Otherwise, on the (incidentally also visually appealing) wireless printer (but one can of course also operate only with cable, if you will) really nothing to complain about: The installation went from the detailed German manual (+ additional short guide with pictures - ) quickly and without a hitch. I found gratifying that you came with printed on paper and was not only to find as a PDF document on the enclosed installation CD also.
The first sample printouts presented me personally satisfied with what the print quality, speed, and even the volume concerned, it is certainly not louder than my trusty old HP PSC 1315, which has adopted definitively by me, unfortunately, a few days ago. But I had him nearly 8 years and was pleased with him, he has not even made the whole time trouble.
Short to what is important for me and sometimes a little compared with the Envy 4500, perhaps helps when people consider whether to the 4500 (about 79 Euro) or better yet the 5530 to buy for 99 euros.
The Envy 5530 can print, scan and copy, as well as my old, but now either via USB cable or via WLAN. It supports all operating systems from Windows XP with SP3 to Windows 8.1. A 500MHz processor (the Envy 4500 there are 360 MHz) has been installed and 128 MB DDR 3- memory (the Envy 4500 there are 32 MB DDR 1 memory), my God, that was 15 years ago, what time had a normal PC. ;-)
There is a built-in memory card slot (Secure Digital / SD card but no PictBridge support) but Wireless Direct Printing is supported, there is the Envy 4500 neither. Duplex (two-sided printing, without having to turn over the paper by hand) is also supported. The 5530 also has Auto Wireless Connect, the 4500 does not.
Operation is no longer on buttons, as with my old printer, but on a 6.74-cm touchscreen color graphics display (the Envy 4500 on a 5 cm wide black and white display). - I'll have a little used to it myself though.
Print cartridges are again two, as with my old printer. A black for text printing and a tri-color with the colors cyan (blue), magenta (red) and yellow, from which all other colors are mixed.
This is for home users with a monthly duty cycle in the double-digit range of pages by far the best and most economical solution, and for two reasons:
1) With these cartridges, the print head on the cartridge itself is off, that is: the new cartridge = new printhead.
No wear as the printers with built-in into the device printheads. If the breaks, it is so expensive (if he is going to change at all) that you safely can ever compare the price with a new printer.
2.) Because there is no built-print head, this printer does not do well every time you turn a "automatic print head cleaning" which each time will cost enormous amounts of ink for printers with fixed eingautem head and 4-cartridge system - because rinsed / is cleaned there with expensive ink!
Since you need to then namely do not be surprised if the cartridges are empty in no time where you had perhaps at the predecessors of the two cartridges, an eternity with get along.
Printers have two cartridges were specially developed for private use and are relatively inexpensive because they also extend long.
Printer with 4-cartridge system have been more developed, however for companies, as they are there, in contrast to the private consumer, only rarely really quite off.
Anyone who does not only know, but then aimed at buying printer afterwards, which saves a lot of trouble and especially money.
Conclusion: I am happy with the Envy 5530 so far and hope that it stays that way. I do not do much printing, sometimes 10 pages a month, sometimes not at all, then something more, for example if the tax return, etc. pending.
I think that is why the 5530 the proper printer for me and thanks to its processor and the more RAM to everything goes just a bissel faster than the 4500, otherwise they are both very similar.