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HP becomes brand of year. It is unlikely that there will be an exaggeration to say that HP was able to realize impressive innovation, leaving competitors far behind. This process began not today: Recall at least how long the HP has built the paper sensor into printers. And today innovation continues. Meet new flagships - photosmart 7960 and ScanJet 4600 - with new features and elegant ergonomics.

Let's start with the fact that Photosmart 7960 is an almost perfect printer for users who want to print beautiful photos with the correct correction and without the help of any complex software. In fact, this printer generally removes the need for a computer - with the exception of storing photos on a hard disk.

As for ScanJet 4600, this scanner can be called the most impressive and attractive model in recent years. Its transparency completely changes appearance Scanners - not to love it is impossible.

But does the quality of their work correspond to the appearance?

PHOTOSMART 7960 printer immediately attracts attention. At first, you might think that it prints on A3, but, alas, it is not. However, you will quickly forget about it, looking at the list of opportunities. If you are familiar with HP printers, then 7960 combines all the best from the Deskjet desktop printer series and photosmart photo printer series. Plus some innovations. For example, the printer comes with the Deskjet black cartridge and PhotoSmart photo cartridge and is equipped with a paper sensor from the first and reader of flash cards from the latter. Moreover, the printer can independently adjust the photos.

Paper sensor

Let's start with a convenient and indispensable paper sensor that are trying to imitate competitors. Its presence deserves unambiguous approval.

Thanks to the sensor, you do not have to dig in the driver. As can be seen by name, the sensor allows you to determine the type of paper: matte, glossy, typewritten, transparent - and can be changed in print resolution. With problems you will not encounter - the sensor works exactly and efficiently, saving time and money. The printer always gives an imprint with the best possible quality, and you will not have to go through trial and errors with a photo paper on the dollar per sheet.

Cartridges

The printer is compatible and comes with four cartridges: black (56), photo (58), color (57) and gray (59). However, inside the printer only three compartments.
In the left compartment, you can only install the 58 cartridge (photo).
The middle compartment is intended for the color cartridge (57).
The right compartment you can install either the cartridge 56 (black) or 59 (gray).

So you have to have to change cartridges quite often: set black for printing text documents and gray to display photos. For a free fourth cartridge, engineers have provided compartment built into the printer - and it will not be interpreted.

Flash card reader understands Compact Flash, SD, MMC, XD and Memory Stick formats. As a result, you can easily do without a computer when printing photos.

But if direct printing does not interest you, you can still use the reader due to the presence of two keys to the left of the screen. One of them (e-mail) refers to a letter email With a nested photo, the second key (Save) allows you to save a photo on a computer connected to a printer.

When you insert a map, the number of photos will be displayed on the printer screen, as well as the first of them.

Select a photo using the OK key. At this stage, only the keys to the right of the screen are used. They speak for themselves.

The ZOOM key allows you to enlarge photos up to five times to view details. Under the screen there are direction keys, allowing you to move the photo to the right, left, up or down.
The "SIZE" key allows you to select paper size. It is given in inches: 4x6, 5x7, 8x10, 8.5x11, 2.5x3.5, 3x4, 3.5x5 and Combo (5 prints of different sizes on one sheet).
The "ROTATE" key allows you to rotate the photo.
The "COPIES" key sets the number of copies of one photo.
As soon as you finish everything, press "print".

As you can see, straight printing is carried out without a bitch, without a zadyrinka.

Select a photo and press the "MENU" key under the screen. Then you can choose four options:

Print Special Print
Enhance Image (Improve Image)
Tools (Tools)
Preferences

First option Print Special (Special printing) will be useful for printing reduced versions of photos (thumbnails) stored on the map.

Under each photo there is a small white circle, which can be labeled with a handle or pencil - to select a photo. At the end of the page with photos, you can select the number of copies (1, 2 or 3) and format - from A4 without borders to 4x6, "including composition options, for example, six photos on one sheet. Then the marked list of photos must be inserted into the printer, after which 7960 it scans it. In fact, the paper sensor is involved in the scanning process - it determines the marked mugs. The printer displays selected photos in the desired quantity and size. Impressive!

Option Enhance Image. (Improve the image) allows you to make a correction of photography.

The first correction function removes the effect of red eyes. A good idea, but its implementation is not too effective. Of the five photos, only one was adjusted properly, one more was fixed only partially (Belmo appeared in his eyes), and the three remaining photos did not change. The function is interesting, but so far too "cheese" - hopefully, HP will finalize it.

