HP Photosmart C6380 printer has all the features to bring your photo to life: 9,600 by 2,400dpi flatbed scanner, dual paper feed printer, standalone copier, multipurpose card reader, and wireless networking.
HP Photosmart C6380′s contain five separate cheap ink cartridges: one large black cartridge for photos, and the standard black, cyan, magenta, and yellow. Each standard cartridge costs $10 to replace, but HP also offers XL economy priced versions as well, which we’ll use for our cost-per-page analysis. Each XL colored ink (black, cyan, magenta, and yellow) costs $18 apiece for 750 color pages and the XL photo black cartridge costs $35 for 800 pages.. With those costs, a page of color from HP Photosmart C6380 cheap cartridge will cost just 2.4 cents and a page of photo black will cost just 4.3 cents. Those prices are in line with today’s average cost per page for an all-in-one printer.
Isn’t the worst we’ve seen, it’s not up to task with other all-in-ones we’ve tested from HP. The text prints are generally very good with a bit of stair stepping in smaller fonts, but graphics and photos were marred with a dull blue cast across the spectrum and visible without magnification. In addition, significant graininess in large color blocks including portraits and shading can also be seen. The print quality of the C6380 is satisfactorily, and it’s definitely fine for casual home users who want to print out snapshots.