That’s 7.5 cents per page for the black and 12.75 cent per page for the colors, or a daunting 20.15 cents per four-color page. At least if you buy on your own: The standard 61 series black and tri-color cartridges cost $15 and $21 respectively, yet last for only 199 and 165 pages. Scan times are bearable, albeit two to three times longer than what you’ll see from top-shelf units.Īlong with minimal paper capacity and slow performance, the Envy 5530 suffers (as most low-cost printers do) from expensive ink. Full-sized photos printed at about 0.4 ppm on glossy paper, while copies exited at about 3 ppm.
Snapshot-sized, 4-by-6-inch photos printed at about 2.5 ppm to plain paper, but to glossy paper that slowed to 0.8 ppm. It managed an anemic 5.9 pages per minute (ppm) printing plain text and a few simple, monochrome graphics on both the PC and Mac platforms. While the assumption is that this printer isn’t going to be used much, it still bears mentioning that the Envy 5530 is pretty slow. There’s also the now usual suite of remote printing options, including HP ePrint via email and Apple AirPrint.
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The driver and scanning utilities are nicely rendered and offer all the features most users need. HP doesn’t bundle a lot of software with the Envy 5530, but what’s there is easy and capable. The only other feature worth mentioning is the SD card slot for direct printing and off-loading scans. The display and all the controls are on the top left of the unit, and intuitively arranged. Setting up the HP Envy 5530 is easy whether you use USB or Wi-Fi, and thanks to a 2.65-inch touchscreen and exceptionally well thought out menus, so is operation.