In the same menu, you can specify six levels of brightness, add a frame (rushes, hippo, etc.) and effects. The first effect - Black and White (black and white) It seemed more useful to us (Sepia / brown gamma and antique / aging). And here you will come to the rescue. Of course, without it, prints are also quite nothing, but with attentive consideration they give red. When using a gray cartridge, no extraneous shades are observed. The result is very good - if on other printers about black and white photos I have to forget due to the low quality of their prints, then everything is different here.

Option Tools. (Tools) Allows you to view with a delay (Slide Show) on the card, set the quality (high or normal), alignment and clean the printhead. It is unlikely that you will often look at this menu.

Last option, Preferences. (settings) is used to select the number of reduced photos on the index page (from 9 to 25), add date and time to photo, definitions color profile (SRGB by default or adobergb) and determining the contrast.

What is missing in correction

In general, we expected to meet more flexible functions in the correction menu. We did not have enough next opportunities.

Improve Red Eye Correction: If the photo is not amenable to automatic correction, it would be nice to get the ability to increase the image site to select the correction zone with the cursor.
Add a histogram function where color levels could be adjusted.
Add saturation correction.
Finally, why does the printer does not allow you to change the white balance? After all, this is a sick question for digital cameras. It would be nice to get the opportunity to adjust the photos that are too red, too green, etc.

Original document, increase 3x

Original image, increase 3X	Original text, increase 3x

	HP Photosmart 7960, Black Cartridge

When using a black cartridge, Photosmart 7960 printer displays just luxurious prints of black and white and colored sources. With normal resolution, quality turned out to be better than competitors ( Seal Guru Search New Ways: Review of the latest Canon Inkjet Printers, HP and Epson).

If you set the printer in the draft mode (DRAFT) through the driver, then get an increase in speed (three times faster), mainly due to the accelerated paper feed. But at the same time the printer becomes noisy and less stable, vibrating it clearly. But the quality turns out to be so good even with a low resolution that you will probably use this default mode, switching to high permission only to output important documents.


HP Photosmart 7960, Black Cartridge	HP Photosmart 7960, Black Cartridge




Canon i865.	Epson C84.

Hp photosmart 7760.

For comparison, we led printouts on cANON printers and Epson. This test is mainly designed to compare Photosmart 7760 prints with a photo cartridge and one color cartridge and photosmart 7960 with photo cartridge, colored and gray cartridges.

The presence of a gray cartridge not only affects the quality of black and white photographs, but also improves color photos. As you can see, photosmart 7760 turned out to be very good, and when using a gray cartridge, the quality becomes even higher.

Above we increased the photo three times. Here we increase it six times.


Original Photography, Natural Size	Original photo, increase 6x

Canon i865.	Epson C84.

Hp photosmart 7760.

With a six-fold increase, we can observe that the gray cartridge gives a more smoothed result on photosmart 7960 than photosmart 7760.

If the previous test it was not enough, then this should dispel all doubts. HP comes out first. The colors of the printer are the most believable (although the red little is missing), and the droplets are least noticeable among other models even with a strong increase. Then the Canon i865 follows, which is catching up with Epson - with a too strong burden to red and cleanedly visible drops.


Original Photography, Natural Size	Original photo, increase 3X

Canon i865.	Epson C84.

Hp photosmart 7760.

It is quite noticeable that real black and white prints gives only photosmart 7960. Other printers give either red or blue shades. If a black and white cartridge has been useful for color printing, it is simply necessary for black and white photos. If you used to not printed black and white photos on inkjet printers Due to low quality, now the situation has changed.

Before us is the first transparent scanner in its own way, which scans the image under it. That is, you can see what you scan. Think about possible applications. Remove the scanner from the base - and scan the map on the wall, book on your knees or any other object.

We were impressed with such flexibility of the device - and at the same time disappointed that the scanner uses the wire.

You need to connect the wire to the scanner, which is split to connect to the computer and to the power outlet. It would be nice if HP engineers had developed a scanner with Wi-Fi support on batteries that would be recharged from the base. Then the device really would be mobile!

We scanned a photo lying on the table. Scanner without any difficulty dropped the background and issued a photo with the correct boundaries. Impressive!

Scanning is carried out by moving crossbar, emitting dull blue light. The crossbar moves quite quietly - and pretty quickly when previewing the document (less than six seconds). On the photo scan 10x15 cm with a resolution of 300 dpi we left 11 seconds. After the first acquaintance, we realized that the scanner was intended for the mass market. The driver closes after each scan, and the launch of the removal function to eliminate the moire (not too successful) leads to a re-scanning for preview etc. If you need to scan one photo, it is not scary, but for a pair of dozens of photos the procedure will be very tedious.

Like all today's scanners, ScanJet 4600 has three front-key keys to automatically send images to the program, to the printer or by email.

