The device is designed to compact and does not take more floor space away than absolutely necessary. The matte plastic material is also quite easy to care for, I am glad that this time no dirt prone glossy paint was used. To start a process, the lid is raised to scan and copy the original documents above. In front a flap needs to be solved, here are paper feed and output. Impractical, however, is that you can leave no paper in the printer with the flap closed, so they must remain either permanently open or you are forced to load paper before each print. Changing the ink cartridges if you found out on the basis of merely illustrated instructions how to do it easily and can be carried out cleanly without smearing.
But until it comes to the first printing process is, first of all to overcome a hurdle: The output device must be connected to the printer via a wireless connection. With the smartphone I have not tried this, but also with the installation CD, this is not necessarily self-explanatory. With a little time, this can indeed be mastered by beginners, but comfortable is now time unfortunately different.
The printed result is quite convincing, although some colors look a little pale. The contrast in the pictures is well adjusted, the standard specifications you can not manually change which, however, is also not necessary for a beginner instrument, however. For text documents or other simple files but no concessions should be made to high-priced printers. For multi-page printing, the ink does not smudge and dries quickly, however, the paper stack is threatening to crash on some leaves.
The scanner does its job also fully satisfactory, the recordings of the documents are in decent quality and leave only at high magnification recognize individual pixels. The output is in .jpeg or .pdf format. On the plus side, the volume of the printer, both during printing and scanning, the device is very quiet.
Big issue for printers are always the follow-up costs through to replace ink cartridges. To this end, two things should be noted: firstly, a color cartridge for all colors is still used to refill only one color is not possible which is not quite up to date actually so. On the other hand, so-called XL cartridges available for this printer. Here is the specification of the basic price is in Amazon a bit misleading here not the capacity is taken into consideration, but the weight of the article. Judging from the manufacturer's instructions, which indicates the range in pages, pay at the XL version 3.28 cents per page, at the normal cartridges with 7.81 cents more than twice!
A compact and good multifunction device with a low price, which served its purpose well, and both printing and scanning delivers good results. Although the decor a bit complicated and the paper feed is not completely thought through, which is why I have to deduct a star in the rating. Nevertheless, I was convinced the device just because of the good price-performance ratio very.
