Pros
- Large, detachable, touchscreen control panel
- High-quality photo and text output
Cons
- Touchscreen slow to recognize finger taps
At A Glance
Fast, capable, and somewhat overshadowed by its detachable tablet control panel, this MFP offers a unique extra that may justify its price.
Manufacturer’s Description
Photosmart eStation Printer offers full web browsing, high-performance printing, automatic duplex printing, faxing without a phone line, copying and scanning. The detachable, 7 full-color touch-screen doubles as a wireless digital companion and control panel for remote printing. Use customized apps to quickly get the prints from the web. You can also print and share from multiple PCs, and stay connected, using integrated wireless networking. Connectivity includes USB 2.0 and WiFi 802.11b/g/n. Printer generates 33 black/white pages per minute with 600 x 600 dpi and 32 color pages per minute with 9600 x 2400 optimized dpi. 24-bit flatbed scanner offers an optical resolution of 1200 dpi and maximum scan size of 8-1/2 x 11-7/10. Copy speed matches print speed. Printer also features 64MB memory, borderless printing, a 125-sheet input tray, 20-sheet photo tray, 1200 optimized dpi for copying, 25 to 400 percent copy scaling, and multicopying up to 99 copies. Energy Star qualified.
The Specs
| Pricing | |
|---|---|
| Part Number | CQ140A |
| Requirements | |
| Operating System Compatibility |
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| Display | |
| Display size | 7.0 inches |
| Display type | Color |
| Photo preview | 1 |
| Touchscreen | 1 |
| Ports and Connections | |
| USB | Yes |
| Wireless connection | Yes |
| Power | |
| Maximum Power Draw (watts) | 28.0 watts |
| Standby Power Draw (watts) | 7.2 watts |
| Green | |
| Energy Star compliant | 1.0 |
| Dimensions | |
| Width | 17.7 inches |
| Depth | 18.0 inches |
| Height | 9.7 inches |
| Weight | 17.42 pounds |
| Media Handling | |
| Standard Number of Input Trays | 2.0 |
| Maximum sheet capacity with standard trays | 145.0 sheets |
| Optional Trays Available | 0.0 |
| Manual Feed Slot | 0.0 |
| Automatic Duplexer | Standard |
| Media Sizes Accepted | Legal inches |
| Dedicated photo tray | 1.0 |
| Automatic Document Feeder | 0.0 |
| Storage Media | |
| SD card | SD Card |
| Scanning | |
| Scanner Type | Flatbed |
| Maximum Scan Size | Letter |
| Horizontal Optical Scan Resolution | 1200.0 |
| Vertical Optical Scan Resolution | 1200.0 |
| Maximum External Bit Depth | 48-bit |
| Platform Support | |
| Printer languages supported | GDI/Host-based |
| Printer Type | |
| Number of Colors | 5.0 |
| Colors Available |
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| Cost Per Page | |
| Plain Text Page (Highest yield vendor ink) | 4.4 cents per page |
| 4-color page (cheapest vendor ink) | 11.6 cents per page |
| Vendor Rated Speeds | |
| Monochrome print speed | 33.0 ppm |
| Color print speed | 32.0 ppm |
| Warranty | |
| Warranty information | 1 Year |
Performance
| Macworld Labs (Quality) | |
|---|---|
| Print quality: Text | Very Good |
| Print quality: Color photo | Superior |
| Print quality:PDF | Very Good |
| Scan quality: Color photo | Good |
| Scan quality: Line art | Good |
| Copy quality | Good |
| Macworld Labs (Speed) | |
|---|---|
| Print speed: Text | 8.3 ppm |
| Print speed: Color photo | 160.96 seconds for 8X10 photo |
| Print speed: PDF | 159.27 seconds for 4-page PDF |
| Scan speed 1 | 54.9 seconds for 8 x 10 color photo at 600 dpi |
| Scan speed 2 | 91.9 seconds 4 x 6 color photo at 1200 dpi |
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