HP Scanjet 4600, 75 DPI


Epson CX3200, 75 DPI	Epson Perfection 3200 Photo, 75 DPI

The 75 DPI resolution gives the best volume / quality ratio for Web sites. Two scanned images of Epson images were close to the original, while HP gave too saturated image, with a care of the spectrum. Also, the picture seems less than a clear, in general, 4600 stars from the sky is missing.

HP Scanjet 4600, 600 DPI


Epson CX3200, 600 DPI	Epson Perfection 3200 Photo, 600 DPI

The same here: Images scanned on Epson, closer to the original, while the HP picture, as with 75 dpi, is slightly yellowish and shipped. In addition, the image is too much adjusted.

HP Scanjet 4600, 2400 DPI


Epson CX3200, 2400 DPI	Epson Perfection 3200 Photo, 2400 DPI

Here the image correction has reached its limit. It is so strong that the image is simply deformed. Note that the CX3200 scanner, where 660 DPI is interpolated in 2400 dpi, gives a better picture than the optical 2400 dpi for ScanJet 4600.

Of course, the scanner does not give very high qualityBut at least scanjet 4600 is fast.

Six seconds to preview, 10 seconds on scanning at 75 dpi. Other models work faster, but it is not fundamentally. Speed \u200b\u200b4600 will be quite enough for ordinary users.

ScanJet 4600 works almost twice as fast as the early SCANJET 3570C model in 300 and 600 DPI permissions. In everything else, it shows the average result.

Even when scanning in a resolution of 2400 dpi, the scanner is required less than a minute.

Conclusion

PHOTOSMART 7960 printer and ScanJet 4600 scanner - very attractive devices. Perhaps someone's appearance can compensate for a few shortcomings.

As for the printer, it would be nice to speed it up well, to reduce the cost of cartridges and add more efficient image correction functions. The function for correcting "red eyes" requires refinement. In addition, although you can increase the image, you cannot reduce it (let's say, if the image does not match the printer format, and the edges go beyond the frame). It would be nice to get the opportunity to change the color levels or get the possibility of white correction. The dimensions of the printer could have been reduced, and the design of the keys on the front panel to improve so that they match the appearance of the device.

Let's go to good. We really liked the quality of black and white prints, a functional paper sensor, the quality of photos when printing from a computer and in a separate mode. Finally, we note the good ergonomics of the menu - they turned out to be quite intuitive.

In general, despite our entire criticism, Photosmart 7960 will be a good purchase for users who want to get the opportunity to print directly with flash cards.

Scanjet 4600 scanner although outwardly and beautiful, but his work did not sat too much. For example, to be honest: a good appearance does not correspond to the quality of the obtained images. Despite the possibilities and price, this device should be considered a scanner. initial levelwho is able to cope with the ordinary work of the scan of documents and illustrations, copy office papers, etc. For photos, this scanner is not too good. As we noted above, the Epson EPSON scanner copes with this work much better.

Order manual download and update:

This embedded HP Scanjet 4600 driver must be included in the operating windows system® or be available for download via center windows updates® (Windows® Update). The built-in driver supports the basic functions of your HP Scanjet 4600 equipment.

The procedure for performing automatic download and update:

Recommendation: Windows users who have no experience in updating Drivers HP Drivers Scanner, can perform HP ScanJet 4600 drivers data updates using a tool for updating DriverDoc drivers. DriverDoc facilitates the process of updating the ScanJet 4600 drivers, performing them to automatically download and update.

The biggest advantage of using DriverDoc is access to more than 2,50,000 drivers (the base is replenished on a daily basis), so you can be sure that all drivers (not only scanner) on your PC are updated on an ongoing basis.

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HP (Hewlett Packard) Frequently Asked Questions regarding the update

Why do you need HP device drivers scanner?

Device drivers ensure proper interaction of the hardware device (scanner) with your operating system. HP wrote these unique, "mini" programs to ensure proper work of Scanjet 4600.

What operating systems are compatible with SCANJET 4600 drivers?

Currently, ScanJet 4600 has Windows Device Drivers.

How to update scanjet 4600 drivers?

ScanJet 4600 Drivers can be updated manually using Device Manager Windows or automatically by downloading the utility to update the driver software.

What are the advantages and risks of updating Scanjet 4600 drivers?

Access to new hardware functions, optimized compatibility and overall performance increase - the advantages of updating ScanJet 4600 drivers. The main risks of installing incorrect drivers scanner are software failures, a decrease in performance and PC instability.

About the author: Jay Geater is president and cEO Solvusoft Corporation - Global Companies software and focusing on innovative service programs. He all his life passionately was fond of computers and loves everything connected with computers, software and new technologies.

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