The HP all-in-one PSC 1510 is on sale at Amazon for $69.99, thanks to a price drop and their $20 rebate. You enter SAVEHPPRNTER at checkout to receive the discount, which brings the cost of the printer down from $89.99. That coupon code is good until 5/1.

Because it is a sub-$100 all-in-one machine, the PSC 1510 is not packed with features. But it is a solid, compact machine that is good for basic use. It is rated at 20 pages per minute for black and 15ppm for color, which is pretty good for a multifunction machine of this price. One downside is that it does not fax, but again, for the price it is hard to complain too much. One feature that most other machines in this price range won’t have is the ability to print directly from a digital camera with the PictBridge connection on the front of the machine.

You can print using the standard cartridges that come with the machine, or like most other recent HP machines, you can swap out the black cartridge and use an HP 99 photo cartridge. In reality, you should not depend on this machine to be your primary source for printing photos. While it is capable of printing them, the results are not going to be all the spectacular, although it is doubtful that anyone is going to expect professional results when printing photos from a $70 multifunction machine. One might even suggest that for cheaper all-in-one machines like this, photo printing should not even be included. If it is not going to be that good and if most people aren’t going to use it, then why even include/advertise it? Because HP touts the photo printing abilities of all their machines these days, they might get some disappointed customers who maybe do feel like they should get really good photo results from a machine like this. If they didn’t make any mention of this machine printing photos, then if people ever did it, they wouldn’t be expecting anything so they would have to be happy with the results. Kind of like back in the days when you had an old Deskjet machine and you never printed pictures because you knew it would have to do it on ‘best’ mode and it would take forever and it would use up all your precious ink. But when you actually did it, it was a novelty and you were happy to even get anything.

As far as the PSC 1510 goes, it is hard to pass up an all-in-one at that price, especially if you are an HP fan. If you are looking for a specialty machine that excels in photo printing or office tasks, then you should be looking for a different machine. But if you need a simple, compact, fast printer that you will occasionally use for scanning and copying, then the PSC 1510 is a good choice for you.

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