HP B8353 Ink
Photosmart B8353 Ink Cartridges

HP B8353 Printer Review

Thermal inkjet printers come in all different shapes and sizes. The HP Photosmart B8353 is a compact machine built for home users who won't exceed 5,000 pages per month. One great thing about it is versatility. Many different media types are supported, like plain paper, multipurpose paper, inkjet paper, photo paper, banner paper, envelopes, labels, transparencies, greeting cards and iron-on transfers. For those who need the function, professional brochures can even be printed. Automatic duplex printing is an optional function for those who need it, and 32 MB of memory come with the machine upon purchase.

There are four HP B8353 ink cartridges used inside of the machine. These tanks are filled with black, tricolor, photo color and photo gray printer ink. The tricolor Photosmart B8353 ink cartridge has cyan, magenta and yellow ink inside, and the standard capacity tank will last 330 pages before needing replaced. There is a high capacity option too that can last 560 pages. The black printer ink lasts 480 pages for standard capacity and 860 pages for high capacity.

The two additional HP B8353 ink cartridges needed are photo color and photo gray. With these two Photosmart B8353 ink tanks, buyers will be able to create high quality documents time after time. These photos will not only look realistic, but they will look true to life and professional too. Using all of HP B8353 ink, buyers will be able to create resolutions as high as 4800x1200 dpi. With resolutions like that, complaints will be hard to find.

All around, the speeds are decent for this inkjet printer. When printing in black-and-white, speeds of 30 pages per minute can be reached, while color printing speeds of up to 20 pages per minute are possible. A full color photo can be produced in around 26 seconds.