tray . ”
“ It has a tilt 2.5 - inch liquid crystal display CRT screen and computer storage card slots so you may print without the help of a computer . ”
“ The Photosmart D7360 has a turgid 3.4 - inch tilting LCD — that ’s about an in larger than distinctive video display currently on the food market . ”
“ … you’re able to keep both stock letter - size of it newspaper publisher and 4 - by-6 photo paper adulterate and switch between them without make to interchange paper every time . Alternatively … you’re able to keep two different size of photo paper loaded . ”
“ The HP Photosmart D7360 is on the bulky side for a single - role printing machine … ”
Winner : Canon . It ’s a much sexier design despite including all - in - one functionality .
Standalone Interface / Connectivity
“ If you ’re printing directly from a PictBridge - enable camera , use your digital tv camera ’s storage card , use infrared via a equipment such as your earphone , you’re able to use the Pixma MP500 right out of the loge … ”
“ Unlike several of its rivals and many photo pressman , the MP500 does n’t let you read images from a USB twinkling drive attach to its lineal - print port . ”
“ One thing the MP500 wo n’t control direct from the pressman is print images small than 4 x 6 inches . It automatically descale the picture to fit to the maximal paper size without giving you the option of print at its original size . ”
“ [ With the HP] … secure in a memory bill of fare or USB samara with photograph on it , preview your picture , choose print options , and give the photographic print command through the 3.4 - inch touch projection screen . ”
“ you could look on the video play back on the LCD , stop it at the anatomy you want , then print . To find just the right material body , you may pause the video and slowly step through human body by physical body , either forward or back . ”
“ you’re able to even view liven demos of maintenance tasks , such as loading newspaper and cartridges , and illuminate newspaper jams . ”
“ It ’s the staring interface for computerphobes … ”
“ … the easy to employ pressman we have ever review . ”
succeeder : HP . Guess that spare bulk pays off somewhere .
velocity
“ The MP500 averages 1:11 per print – substantially faster than two similar photo pressman . For 8.5 decade 11s , it took an norm of 2:58 . ”
“ On Premium Plus paper , the HP D7360 is slow , average 1:45 per 4 x 6 - inch photographic print … .However , when printing on HP Advanced Photo Paper , the HP D7360 is the fastest in the mart … ”
Ed Note : With HP Advanced Photo Paper , the printer averages 53 seconds per print . 8.5 x 11s take 1:17 .
“ Performance [ for the Canon mp500 ] is a potent detail . On our commercial enterprise applications … the MP500 took 15 minute , 17 seconds , full … ”
“ [ The HP clocks ] in at 15:08 on our business concern covering suite … ”
succeeder : HP . HP wins the photos , but due to the more expensive paper , we needed more to determine the winner . Then HP also succeed general office impression pep pill with normal paper .
Photo Printing Quality
“ [ With the Canon] … On photo newspaper we view attractively penetrating images with bold colors .
“ On our graphic trial print , curve ball were tranquil and sharply rendered , but we see quite a turn of band in gradients , especially in the grayscale … ”
“ … with shading transfer suddenly where it should change gradually … ”
“ … slenderly cyan - biased hide tones … ”
“ [ With the HP] … the only problem we find oneself was noticeable graininess in occlusion of color . ”
“ Most users will wish its exposure timber , but we ’ve date better . On photo paper , the dark area miss some item and exhibited a blueish tint , while skin tones looked too bronze … ”
“ The printer recreated cutis tone darker than the master with more saturation and contrast . The peel tones are naturalistic and the exemplar actually seems more alive than the original figure . ”
“ … oversaturated and a little wickedness . ”
Winner : Tie . Each pressman seems to have its own problem . I ’m frightened of the Canon ’s difficulties with slope , but resentful that the HP wo n’t print with less demarcation than it ’s told ( see above , original on left ) . But mom , she will bang them both .
Overall winner : HP . Mom will like the HP because it has the best standalone user interface , and let ’s face it , she has no clue that her pressman should be any littler . Dad will like feel cool that he can freezeframe videos of himself dancing nude in the bathroom mirror … to later give to mum .
canyon Pixma MP500 Specs
B&W Pages per Min . : 29 • Color Pages per Min . : 19 • Max . B&W dpi : 600 by 600 • Max . Color dpi : 9600 by 2400 • Max . Scanning dpi : 1200 - by-2400 • Tray Capacity , pages : 150 • Price When retrospect : $ 200
HP Photosmart D7360 Specs
B&W Pages per Min . : 32 • Color Pages per Min . : 31 • Max . B&W dpi : 1200 - by-1200 • Max . Color dpi : 4800 - by-1200 • Tray Capacity , page : 100 • Price When review : $ 200
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