Original HP 303 Black Ink Cartridge by HP Envy Photo 7830 All-in-One Printer

Product Information

Windows XP SP3 or higher (32-bit only): any Intel Pentium II, Celeron or 233 MHz compatible processor, 850 MB available hard disk space, CD-ROM/DVD drive or Internet connection, USB port, Microsoft Internet Explorer 8. There’s an SD card slot and a USB port in the front panel and separate feeder trays for photos and plain paper. Windows Vista: 800 MHz 32-bit (x86) processor, 2 GB available hard disk space, CD-ROM/DVD drive or Internet connection, USB port, Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.

When even office printers are beginning to look stylish and compact, the Envy Photo’s 46 x 43cm desktop footprint seems massive, and that’s not helped by its 20cm height. The Envy takes up more space on your desk than it needs to and doesn’t make enough room for loading paper, or collecting printed pages. Detail and colour accuracy were fine, but if you’re using scans for any serious design work, this isn’t really going to cut the mustard. However, if you print that frequently, we would recommend one of the far more cost effective and rather less environmentally damaging ink tank systems.True, this isn’t a device for professional photo studios – or even expert amateurs – but we’d like the options available and a little closer to the surface. It turns out pages at an unhurried pace, somewhat below the quoted speed of 15 per minute for black and white single-sided and considerable slower when printing on both sides, or in colour. Though more expensive initially, the Epson EcoTank ET-7750 and Canon Pixma G4510 are superior machines that will save money in running costs in the long term. Even printing text documents in duplex – itself a rare feat for a home printer – it reached speeds of 7ppm. Of course, printing photos might seem like something nobody does anymore, but it’s still a big thing for homework, filling non-digital photoframes and sending snaps to those who aren’t au-fait with photo-sharing services and apps.

The USB Type-B, 100Mbit Ethernet and fax modem sockets sit just where you’d expect them at the rear, while a USB Type-A port and an SD card slot are concealed behind a revolving circular flap near the front-left corner. With the latter, HP has prioritised ease-of-use over all else, with the result that you can’t set the resolution or colour depth of a scan, only the type of scan, which left a 10 x 8in photo scanning at just 200dpi. What’s more, it’s a printer that’s at home with smartphone printing, with Bluetooth and NFC pairing plus photo printing direct from the cloud or HP’s smartphone app.

GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor, 2 GB available hard disk space, CD-ROM/DVD drive or Internet connection, USB port, Microsoft Internet Explorer.